(I'm assuming the skeletons are just vanilla 1/1's here)
Pretty good card in arena, not worth running in constructed.
The real question is why they printed another broken common arena card for one of the top arena classes.
It's not close to broken in arena. It's good sure, it's not "broken".
Considering you can assume to get at least one every draft, and that rogue is already quite nutty in arena as it is, I would still say it's stupid.
It will probably be an 85-90 point card in heartharena, which is quite high. Keep in mind that this card allows you to fill up blank spots in your mana curve with the 1/1's, as well as activate combo synergies very easily.
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The 5/5 has a better chance of drawing hard removal than the 2/3 Elemental. Which I like. The 1 drops provide fuel for the Knife Juggler + Plague Scientist combo on Turn 8+. Dope!
Doesn't seem very good. The stats are bad, and the 1/1s are pretty much useless other than for combo purposes. Finding things to combo with later on is never that hard anyway since almost all combo cards are low-cost. The only way this sees play is if more cards are made that care about how many cards you play before your combo card, or cards that can make really good use of 1/1s.
Doesn't seem very good. The stats are bad, and the 1/1s are pretty much useless other than for combo purposes. Finding things to combo with later on is never that hard anyway since almost all combo cards are low-cost. The only way this sees play is if more cards are made that care about how many cards you play before your combo card, or cards that can make really good use of 1/1s.
Doesn't seem very good. The stats are bad, and the 1/1s are pretty much useless other than for combo purposes. Finding things to combo with later on is never that hard anyway since almost all combo cards are low-cost. The only way this sees play is if more cards are made that care about how many cards you play before your combo card, or cards that can make really good use of 1/1s.
1 Quest rogue is dead 2 its too slow even for that deck aka the only reason it was made
I would agree, especially at 5 mana for only 2 of them. The only other card that makes any skeletons summons them instead of putting them in your hand, so Bone Baron is only good for combo fodder. The stats are good enough for a 5 cost minion but without support from additional skeleton generators it is just worse than Flame Elementals for Quest Rogue.
I wonder if these exact skeleton tokens are added to your hand by anything else. Even if it doesn't, this card will likely singlehandedly make Quest Rogue viable again, except a much, MUCH slower version. You can pair the token with Shadowcaster to get a 5th or 6th one, and acts as a complement to Igneous Elemental/Fire Fly as token generators to complete The Caverns Below.
Quest + 2x Bone Baron + 2x Shadowcaster + 2x Igneous Elemental + 2x Fire Fly will make a great Quest core for a Midrange/Control deck, and the new Death Knight will make it even easier to complete.
I wonder if these exact skeleton tokens are added to your hand by anything else. Even if it doesn't, this card will likely singlehandedly make Quest Rogue viable again, except a much, MUCH slower version. You can pair the token with Shadowcaster to get a 5th or 6th one, and acts as a complement to Igneous Elemental/Fire Fly as token generators to complete The Caverns Below.
Quest + 2x Bone Baron + 2x Shadowcaster + 2x Igneous Elemental + 2x Fire Fly will make a great Quest core for a Midrange/Control deck, and the new Death Knight will make it even easier to complete.
There isn't another card that puts Skeletons in your hand. I was hopefully when I saw Grim Necromancer but it summons them to the board. While Valeera the Hollow is cool, the rest of the Rogue cards have me feeling rather pessimistic right now that Rogue will see anything other than Miracle this expansion. I will be happy to be proven wrong.
5/5 is actually a decent stat line, and free combo enablers are a nice bonus. I think this card will see Constructed play even outside of Quest Rogue. Rogue has enough good 2, 3, and 4-drops now to go for a value strategy with Valeera the Hollow.
It's clearly made to give rogues something to innitiate combo's with. Problem is for rogues 1 mana 1/1's is worse than razor pedals in general cause they're not spells for synergy with auctioneerand one instant damage mid game or later is generally more impactful than a 1/1 body.
I'd much rather have a 3 mana spells that gave you 3 zero mana spells that does nothing which will be great to prep and make a big van cleave or draw you a lot of cards with auctioneer.
It's clearly made to give rogues something to innitiate combo's with. Problem is for rogues 1 mana 1/1's is worse than razor pedals in general cause they're not spells for synergy with auctioneerand one instant damage mid game or later is generally more impactful than a 1/1 body.
I'd much rather have a 3 mana spells that gave you 3 zero mana spells that does nothing which will be great to prep and make a big van cleave or draw you a lot of cards with auctioneer.
I agree with you on the lack of spell synergy here, but there is a possibility that Bone Baron is meant as an alternative to Razorpetals for when Skulking Geist is popular, which hits 1 mana spells. Thankfully Geist doesn't also hit zero cost spells, otherwise it becomes a complete Miracle Counter in one card. Miracle feels like the last popular Rogue deck left. Jade and Tempo don't seem to have taken off in the current meta, and Quest pretty much disappeared after the nerf, but maybe some of them can come back with the new set. I don't think this card does enough to help Quest, but maybe a midrange tempo deck has a spot for this in this new meta.
Weak, might be ok in arena.
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The 5/5 has a better chance of drawing hard removal than the 2/3 Elemental. Which I like. The 1 drops provide fuel for the Knife Juggler + Plague Scientist combo on Turn 8+. Dope!
Doesn't seem very good. The stats are bad, and the 1/1s are pretty much useless other than for combo purposes. Finding things to combo with later on is never that hard anyway since almost all combo cards are low-cost. The only way this sees play is if more cards are made that care about how many cards you play before your combo card, or cards that can make really good use of 1/1s.
I wonder if these exact skeleton tokens are added to your hand by anything else. Even if it doesn't, this card will likely singlehandedly make Quest Rogue viable again, except a much, MUCH slower version. You can pair the token with Shadowcaster to get a 5th or 6th one, and acts as a complement to Igneous Elemental/Fire Fly as token generators to complete The Caverns Below.
Quest + 2x Bone Baron + 2x Shadowcaster + 2x Igneous Elemental + 2x Fire Fly will make a great Quest core for a Midrange/Control deck, and the new Death Knight will make it even easier to complete.
Seems quite good.
This card is not impressive, but it is very solid body for a Roll the Bones deck if it ever becomes a thing.
5/5 is actually a decent stat line, and free combo enablers are a nice bonus. I think this card will see Constructed play even outside of Quest Rogue. Rogue has enough good 2, 3, and 4-drops now to go for a value strategy with Valeera the Hollow.
It's clearly made to give rogues something to innitiate combo's with. Problem is for rogues 1 mana 1/1's is worse than razor pedals in general cause they're not spells for synergy with auctioneerand one instant damage mid game or later is generally more impactful than a 1/1 body.
I'd much rather have a 3 mana spells that gave you 3 zero mana spells that does nothing which will be great to prep and make a big van cleave or draw you a lot of cards with auctioneer.
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In arena it's fine.
In constructed it's way too slow for N'Zoth rogue to run, if that becomes a thing.
Outside of N'Zoth rogue I really can't see any use for it.
I try to look at constructed so I'll give it a ''bad''.
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