Update 3:32 PM EDT: Added clarification of the card effect. Deathrattle does indeed select a random minion.
Curse of Naxxramas - Rogue Card Revealed - Anub'ar Ambusher
A new card from the Curse of Naxxramas Adventure has appeared on the PlayHearthstone Twitter account and it's a Rogue Minion! You can find more information about Curse of Naxxramas here.
Quote from @PlayHearthstone“Watch your back.” Seriously! This new Rogue card will get the jump on YOU in Curse of Naxxramas this summer! pic.twitter.com/45wKhjV20w
Quote from ZeriyahRegardless of the turn the Ambusher dies on, it chooses a random friendly minion to return to your hand.
Naxxramas Card Recap
With the addition of today's Warrior card, Death's Bite, we're now up to a total of 9 known cards from Naxxramas, 4 of which are class cards. Check out the previously announced cards below!
Its a stupid fkin card, with no particular usage and its completely weak compared to other class cards. You can downvote, or find some theory where this card works, but this is fact this card sucks and if u already need to return something to your hard you will run shadowstep to combo those battlecries. Overall pretty fucking stupid card.
You must be on a quest for down votes. You should just wait till its out and give it a try. I think it'll be great for arena, maybe not so good for constructed. But at least its no Kidnapper.
Nah, maybe strong words used for no reason. But yeh when you look at it its really stupid card. Random minion return, with all those pandas and shadow steps already existing. Good thing its 5/5 for 4 mana, but if ur playing tempo this card would troll you more than being usefull because of random factor, I can see it fitting in miracle deck because of 4 mana drop and some possible play around deathrattle.. but meh. People downvote when you say something sucks about a game anyways, its how forum works.
Someone will probably find a way to make Ambusher work, probably in a variation of Miracle Rogue. It's all about the state of the current meta and as we all know, that's always changing.
This could be pretty fun with that mill deck if you use it on mukla and oracle
trolden potential ;)
If priest get a 4 attack minion (with possibly deathrattle) I will scream. Mirror matches are already too annoying it would be unbearable
5/5 for 4 mana and deathrate efect is very good
A situational card at best. There will probably be some nice combo's that it'll work with, but in general the sacrifice does not seem to be worth it. I prefer yeti any day.
I agree that if it were a vanilla 5/5, it would not be situational. If you already have a minion on the board though, playing it can cost you a lot of tempo. That's what I meant with situational, you don't want to drop it next to, say, a yeti.
It could allow people to use the taunts like Argent defender with only 1 minion down without beeing afraid of the waste.. it's a good 4 cost card and it would be a better use with other combos.. But keep in mind the Silence Meta will begin with the CoN so lets consider all the posibilities with this cards in the game.
I'm so excited about the new cards!
I think this card is pretty bad for both miracle and tempo rogue. Best case scenario is you get to play it on turn 3 or 4 in miracle and get a 2-for-1, maybe hit face for 5. If that were a good play, however, miracle rogue would run yetis. In tempo it's even worse, as the deathrattle destroys your tempo. In tempo, board advantage is what matters, not card advantage, so if your Ambusher dies and bounces a minion it might as well be a 2-for-1. Most battlecries aren't worth the cost of playing the card again (possible exception: Novice Engineer). Bouncing an SI7 back to your hand just so you can pay 3 mana for another backstab is terrible, plus you have to wait another turn to attack with the SI7 body.
There may be some sort of control/removal rogue deck that could use this, but even then I don't see it as being particularly strong. It just looks like a strictly worse Mukla, more expensive and with a bigger drawback. Could be ok in Arena, I guess.
I don't think that it will be really playable.
i think this may be the most powerful class card yet. a 4 mana 5/5 who's deathrattle doubles as a ghetto shadowstep? as a rogue? really cool card.
interestingly, this seems to be the 1st class card we can be pretty certain about which wing it will come from (arachnid). I suppose maybe the warrior one leans military, and perhaps druid in plague, but those seems slightly less certain anyway.
These are from the class-specific challenges that are completely separately from the Naxxramas campaign, the neutrals are the cards in Naxxramas
Incorrect. Each Naxx wing will have two or more class challenges associated with them. These challenges will be more complex than simply "Kill Boss".
pretty good card for 4 mana.