A new Legendary Hunter Minion, The Rat King, has been revealed!

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This has a lot of potential with the class.  Hunter can easily produce a number of minions to rush at something and die in a turn

Unless this is a mistranslation this doesn't require the 5 minions to die on the same turn, right? This basically means that you can just throw this into a regualr midrange deck without particular token support and just have a consistently recycling 5/5 with Rush.

Maybe Midrange HUnter will actually be a thing again, this is some serious lategame pressure

"Rats, we're rats, we're the rats! We prey at night, we stalk at night, we're the rats!"
"I'm the giant rat that makes all of da rules, let's see what kind of trouble we can get ourselves into!"

5/5 Rush for 5 is eh, but it's the deathrattle that really makes this interesting, assuming that it's not restricted to one turn. However, Hunter is really wishing they still had stuff like Springpaw, Desert Spear, Unleash the Hounds, or even Swarm of Locusts. As it stands, expect it to only revive like 1 or 2 times ever.

Recurring fast minion, yes please. Decent body and not too hard to revive. Solid card for sure.

How often can you realistically expect this deathrattle to trigger in a game? I think you should count yourself lucky if it triggers twice. Still, that's 3 5/5's with rush. That's good value. Main questions is: which deck wants to do this? Besides an Unseal the Vault deck in Wild I can't think of any. Maybe this card is good enough on it's own and doesn't need support to be good.

This also looks like a fun card. Giving Hunter some longer term value through the game is nice. Maybe this enables some playstyles that don't revolve around me go face.

Hey first guy who was in BGs first and then revealed as a card. I think... But can be powerful, but needs synergies so doesn't neccesarily make existing decks stronger.

So, technically, with enough copies and by trading them one at a time, you can have an endless supply of The Rat Kings. That being said, it doesn't have Trample, so he feels way too fair.

I don't care how strong it is -  I'll be making a meme deck where I fill my board with six copies of this, for sure!

AN ENDLESS SUPPLY OF RATS >:D

Nice synergy with Tavish Stormpike.

I like it.

It doesn't seem terribly powerful, but it is unique and just strong enough to build some fun decks with him. This is also another step towards building some kind of swarm hunter with all of the hyena tokens.

This is just a 5 star card. Having rush is good. Being able to come back from death is better.

So you play this card and rush into something. At some point of time you'd reload the board and your opponent has to now play in such a way that this doesn't just come back when they've spent all their mana removing your board. Even if your opponent decides not to kill anything, you can simply run your own minions to their deaths and this comes right back with rush to boot.

And its a beast. Amazing.

All in all, the only reason this wouldn't see play is because the dominant hunter is yet again face for days. Otherwise, this fits neatly into nearly everything hunter could want.

Does nobody remember Sherazin, Corpse Flower? Same idea, but a much better card overall. Sherazin didn't see much play, but this might.

5 mana 5/5, commit a slot of your board for the rest of the game
Not sure, but at least intrigued

I don't think this will fit in the current existing archetype of face hunter but may help the return of a new archetype (i.e midrange).

This makes me think of a slower but persistent Imprisoned Vilefiend. This needs token support though to get the most mileage, Kolkar Pack Runner, Sin'dorei Scentfinder, Wolpertinger, and Adorable Infestation first come to mind.

I love this Card. Maybe some sort of Rat Hunter will emerge and rule over all ? :) :) 

Super interesting card. This synergizes very well with Kolkar Pack Runner, Wolpertinger, Sin'dorei Scentfinder and Rats of Extraordinary Size. Seems very solid so far. 

In wild it will probably also work well in Unseal the Vault hunter.

Overall a solid card, that will probably see a bunch of play.

Doesn’t go face, so probably won’t see any play outside of fun decks like Quest Hunter

Good card, but seems a bit too slow for hunter. It usually wants to do its big board summoning in the early game with Kolkar Pack Runner, while playing solitary big dudes (Trampling Rhino) and face things after turn 5.