King's Defender
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Battlecry: If you have a minion with Taunt, gain +1 Durability.
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"King's Attacker" is a shield. Funny, huh?
Battlecry: If you have a minion with Taunt, gain +1 Durability.
"King's Attacker" is a shield. Funny, huh?
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wouldn't this be awkward with dread corsair, considering you'd want to play corsair first for extra charge, but weapon first for less mana?
a play in tempo warrior is. turn 4: death's bite turn 5: Dread, Dread, Battle Rage. Add in a Frothing Berserker or now a King's Defender you can get a lot of value.
Also you tend to play Dread Corsair as a weapon is dying rather than when you play it because you want the tempo swing.
it'd be fun to just have a board of 7 taunts to have a 3 mana 3/9 but outside havin a giggle i don't see this getting played
You probably also couldn't see Goblin Blastmage working in mage decks when it was announced, because of the lack of mechs in them.
I like it. I always wondered why Warrior didn't have a high durability weapon. They got plenty of low durability + high damage weapons. If a deck wanted to they could build around it with good taunts like Sunwalker and Sludge Belcher.
Other card games give you a vast variety of options of how you want to build your deck. The problem with hearthstone was that deck-building would become stagnant with only a few good decks for each class after a major set or adventure mode. As the card pool grows bigger and bigger, the decks will become diverse which will give a more healthy environment.
Taunt Warrior ! if you could make it with 3 taunts ,it will be a 3/5 for only 3 mana!
well at least 1 taunt will make this weapon better then Fiery War Axe ,however , Enhance-o Mechano,Sunfury Protector,Defender of Argus will help alot in making this a weapon with more durability (you need to do this on turn 7 so the the minions with taunt wouldn't die the next turn)
Wallior?
The artwork looks like somebody dropped a holy weapon into an Undead person's lap and now he's getting smited.
Other than that, it's a neat concept but not going to be viable for control warrior.
This is one step closer to what I think warriors need. they need some sort of summoning mechanic for minions like majority of other classes. praying its a 3 mana summon 2 2/2 Frostwolf Grunts onto the battle field. This card would be a good direction if thats going to be a possibility!
I guess we will need to see the other releases, it doesn't replace Fiery War Axe right now :l
A great rare for a class that was hurting for great rares in Arena.
The art looks like a combination of King's Defender and Spiteblade.
King's Defender:
Spiteblade:
Before Naxx, they were running Sen' jin and it make Sludge Belcher look like a completely worthless card cause you had to wait a turn to play the same exact card. Cards like this one are not designed to fit into an already existing deck, rather have you rethink what the class is capable of.
exactly!!! thats why I like the card lol. Doesn't fit into any current warrior archetypes!!! Finally some variety, this is the first warrior card other than iron juggernaut that's actually mildly interesting. Every other warrior card is just auto included in either control warrior or patron/worgen warrior. Warrior is so stale and boring, thank god they're making cards that dont suck that don't fit into the 2 warrior decks
That's exactly what this whole game needs. Good cards that force people to build decks differently than the 2 or 3 common decks currently utilized by each class. Hopefully we'll see a lot more of that in this set.
there might be new weapon synergy cards, like maybe possibly something like a warrior weapon throw card, that would do something crazy like turn your weapon into a minion on the board, that'd be really cool. Because this card is kinda like assassin's blade, and it's really weak to weapon removal. I would run this in a lot of warrior decks, because I like playing stuff like mill warrior with iron juggernaught. It would fit well in a heavy fatigue game because I already run stuff like deathlord and annoy-o-tron. a 3 mana 3 4 weapon is great! and a 3 mana 3 3 weapon is also pretty good, and having 1 taunt on board is not difficult to accomplish
keep in mind guys, that this card will actually not make it into patron or control warrior. THANK GOD. One thing with warrior that youll realize when you experiment with it is that they typically will get multiple weapons in hand which will always be dead and inefficient, so you won't run many. Thats why people don't run gorehowl or arcanite reaper anymore. We may actually see more warrior decks now!!!! Warrior was one of the poorest designed classes imo, because the class synergizes way too much with itself. Half of the warrior cards are auto includes in any enrage themed deck, and the other half are auto included in every control warrior deck. The rest of the warrior cards are terrible and played in 0 decks. There isnt any room for exploration or new archetypes, but this card is good and doesn't fit into either. Hopefully there will be a bunch of cool new weapon themed warrior cards that could for instance fuse weapons or duel wield weapons, or make your weapon into a minion or something, so then you could include a lot of weapons in your deck. Then it'd be like an arms warrior like in WoW. This is the first interesting warrior card other than iron juggernaut in a long time.
Is this the first Warrior weapon that isn't an axe?
no, it isnt.