Living Roots
Card Text
Choose One - Deal 2 damage; or Summon two 1/1 Saplings.
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2 out of 2 saplings recommend that you summon the saplings.
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Maybe Volcanic Lumberer might work
Malygod Druid is looking up :D
This and moonfire in the same deck with high draw and emperor. Gives you a 1 drop against aggro.
I've been waiting for this! lets hope it works, it will give me another deck to use Malygos
Blizz is going to the roots :) Literally. That's great, always wanted druids to become more "nature".
Nice card. I like 'Choose one' mechanic.
ARMY OF BARKNESS is BACK!!!
extremely cool card ... wished the 2 1/1 tokens where beasts to push beast druid even more
or they could create a new tribe for druid .. treants or something
Its called Living Roots Roots are not Beasts :DD
Feels really great to see some addition to token minions especilaly for Druid.
It open up some nice options as well. It's 2/2 in stats for 1 mana and in another cases it's a 1 mana removal for standard 2 drops like Knife Juggler and so on.
It's an 'ok' early combo with Power of the Wild.
Objectively better Arcane Shot / Holy Smite.
Malygos decks are coming soon...
They aren't horribly weak. They're just not top-tier. Yet. I had some success with them.
If other things get revealed, malygod druids could be back, with a vengeance.
The reason this card is especially good in that archetype is that it often loses to aggro. This gives you something on the board early on against aggro, taking out those pesky leper gnomes and worgens in a much more efficient manner.
Against control, of course, you can use this card as a burn with malygos.
If we get better intermediate spell damage minions, then the archetype would also increase.
Druid Hobgoblin deck is now officially alive.
Summoning effects/minions does not get effected by Hobgoblin. Only minions that are played from the hand.
Thanks. That makes me so sad.
They eventually fixed Warsong Commander because they wanted to make a deck archetype work: there's no reason the same change won't be made for hobgoblin.
Warsong has a 'whenever you summon' effect, Hobgoblin has 'whenever you play', which means only minions played from hand will ever be affected and it's not a thing to be fixed but an intentional effect. Warsong was supposed to give charge to any minion, no matter what way it appeared on the field, and that's why it had to be fixed. This will never happen to Hobgoblin.
This card is on curve with muster to battle, and blows holy smite out of the water. Having 2 1/1 on turn one is quite powerful ( still does not handle zombie chow though).
Everyone else here is thinking of Token Druid, and then there's us hoping for a more solid Malygos Druid deck. There's a good card draw engine with Azure Drake and Ancient of Lore plus a huge enabler through Emperor Thaurissan. Living Roots is icing on the cake, a cheap versatile spell that has the ability to target face and can also be reduced to a cost of 0 (Thaurissan) very easily. I want to see a new archetype take form!
'I'm the essence of magic!'
Malygos is more fun.
A solid card, strictly better Holy Smite and Arcane shot, but I think that's okay as it makes up for Druid's lack of an early game, and helps out token druid.