Not bad if you can play this when you're out of cards and then get 10 cards in your deck. If that's the case, this could definitely see some kind of use in a control deck.
Rafaam is better than Elise Starseeker, because he's faster and offers taunt on top of having a good stated body. As a control warlock player:
It's a totally dead card up until turn 7 and you can't play it whenever you want to like Elise. You're acting like there aren't a bunch of glaring negatives with this card.
This would be more a Tempo Mage kind of card if it were to see play. Using it on an enemy minion is just too risky and will give them positive value more often than not. But early game in Tempo Mage you could really make a hard push using this card's effect.
This doesn't do anything for me, but it may see play simply for it's beast tag and the loss of other early game options. Even then, if it does see play, it's like the 29th and 30th card in your deck.
Yeah Hunter will have pretty limited options in the early game so I can see this otherwise "meh" card seeing play.
It's a 1 mana card... why should it be any quicker.
Babbling Book Don't know why your comment has so many likes when there is literally an equivalent of this card except it has battlecry (which makes it much much better)
Edit: Also, at least at time this card came out, Mage spells > Hunter spells
Sure, it has a beast tag, but is that really enough to make up for this massive loss in utility? Nope.
The equality nerf was specifically related to Baku imo, which is very short-sighted and quite frankly, bullshit. Baku will rotate out eventually so they destroy a classic card because they made odd pally too op? Should've nerfed Baku by changing the hero power to one 2/2 recruit. Would've solved everything.
Unfortunately Blizzard appears to no longer nerfs legendaries, so instead classic cards are being fucked around with.
This is exactly what I think and I totally agree with you. Like point for point.
well, if they make it 3 mana then it will be able to be used in baku decks.
And hey, at least you can still use it with pyromancer and concencrate.
Do you mean consecrate? Yeah but it's two turns later. The huge thing about equality is that it worked as an early as well as late-game clear, now it would seem it's only geared for late game
So after reading through some patch notes, I am honestly bewildered and kind of scared for the state of this game as it stands.
Equality? 4 Mana now?
This has to be the most insane nerf I've seen in a while. Honestly I could make a case for it being THE craziest nerf I have ever seen.
1. This card has been a staple in Paladin Decks since, well, forever
It does well in token decks, allowing smaller minions to take out bigger minions
It does well in control decks, allowing for an amazing 2-card clear
I just don't understand this at all. It seems like a change made in response to a problem that has only arisen of recent, and it seems to be only in response to recent meta changes.
I need some opinions on these changes and perhaps an explanation as to why this was justified. Please help me out here
What? The whole "Enrage" effect has never worked that well so why would it work now?
In the case of Spellzerker: It's a better Evolved Kobold in mage. More flexible than that card in any situation. In even mage, it's one mana cheaper than Cosmic Anomaly, and in any other burn deck the redundancy might be welcome. Amazing card that does not deserve to be that low.
In the case of Dozing Marksman, doubt it will see serious play, but it is still far from the 12th worst card. Enrage is not a competitive ability, but I feel people overlook that this is as good as enrage cards get, and will be a good tool for people that want to make enrage work. So it deserves a much better ranking than 12th worst. Also, there have been enrage decks that have worked just fine.
I guess I get your point about Spellzerker (for some reason I thought it was a 2/2 not a 2/3 which seriously changes how good the card is) but I remain thinking Dozing Marksman is just awful.
The community usually sucks at rating these cards. People tend to look at them in a vacuum rather than how they would fit into a deck so I'd take these with a grain of salt. Some cards are just obviously really good and will eventually see play but those cards are usually really simple like Kobold Librarian
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Not bad if you can play this when you're out of cards and then get 10 cards in your deck. If that's the case, this could definitely see some kind of use in a control deck.
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It's a totally dead card up until turn 7 and you can't play it whenever you want to like Elise. You're acting like there aren't a bunch of glaring negatives with this card.
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This would be more a Tempo Mage kind of card if it were to see play. Using it on an enemy minion is just too risky and will give them positive value more often than not. But early game in Tempo Mage you could really make a hard push using this card's effect.
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Yeah Hunter will have pretty limited options in the early game so I can see this otherwise "meh" card seeing play.
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Babbling Book Don't know why your comment has so many likes when there is literally an equivalent of this card except it has battlecry (which makes it much much better)
Edit: Also, at least at time this card came out, Mage spells > Hunter spells
Sure, it has a beast tag, but is that really enough to make up for this massive loss in utility? Nope.
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This card is unspeakably bad..... Arena Warrior is screwed, your pack openings are screwed, seriously Blizzard? Why?
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You get the health when you draw the card, not when the card dies. Did you actually read the card's effect?
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This is exactly what I think and I totally agree with you. Like point for point.
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Do you mean consecrate? Yeah but it's two turns later. The huge thing about equality is that it worked as an early as well as late-game clear, now it would seem it's only geared for late game
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So after reading through some patch notes, I am honestly bewildered and kind of scared for the state of this game as it stands.
Equality? 4 Mana now?
This has to be the most insane nerf I've seen in a while. Honestly I could make a case for it being THE craziest nerf I have ever seen.
1. This card has been a staple in Paladin Decks since, well, forever
I just don't understand this at all. It seems like a change made in response to a problem that has only arisen of recent, and it seems to be only in response to recent meta changes.
I need some opinions on these changes and perhaps an explanation as to why this was justified. Please help me out here
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I guess I get your point about Spellzerker (for some reason I thought it was a 2/2 not a 2/3 which seriously changes how good the card is) but I remain thinking Dozing Marksman is just awful.
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What? The whole "Enrage" effect has never worked that well so why would it work now?
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The community usually sucks at rating these cards. People tend to look at them in a vacuum rather than how they would fit into a deck so I'd take these with a grain of salt. Some cards are just obviously really good and will eventually see play but those cards are usually really simple like Kobold Librarian
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I thought it was always [spoiler][/spoiler] but I guess it's some really weird tag. What is it
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Really not as bad as people are making this out to be. Likely won't see much play but still not a bad card by any means