Eadric the Pure
Card Text
Battlecry: Change all enemy minions'
Attack to 1.
Flavor Text
Nobody rocks a monocle like Eadric.
Card Sounds
Battlecry: Change all enemy minions'
Attack to 1.
Nobody rocks a monocle like Eadric.
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'The Baby Maker'
Dirtiest card in Hearthstone
Varian's nemesis
Well... if Varian gets out of control this may be run to help keep it in check. Who im a kiding... im just thinking possible scenarios for him since i opened the card today.
Hey Handlock, follow the rule
The golden animation is awesome! But the card... Tier 3-4 I bet. Of course, we need to see it in-game, but the quality and the stats... Nice legendary for Arena, combining with other cards is a huge tempo swing, but too slow and innefective for constructed.
That's just a prediction, of course. We'll have to wait a bit.
I have a slight point to make. It does have low attack for its cost, but this might be to the cards favor in some respect. Due to the low attack, it will probably not be immediately considered a threat. Therefore the opponent will not rush removal and more than likely ignore him. Potentially allowing him to trade for more smaller minions or attack for face several times. A Dr. Boom that doesnt get to attack face once is worse than Eadric the Pure attacking face once or trading for something else.
Confuse says hello!
How does a card says 'hello'?
Play Illidan Stormrage vs Druid and then play Annoy-o-Tron!
For me this card feels like it could potential replace sylvanas, but it would take some testing. Both cards want to be played on a field where opponents minions are in play, and both deal with the board very well. And I like how Eadric cannot really be played around like Sylvanas can be.
he's like "you must feel the Force around you"
In his golden animation, his monocle freaking glints!
Insta-craft.
To me the problem isn't his effect. His effect is very strong, if it can even land on just 2 minions that have 5 attack or more. The problem is that almost every card currently played in control decks at turns 5 and onwards has either a very powerful death rattle or some form of effective battlecry. Just as example lets run through some of the more commonly used mid-late game in most control decks currently: sludge belcher, sylvanas, healbot, harrison, loatheb, shieldmaiden, dr. boom, rag, ysera, alexstraza, antonidas, grommash, tirion, jaraxxus, thaurisan, highmane, fire ele, cabal, malganis, alakir, malygos, kelthuzad (rarely), and cenarius (rarely).
Eadric's effect isn't more effective than a peacekeeper against any of those cards except for cenarius but even then its only a 2 damage difference. Some may argue what if he played 2 of those cards? Well, it is extremely rare to see 2 big minions late game unless you are very behind and even then you are only mitigating most of their attacking damage not their battlecries, ongoing effects, or deathrattles. So as soon as a large threat comes out currently it will have to do something on turn of play, and get instantly removed by the opponent or they pretty much lose the game in the next 2-3 turns anyway. Additionally suppose your opponent played alex, or even a fire ele. I doubt you would just wait and take the face damage and hope they drop another big late game minion before taking care of it with Eadric, and considering paladin already has great removal and great board presence early it will likely still be quite rare to see more than 1 big minion against them.
That being said, since some of the revealed legendaries like the priest, warrior, and the druid ones all encourage or allow a more flood based late game with big creatures, if those become very popular Eadric may prove unbelievably useful. But based on the current late game being played if he was currently available I think he would likely be an average legendary worth considering, but definitely not an auto-include.
Control paladin is already very good against handlock you wouldn't need another way to deal with giants especially since control paladin is so board focused that moltens come out quite late in the matchup so there's not that threat of double taunted moltens nearly as frequently as you might have in some other matchups.
Have you seen Aviana, sir?
Says Hello to Varian Wrynn and all his summoned friends
Says Hello to Varian Wrynn and all his summoned friends
This will not be Dr. Balanced v2. It'd be closer to Big Game Hunter v2 - it's a card that is supposed to be a tech card, but it'd see play because it counters the most influential card or cards in the meta. In BGH's case it was Dr. Boom. If this works out it'd be because of the popularity of Varian and Aviana.
Battlecry: Make all enemy minions follow the rules.