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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Probably justifiable as a pick for a midrange hunter deck. Pretty powerful, but deadly shot effects are always poor against aggro.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Not great, but not terrible.

    This is +1 mana on nerubian egg for +1 attack, which lets you trade it more easily, but deathrattle hunter decks would much rather have the egg in play a turn earlier.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Technically slightly better alleycat. Alleycat doesn't see play much right now, so I can't imagine that this will, unless handbuffs become suddenly viable in hunter.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    This card definitely has potential if used to specifically tutor one or two outcast cards in an aggressive deck. Interesting, and looking forward to experimenting with this in Odd DH.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Again, aggressive even-costed demon hunter cards aren't really likely to see play in wild for a few expansions yet. The card is acceptable, but not amazing.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    A decent sticky minion, but given that sludge belcher has already fallen out of favour, I can't imagine that this will fare a lot better.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    A bit tricky to justify running a 5 drop with nothing but stats in any deck right now, especially when it has to sit in your hand for a while to be worth playing.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    A nice effect, but if odd DH wanted this, they would already be running corridor creeper.

    Interesting alongside demon hunter's suite of rush token generators, but probably not enough to create a more midrange-based strategy.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Strong, but unreliable. A nearly-always strong 1-drop is probably worse than a consistently great 1-drop like battlefiend or squire.

    This is probably less good for aggressive hunter decks, where beast synergy is very important.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    The pool is less narrow than you might think.

    There are a lot of very bad neutral spell damage minions, enough that I don't expect this to see a lot of play.

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    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    The effect is acceptable, but not really useful for odd DH builds. The addition of a 1/4 weapon could be useful to round out turns where hero power + playing a card is too expensive, but experimentation with other weapons has not had great results.

    Probably a nice removal tool for hunters.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Very strong if you can build around it, but I'm not sure how possible that is.

    There are not a great many 5 mana beasts that this will be a great target for, especially when you cannot run other beasts.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Watch out if big demon demon hunter becomes good, but otherwise demon hunters have no need for 9-mana cards. (Other than Baku)

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Could this be a sign that equality might get unnerfed? It seems odd that equality + a 3/2 with a synergistic deathrattle costs less than equality.

    This card is pretty nice for odd warrior and DMH warrior, and probably works pretty well in a midrange paladin deck as well. Very nice 1-card board clear.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Not actually sure how much better this is than kun, given that aviana is usually a component of druid combos. Maybe this gives those decks a hit of consistency that they were needing. This is obviously good somewhere, but I don't exactly know where.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    An interesting card. Not very useful in any deck that runs board wipes, so potential in res priest is probably limited.

    Has potential, but requires both cheap enablers and large payoffs to be really strong, so this is unlikely to be a buildaround.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    1 mana deal 3 to a minion has been shown to be more than acceptable in most cases, and the need to combo this is a fine tradeoff for the freeze.

    A good card, but not enough to launch any archetypes that weren't already good, so I assume this will be seen more in mage than rogue.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    A pretty acceptable tempo card, can be very nice in mech paladin if you are able to afford to dilute your crystology draws, which you might not be.

    I doubt this sees play in any slower decks, where the stats rely on your opponent's plays.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    In most cases this isn't great.

    Unless you can shuffle very strong spells or special token spells in, adding cards to your deck is not an effect that many decks can afford to run in a meta where fatigue matchups are so rare.

    In the case that you use this to shuffle fantastic treasures or quest rewards into your deck, this could be fine, but it still seems like excessive greed.

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    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Fairly optimistic about this card. A lot better than echo of medivh, and it being in rogue probably enables something of note.

    Likely to go into a whole slew of combo decks in both classes, but probably a little pricy for quest mage.

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