this is the kind of cards token/treant druid is looking for. Those decks run out of gas pretty soon and they need to draw buffs and savage roar to close the game; i remember that i played the druid spirit with claw and the 0 mana spell that gives you +2 attack just to draw more cards in my token druid deck because drawing cards is what i really needed, this would make all of that a lot easier.
Maybe this card is not enough to make treant druid viable
It seems a card that wants to be played in a big druid.
The problem with this sidequest is that if you want to complete it early you have to play small minions in your deck too, but they can be recruited instead of a big minion and make the pay off not worth it.
In an only big minions deck is hard to complete the quest early, and will be complete in a point of the game where you are already playing those big minions.
I agree with what RDU said in his reveal video, it looks very nice in rogue thanks to the lackeys which they already want to generate for different reasons: 1) they are just good; 2) Togwaggle is super strong 3) if they end up playing Galakrond, the invoke cards give lackeys 4) sometimes they double battlecries with the spirit of the shark (that i think will see play again in Galakrond decks).
This card adds yet another reason to generate them, i don't know if it will be run in 2 copies or just 1; i'd run 1 for the moment because the card is still expensive
A good card to help control warlock type of decks clear board in the early game. I'm still not sure if a control warlock deck will find a space in the meta, if it will this card will see play
for this card to be a consistent 8/8 with rush for 4 mana (that is very broken), a very high percentage of decks in the ladder have to run a lot of dragons in their decks, that will not happen for sure.
Even in a matchup were your opponents run a ridicolous amount of dragons, and this would be an 8/8 with rush for sure, you probably don't need it in the first place.
Basically most of the time this card is strong versus decks that you should not having problems facing in the first place, while being a bad card in most of the games where having a 4/4 sitting in your hand will probably lose you the game.
if a deck that runs a lot of dragons will somehow become tier 1, at least we have already a tech
I can't see this card played in any deck in constructed, making opponent's hero power cost 3 can disrupt your opponent tempo and make some of their turns more awkward, but that won't be enough to justify a spot in the deck in my opinion
i was afraid that more good choose one cards were printed this expansion, making quest druid (a deck i hate from many point of views) even stronger. This card is a choose one but it probably won't be played in quest druid while it helps a weaker archetype, so that is good.
Dendrologist might see play thanks to this card, and now a token druid deck has more things to do on turn 1.
I'm not sure this archetype will see any play, but if it will this card will be a staple
i don't like this card at all, because generally i dislike making my own deck worse. It even takes a space in your hand without doing anything, basically if you draw it is like you have one less card in your hand.
Another tech card, i like that they are printing these, so if a deck that has a specific mechanic will become too strong we already have the tools to fight it back.
I can't think of a situation where you want to put this card in your deck, but only as a tech. Or maybe it will be played by a very late game/fatigue deck that put corrupted bloods and remove the ones in their deck by playing this 2 mana card instead of 9 mana Elysiana, it sounds clunky but is less clunky than before for sure.
If a deck that put bad things in your deck (bombs, bloods) will be popular then a deck that runs a very little amount of neutral cards can run this to counter them.
A deck like shrivallah paladin is already looking very strong versus all the dragon decks that don't pressure the opponent and just generate tons of value.
Just when i was thinking that maybe warriors will gain too much armor (there are the dragon that gives 5 armor, the breath that gives 5 armor and all the other armor gain cards that warriors already played) for shrivallah paladin to reliable win versus dragon warrior i see this in the main page.
If dragon warrior become a thing, shirvallah paladins will put 1 of this in their decks and still win all of the slowest matchup.
I think this card will be played only in combo decks (the ones that does damage obviously, not the mecha'thun ones for example) only if a deck in the meta is gaining too much armor and goes out of reach
In mage the 1 cost spells in standard are pretty good, highlander mage was waiting for another strong dragon to run to reach a good amount of them, with this card they finally reach this goal. They can run New Maly, old Alex, New Alex, Kalecgos and this one. If they find that activating Maly is still a bit unreliable they can add the 2/3 dragon and/or twilight drake.
Another class that has good 1 mana spells is warrior, so it fits there, especially because warriors can play a control dragon deck and this can give you removals or lackeys or the omega card.
The only downside of this card, which seems to be a common theme of these dragon decks, is that is not a card that threat your opponent in anyway it just generate value. So i can see this card being a 1 of in decks that will run 7-8 dragons
A nice low cost dragon that gives you a bit of survivilability without losing value.
Of the bunch of dragons that have this effect this one ties with the hunter one as the best ones, because they are the cheapest.
The card is not the strongest thing in the world, but if a paladin dragon deck that want to runs a lot of dragon will exist this will be played.
I'd even say that this maybe will be runned in a deck that doesn't go that heavy on dragons and play a lower number of them, which will probably be the better deck in the first place.
Not good, not bad, has it place in the right decks, i like it
I don't think this card is good and at the same time I don't think that this is what priest want.
Talking about the card itself we already had cards with similar effects and they never were good enough. Is similar to the mage secret, the difference is that here your opponent can go face with all his minion and completely ignore it. If they decide to not ignore it is only because they can trade with the minions that would die anyway and keep one with more than 3 health.
Basically giving you opponent the choice of what happens and when isn't good, and is even worse if we are talking of turn 5 where things starts to get nastier.
A proactive dragon would have been more appreciated at this point, i don't see the win condition of a control priest of any kind. If is just running out opponent of resources it will work only versus aggro, hearthstone is far away from the time that "fatigue" decks existed and worked. Now decks generate too much value and most importantly have huge powerspike turns that will close the game even if you would eventually wins the value war.
Galakrond version can at least use Talanji for a single powerful turn, which i don't know if it will be enough.
I don't see the point of this card, slow and unreliable for a payoff that maybe isn't even worth it.
Just cross your fingers to not open it in packs
EDIT: actually, after i read some comments, the card has some merit, versus faster decks you play it has soon as is your turn 3 and you have a 3/3 for 3 mana that summons your opponent best minion which isn't super bad and maybe will help you stabilize the board from there. If you draw it later isn't a dead draw and versus control it can be used when you think that one of your opponent minion is worth it. So the card isn't "dead" in any point of the game, still I'm not sure if is enough to be included in decks (I think is not) or if we will see it only when random generated.
It can attack many times, reastically I'd say 4 times unless more lower good cost dragons will be printed ( a couple of 4-5 cost are good enough) and already attacking 4 times is good.
Versus decks that fail to pressure it can attack more times than that and alone can deal a crazy amount of damage to face, even if the dragons will just hit the board and removed instantly by the opponent.
I don't know if the dragon package will find a home in highlander hunter because for now cards that use synergies with dragons are this weapon and the breath, they are good but in an highlander i don't think you would run dragons just to play this two cards at their full potential. We have to remember that in an highlander deck the number of dragons will be very low so most of the time the cards will not even be active.
If more busted dragon synergy for hunter will be printed i can see the dragon package be included in highlander hunter, as you already want to play at least 2 dragons (the legendary dragon and new Alex) so you just have to find a little bit more of them, considering that probably the 2/3 poisonous will be good enough.
This card make me a bit less sceptical about dragon hunter if more low cost dragons are revealed, because this weapon and the breath are good to hit face and not only control the board.
Cool card... Feeling too much shaman-y tho (even Trump teased about a "shaman" card, well played)
this is the kind of cards token/treant druid is looking for. Those decks run out of gas pretty soon and they need to draw buffs and savage roar to close the game; i remember that i played the druid spirit with claw and the 0 mana spell that gives you +2 attack just to draw more cards in my token druid deck because drawing cards is what i really needed, this would make all of that a lot easier.
Maybe this card is not enough to make treant druid viable
It seems good enough to be played in a token/treant druid. Don't know if that archetype is strong though.
It seems a card that wants to be played in a big druid.
The problem with this sidequest is that if you want to complete it early you have to play small minions in your deck too, but they can be recruited instead of a big minion and make the pay off not worth it.
In an only big minions deck is hard to complete the quest early, and will be complete in a point of the game where you are already playing those big minions.
I don't believe it will see much play
This is a card i like a lot!
I agree with what RDU said in his reveal video, it looks very nice in rogue thanks to the lackeys which they already want to generate for different reasons: 1) they are just good; 2) Togwaggle is super strong 3) if they end up playing Galakrond, the invoke cards give lackeys 4) sometimes they double battlecries with the spirit of the shark (that i think will see play again in Galakrond decks).
This card adds yet another reason to generate them, i don't know if it will be run in 2 copies or just 1; i'd run 1 for the moment because the card is still expensive
Not the card that control priest or dragon priest were looking for. Those archetypes are looking weaker and weaker.
A good card to help control warlock type of decks clear board in the early game. I'm still not sure if a control warlock deck will find a space in the meta, if it will this card will see play
for this card to be a consistent 8/8 with rush for 4 mana (that is very broken), a very high percentage of decks in the ladder have to run a lot of dragons in their decks, that will not happen for sure.
Even in a matchup were your opponents run a ridicolous amount of dragons, and this would be an 8/8 with rush for sure, you probably don't need it in the first place.
Basically most of the time this card is strong versus decks that you should not having problems facing in the first place, while being a bad card in most of the games where having a 4/4 sitting in your hand will probably lose you the game.
if a deck that runs a lot of dragons will somehow become tier 1, at least we have already a tech
I can't see this card played in any deck in constructed, making opponent's hero power cost 3 can disrupt your opponent tempo and make some of their turns more awkward, but that won't be enough to justify a spot in the deck in my opinion
i was afraid that more good choose one cards were printed this expansion, making quest druid (a deck i hate from many point of views) even stronger. This card is a choose one but it probably won't be played in quest druid while it helps a weaker archetype, so that is good.
Dendrologist might see play thanks to this card, and now a token druid deck has more things to do on turn 1.
I'm not sure this archetype will see any play, but if it will this card will be a staple
A support card for treants deck, but not the support that deck needs. I can't imagine this card will see any play.
i don't like this card at all, because generally i dislike making my own deck worse. It even takes a space in your hand without doing anything, basically if you draw it is like you have one less card in your hand.
Looking at the brightside, is another epic neutral card that you don't want/need to craft
Another tech card, i like that they are printing these, so if a deck that has a specific mechanic will become too strong we already have the tools to fight it back.
I can't think of a situation where you want to put this card in your deck, but only as a tech. Or maybe it will be played by a very late game/fatigue deck that put corrupted bloods and remove the ones in their deck by playing this 2 mana card instead of 9 mana Elysiana, it sounds clunky but is less clunky than before for sure.
If a deck that put bad things in your deck (bombs, bloods) will be popular then a deck that runs a very little amount of neutral cards can run this to counter them.
I'm just happy that a card like this exists
A deck like shrivallah paladin is already looking very strong versus all the dragon decks that don't pressure the opponent and just generate tons of value.
Just when i was thinking that maybe warriors will gain too much armor (there are the dragon that gives 5 armor, the breath that gives 5 armor and all the other armor gain cards that warriors already played) for shrivallah paladin to reliable win versus dragon warrior i see this in the main page.
If dragon warrior become a thing, shirvallah paladins will put 1 of this in their decks and still win all of the slowest matchup.
I think this card will be played only in combo decks (the ones that does damage obviously, not the mecha'thun ones for example) only if a deck in the meta is gaining too much armor and goes out of reach
A nice card for warriors, not broken but it does enough things to see play, maybe even in all warrior decks but a pure aggressive one
This card is super interesting!
In mage the 1 cost spells in standard are pretty good, highlander mage was waiting for another strong dragon to run to reach a good amount of them, with this card they finally reach this goal. They can run New Maly, old Alex, New Alex, Kalecgos and this one. If they find that activating Maly is still a bit unreliable they can add the 2/3 dragon and/or twilight drake.
Another class that has good 1 mana spells is warrior, so it fits there, especially because warriors can play a control dragon deck and this can give you removals or lackeys or the omega card.
The only downside of this card, which seems to be a common theme of these dragon decks, is that is not a card that threat your opponent in anyway it just generate value. So i can see this card being a 1 of in decks that will run 7-8 dragons
A nice low cost dragon that gives you a bit of survivilability without losing value.
Of the bunch of dragons that have this effect this one ties with the hunter one as the best ones, because they are the cheapest.
The card is not the strongest thing in the world, but if a paladin dragon deck that want to runs a lot of dragon will exist this will be played.
I'd even say that this maybe will be runned in a deck that doesn't go that heavy on dragons and play a lower number of them, which will probably be the better deck in the first place.
Not good, not bad, has it place in the right decks, i like it
I don't think this card is good and at the same time I don't think that this is what priest want.
Talking about the card itself we already had cards with similar effects and they never were good enough. Is similar to the mage secret, the difference is that here your opponent can go face with all his minion and completely ignore it. If they decide to not ignore it is only because they can trade with the minions that would die anyway and keep one with more than 3 health.
Basically giving you opponent the choice of what happens and when isn't good, and is even worse if we are talking of turn 5 where things starts to get nastier.
A proactive dragon would have been more appreciated at this point, i don't see the win condition of a control priest of any kind. If is just running out opponent of resources it will work only versus aggro, hearthstone is far away from the time that "fatigue" decks existed and worked. Now decks generate too much value and most importantly have huge powerspike turns that will close the game even if you would eventually wins the value war.
Galakrond version can at least use Talanji for a single powerful turn, which i don't know if it will be enough.
I don't see the point of this card, slow and unreliable for a payoff that maybe isn't even worth it.
Just cross your fingers to not open it in packs
EDIT: actually, after i read some comments, the card has some merit, versus faster decks you play it has soon as is your turn 3 and you have a 3/3 for 3 mana that summons your opponent best minion which isn't super bad and maybe will help you stabilize the board from there. If you draw it later isn't a dead draw and versus control it can be used when you think that one of your opponent minion is worth it. So the card isn't "dead" in any point of the game, still I'm not sure if is enough to be included in decks (I think is not) or if we will see it only when random generated.
I think this card is very good.
It can attack many times, reastically I'd say 4 times unless more lower good cost dragons will be printed ( a couple of 4-5 cost are good enough) and already attacking 4 times is good.
Versus decks that fail to pressure it can attack more times than that and alone can deal a crazy amount of damage to face, even if the dragons will just hit the board and removed instantly by the opponent.
I don't know if the dragon package will find a home in highlander hunter because for now cards that use synergies with dragons are this weapon and the breath, they are good but in an highlander i don't think you would run dragons just to play this two cards at their full potential. We have to remember that in an highlander deck the number of dragons will be very low so most of the time the cards will not even be active.
If more busted dragon synergy for hunter will be printed i can see the dragon package be included in highlander hunter, as you already want to play at least 2 dragons (the legendary dragon and new Alex) so you just have to find a little bit more of them, considering that probably the 2/3 poisonous will be good enough.
This card make me a bit less sceptical about dragon hunter if more low cost dragons are revealed, because this weapon and the breath are good to hit face and not only control the board.
Cool card... Feeling too much shaman-y tho (even Trump teased about a "shaman" card, well played)