Volcanic Lumberer

Card Text
Taunt
Costs (1) less for each minion that died this turn.
Flavor Text
The roots, the roots, the roots is on fire!
Card Sounds
Taunt
Costs (1) less for each minion that died this turn.
The roots, the roots, the roots is on fire!
This guy is carrying me through arena. Moroes gives me an army of stewards to ram into minions and then i drop this guy. 9/10 arena.
40 free dust?
I think this is my new favorite flavor text. :D
The funny part? Would actually be better if it got 'nerfed' to a 6/8.
Think of it like a reverse Grim Patron. If you increase a Patron's attack, it becomes useless, while deceasing Lumberer's attack makes it so much better because it won't become a BGH target.
Funny how Hearthstone balance works.
If this will be bgh'ed i will be happy - it means my Boom, Rag, Nefarian or whatever else is in safety.
Groot on Fire!
I got wrecked by poison seeds+starfall+2 volcanic lumberers against a Rank 5 Mill Druid. Hopefully Mill Druid keeps developing and becomes a successful archetype. Also Volcanic Lumberer is even better in arena :)
Was innvervate involved? I don't see how he could play all these (poison seed 4mana + starfall 5mana) in one turn unless with innvervate. Or maybe he killed at least 2 of his own minions?
On my turn 9 I had two minions on board and then I stupidly played Dr. Boom which puts a total of 5 minions on board. Then on his turn 9 play he does poisons seeds which kills 5 minions, starfall kills another 5 minions, so a total of 10 minions died which makes the two volcanic lumberers cost 0.
oh I forgot about poisoned seed kills minions, I thought it was transformation.
poison seed kills minions. At a full board (-7 mana) then starfall all the 2/2s and you get double free volcanic
Poor man's Sea Giant...
that poor man has to buy an entire expansion
This card saved me in the Druid class challenge. The problem is, in constructed, opponents doesn't like to leave minions on your side of the field in fear of the FoN + Savage Roar combo. So you rarely get to trade minions enough to cast Volcanic Lumberer for cheap.
Dark Wispers is 6 mana, and these don't really 'cost 0' if you have to use a 10-mana combo to make them that way.
Why don't you just play a Sea Giant? Or two?
I don't see how two Sea Giants is better than nearly polymorphing your opponent's entire board and then flooding your board with 2/2s and putting up these guys (Who have Taunt and will absorb your opponent's remaining 2/2s)
You don't need to kill minions or have a combo to play the Sea Giants. They cost 5 mana each if you play Dark Wispers minus 1 mana for every minion that was already on the board (either on your or on the opponent's side). So if there were 4 enemy minions (as the example states above), you can play 2 Sea Giants with a Dark Wispers on turn 8. And this is guaranteed, no need to play the - never used - Poison Seeds.
Poison Seeds->Starfall->Volcanic Lumbererx2 PogChamp
Fatigue decks run this kind of removal but i dont think this card is that good for them because of BGH lurking in most decks atm.
maybe new deck with board removals ?
Maybe if we use Force of Nature for trades, it could be a good clear for taunt decks... Of course not viable to a combo