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Kibler mentioned in one of his card reviews a very good point of consideration regarding expensive minions. Put succinctly, there is an opportunity cost to running 7+ Mana minions in your deck, in that they often get stranded in your hand for a number of turns before you are able to play them, taking up space in your hand and diluting your options in the early and mid-game. To offset this, an expensive minion needs to have a powerful immediate impact on the game when played (Ragnaros the Firelord, Alexstrasza, and Deathwing are good examples), or at least synergize with the deck you are playing.
Sadly, with its current stats, the Behemoth is a strictly inferior Deathwing, Dragonlord, but say it were a 13/13 for 10. Even then, this card would probably be unplayable in most scenarios. It has blank text, which means that it has zero immediate impact on the board, aside from being one imposing body which can be hard removed or simply ignored to hit face. Nor does it have tribe synergy (Dragon, Murloc, etc.) that would justify running it as a curve-topper. That being said, there is a possible home for the Behemoth in decks that run almost exclusively large minions: Ancestor's Call, Alarm-o-Bot, and the Old God Y'Shaarj himself come to mind. For the foreseeable future, however, those decks likely will retain their "gimmick" label.
TL;DR: If you're hoping to play an Alarm-o-Bot deck with Ancestor's Call or Y'Shaarj and need an extra huge minion as frosting on the cake, feel free to run this card. If you are in desperate need of a late-game minion in Arena drafts, feel free to run this card. If you are looking for a budget curve-topper, run North Sea Kraken instead.
Better than Y'Shaarj bc u can't get battlecry minions with this guy!!! (btw Deathwing battlecry is good in my deck) (I play Fist of Jaraxxus combo)
They try to make strong bodies for Arena late game when the Arena meta is so aggresive right now. And still has poor stats for the cost.
Shouldve been a 10/10 Taunt
Too broken in Arena.
It would still be worse than Bog Creeper.
Trash in constructed. Good in arena.
Deathwing, Dragonlord is strictly better than this.
Same mana cost, but higher stats AND a powerful ability to boot
So this should have been at least a 15/15 to be good.
Basically, this card is horrible. Don't put it in any deck ever.
When it comes to legendaries rarity does in fact play a role in card strength. Since you can only include 1 legendary in a deck, legendaries can be stronger than, say, a common card.
Shouldn't it be 12/12? No-effect minion could have good stats at least.
Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound
10/10 -IGN
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
10/10
I'm gonna make a vanilla minions deck in wild, just for the giggles.
Lol budget big boy for newbies? North Sea Kraken is still so much better
The Druid forbidden card can be silenced so its actually kind of worse, though I don't think either are any good.
Wow, its a ten ten ten!!!
Common Arena card. not designed for use in Constructed. now stop your bitching