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Had to read flavor text twice before getting it, lol. 

BTW, here we have Mark of Y'Shaarj. Where are Theodore of Y'Shaarj and Chris of Y'Shaarj??

Love it. I don't know how I could have played beast druid before it. Yeah I did it for those cute critters, but it isn't the same if the aren't corrupted by a malevolent god.

And flavor wise we could understand the beast interaction with Y'shaarj this way: Y'shaarj controls emotions and minds => with it's mark you enrage the target, making it thouger => beasts minds are usually easier to control, making the process faster => the fact of the process being fast is reflected by the card draw (shiv = fast, but weak hit; arcane intellect = faster thinking; sprint...)

My favourite use of this card so far: t1 Coin into Druid of the Saber (stealth form), t2 Mark of Y'Shaarj.

Result: only 1 card net used and a 5/4 Stealthed Beast on the board. Sweeeet.

Gonna try Beast Druid in Wild.

• 2-drops: Druid of the Saber, Haunted Creeper, Power of the Wild
• 3-drops: Druid of the Flame, Jungle Panther (maybe?), Mounted Raptor
• 4-drops: Jungle Moonkin (risky), Savage Combatant, Tomb Spider
• 5-drops: Druid of the Claw, Druid of the Fang, Stranglethorn Tiger
• Support: Knight of the Wild, Mark of Y'Shaarj, Wildwalker

Take a good number of those (not the full 30 of course!), add in some solid standard Druid choices, and you might just have a solid deck.

its pretty much a better mark of the wild because taunt usually does nothing unless you are running some weird giant deck

This would work better with hunter.But if you have beast it's decent also sometimes you don't want your minion to die.

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This would work better with hunter.But if you have beast it's decent also sometimes you don't want your minion to die.

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You don't HAVE to play it on turn 2 you know... Also, if you had to, I'd actually start considering playing 1 mana beasts because this card is incredible. It generates tempo without losing value, which is basically everything beast druid is looking for. The problem with beast druid now is that removal is too efficient, if you innervate out a big guy, or mark of the wild a small guy, your minions are gonna be better than your opponent's. But now it just gets fireballed/shield slammed/eviscerated/Shadow Word: Deathed or whatever, and you get 2-for-1'd, without even gaining tempo. With this card added in the mix, beast druid gets more tools to keep their specialty of staying ahead on curve, without running out of gas as fast as they do.

Blizzard REALLY WANTS there to be a meta beast-druid deck

Is that Savage Combatant in the picture?

Epiphany: it's actually just a snap of Addled Grizzly captured a split second later

I want this. :D Fits my play style pretty good. :) 

Beast druid seems promising in standard though im assuming it will be a tier 3 or 2

Every shapeshifting druid minion is a beast (Claw, Saber, Flame), and if you include this, there isn't exactly a terrible line up of beasts to include.

Haven't you realized? Blizz is trying to make a class use the beast tag. If it was a hunter card yeah it would be a lot better, but maybe blizzard wants to see a different class using beast

seriously there have been so many beast-druid related cards coming out

There's a reason hunters aren't very good at drawing cards. I'd like to keep it that way thankyouverymuch. Also, this card is MUCH better than explorers hat. +2/+2 is significantly better than +1/+1, and the downside of explorer's hat is that the card you get from it is explorer's hat, instead of a good one. Explorer's hat is a card that sacrifices tempo for value. This is a card that maintains tempo while gaining value, much better.

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This is just a better explorers hat...

 Isn't Doctor Boom just a better War Golem? Why does anyone play him?

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This is just a better explorers hat...

 Isn't Doctor Boom just a better War Golem? Why does anyone play him?