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And how about Evolve?
Or deathrattle decks?
I can see this card being good in priest, just imagine getting a Sylvanas or Ragnaros off of it, and then using Herald volazj the same turn to Double the fun! And then once they have died, you could Resurrect them with Resurrect or N'zoth! Insane value! :D
Wow. This has insane tempo value potential, in particular if you get a decent minion with a decent deathrattle. In any case, a 4 mana 3/4 +1/1 won't lose you the game, even if you get a crappy minion. This can single-handedly bring Rag back into the meta and makes an even stronger case for Sylvannas.
Would be quite synergistic with Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound
yes 3 minions turn 4
Sylvanas, Tirion, Ysera, Malygos and Ragnaros (both of them?) are all pretty good too, also Wobbling runts perhaps?
I just realized something: what happens if the copy gets resurrected by Redemption? Would it act like if it got silenced where it's stats would be normal but be damaged at 1 health? Interesting.
it would be damaged at 1 health because it would lose the 1 1 effect, you can silence the 1 1 and get the full stats back
Barnes will be at worst a 4 mana Spider Tank + 1/1 which is worse than a yeti in almost all cases. HOWEVER, the reason why I think Barnes will be insane is because of synergy with on-board effects, inspire, and deathrattle cards. If you design a deck around it (say, Freeze Mage), you can almost be guaranteed value. You will get a Loot Hoarder, Bloodmage Thalnos, Archmage Antonidas, Malygos, Emperor Thaurissan, or Alexstrasza (vanilla 1/1), and by late game you can already reduce your options to get exactly what you want. In other words, it can become an additional win condition, which is extremely important against almost any matchup. Retrospectively, you can just stick it into a deck with lots of deathrattles or on-board effect minions (cough Control Paladin with Tirion, Sylvanas, Cairne, either Ragnaroses, Ysera, etc etc) and still profit most of the time. Heck, just getting a 1/1 with divine shield or taunt could be decent too.
It will probably be absolutely terrible but get 1 mana shadowcasters through brann make a 1 mana copy of this gang up malygos. Brann double Barnes=20 spell dmg.
Turn 4 Ysera sounds good to me
This card has extreme synergy with:
Basically any effects that aren't battlecries (Deathratte, end of turn etc.)
Silence: ridiculous potential. 4 mana 3/4 + 7/7 and similar stuff may happen
Shadowstep: Basically turns shadowstep into a potential cheaper copy of a great minion.
And if the effect only summons a vanilla 1/1 it's not too bad either.
I could see this in Tempo Mage or Rattle Rogue, but not much else. Let's think about the 2 possible scenarios where this card may be useful:
A) In a deck where the average minion would produce a positive effect despite being a 1/1 with no battlecry (this effect must be worth about 1 mana or more to cover the tempo cost)
OR
B) In a deck where you only have 1 kind of minion, and you want to copy it and cheat it out early. Ex) malygos, gadgetszan.
From that, these decks may be able to run the card well:
-Anything deathrattle themed
-Tempo Mage
-Some weird-ass Malygos mage (This + ice bolt+ ice lance + ice lance= 26 damage on turn 8) <--really interesting
-An excessive spell-based miracle rogue
Either way, I WILL tinker with this card... don't know how great it'll be.
(that malygos deck, man...)
N'Zoth has a battlecry effect, so that won't work.
no it's for every card but nzoth
There are def going to be some insane combo deck to come out of this.
Malygos
Gadgetzan
Archmage Antonidas
Prophet Velen
Illidan lol prolly still not
what else could be batshit insane?
Resurrect, Herold Volasjz, This guy = N'zoth ->Sylvannas, Sylvannas, Sylvannas, Slyvannas, Slyvannas
Prolly works with Shamans resurrect card too but if that deck could work someone would have made it already.
Rag, Shadow Caster, Brann deck? lol
I'm calling this card too strong - while 1/1 stat on the copy is not too impactful on the board, it can be Silence or Evolve. And if pulling Gadgetzan Auctioneer on Turn 4 is not sick enough, the times when they pull Sylvanas Windrunner or the creme de la creme Deathwing, Dragonlord can spell easy GG (or it eats a Hex or Sap).
But well, this card kills many Warrior (from board swarming, summoning a minion worthy of attention, or getting a sticky minion - this card can do all three).
I hope the next announced cards help retain semblances of aggro, and decks for F2P players they can strive towards.
You forgot to put Maygos in there.
Since the outcome is a always a 1/1 minion makes him a 4/5 in stats for 4 mana. Which is a Chillwind Yeti as the worst/normal outcome.
The BIG thing is that the 1/1 you summon is a copy of a minion, which doesn't subtract from you total deck size. The additional chance, since you're bound to run minions that doesn't get there place just because of plain stats, makes it amazing in most outcomes.
Anything from card draw, spell power and end of turn effects. The biggest synergy or valuable outcome lies in Deathrattle minions i.e 1/1 Sylvanas on the board could be a higher threat than a 5/5 since it'll not kill it's trade for the most times and so on. There are to many to name.
It goes under the category of 'free value' and we all know how devastating and game breaking that has been in the past(Dr.7, Mysterious Challenger, Piloted Shredder etc).
With that in mind I'm not going to do the same mistake as I personally did before and count those kind of cards out to early. I'm going to go ahead and say that this will definitely see play in certain type of decks arcs w/o a doubt.