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Holy crap, managed to make this monster today. He didn't have any hard removal at all. http://i.imgur.com/7n5x9z5.jpg

 That's a bad example. You missed lethal because of playing Edwin.

He had no way of lethalling me though

Got a shiny VanCleef!!! 

Lucky :(

Managed to get a 24/24 VanCleef today!  Still trying for a 30/30.....

Am I the only one wondering why on it's golden animation it is raining and thundering? Since his ship is inside the Deadmines?

Yes, you're the only one. He wasn't in the Deadmines forever.

Golden Edwin gives me shivers every time the lightning strikes away in the background. He is the man that holds a umbrella under you on a stormy night.

How insane would VanCleef be if he had Stealth?

Quote from Rodrikkonen >>

How insane would VanCleef be if he had Stealth?

That's the joke

Unpacked a golden VanCleef a few months back, enticed me to play rogue for the first time. Made a miracle rogue deck, haven't looked back since, absolutely love the class, deck and the card!

Quote from OG_force >>

Unpacked a golden VanCleef a few months back, enticed me to play rogue for the first time. Made a miracle rogue deck, haven't looked back since, absolutely love the class, deck and the card!

hex says hi

Laptops, all of you!

damn gold van cleef looks badass

Hey. Time for another review. Today we have Edwin VanCleef in our sight.

No stories.

Well, this is one unique card that you cannot really talk about his stats. It can be either 2/2 or X/X, considering how lucky you are to gather different low-cost or reducing-cost cards. The easiest Edwin is 4/4 on turn 2 with coin, but it's a little waste. You dont want to drop him as soon as possible, but you ant to feed it as much as possible. If you get coin, preparation, any 1-3 mana spells, you can perform crazy stuff like 8/8 on turn 2(The Coin-Preparation-[SPELL]-Edwin VanCleef) or even 12/12 if you get additonal Preparation and a spell. The more stuff you can get, the more menacing Vancleef becomes. In decks like miracle rogue it there are a lot of cards like Tomb Pillager, Xaril, Poisoned Mind, that can give you more cards to fuel Edwin VanCleef. The only thing that you have to consider is that you dont want to overextend, like burning your entire hand for 16/16 Edwin, and then it gets Executed, Hexed, Entombed and so on. But on turn 2 you are most likely to dodge several hard removals. The only classes that have problems with giant minions are druids(unless they kept Mulch, )warlocks(zoo especially), mages(nowadays they dont run Polymorph that often, so against those dropping hge Edwin VanCleef is usually game winning. Shamans, by the way, carry Hex, but they ussually muligan it off, just ot get those 1-2-3 drops to SMOrc you right after game starts. They dont see it coming. Oh, i forgot. Flamewreathed Faceless on turn 3-4. Well, let's not mention that "fair-and-not-even-legendary" card. anyway, at least you can trade with it, if VanCleef is huge enough. You can run cards like Conceal or Xaril, Poisoned Mind's Fadeleaf Toxin to make your monster at least survive eney turn. It's important to consider that it's better to have less spectacular Edwin with stealth rather that play if after such cards and get 4 or 8 stats more.

VanCleef is additional win condition for rogues. Usually rogues draw a lot of card to prepare Edwin VanCleef introduction. and then use other burst to take opponents down faster or prepare Leeroy Jenkins letahal. So this card is very good, but not in meta when all decks have easy removals for huge stuff. If they find an answer for your Cleef turn, you have no cards, you have nothing. Usually a concede situation. in control meta youshould rely more on Burst or on stealth for Edwin to win. So, basiaclly, his drawbacks are being removable(as any other card, hah) and that he eats your entire hand to become amazing.

About crafting:  It's aggressive meta nowadas, so considering that the only aggro decks that run hard removals now are warriors and some shamans(VERY rarely hunter), Edwin VanCleef is in pretty good position. Sadly rogues have no (good) healing, so it's not that popular, as they get stomped by aggro and midrange decks. But true Rogue players can always find place for Edwin in their decks. o if ou like and want to play rogue - Edwin VanCleef is definitely a good legendary to craft. Top tier for rogue. Also, just as reminder, Expert set cards won't cycle out.

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The Expert Set:

Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight 

Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus |  Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream 

 The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:

Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth

Other Sets:

| Kel'Thuzad | Arch-Thief Rafaam |

My forum thread(Link)

Actually is 8/8 Edwin VanCleef on turn 2, not 3. The Coin gives you the one mana to pull it out

The biggest Edwin I got on turn 3 was 16/16, The Coin+Swashburgler+2*Preparation+2*Backstab+Fan of Knives

Then it got hexed

3 days ago I got a Vancleef. I was pretty happy.

2 days ago I got another one. I thought that was cool.

Yesterday I got a Golden one.

I think Blizzard wants me to play Miracle Rogue.

Golden