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Ultimate counter to face hunter: a taunt with no face.
Play one of these against a Face Hunter, and they'll be forced to concede their next three games too.
wut? Youre obviously not gonna drop this without getting his battlecry. Think about Handlock , this copies a Giant or Drake and activates itself with Taunt.
So you can get rid of it once it's silenced. If it's 0/1 base you'd not be able to kill it off.
Handlock not dead in standard confirmed!
will see no play due to faceless manipulator's existence
It's cheaper, so I don't see why not. Even if it's only your minions.
Maximum health or remaining health?
It says "copy" I guess it's the health at that moment
These effects you just mentioned all copy CARDS, not stats. This will be a 'green' buff effect on the stats and will be silence-able.
Vol'jin can be silenced
Not likely. If it's missing the keyword "transform" then it will just be an ability that is added to the minions ability stack (via its battlecry). Silence removes ALL abilities on a minions ability stack, reducing it stats only. This will turn into a 1/1 with no taunt.
Likewise, if it transformed, it would no longer have taunt. Alternatively, if they wanted it to not lose its stats from silence, it would read as this:
"Choose a minion, and become a copy of it, and also gain taunt".
A swap is essentially 2 copies, that's just how computers work. And they did the code once, they are gonna use it again. Also Stat and Minion are different entities , silence takes away all Abillities (or Buffs to a Stat) on a Minion, so when you become a new minion, the transformation is not an Abillity and you are now a completely different thing with its own Abillities and Base Stats, and therefore it does not get silenced.
If it said copy a minion, it'd be Faceless Manipulator + Taunt. Instead it says copy a minion's stats + taunt. So it doesn't get any special effect if there is any.
It kinda make sense, given that it is 'faceless' card - so it should not have its own face, but rather use face of another minion =) transform into it. But that way, it wouldn't have kept taunt, so no, the buff unfortunately will be silenceable. Too bad.
Why does this only work on friendly minions? Are blizzard even trying to make playable cards?
That's why Twilight Drake never saw play.
Oh wait...
This card pretty much confirms that power overwhelming will get nerfed.
if you listen closely you can hear Malfurion laughing as he picks up his old Rampdruid deck...
And this could be usefull for Handlock as well, but not sure if there are any good cards to switch it with. We will see!