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lmao 5 cost healbot? 

would be semi decent with taunt... x/x for x is pretty weak

Quote from babyspinach71 >>

This card is what makes astral druid go over the hump and become a tier 1 deck. Mark my words!

Astral druid is dependent upon getting astral communion as an early draw. If that doesn't happen, it still runs a ton of ramp to get to its biggest minions (7+ mana). Forbidden Ancient fills out the gap between the early ramp and the big minions at the end of the curve to prevent the board from swinging too far in trading with other minions. Bonus is if that you draw it right after dropping astral, you still put a 10/10 monster on the board that your opponent has to deal with.

You're right there's always better minions on the curve, but for astral, this guy's flexibility is mandatory and fills a hole

Nice ! Love it !

So much better than it's getting credit for. Druids are constantly left with extra mana against aggressive decks because they have expensive minions and have to use their shitty removal instead of playing them.

Unfortunately with all the nerfs there will only be Cthun decks where there's no room, and maybe a token/aggro deck. It could work quite well in a flood deck like that though, it gives you a 100% ability to keep playing minions, and amazing top deck when you've run out of steam. 

Called it!

[card]Forbidden Shaping[/card] can summon a minion with a battlecry, which is worse stat wise than this. 

Quote from Little_Muffin >>

even on turn 1 it's still a 2/2

Reasonable in something like Ramp Druid.  It's a not-spectacular early drop, but it at least gets you board presence.  Late game, it's just a reasonable body.  There are probably better silence targets, and if this thing gets hit, it protects an Ancient of War.  Might be a 1-of.

That said, the ability to have two reasonable on-curve plays might be better than I think it is... I'll be interesting to play with, it might be better than I think.

Confirmed Brann Bronzebeard does not work with this card. Tried it and failed. Even my opponent was like "wtf?"

Quote from Shadicar >>

Called it!

you have to pay 1 mana before the battlecry.

why people only talk about the poor stats without mentionning considering that you can play this minion on any turn. So since it's the perfect filler minon because of it's versatility and adaptability obviously can't have great stats also or it would be completly broken. Not sure if the versatility is good enough to see construted play but I would pick this almost every time over other epics in arena unless I am missing something.

Quote from Fheny123 >>

Ok, after playing this card a few times, i must say its preeeetty weak. Playing it on mana 1-3 sux, on mana 4 you got Mire Keeper, on mana 5 druid of the claw. If its a 7-10 mana creature, this will get silence and get back a 1-1. Its an epic and its bad, should be more like a rare.. Just fvck the flexibility..

Not worth playing this shit card IMO!

It dies to Earth Shock, but in the current metastorm only Aggro Shaman runs that card and he's going to save it for a taunter. Best use is for a ramp deck or Astral Communion list where you can stretch out to X mana and then plop this down.

Tried him in a deck. Got him in my opening hand, and he ended up staying there until turn 9 when I won. Never played him, never will.

Quote from Fheny123 >>

Ok, after playing this card a few times, i must say its preeeetty weak. Playing it on mana 1-3 sux, on mana 4 you got Mire Keeper, on mana 5 druid of the claw. If its a 7-10 mana creature, this will get silence and get back a 1-1. Its an epic and its bad, should be more like a rare.. Just fvck the flexibility..

Not worth playing this shit card IMO!

This card is so bad. 

It costs the summoning. 

So it could be a 10 mana 10/10 minion or a 1 mana 1/1 minion. without effect. so bad