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That is actually good thinking. We immediately think the 30/30 is a "screw it and go for damage" card but it might be used defensively.
If the Ancient One's blood is powerful enough to grow eyes and mega sharp teeth (and be a 9/9), and if two piles of blood can summon the Ancient one in his entirety, why is he not, like, a 90/90? Or have something more unique such as "All characters damages by the Ancient One are slaughtered. Horrifically"?
balance, thats why, unfortunately
I personally think this card's power will come purely from playing 1 Blood of The Ancient One, and then not playing a second. Your opponent will probably wait for you to play a second one before using their removal, because removing The Ancient One is way more value than one blood, and you could have tricks like Faceless Manipulator or Herald Volazj. So, in your opponent's mind, it is always more valuable to wait untill two bloods fuse before using removal. After all, you could screw yourself by removing one.
So just play one blood, and win the game with a 9/9 your opponent is likely not to remove. It doesn't have any instant board impact or value, sure, but the reason people want cards they play to have instant value is because they get removed so easily. And, as I've explained, a single blood is likely not to be removed.
Way too slow? ok look...
The idea is actually good, but your opponent is likely to remove the first one with a cheap removal like Shield Slam or Execute, play his own big minion and move on. If you're going to play the second one, your opponent will simply use another removal for that or just simply trade with his board that he already made.
A 9/9 for 9 that has no effect on the board isn't really great, and if you're going for the 30/30 then I'll have to say, having 2 big minions on the board (doesn't matter what are they) means that you've already won.
However, it might work in a druid deck with Aviana, a priest deck with Herald Volazj (assuming it lived)... etc, but after the "expected" nerf on BGH, risking such slow play to get the 30/30 only for it to get Executed, Polymorphed, Hexed... etc, isn't really worth it if you're playing competitively. But I'm pretty sure that someone is going to pull such combo and I have to admit, it will look good.
Blizzard : Congratulations. You got one Blood of The Ancient One!
Spend 400 dust on another one or Faceless Manipulator
to......get rekt.
Me : No,thanks. I'll just take 100 dust.
Yes, it seems very bad indeed.
But it's not a bad card, it's a fun one.
It is not always about winning. Sometimes it is about making your cool strategy work!
Mind Control
Hello there faceless manipulator.
Only vs. smartless players
> smartless
And they're releasing this alongside a (most likely) BGH nerf...however, this card(s) is a pure win-more card; if you can get both of these guys on the board at the same time without one of them being removed, well, chances are you were going to win the game regardless. And even then, the Ancient One still needs to get through all the taunts before it can end the game, potentially giving you one or two more turns to find the answers needed to either kill this or win the game. To me, this just seems both very slow and too vulnerable without something to cheat it out early. Who knows, maybe I'm being pesimmistic, but I dunno.
Playing this followed by Herald Volazj, if it survives.
I would argue that 2 9/9's is already better than 1 30/30. 30/30 gets rekt by mind control and/or shadow word death. You've already won the game anyway if you have 2 9/9's.
Wait a second, it says 'merge' . . . Would that mean that any buffs on the original blood would be carried over? Like for example, stealth!?
I bet it wont work that way.
Play this as a one-of to f*ck with your opponent.
And most zany art work goes to...
so...this mean BGH nerf?
Aye gurl I got just the 2 ghouls for you ;D
Feugen and Stalagg
They will lead you to master Thaddius