Mobius and pet octopus
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I remember that fad in classic, but it didn't last long as people learned how to deal with it.
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Hearthstone |OT6| C'THUN for President! Why pick the lesser evil?
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I remember that fad in classic, but it didn't last long as people learned how to deal with it.
FormallyFamicom
Member
Card will be auto-include in the N'Zoth Hunter decks, just you wait.
RumblingRosco
Member
Yeah.
BigJonsson
Member
Anything new in this patch?
Professor Lich
Member
For new cards, this does work alright with something like Polluted Hoarder, Infested Tauren, and Spawn of N'Zoth. It's just kind of unfortunate since you want two out of those three to actually die to get the benefit of their Deathrattles, so getting an extra health could technically hurt it some situations.
There's also Cairne, Sylvanas, Huge Toad, Leper Gnome, and the aforementioned Harvest Golem in Standard too.
There's also Cairne, Sylvanas, Huge Toad, Leper Gnome, and the aforementioned Harvest Golem in Standard too.
the art and stats scared me a little at first before I read what it did haha
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
That's pretty much where I see a fit for it in standard.
N'Zoth decks shouldn't run too many smaller deathrattle minions anyway. I think you're better off treating that like the Anyfin deck, where you're controlling in the early game and running out Sylvanas, Cairne and Highmane before your big N'Zoth turn. A playable 3 drop that buffs your Cairne or something might work.
Hey_Blinkin
Member
How do the pre-built decks hold up? When I used to play this game I'd stay around rank 14-15. Since I started playing again I can barely hit rank 18. Granted I make my own decks w/o looking up strategies, so I know I'll never be great. I'm just wondering if I'm actually making worse decks than the ones they offer.
Huge Toad, Leper Gnome, Highmane, maybe Twilight Summoner? Although this would put your highmane into BGH range. We're probably missing some of the pieces here.
Although this thing is ridiculous in Wild. Webspinner, Haunted Creeper, Mad Scientist, Shredder, Sludge Belcher. Definitely for a midrange hunter.
Acerac
Banned
The pre-built decks are mainly there for ideas. While many of the concepts are workable, I wouldn't use them for anything more than inspiration.
Don't be afraid to check out websites like hearthpwn for ideas. While it's not my favorite option for the strongest decks in the metagame, it's certainly helped me find a few new possibilities I'd not have otherwise considered.
Karsticles
Member
I swear this entire set is made with Wild in mind.
More likely the design space has opened up and they can release some cards that would have had broken synergy otherwise.
It's a good thing that they are supporting Wild somewhat. Gives that format something to be excited over too.
Sucks for the people that want to see new cool cards for a class for standard and have no interest in wild
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
It's not like deathrattle doesn't exist in standard, this card is fine. It's just insane in Wild midrange hunter.
The deathrattles in standard, with naxx leaving, is very very limited unless the last 60 cards are full of deathrattles.
Pretty underwhelming in Standard. There are deathrattles, but there aren't a ton. It's very likely to be not worth it there. In Wild, this thing is nuts. Haunted Creepers, Highmanes (standard has this too), Belchers, Shredders, Mad Scientists, etc The list goes on. Slot in 1 or 2 of these into a mid range deck and you probably get a delayed +2/+2 or +3/+3. Pretty decent. Worth the tempo loss? Hard to say. The face-y decks are not likely to have room for it even though they are also running lots of deathrattles.
Too bad it doesn't synergize with Explorer's Hat! It might make that card playable (lol no it wouldn't).
Too bad it doesn't synergize with Explorer's Hat! It might make that card playable (lol no it wouldn't).
This card will be around for two years, they will be more Deathrattle cards in the future.
Important thing to note is the card's potential power level. In a full Deathrattle deck it's quite strong and unlike Mistcaller doesn't punish you with a huge tempo loss on turn 3.
irfaanator
Banned
doesnt work since ball of spiders summons 3 webspinners and the card only affects the hand
I actually think that's precisely why they printed it now instead of earlier. It's way too strong a card in the post naxx to now meta to be even considered. Every hunter would run two of these.
Now there's less chance of that happening since deathrattle was nerfed. It's probably still a great card, but not a "must have in every hunter deck" great.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Outdrawn by a Druid by 10 cards. Ancient of Lore is so fucking broken.
toddhunter
Member
Looks like one of those cards which is good in a deck that doesn't really exist.
Should be fun though. Will no doubt be able to build something to break the meta.
Should be fun though. Will no doubt be able to build something to break the meta.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
I literally thought to myself "this asshole better not get something game winning out of this portal."
He got Deathwing, luckily for me I still had lethal on board(based Highmane). Krush won me the game by allowing me to kill Antonidas asap. CAN'T SEE BOOM DOING THAT HUH
He got Deathwing, luckily for me I still had lethal on board(based Highmane). Krush won me the game by allowing me to kill Antonidas asap. CAN'T SEE BOOM DOING THAT HUH
BananasWithGuns
Member
Enchance-o-Mechano giving Windfury + Power Overwhelming x3. 16/16 with Windfury. Totally balanced.
I would feel bad but he was playing Anyfin Paladin.
I would feel bad but he was playing Anyfin Paladin.
Karsticles
Member
That Steal Priest deck is not good, but I just pulled Thaurassan from Mind Games twice with Ysera on the board, and it was pretty amusing.
It's more for fun, the times it works and you can really piss off someone with their own toys
Lol, Reynad being professional and salty at the same time in this post lost interview
Professor Lich
Member
Yeah, it's a bit off, but maybe it'll be better in the next year of whatnot or however seasons are handled.
I think an interesting effect would of been to give Deathrattle cards +1/+1 while also giving +1/+1 to any minions summoned by said Deathrattle cards.
Sure, it makes Highmane even stronger, which isn't needed, but I feel something like that would make it more used since this only effects cards in your hand.
toddhunter
Member
It fits in a feign death deck nicely... Which of course no longer helps a lot.
For aggro, you want more aggroey stuff. For beast? Houndmaster etc.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Feign death is just a meh card. This meh card plus feign death doesn't add up to a good strat imo. But if it has a chance, it's probably in wild where midrange hunter can run 2-3 more deathrattles than it can in standard.
Strikes me as a good Arena card because the pool of deathrattle cards is pretty strong. But Hunter's rares give it a lot of competition.
Karsticles
Member
Link to his stream? I'm curious to see gameplay without having to pay.
Yes. Poison Sheep combo no longer working.