Trivia
- Dreadsteed was original destined for the Naxxramas Adventure as a Neutral Minion but due to an infinite combo with Warsong Commander, it was not included. (Source)
Deathrattle: At the end
of the turn, summon a Dreadsteed.
Crescendo himself summoned this steed, riding it to victory in the Grand Tournament. Wherever he rides, an army of riders ride behind him, supporting the legendary champion.
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More like Turn 4 Deathrattle: Gain the paladin hero power for 0 mana until the end of this game.
I think Mage Hero Power is more similar one except opponent has Taunt. Because Paladin's Hero Power is killable.
Everyone is looking at the card as if there are no other cards in the game. It combo's really well with many cards:
Kel'Thuzad and Baron Rivendare will multiply it.
Sacrificial Pact, Power Overwhelming, Void Crusher, and Void Terror wont kill it.
Defender of Argus and Sunfury Protector give free blockers.
Anima Golem wont die.
And I guess Abusive Sergeant and Knife juggler work well too, although I wouldn't run them in warlock.
Indeed. IMO, This card is going to be like Grim Patron. It's pretty bad on its own and awful in Arena, but in a deck built around it, it can create insane combos. If you coin out Emperor Thaurissan on turn 5, then you can start the combo as early as turn 6 if you have a perfect hand. Play Baron Rivendare into Dreadsteed into Mortal Coil twice into Sacrificial Pact twice. Voila, you now have a board of one Baron Rivendare and five unkillable 1/1s. Then you can proceed to destroy your opponent using Mal'Ganis and Twisting Nether - but be careful. You don't want to have your board completely filled with unkillable 1/1s, and you just cry if your opponent is running Mass Dispel.
This is a good card. The only question decks built around it are going to be competitively viable. The good thing going for this archetype is that if you add Faceless Manipulator and Undertaker you get a very scary OTK to force Grim Patron Warriors to play around.
Problem is, a deck full of unkillable 1/1s is a Grim Patron wet dream...
That's where Faceless Manipulator and Undertaker come in. You play Dreadsteed and your opponent is like "Wow, thanks bro! I'll just set up a board of Patrons real quick with Warsong Commander." Then you spring the trap.
You play a Faceless Manipulator on their Warsong and play an Undertaker. After that, you repeatedly hit your Dreadsteed on their patrons, constantly respawning it. With each iteration the Undertaker gets +1 attack, and it has charge. Then you hit the enemy face when you have enough damage to kill. If you're worried about running out of time, play a second Undertaker.
OOOOOH I GET IT NOW!
Sick 3 card combo! This would be really awesome to pull off.
It probably will have to be 4 cards, though, honestly (two undertakers). Imagine the time it would take to hit your Dreadsteed into a Patron, the lightning bolt animations for the Patron and Undertaker, and the time for the Dreadsteed deathrattle animation to run. Maybe it's just me but I can't imagine repeating that 30 times in a 70 second turn.
Baron Rivendare / Kelthuzad + Anima Golems for fun deck =D
This is worse than mini mage jesus christ
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This card sucks. It's a 4 mana epic with 1/1 status. And when it dies it summons another 1/1. Smh. Too expensive for its cost and for being an epic which requires 400 dust to craft and too shitty.. just like that.. Smh again...
t4: Dreadsteed
t5: Baron Rivendare + 2x Sacrificial Pact + Mortal Coil = 5 Dreadsteed and +10 hp.
Now that's scary, given that warlock has so many AoE's to deal with everything you can drop.
You are right, Mass Dispel is the most effective spell of that scenario.
Dreadsteed kinda sucks against priests anyway, cuz Mind Control, Cabal Shadow Priest and Shadow Madness. Same for patron warriors for obvious reason. But it's just a matter of how you approach those matchups. Maybe you don't need to play Dreadsteed as early as you can, just sit and AoE and wait those cards to be played. Given AoE-lock can win fatigue game, it can do the trick.
If this was a neutral, it would be quite an OP neutral because of synergy with Warsong Commander, dealing 1 damage, dying, resummoning with Charge, and repeating the cycle. By that, I mean it could wipe a whole board in one turn for 7 mana. 8 if one is willing to bring an Undertaker, or 10 when paired with a Frothing Berserker. At least it's a warlock card, and can't be put into the same deck as either of those (though with Nefarian or Faceless, it is possible to get a Warsong Commander) I see potential synergy with Power Overwhelming or Sacrifical Pact because it can resummon itself after death, effectively countering the death part of both cards.
On the other hand, some cards can abuse the always returning factor. Acolyte of Pain can attack the Dreadsteed three times, and get three card draw for the opposing player (more should there be some healing/health buffs to the Acolyte). Imp Gang Bosses can attack the Dreadsteed for 1/1 spawning, making it beneficial for Zoolock to get an Imp Master like effect, changing one health for one Imp every turn. Gurabashi could use it as a minion to regularly attack to gain attack, and similarly, so can Gahz'rilla.
Thinking it over, it seems to be quite the card with potential to be game-breaking, yet at the same time, against the wrong deck, it can lose you the game, either by buffing some minions or granting card draw.
What about Faceless Manipulator?
Oh wow I can't wait to try this card out. Raid Leader or a DMG totem making him cranky.
It's constant board presence, so as bad as it's stats are it's still pretty decent. It has synergy with: Defender of Argus, Sunfury Protector, Knife Juggler, Abusive sergeant, Dark iron dwarf, Pretty much any card that requires a minion already on the board for better value. Void terror would love this guy, Void Caller just got a LOT stickier, Power overwhelming has a permanent candidate that doesn't even die afterwards, just loses the stats. He may actually be decent against Face Hunter despite the 4 mana cost, if you're in decent shape by turn 4-5 you can drop him and he can handle most minions they play, since they mostly play 1-health minions.