You're overpaying more than 2 mana (compare Fierce Monkey, Spider Tank) so you want to make absolutely sure you're getting back a 3-mana statted minion.
Which kind of means you can't actually play 1-mana minions and you definitely don't want to get back Museum Curator. So what do you do on the first 2 turns?Injured Kvaldir? Harvest Golem? And of course Injured Blademaster which admittedly is decent.
The fact that nobody is doing that while running Resurrect makes me think this won't see much play either.
This card is actually pretty good, just not wat we need. Been playing priest exclusively since I started this game. And the deck I'm running now has resurrect in it. To be honest I think resurrect priest is one of the best variant floating around right now. But early game is still a problem in that deck. And u don't wanna resurrect cleric at least early on for sure. Loot hoarder/thalnos fills that early game void and u only need to run one because resurrect functions as the second copy. So worse case u draw a card. Embrace the darkness and flash heals help. Another Card I was running in my earlier build was squirming tentacle which is a great ress target. Kvaldir is just not good enough and it will almost always leave u desiring more. It does work, just under performs most of the time. As crazy as this may sound, I think a holy smite might not be so bad...just one
I'm just rambling, but it's a possibility that this card with barnes might actually be alright.... at least playable lol
Even though I think this is the best priest class card in the expansion, I have to address all the people who think this card is good/very good - pleash shut up, you clearly don't play priest often enough to have a clue. The main weakness for priest is early game, meanwhile priest's strength is late game. This is a bad early game card but a good late game card so this doesn't solve anything. There, I put it as simple as I could, I hope it clears things up for the simpletons.
To be more specific - to gain early maximum and reliable value from this card you clearly need to play Injured Blademaster as the only minion before you play this card. If your mulligan is lucky and you don't get overwhelmed by aggro early, that can be a huge swing. But the operational word here is IF. It goes without saying that most of the time you won't get this perfect scenario and that for the vast majority of games you will get value from it in the late game. So the card has minimal impact on your early game but a big impact on your late game. So it's nothing new for priest. Awesome!
And you clearly haven't played Res Priest. I've made and tested a dozen variants including ones where only 2-3 minion cards were even in the deck. Priest doesn't need minions to survive the early game. When yoj realize you don't need a board, cards like PW:G become viable.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but ress priest is only a fun, gimmick deck and this card won't change that especially since it's a minion that has no impact on the board by itself screwing your chances to get a good tempo play with your Resurrect. If this cards battlecry was a deathrattle then it would be powerful, but the devs are a complete failure with priest so they made this card like this.
run 2 of these and 2 resurrects and a bunch of small taunts(the 2 mana 3/2 and the 3 mana 2/4) and you might make it into the late game against an aggressive deck. Only to die late because you cant create enough damage to actually win
People are down on this card comparing it to resurrect, but for 'Normal' situations this card is much better. You always wait until turn 4+ to play resurrect anyway. Say on turn 4 you resurrect Injured Blademaster, but It's pretty hard to fill out the rest of the mana so you end up hero powering, making it a much weaker play. This card comes out after you played some decent value minions and gives you a body.
Just saying, so many other classes would love this card. If this was in Rogue, only bad outcome would be VanCleef and massive upside from there. Warrior,Ramp Druid,Mage, etc. could make so much use out of this card. Pretty sure people don't like this because it's a Priest card (which to be fair, it could end up being the best card in Priest and still won't be good enough to drag Priest out of the gutter).
A crappy slow card that basically encourages you being even more passive/reactive in your first turn and greedily play only 3+ mana drops for value. This card is incredibly shitty, must be a Priest card. Oh look!, it is...
That 2/4 Kvaldir that hits itself and Museum Curator work fine as early rez targets.
Naw curator is about as terrible as it gets for a resurrect target. U should not be running him at all in that deck. Kvaldir is alright, but after turn 3, a vanilla 2/4 will feel underwhelming and almost not worth resurrecting. In top deck situations it's just not as threatening as blade master later on.
I have made this deck with this card and it has great resurrection targets for early game and late game. Barnes is added too for more high end targets that could be resurrected on turn 5.
I think this is underrated because of stupid resurect 2 mana card. This card is miles better because it's on curve play. The problem with the 2 mana resurect is that you don't play it on turn 2, you play it on 5 or 6 and then you need to have another minion to play alongside it, otherwise you're floating mana. So, lets see regular game scenario for priest? No turn 2 play, turn 3 blademaster, turn 4 one of the minions..lots of decent 4 drops for priest. Turn 5 this and from being behind after they killed your blademaster/turn 4 minion, you're now in a good spot with a 3/4 and lets say a 4/7 on board for only 5 mana.
You can play the new 4 mana 3/6, priest of the feast, that heals you for every spell, they probably won't ignore that and have to kill it, then you play this on 5.
I think this card is the best priest card this adventure, you could summon deathrattles in a deathrattle deck, it could work in a control deck too. I don't think its overcosted it's a Spider Tank with a Resurrect on it.
if it gets something good it is amazing, if priest was good this would be amazing, question is does it fit in a unicorn priest, whatever that may be. Is unicorn priest the latest game deck in the universe that toast runs, is it silence priest, is it kripp's contraption, what is it? whatever it is it is probably too weird for this meh value card since it has been so difficult to find.
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Just fill your deck with one drops, that is creative deck design, right?
People don't play resurrect because it sucks , giving it's effect to a under powered minion undersized minion for it's cost isn't going to make him or the card viable
Well, 3/4 are the fair vanilla stats for a 3 mana minion and Resurrect costs 2 mana. Having two fair effects in a single card usually makes it good.
wrong Usually you get a discount when you have cards like that to be viable , look Aldor peace keeper , twilight flame caller , ravaging ghoul , this card should been at least 3 5 , and priest doesn't like smaller minion for their cost as he can't heal them , and naturally prefer oversized minion for their cost
They're completely different cards. Faceless Summoner will only ever get you a 3-drop. So pretty much the best you can do (stat-wise) is a King Mukla. Onyx Bishop draws from any of your killed minions. So sure if you run a normal curve and have only played low minions and try dropping this on T5 it won't be very good. But if this pulls an Injured Blademaster (very likely and a more controlled effect) it's already way better than Faceless Summoner in value. Now think that it could pull Ragnaros, C'Thun, Sylvanas, Ysera... It's clearly not a consistent card but it has the possibility to provide a huge swing just like Resurrect was able to. Do I think it will be played? In some crazier decks, yes. In most decks, no. But you can't compare it to Faceless Summoner.
Clearly Blizz just wants priests to play Blood of the Ancient decks. With two Resurrect, two of this card, two Faceless Manipulator, Barnes + Brann Bronzebeard, that 30/30 is bound to show up within your first 10 losses.
You're overpaying more than 2 mana (compare Fierce Monkey, Spider Tank) so you want to make absolutely sure you're getting back a 3-mana statted minion.
Which kind of means you can't actually play 1-mana minions and you definitely don't want to get back Museum Curator. So what do you do on the first 2 turns?Injured Kvaldir? Harvest Golem? And of course Injured Blademaster which admittedly is decent.
The fact that nobody is doing that while running Resurrect makes me think this won't see much play either.
This card is actually pretty good, just not wat we need. Been playing priest exclusively since I started this game. And the deck I'm running now has resurrect in it. To be honest I think resurrect priest is one of the best variant floating around right now. But early game is still a problem in that deck. And u don't wanna resurrect cleric at least early on for sure. Loot hoarder/thalnos fills that early game void and u only need to run one because resurrect functions as the second copy. So worse case u draw a card. Embrace the darkness and flash heals help. Another Card I was running in my earlier build was squirming tentacle which is a great ress target. Kvaldir is just not good enough and it will almost always leave u desiring more. It does work, just under performs most of the time. As crazy as this may sound, I think a holy smite might not be so bad...just one
I'm just rambling, but it's a possibility that this card with barnes might actually be alright.... at least playable lol
The card is very good. It's the rest of priest that sucks.
Still. The card is very, very good. Get to endgame without playing minions (easy! :P), play ragg, ysera or y'shaarj. Next turn brann, this.
That's exactly what priest needed. more control in an aggro based meta while you lack the early answers.
but hey we win more against control (oh wait i forgot control is one of our best matchups even before this...)
feeling sad...
Strong. But slow. As I said long time ago, priest needs early, proactive minions to fight for the board.
do yo know what's the worst part of these bullshit cards? that they will make priest arena drafts EVEN WORSE. So...nice job...
run 2 of these and 2 resurrects and a bunch of small taunts(the 2 mana 3/2 and the 3 mana 2/4) and you might make it into the late game against an aggressive deck. Only to die late because you cant create enough damage to actually win
Wait a sec - priests have a minion before turn 5 that could be resurrected and useful? That's news to me!
People are down on this card comparing it to resurrect, but for 'Normal' situations this card is much better. You always wait until turn 4+ to play resurrect anyway. Say on turn 4 you resurrect Injured Blademaster, but It's pretty hard to fill out the rest of the mana so you end up hero powering, making it a much weaker play. This card comes out after you played some decent value minions and gives you a body.
Just saying, so many other classes would love this card. If this was in Rogue, only bad outcome would be VanCleef and massive upside from there. Warrior,Ramp Druid,Mage, etc. could make so much use out of this card. Pretty sure people don't like this because it's a Priest card (which to be fair, it could end up being the best card in Priest and still won't be good enough to drag Priest out of the gutter).
Naw curator is about as terrible as it gets for a resurrect target. U should not be running him at all in that deck. Kvaldir is alright, but after turn 3, a vanilla 2/4 will feel underwhelming and almost not worth resurrecting. In top deck situations it's just not as threatening as blade master later on.
I have made this deck with this card and it has great resurrection targets for early game and late game. Barnes is added too for more high end targets that could be resurrected on turn 5.
I think this is underrated because of stupid resurect 2 mana card. This card is miles better because it's on curve play. The problem with the 2 mana resurect is that you don't play it on turn 2, you play it on 5 or 6 and then you need to have another minion to play alongside it, otherwise you're floating mana. So, lets see regular game scenario for priest? No turn 2 play, turn 3 blademaster, turn 4 one of the minions..lots of decent 4 drops for priest. Turn 5 this and from being behind after they killed your blademaster/turn 4 minion, you're now in a good spot with a 3/4 and lets say a 4/7 on board for only 5 mana.
You can play the new 4 mana 3/6, priest of the feast, that heals you for every spell, they probably won't ignore that and have to kill it, then you play this on 5.
I think this card is the best priest card this adventure, you could summon deathrattles in a deathrattle deck, it could work in a control deck too. I don't think its overcosted it's a Spider Tank with a Resurrect on it.
if it gets something good it is amazing, if priest was good this would be amazing, question is does it fit in a unicorn priest, whatever that may be. Is unicorn priest the latest game deck in the universe that toast runs, is it silence priest, is it kripp's contraption, what is it? whatever it is it is probably too weird for this meh value card since it has been so difficult to find.
Just fill your deck with one drops, that is creative deck design, right?
Sorry but Purify has ruined this whole expansion for me. Shit tier.
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