Clarifications
- If your board is full, Varian puts drawn minions into your hand. If Chromaggus is on board, you'd get a copy of the minion. (Source)
- Minions will be played onto the board if your hand is full. (Source)
- Like all minions summoned to the board, minions brought on by Varian don't activate their battlecries. (Source)
Even so, you could (in the best case scenario solely speaking) Get 3 , 0 cost huge minions AND back ups in case they are removed/silenced. Pretty much nets you the game if you hit 2 or more big threats.
I agree, not only does Dragon tend to be high cost, but with Varian. I think some people might be able to run Rend Blackhand might have even more potential than BGH as the class removal. For me, they tend to work similarly, when I run Control Warrior, I tend to have more than enough removal and Rend Blackhand can sometime help me push for damage against a deck like Freeze mage. And now with even more advantage, without the battlecry and getting the minion for free 8/4 is much better than 4/2. And with one or two more card, we may see enough reason to justify Rend Blackhand getting more ranked and tournament plays.
Encouragement of more huge minions with Joust and Varian, Dragon Decks might just benefit, especially Warrior which already run a few dragon.
Talk about an exciting card to hype a new set.
wait so if you play him. draw a rag. does that mean the rag effect will go at the end of this turn.
Yes. There's broken and then there's Varian.
x3 LMAO
Rag, KT, and Ysera hahahahahaha
Yes
Let's just look at what this minion ought to cost.
BASE MINION: 7/7 minion - 7 mana (War Golem)
DRAW FEATURE: Draw 3 cards - 4.5 mana (Arcane Intellect)
DRAWN MINIONS FEATURE: Free minions into the battlefield - 6 mana - if a Warrior deck is 50% minions, the average minion mana cost is 4 then on average the value of this feature is .5*3*4 or 6
My admittedly crude math puts the value of this card at 17.5 mana. But it only costs 10 mana.
NO no no no its not good enough remember dr balanced is bad guys this guys like milfred fizzle bang "not gud nough" oh wait sry I'm not trump lol jk
7/7 body= 7 mana
3 card draw= 5 mana
Instant summon any minion drawn= 0-30 mana value
This is pre-nerf Tinkmaster all over again.
Obviously you cant run too many high mana cost minions just to squeeze out as much value as you can from this card... you still need early game stuff against aggro and this card might just summon low value stuff like acolytes and shiet
Eh, yes you can in Warrior. Esp now with more removal spells.
this is going to be so much worse than facetard , eboladin or grim patron.
basically if it gets to turn 10 (or 9 with thaurissan)... you better be able to burst the warrior to 0 within one turn
Why? Why does Warrior have to be so broken? Grim, Control, Fucking Varian! I quit!
This is a 7/7 for 7 mana, plus draw 3 cards for 3 mana, and potential add multiple innervates to your hand as well. What is also majorly OP about this card is that all those effects are rolled up into a single card, usually Blizz values cards like this with a couple more mana cost associated with them, for instance like Ball of Spiders, which is 6 mana, for 3 monsters that would be 1 mana 1/1 draw a card on their own, but because you get all 3 in one card they value it higher.
So ultimately I do not know what Blizzard was thinking with this card. Clearly a win condition for control warrior, control your opponent until you can play this on an empty board, and auto win.
you'll have to make sure that Varian Wrynn won't attack your own face when you'll play it
(wow reference varian and garrosh are enemies)
Well it's not specifically horde just that Varian is a Warrior and plus if you have Magni then it's not horde at all
No point calling him OP. 9-10 cards should win you the game by themself and thats what he does (lets forget that he calls for an assistance...).
Exactly how i feel .This is definitely what a 10mana card should be like