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Surprisingly decent in Arena. You're bound to draft some early-game as a part of a balanced draft, and this could help filter out some of that in favor of your later drops. We've all been there where we just wanna draw Bonemare, but we keep pulling Tar Creepers. They're still good Tar Creepers, but that Bonemare would really hit the spot. Hope this guess isn’t too out of the woods of reality, but this could serve as a menace of deck thinning.
However, for Constructed, it's a bit contradictory. It wants to be in Big Druid with that hefty 8 mana cost, but it wants you to build like it's Midrange/Beast Druid, and it's statted like it fits there too. Odds are, it'll just be cut down with the habitat change and go into hibernation until some really-worth-running 3 or 4 drops come along.
If this card were neutral I can see it summoning two flame-wreathed faceless. This card has potential to be good in the future but currently, it's worst home is in druid. You can't run this in big druid since 4 cost or less isn't exactly big. You can't run this in jade druid cause you don't exactly want to pull your 4 mana 2/3 jade spirits and lose their battle cry.
Right now it's a one-star card but it has the potential to be playable if there's ever overstated or powerful effect 3/4 drops with incredibly bad battle cries for druid or neutral cards.
this doesn't even have to nececessarily fit taunt druid that well, since this thing's deathrattle can recruit your Strongshell Scavenger (which I guess is played in such decks) and you certainly don't want that to happen (it's still pretty stupid to have both of these cards in one deck even if you'll have multiple 3 or 4 cost taunts or whatever). though it could work without the scavenger, since there are probably going to be some other cards to synergise with this (Branching Paths could kind of replace the scavenger anyway)
Still, playing a low stat 8 drop with an effect that could get either silenced, transformed or utilized by your opponent (mostly priests) seems too risky for me, especially since even classes that don't have class cards with silence run cards like Spellbreaker, which can also be pretty strong against Hadronox
Looks like they're attempting to make Taunt Druid a thing with Hadronox. Could be possible with Sen'jin Shield Masters, Spreading Plague, Ancient of War, Mogu'Shan Wardens. Might not be competitive, but it could be fun. Maybe Hadronox Taunt Druid becomes a tier 3 deck? It's at least worth a try for druid players.
Recruit is powerful, and it is a interesting mechanic to build decks around. While people are shit talking blizzard for toning it power down. This can be quite strong, if you run Jade for turn 1-3 and only run a chunk of good 4 drops minion that this is guaranteed to pull out. With this guy and the other recruit 4 guy. Maybe just run 2 Senjin Shieldmaster and some decent 4 drops in the deck. 3 3/5 taunt for 8 mana isn't bad at all. (13 mana worth of value for 8) Don't believe the comment shit talking this card. This can be quite good in Jade Druid as they have good amount of spells and removal that they don't have to run 1-3 drops, and having this pull 2 4 drop out is insane. Remember, Druid gotten more removal at this point and a decent amount of ramp for turn 1-3.
Hmm. Well, it is gonna technically pull 8-mana worth of stats alongside a 3/5 body with taunt. Interesting. Not sure about this one.
Not necessarily - "Recruit 2 minions that cost (4) or less"
It could very well pull a couple of 1 drops. Although you can obviously influence what it pulls to some degree with how you build your deck.
Any other class this might be sorta interesting, but currently druid cards have a lot of battlecries you'd lose out on and get terrible stats. It seems like it may be okay for arena, but I think really they have got to have some justification for this card that we'll see when the rest of cards get released... right?
Ancient Shade, Hungry Dragon, Wailing Soul, etc need i say more
Not sure why you have been down-voted for this as the first two have great synergy with this card. Except for having no way to guarantee you'll pull them short of them being your only minions that cost 4 or less mana.
Could be a good way to play your Fandral Staghelm and a Crypt Lord for some kind of Fandral deck? Seems bad so far, building around this card would require some really strange deck building and a lot of flexibility is lost just trying to make this good.
If only it was a 3/9.
Looking at the stats for the mana cost
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Normally cards with bad stats like this summon minions or other effects to supplement those stats. The range of minions that can be summoned are a bot too random for me and most of druid's minions have battlecry's that will be ignored by this so... not a fan.
u all laugh, but my wild Hadronox & N'Zoth, the Corruptor memefest deck grows ever stronger. slap Baron Rivendare, Arfus and some Piloted Shredders on that bitch and then we cookin w gas
as a lover of that deck archetype I flipped my shit when I saw a Druid deathrattle taunt and then flipped it a little less after looking at stats and mana cost. Barnes is still great on him tho