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With all those deathrattle minions coming in Ungoro expansion, a new N'zoth age is upon us (if aggro decks get weaker of course)
Just a heads up for this guy.
Even if your Deathrattle Minion gets silenced, N'Zoth will resummon him in his original form. Just happened with my Tirion Fordring in a wild match. He got silenced, but he came back as a 6/6 taunt / deathrattle bae. Probably already known, but whatevs. Came as a surprise to me.
Also, his golden animation is bloody gorgeous. ^__^
The people who gave this card a bad rating probably had bad deck luck...
Golden card is a must have!!!!
So OP
Just sooooooo good, you guys.
Even if he just brings back Sylvanas or Cairne, that is still fantastic value.
The other old gods can suck it. N'zoth is the man.
This was the first legendary I packed. From my first WotOG pack, no less. Being the f2p noob I was at that time, (I had no deathrattle cards) I dusted him. I am now so sad.
I did the same thing with Reno Jackson. Had almost no good cards and just decided to dust him to craft Call of the Wild (when it was still 8 mana), now I really regret it because he's a fun card in wild and I have the stuff to back him up now.
Guys I got this Golden N'Zoth from the one win arena pack and i disenchanted it to make Bloodmage Thalnos. I mostly play rogue and I don't have the Windrunner, Cairne.
What do you think? It was a bad choice? It's irritating me so I had to tell this here.
your kidding right ?????
Lol no. Is it that bad? wow i'm super sad right now :(
if you don't ever want to play control decks or wild, then its not soul breaking, but if you ever have the slightest want to play something like that its gonna hurt
The most hurting part is it was golden :D I'm considering playing wild but yeah I pretty fucked up.
Hi. After the long delay I decided to write WOG legendary reviews, and the first one will be N'Zoth, the Corruptor, as most people voted for him.
As usual, starting with his stat distribution. 5/7 equals a 6 mana minions with 1-stat off of perfect one, like Boulderfist Ogre. 5 attack is enough to kill a lot of commonly seen minions with <5 health, 7 health is enough to take beating. But it's obvious that we dont play this card for his stats. We play for battlecry. So, his effect costs 4 mana, and brings back 1-6 deathrattle minions.
His advantage is insane tempo-swing that you get after playing him. Like, from no board to full board. It's marvelously powerful situation, when all things come together. So, let's see the usage of him in classes. The most popular neutral minions that people play in N'Zoth-decks are: Sylvanas Windrunner, Cairne Bloodhoof, Infested Tauren, sometimes Chillmaw and a lot of others. I would also advice you to use Barnes to have a chance to pull off another deathrattle to die. If you pop out something with crazy DR, it's so gorgeous. I would even tip you to bring Twilight Summoner into your deck, as Barny would just play 4 mana 3/4 + 6/6 onto the board. Even cooler than Cairne Bloodhoof, but playing 4 mana 1/1 by yourself is kinda meh. Whatever you like. People even tried using Moat Lurker as a potential killer of your Deathrattlers to make it work, thn resummon again for future Octopus-lord-thing enlargement. But it will have a chance to summon 3/3 isntead of something huge. Another cool guy is Faceless Manipulator. Same as Moat Lurker, but you won't summon 3/3 minion on our after N'Zoth, the Corruptor's battlecry. You can experiment by yourself.
People sometimes ask, whether Zotty brings back minions that got Deathrattle from spells or battlecries. Nope, he won't. If a card has no "Deathratttle: ..." text in it, it won't be considered as a DR minion for N'Zoth. Another question is if my enemy silences, lets say, my Tirion, then kills it, will i summon it? Yes, you will, for the same reason i wrote above. He has determined Deathrattle in his card text.
The most powerful usage in classes is Paladin, obviously. Tirion Fordring is crazy card by itself, and fighting him twice, or even trice a match is the nether for your enemies. Selfless Hero can be unpleasant on earlier stage, and will make full clearing of N'Zoth, the Corruptor's entrance a bit harder.
Rogue is also very strong. She has no crazy legendary-fat-ass minions(forget about Anub'arak), but she owns Tomb Pillager, Xaril, Poisoned Mind, Undercity Huckster, Gang Up, Shadowstep, all in all.
Hunters got Savannah Highmane, Infested Wolf, Kindly Grandmother nd other deathrattle beasts.
Priests have Shifting Shade, Resurrect, Onyx Bishop, Thoughtsteal, so they may grind some deathrattles over again.
Shamans got Ancestral Spirit. No, it doesnt allow to resummon any minion you use it on, it allows your deathrattler die few times.
Other classes dont have class cards with spectacular deathrattles, but still can use neutral ones. N'Zoth-warrior, as an example.
Now, his disadvantages. I got golden N'Zoth, the Corruptor on NA account, so i figured out, how unlucky i am with him. I either have ALL my deathrattlers died, but cnt draw Zotty from like 25 cards, or i have him in starting hand, but all my 7-9 deathrattlers are literall thhe last 10 cards. Or i can draw like 1-2 drops, that literally has no ipact on board, so using N'Zoth to resurrect them is a waste. That's really annoying. I tried to mix C'Thun and N'Zoth, the Corruptor, but then i either played Cthun-deck with no C'Thun, or N'Zoth deck without N'Zoth. Or I draw both of them on turn 1, and cant get any cards that interrcat with them. But if you luckier than me, what is, basically, any other person, you will draw your powerful minions, and play N'Zoth, the Corruptor on turn 10 and win.
Barnes, Madam Goya, Dirty Rat and pull your Octopus on battlefield with no battlecry. In that case, you might lose on the spot. Your win condition is wasted.
Keep in midn that control decks nowadays have ways to clear, and they will keep their mass-removals for your N'Zoth appearance. It might be Twisting Nether, Shadowflame, Doomsayer + taunts/freeze, Equality- Consecration, Brawl, New Potions from Gadzetzan. Try to bait them hard before you play Zotty.
So, time to make a conclusion. This card is very cool, and really worths to be crafted, if you like control-slow gamestyle. Sure, You can play him in aggro decks, but, meh, it's a bit silly, i guess. Still an option, tho. Even when it cycles out, you will be able to do crasy stuff in the Wild format, as remember all the GVG, NAXX, LOE deathrattles that you could use. That's a giant pool of cards to choose from. I will craft him on my EU account, when i get all the cool Expert set cards, as he is amazing.
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The Expert Set:
Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight
Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus | Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream
The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:
Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth
Other Sets:
| Kel'Thuzad | Arch-Thief Rafaam |
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Good review. I just want to point out that Barnes only summons a copy of him, not the card itself. Were you thinking of Y'shaarj? I don't know why anyone would play both in the same deck though. Also, regarding the main drawbacks you noted (difficulty drawing him when you need it and board clears), I would recommend a miracle rogue style deck. The card draw of gadgetzan allows you to pull him nearly every game, and including a copy of shadowstep or gang up will allow you to reuse him again after your opponent wastes his board clear.
Can anyone tell me if N'zoth works for cards you "give" deathrattle to with a spell? For example, Infest or Ancestral Spirit
Seems like that worked for me once, and then didn't during another game when I was counting on it.
I forget now... thought maybe it was Flamewreathed Faceless with Ancestral Spirit, but at this point I could just be remembering it wrong.
thanks!
This card is just flat out overpowered, particularly in decks that can run Sylvanas and/or Cairne and in the wild format.
If you play a few Deathrattle minions, which isn't hard, the free value is almost impossible to come back from.
As overpowered as Dr. Boom in the right deck, but at least it requires some deckbuilding and synergy unlike that abomination.
This almost may as well say "If you make it to turn 10, you win the game."
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Would making his effect a Deathrattle with an obvious "other deathrattle minions" clause balance him out?
Not sure how to fix him without destroying him.
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