Living Roots
Card Text
Choose One - Deal 2 damage; or Summon two 1/1 Saplings.
Flavor Text
2 out of 2 saplings recommend that you summon the saplings.
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I said it's good, just like you did, but I said that I don't think it fits Druid very much.Druid have a lot of high health creatures that don't really care about 2 health creatures, but it's cool that it adds new possibities to Druid to use early game styles or even token orientated decks.
It's a good card, but the option of having 2 1/1 saplings benefits token druid more than other archetypes. Imo Zombie Chow is still better for ramp/control.
If this card isn't a Druid staple, Druids will have to take a different root.
I like this card is good to Token Druid and Ramp because its good removal and good sticky minions too
So, it basically shits on Holy Smite and Arcane Shot. Such Power Creep, much wow.
I'm not sure they can be directly compared, since each card is for a different class. Each class has different tools and capabilities for dealing damage and controlling the board.
I has nothing to do with Power Creep, it can be a Holy Smite or Arcane Shot OR it can be something else (Summon two 1/1 Saplings)
So is Frostbolt powercreep on Darkbomb?
I think it's unfair to compare diferrent classcards, it's just like saying that Darkbomb is a shitty Frostbolt.
I literally just said that
Really good card. Its versatile and pretty good especially for just 1 mana. Either 2 dmg or 2 1/1's which is really good for 1 mana.
Great card!
Ahhh finally, a Druid that can deal damage up to 4 for on T2 (2 Saplings, next turn, Wrath + 1 sapling).
Could clear Armorsmith tho.
Wow is this overpowered. It's strictly better than holy smite or arcane shot, as it's that card plus the option for two 1/1s. It should definitely have cost at least 2. Mind you, druid DID need more removal, especially early removal; that's one of its biggest problems as a class, but this thing is 2x auto every druid deck period.
A lot of the druid 'choose one' cards are strictly better than other options for some reason; I'm not really sure why. (like how druid of the claw is strictly better than fen creeper, plus has a 4/4 charge mode, or anodized robo cub is strictly better than about 10 neutral cards) If it wasn't able to hit players, I could -maybe- get on board with this, since then it wouldn't be strictly better (but still overpowered), but the wording is the same as those cards; wrath is worded differently.
Class cards are able to be better than neutral cards, and this being better than holy smite/arcane shot just has to do with the power creep of the game as well as the benefit of being a druid which is high quality cards and the ability to ramp them out earlier than other classes can. This however is independently good of ramp cards and while it might be slightly on the overpowered side, piloted shredder and mad scientist exist so I think that it is fine.
I wouldn't exactly call it power creep. I think it's perfectly normal that the class cards of one class may be stronger than similar class cards of other classes. An existing example of this is Fiery War Axe (or Death's Bite), and it's fine that Warrior has better weapons than other classes using weapons. Those classes have other classes that are better than warrior equivalents.
Living Roots is effectively druid's new "Fiery War Axe".
I love anything with treants/saplings awesome card
It's a good card for removing annoying 2-health, 1 mana minions like Flame Imp, so it's fine in my books. Also if you're running Savage Roar combo or Violet Teacher variant decks this card is great for extra minions.
Malygos + 2 x Innervate + Bloodmage Thalnos + 2 x Moonfire + 2 x Living Roots = 30 dmg
u can just Avianna+double innervate+malygos+2x faceless(for maly)+2x moonfire+2x living roots = 66 dmg
u can use only 1 faceless and still have OTK tbh.. just wanna show u that avianna is extremely good OTK card aswell in the right scenario.. if we even add emperor to the picture the OTK can get so damn insane that you take down 50 armor 30 hp warrior