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Blizzard screwed up and they screwed up bad. The designer should be fired and the artist should be fired for making such a bad card have cool art or even agreeing to make art for such a bad card in the first place. Rafael Zanchetin you are a disgrace for caving in.
Compare this to Power Word: Shield. +2 Health on a minion, and draw a card for 1-mana. Comparing PW:S to Flash Heal, let's estimate the +2 Health on a minion to be worth about 0.25 mana. This means the draw-portion of PW:S is worth about 0.75 mana. Now, let's look at Purify. We can apply the draw-portion as being valued at 0.75-- I think this is a very fair assumption because we're dealing with same class cards that are extremely similar. This means silencing your OWN minion costs 1.25 mana. Compare this to silencing ANY minion with Silence, which costs 0-- this is terrible. This means either two things. Purify should have been worth 1-mana at most OR it could have maintained it's 2-mana value by drawing 2 cards instead. It would then be a 2-mana Arcane Intellect that's conditional aka you have to have a minion on board that you want to silence. By the way, having no friendly minion happens quite often with Priest. I can't count the amount of times I've used PW:S on an enemy minion to dig for answers because I had no friendly minions. In order to keep it the same mana-cost, Blizzard is going to have to create some damn OP minions that really work well with Purify and that are also decent on their own.
Now, let's talk about the current targets for this card. Ancient Watcher, Eerie Statue, Barnes, and perhaps Auchenai Soulpriest and Ragnaros the Firelord in a couple cases. With "Can't Attack" cards, you then need to add Sunfury Protector and Defender of Argus and you're creating some sort of strange archetype that just won't work. It worked with the old handlock because they had Shadowflame combos and pre-nerfed Molten Giant. Therefore, that just really leaves Barnes and Auchenai Soulpriest and Ragnaros the Firelord. 4 cards in your deck that can potentially see use out of Purify; 3 of which we're really stretching. If you're putting Purify as a x1 of, you want at least 6-8 cards that it can interact with in your deck.
What needs to be done: New cards need to be made that are similar to Venture Co. Mercenary, Coliseum Manager, and Deathlord. For example, imagine a mini Venture Co. Mercenary, that's a 1-mana 2/3 "Your minions cost 1-more." I don't see why a card like this couldn't come out with this adventure. Instead Blizzard gives Shaman Maelstrom Portal AND Spirit Claws at the same god-damn-time. They only needed one of those. Anyone that says, " Well, we'll see what the future holds," is naive to Blizzard's oversight on creating a poor card. Yes, the card should obviously become better in the future if Blizzard decides to correct its mistake. Until then, the best use for Purify are the meme videos in the below comments.
Well, we'll see what the future holds
Pshh! Good one. :) At least, you read thru my salt.
Thanks for taking my snark lightly
55.3% dust it ... lol enjoy your 5 dust broz
also no one ever thought that barnes summoning a deathwing then silencing the deathwing can be op
He said that barnes will summon deathwing. Then you silence deathwing and he becomes 12/12, cuz 1/1 is a purgeable debuff.
Djinni of Zephyrs as a 1-of, 1 Purify, in resurrect priest deck. Barnes can grab Djinni early, and res effects can give you a 4/6 that's really threatening. Powerword Shield at 2, Purify at 1 gives you the potential to draw 6 cards off of djinni for almost no mana. It's been working well for me with the following list.
2 Holy Smite.1 Mind Vision. 2 PWS. 1 Purify. 2 SW Pain. 2 Resurrect. 1 Wild Pyromancer. 2 Injured Blade Master. 1 SW Death. Barnes. 2 Priest of Feast. 1 Shifting Shade. 1 Djinni of Zephyrs. 2 Onyx Bishop. 2 Excavated Evil. 2 Entomb. Sylvanas. Chillmaw. Ragnaros. Yesera. Nzoth.
Try it out. It's been pretty fun and very consistently good.
It turns out that all these people who were bashing this card when announced were wrong, it's proven to be even worst that predicted !
Well done Blizz, well done.
One year later... sees tournament play.
Too bad i just get 10 dust...
Compare to other class cards in this expansion, this is hands down the worst card, this card sucks even if it is 1 mana.
Also, don't try to combo it with shadow madness, it won't work. The stolen minion will return to the opponent field once silenced.
Been trying Purify deck last 2 hours, man it sucks hard.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/619928-purify-everything
would you ether draw a card or pay 2 more mana and get a free 3/5 minon. oh wait even then a silence your own shit deck was never played as a priest, me bad
The moment when people are voting "Dust It!" on a fucking common card. Enjoy your 5 dust boys.
I dusted a lot of cards today and got about 2k dust. half of them were commons