Nice flexibility if you don't need the armor, although I do feel the 3/3 taunts are pretty lackluster for the cost you're paying. It'll most likely see play in this new armor druid archetype or off of random card generation.
2 mana gain 8 armor over 2 turns. Kinda like a reverse Frozen Buckler but 2 less armor. It will probably see experimentation in the new armor druid due to the legendary where you want as much armor as possible. Could also be used as cheap tech against aggro but I'm sure there's better options. It's not a bad card, just might not see as much play as other spells.
Quite the versatile guy. You could play this in big spell mage, hoping to get a different spell school to recast the spell with Varden or ofc slot into the new casino mage archetype pushed this expansion. It's also an elemental, if that counts for anything as mage has been known to play elemental archetypes from time to time. Only thing holding it back is it's rarity.
Oh boy, this guy will be seeing much play, regardless of it's winrate. This is the life of a casino mage after all. The legendary will be playable only due to it's "fun" factor and not it's consistency, but you can build around this legendary by being clever on which spells to randomly generate, unlike Yogg. Obviously the 2 best high value spells are Drakefire Amulet and Rune of the Archmage.
Overall, quite like this design, gonna be super crazy in wild quest mage where Time Warp is still a menace.
Well ofc there's the Deck of Lunacy comparison but for spells in hand only. There will ofc be certain ppl and love casino mage and probably some gameplay achievements along with it. Just like Deck of Lunacy, this minion will become more precise next year after the standard rotation when the pool of spells is smaller. Will definitely see play along with the legendary.
The fact that this legendary gives you 8 armor means you can play 2 8 cost cards in the same turn, at a minimum. In a dedicated armor deck, the value grows even more. I really like this type of design tbh, you are sacrificing survivability to play minions which is an interesting tradeoff, especially if you desperately need the armor to survive.
There's also the Insatiable Devourer and Earthen Scales combo to gain massive amounts of armor, so I wouldn't be surprised if Mark or Dane figure out an armor OTK here.
I really like this artwork, want to see it golden. The effect is alright but I don't think hunter really needs this type of effect. It's basically a weapon version of The Mistcaller with the same mana cost too. That late in the game, the stat increase just feels win more.
Well, this can go face and scale indefinitely depending on how many weapons you'd want to run. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a brann OTK with this minion but you'd definitely need a lot of turns to set it up. Would have to see if the new meta with DK would be slow enough for this to be effective.
What we've seen with the current (and successful) Beast hunter is that Rexxar doesn't actually need to go face to win games. Hunter also has a hard time dealing with big bois so this minion should find a place in some archetype. Not too sold on this new "weapon attacking hunter" which just feels like DH, but I'll remain slightly optimistic.
Hmmm, there are some shenanigans with Infectious Ghoul and Plaguespreader or you just run this in a deathrattle priest for extra triggers. Ideally you'd want to play as many minions as possible to get the reborn effect so maybe some sticky deathrattles like Haunting Nightmare or Brittleskin Zombie might work.
I would imagine this minion would be better in a control deathrattle priest than an aggro variant. The stats are poor for the cost and you want to resurrect a big boi like Flesh Behemoth or Invincible. You also can't control what undead you resurrect and I can't see a big undead priest being viable in Standard.
Will have to relook at this minion once the mini-set is out or in future expansions.
So at best this is 5 mana 1 sided 4 damage AOE. Poor Chaos Nova crying in the corner. I'm assuming, the way it's worded, this AOE spell will deal 2 damage to all enemies twice, helping to remove divine shields, reborn minions and deathrattle triggers. While this does sound appealing, this spell will only be played in an undead deck coz 5 mana 2 damage AOE is awful.
Honestly would run Clean the Scene over this (if not specifically playing shadow priest).
If priest can reliably play and kill their undead minions, this draw spell is great. It will be more difficult for priest to achieve this than DK though and this spell will only be used in the priest undead archetype coz shadow priest will find better things. If priest get more undead minions in future expansions, this spell will always be considered but atm, not feeling confident in the number of undead minions priest has access to (and you can't reliably play thief cards in the hopes of getting an undead from your opponent).
Well we know from experience that rez priest is an annoying archetype. As for the minions getting resurrected though...I'd say they'd just be stats, kinda like playing The Scourge. You need a lot of undead to die and probably be reliant on your opponent clearing your board to help you setup this minion. I can only really think of Flesh Behemoth and Invincible as valuable undead to resurrect and those are pretty slow minions.
Most likely you'd want some specific deathrattle undead to die but I'm not really seeing many minions getting resurrected. On average I'd say maybe 2 - 3 coz the restriction is quite restrictive.
That legendary is pretty sick, kinda like a reverse, 1 time Kel'Thuzad. Great comeback if your opponent cleared your board. Now we should be scared if Priest get their grubby hands on The Scourge.
Nice flexibility if you don't need the armor, although I do feel the 3/3 taunts are pretty lackluster for the cost you're paying. It'll most likely see play in this new armor druid archetype or off of random card generation.
2 mana gain 8 armor over 2 turns. Kinda like a reverse Frozen Buckler but 2 less armor. It will probably see experimentation in the new armor druid due to the legendary where you want as much armor as possible. Could also be used as cheap tech against aggro but I'm sure there's better options. It's not a bad card, just might not see as much play as other spells.
Quite the versatile guy. You could play this in big spell mage, hoping to get a different spell school to recast the spell with Varden or ofc slot into the new casino mage archetype pushed this expansion. It's also an elemental, if that counts for anything as mage has been known to play elemental archetypes from time to time. Only thing holding it back is it's rarity.
Oh boy, this guy will be seeing much play, regardless of it's winrate. This is the life of a casino mage after all. The legendary will be playable only due to it's "fun" factor and not it's consistency, but you can build around this legendary by being clever on which spells to randomly generate, unlike Yogg. Obviously the 2 best high value spells are Drakefire Amulet and Rune of the Archmage.
Overall, quite like this design, gonna be super crazy in wild quest mage where Time Warp is still a menace.
Well ofc there's the Deck of Lunacy comparison but for spells in hand only. There will ofc be certain ppl and love casino mage and probably some gameplay achievements along with it. Just like Deck of Lunacy, this minion will become more precise next year after the standard rotation when the pool of spells is smaller. Will definitely see play along with the legendary.
The fact that this legendary gives you 8 armor means you can play 2 8 cost cards in the same turn, at a minimum. In a dedicated armor deck, the value grows even more. I really like this type of design tbh, you are sacrificing survivability to play minions which is an interesting tradeoff, especially if you desperately need the armor to survive.
There's also the Insatiable Devourer and Earthen Scales combo to gain massive amounts of armor, so I wouldn't be surprised if Mark or Dane figure out an armor OTK here.
I could feel your frustration Aesan when reading the article. My deepest sympathies for those hardcore merc players who missed out on their Rattlegore
ok now Vast Wisdom looks slightly better
I really like this artwork, want to see it golden. The effect is alright but I don't think hunter really needs this type of effect. It's basically a weapon version of The Mistcaller with the same mana cost too. That late in the game, the stat increase just feels win more.
Well, this can go face and scale indefinitely depending on how many weapons you'd want to run. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a brann OTK with this minion but you'd definitely need a lot of turns to set it up. Would have to see if the new meta with DK would be slow enough for this to be effective.
What we've seen with the current (and successful) Beast hunter is that Rexxar doesn't actually need to go face to win games. Hunter also has a hard time dealing with big bois so this minion should find a place in some archetype. Not too sold on this new "weapon attacking hunter" which just feels like DH, but I'll remain slightly optimistic.
I was thinking that exact same thing 🤣 why print a minion that has a bonus effect for targeting minions when Rexxar only knows how to go face?!
Hmmm, there are some shenanigans with Infectious Ghoul and Plaguespreader or you just run this in a deathrattle priest for extra triggers. Ideally you'd want to play as many minions as possible to get the reborn effect so maybe some sticky deathrattles like Haunting Nightmare or Brittleskin Zombie might work.
I would imagine this minion would be better in a control deathrattle priest than an aggro variant. The stats are poor for the cost and you want to resurrect a big boi like Flesh Behemoth or Invincible. You also can't control what undead you resurrect and I can't see a big undead priest being viable in Standard.
Will have to relook at this minion once the mini-set is out or in future expansions.
OMW, forgot that card existed 🤣
Now you making me doubt if the priest legendary will be good 😅
So at best this is 5 mana 1 sided 4 damage AOE. Poor Chaos Nova crying in the corner. I'm assuming, the way it's worded, this AOE spell will deal 2 damage to all enemies twice, helping to remove divine shields, reborn minions and deathrattle triggers. While this does sound appealing, this spell will only be played in an undead deck coz 5 mana 2 damage AOE is awful.
Honestly would run Clean the Scene over this (if not specifically playing shadow priest).
If priest can reliably play and kill their undead minions, this draw spell is great. It will be more difficult for priest to achieve this than DK though and this spell will only be used in the priest undead archetype coz shadow priest will find better things. If priest get more undead minions in future expansions, this spell will always be considered but atm, not feeling confident in the number of undead minions priest has access to (and you can't reliably play thief cards in the hopes of getting an undead from your opponent).
Well we know from experience that rez priest is an annoying archetype. As for the minions getting resurrected though...I'd say they'd just be stats, kinda like playing The Scourge. You need a lot of undead to die and probably be reliant on your opponent clearing your board to help you setup this minion. I can only really think of Flesh Behemoth and Invincible as valuable undead to resurrect and those are pretty slow minions.
Most likely you'd want some specific deathrattle undead to die but I'm not really seeing many minions getting resurrected. On average I'd say maybe 2 - 3 coz the restriction is quite restrictive.
They already all revealed afaik. Nothing really stands out though, so doubt undead priest would be better than any DK deck
That legendary is pretty sick, kinda like a reverse, 1 time Kel'Thuzad. Great comeback if your opponent cleared your board. Now we should be scared if Priest get their grubby hands on The Scourge.