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When your opponent is playing C'Thun and you dont dare to play this but Dirty Rat ruins everything
That sweet, sweet meteor value
I think he meant that shaman Volcano card not the mage one.
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Why Blizz WHY.. Neutral - No downside for Aggro... Seriously?
Ever wonder what's inside a Fel Reaver? Well now you know.
Purify
why do people think this card is bad?! did you kiddos not play with fel reaver
Different case. You drop fel reaver when you want the tempo and usually aren't in a great spot. It can swerve the game well since it's heavy and you probably won't burn through all your cards in the game. Still risky, and fel reaver isn't really that great....
This card is like asking "battlecry: take 6-12 damage". Sure it is meaty but way worse than fel reaver as a solo drop. Reaver can be dropped with your board empty. This one not so much. Although it's okay if the board is completely empty. Still think it's not so great. With mage/warlock still being really popular in arena, there's a lot of hand damage that can remove the card and make you take free damage.
And then Shaman with Volcano? GG. This card can straight up lose you the game very easily since any damage it takes makes you take damage. See why that 4/3 warlock card was terrible too. (though that's another issue). Not bad, but it's not going to be anything special or really useful. Is an epic too.
Well... Silence Priest loses Eerie Statue. It needs something like this.
you do know an aggro deck dosen't care about the damage it will get
if they can't kill you at turn 5-7 they already lost this is just a finisher
Fel Reaver is great because you don't care about cards in your library when it comes to SMOrc and ephemeral board control. If anything it thins your deck out. Bittertide hydra's down side however is your health, unless you're hyper aggro or have very heavy healing youre using 6-15 health as a resource for a 5 drop. If you're spending resources for an early large drop your opponent has 2 choices, kill you right away faster or remove your threat. When you play this card in the aggro mirror you make all their 1 attack minions deal 3 face and you'll likely lose the race, playing i against control or mid range is better to pressure them but expect it to be removed. The power level of the game is being increased so much this expansion that an 8/8 with a trivial down side being strong in the past wouldn't be as powerful when it has a worse down side and for comparison a 4 mana 7/7 was too slow for some decks. For it's time, the mech tag was arguably better than the beast tag is now if that means anything since you could get it out on turn 4 with mech warper. If you'd argue the meta will slow down it's even worse since people will be playing greedier decks with more hard removal and the sea of taunts you have to attack before getting face value.
Pit Lord used to be a 4 mana 7/7 with battlecry: take 7 damage. And it was nerfed because of how powerful and opressive it was, this card is basically an Old Pit Lord on steroids.
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5 mana 8/8 ===> 0 mana Silence. (With coin a turn 4 drop 8/8)
I think this has potential in Hunter decks, because what 5 mana Beasts do Hunter usually play anyways. This could bait out removal for your turn 6 Highmane too.
I'm not sure which is worse between this and Fel Reaver... You can come back from someone abusing this, but Fel Reaver tends to just screw you completely if your opponent did enough.
Nerubian egg is back, fel reaver, the op murloc 1+1 guy.... can the tar taunts stop the ladder from murdering us at turn 5?
Volcano
GG
All praise this + Bouncing Blade in wild.