Hunter is generally an aggressive deck, no mather how it will be changed. A card like this is crap in face hunter yes but it has some potential for midrange-controllish decks which start making massive damage after a certain round. This card could help for such tactics. So Brave Archer is definetly bad in current hunter decks but it isn't a crap card. I see good potential in this. Maybe hunter could even build an aggressive inspire deck with some board controll potential.
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Who can take your trash out? Stomp it down for you? Shake the plastic bag and do the twisty thingy, too?
Early game this will kinda suck. But its 1 mana that sucks up a removal in a pinch is not always bad.
Mid-Late game it's 3 mana deal 5 damage (assuming you are playing the legendary that gives you a better hero power). If you line it up right its a finisher card, It's possible to have a 2 card combo from the hand for 8 mana deal 10 damage. Just how hard that will be to make work is yet to be seen.
disgusting topdeck. I don't really see justicar trueheart being run in hunter (especially face hunter), but this card synergizes really well with it. hunter no longer putting opponents on a clock w/ hero power, they're taking the clock and bashing them over the head with it
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"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear turns into a cat and eats you." - Anonymous Druid
I'm waiting for the Trolden play where someone plays a Hungry Dragon just to bm the opponent who has no chance of winning, and then the only card the opponent draws is garrison commander, and wins to the sound of rocky music.
And then I think I will forget about this card forever.
This will go well in a face hunter deck. Although it doesn't start as well as Worgen, it helps the main problem of when you at the end of the game and need an extra push to lethal you can play and tap for 4 damage now. Whereas Worgen just meant you were drawing dead.
As much as people hate facehunter, this is a moderate helpful card, could have been worse. Good job Blizzard.
Anyone who thinks this is a good card is kidding themselves. Best case scenario it becomes a leper gnome. Even in top deck wars, the only reason this card is better than Leper Gnome is because it's effect is immediate. No reason to put this thing in any hunter deck.
I'm just thinking it'll be played with Leper Gnome, not instead of it.
I can definitely see myself dying many times to this card in the future.
In what capacity? It's terrible until you drain your hand. Heck until you have no hand, this is worse than Voodo Doctor and in top deck wars, you'd much rather have one of your chargers.
I'm really curious about these recent "if your hand is empty" cards for hunter. What does Blizzard want to achieve with this? Instead of encouraging control hunter, which never seen much play, they kinda promote "vomit everything asap" style of play, which doesn't serve well even face hunter.
I was thinking the same thing, My guess is it's the old "if you can't beat em, join em" attitude, meaning that they are attempting to embrace face hunter since that's what people are actually playing. Instead of focusing on embracing Hunter deck types that people don't like and won't play. The problem is, vomiting your entire hand is easier said than done. Quickshot sees play because it's a solid value even without the added effect, but Brave Archer is NOT a solid value without the added effect.
My guess is, this minion was designed so that you hold it until the game goes later and then you just play this is a 2dmg face spell for 1mana. Which IMO makes it similar to Arcane Shot, but just worse. It's kinda hard for me to judge this card (I was one of the people who thought webspinner would be crap before Naxx hit) but I can say with certainty I'm not excited by it. In fact, most of the GT cards are not exciting me. I was loving the early reveals from Naxx, GvG and BRM. So far GT has been giving me reactions ranging between "that card is ok" to "that card is garbage".
Anyone who thinks this is a good card is kidding themselves. Best case scenario it becomes a leper gnome. Even in top deck wars, the only reason this card is better than Leper Gnome is because it's effect is immediate. No reason to put this thing in any hunter deck.
And that they are forced to trade with it given that it does 2 more damage a turn than leper gnome. That might buy the face hunter a whole turn if that trade is unfavorable for the opponent.
So you'd play a 2/1 on the off chance that you're in the one last turn scenario even though dealing with this guy is as easy as a mage ping? It's a dead card WAY too often.
You're screwed if a hunter somehow has this card and Coldarra Drake on the field with no hand.
Hunter is generally an aggressive deck, no mather how it will be changed. A card like this is crap in face hunter yes but it has some potential for midrange-controllish decks which start making massive damage after a certain round. This card could help for such tactics. So Brave Archer is definetly bad in current hunter decks but it isn't a crap card. I see good potential in this. Maybe hunter could even build an aggressive inspire deck with some board controll potential.
Who can take your trash out?
Stomp it down for you?
Shake the plastic bag
and do the twisty thingy, too?
I don't see hunters running Faceless Manipulator for Coldarra Drake, but they can start running Garrison Commander...
Early game this will kinda suck. But its 1 mana that sucks up a removal in a pinch is not always bad.
Mid-Late game it's 3 mana deal 5 damage (assuming you are playing the legendary that gives you a better hero power). If you line it up right its a finisher card, It's possible to have a 2 card combo from the hand for 8 mana deal 10 damage. Just how hard that will be to make work is yet to be seen.
Maybe when we see a wisp meta when we toss our hand this card will see play.
This isn't a face hunter card, it's too fucking slow, this is garbage.
disgusting topdeck. I don't really see justicar trueheart being run in hunter (especially face hunter), but this card synergizes really well with it. hunter no longer putting opponents on a clock w/ hero power, they're taking the clock and bashing them over the head with it
"Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear turns into a cat and eats you." - Anonymous Druid
I'm waiting for the Trolden play where someone plays a Hungry Dragon just to bm the opponent who has no chance of winning, and then the only card the opponent draws is garrison commander, and wins to the sound of rocky music.
And then I think I will forget about this card forever.
Same thought.
12 wins in ArenA with: Mage and Paladin, first time legend with Rogue
TO THE FAAAACE!
This will go well in a face hunter deck. Although it doesn't start as well as Worgen, it helps the main problem of when you at the end of the game and need an extra push to lethal you can play and tap for 4 damage now. Whereas Worgen just meant you were drawing dead.
As much as people hate facehunter, this is a moderate helpful card, could have been worse. Good job Blizzard.
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no they doesnt have anti-synergy since this card is not a battlecry
Anyone who thinks this is a good card is kidding themselves. Best case scenario it becomes a leper gnome. Even in top deck wars, the only reason this card is better than Leper Gnome is because it's effect is immediate. No reason to put this thing in any hunter deck.
I'm just thinking it'll be played with Leper Gnome, not instead of it.
I can definitely see myself dying many times to this card in the future.
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i like that card, because i don't like huntard :)
Huck Funtard.
In what capacity? It's terrible until you drain your hand. Heck until you have no hand, this is worse than Voodo Doctor and in top deck wars, you'd much rather have one of your chargers.
I was thinking the same thing, My guess is it's the old "if you can't beat em, join em" attitude, meaning that they are attempting to embrace face hunter since that's what people are actually playing. Instead of focusing on embracing Hunter deck types that people don't like and won't play. The problem is, vomiting your entire hand is easier said than done. Quickshot sees play because it's a solid value even without the added effect, but Brave Archer is NOT a solid value without the added effect.
My guess is, this minion was designed so that you hold it until the game goes later and then you just play this is a 2dmg face spell for 1mana. Which IMO makes it similar to Arcane Shot, but just worse. It's kinda hard for me to judge this card (I was one of the people who thought webspinner would be crap before Naxx hit) but I can say with certainty I'm not excited by it. In fact, most of the GT cards are not exciting me. I was loving the early reveals from Naxx, GvG and BRM. So far GT has been giving me reactions ranging between "that card is ok" to "that card is garbage".
So you'd play a 2/1 on the off chance that you're in the one last turn scenario even though dealing with this guy is as easy as a mage ping? It's a dead card WAY too often.