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slightly bigger loot horder with curator effect as deathrattle. seems good
Everyone seems to be writing this off as a worse Museum Curator, but I think the better card to compare this to is Stonehill Defender; You either use it in a class/deck that has some broken cards it can pull off of it, or it gives you double synergies for the price of one card slot.
A Greedy Deathrattle shaman with cards like Spirit Echoes, Ancestral Spirit, or Reincarnate can pull some crazy shenanigans with 90% of whatever you pull off of one of these, and Nzoth decks won't mind the additional value.
I'm voting this as Playable, on the verge of saying it's Very Good.
The card it gives to you can be from other classes, which is good (Savannah Highmane ecc.), but also bad (Selfless Hero, ecc.).
Also bad with N'Zoth, the Corruptor, more than 1/3 of deathrattle minion currently available in standard are 1-2 drops, which can mess with the mass resurrection, altough some of them can get some value (Undercity Huckster, Shimmering Tempest) they can prevent bigger things to be summoned.
It can seem strange, but i think it will get better with the next standard rotation, with n'zoth and most low-cost deathrattle minion in wild
Let's not forget that blizzard told that they will add a lot of new deathrattle minions in this ex.
So let's see how good are all other cards in this ex, and then we can say its trash, and yes we have a better card than this one Museum Curator, but he is in wild only and he is only for priest
This card is not comparable to Stonehill Defender. Stonehill is DISCOVER which is much more consistant than random. Also, Random doesn't have the additional weight put on class cards which makes Tirion, Wickerflame and Tarim so common. Finally, with random you just get a card. It could be good, or it could be really shitty. With Discover, the odds are fairly favourable that SOMETHING it shows you will be playable.
Faceless Summoner into Shallow Gravedigger into Tyrion
People are underestimating this card so much, it has really good value, even if the random minion isnt that good. This in amara priest or a nzoth control warrior is just really good. Calling it now, the card WILL be playable and will be way better than people think.
I agree with the Amara Priest part. Especially in the mirror since it can't be stolen with Potion of Madness. Most aggro decks will want to get rid of it, especially Pirate Warrior.
1 health value cards that dont cost 1 mana are bad.
Loot Hoarder draws you a card from your deck which is decent value for two mana. The 2/1 body is just a bonus. Eggnapper has the same stats, but it gives value as soon as it dies rather than making you spend more mana in order to get that value (If eggnapper was add 2 or even 3 1/1s to your hand it would be unplayable outside of specific niche cases) and Scarlet Crusader sees no play in constructed since pre Naxx and sees play in Arena because divine shield allows for a 2-for-1 trade which is insane in arena. Gravedigger doesn't draw you a card, it gives you a random card (much less valuable than getting a card from your deck or even discovering a card), it does not give you its value instantaneously upon death as you still need to spend mana next turn to summon whatever deathrattle you got at which point that new minion needs to wait ANOTHER turn to do any sort of action. And unlike Crusader, this card will always do a 1 for 1 trade and will never get you a 2-for-1. Comparing it with those cards doesn't make sense.
I wonder if the flavour text might reference Shovel Knight since it is a Death Knight with a shovel.
The only good thing that i see in this card is that now all class can play Tyrions !! Tyrions For Everyone (if you have luck)
Dunno, imho I think she's kinda weak.
Deathrattles by definition are slower than Battlecries. + She aims to grand value, not have an impact on the board.
Museum Curator is 10 times better, you can choose the deathrattle minion and make your game plan earlier; Shallow Gravedigger could be used in deathrattle decks, but she's so slow and weak, that people will find a better replacement.
That said I'm excited to see the other deathrattle minions. Hopefully, there would be good ones, so that Spiritsinger Umbra will see play.
[yes, a card resource advantage, but super slow]
i know, that you can say, we can highroll too, but this is what i would like to point out - she isn't reliable, museum curator on the other hand is
inb4 Piloted Shredder or even Eggnapper work better than her, because you still have something on the board and regardless how bad the outcome is, tempo wise they are better
While the 3/1 stat line does seem a bit weak for 3 mana, I can actually see some use for this card in a Quest-Kazakus Priest deck looking for deathrattle minions that don't all cost 4. And that's not even counting the possibility you could get Thalnos, Bloodhoof, White Eyes, or even a Tirion off this guy!
I know I'm certainly gonna try out a Quest-Kazakus deck, possibly even with the Death Knight Hero for Priest depending on the card's effects.
Seems useless, unless there are going to be new deathrattle synergies. If quest priest was a thing, suppose it could be useful there, but seems worse than harvest golem, even there - just too slow.
Maybe good in arena, but seems bad in constructed. You basically pay 3 mana for a random deathrattle minion because 3/1 dies very easy.
3 mana 3/1 deathrattle get a deathrattle minion. Guessing that'll mean it will not get you deathrattles from other classes. Could be good in Priest where you have crystalline oracle and shifting shade for cards giving more cards which give more cards, or maybe rogue who has a lot of good deathrattle minions.
I mean it could be terrible and it probably will be, but Stonehill Defender was amazing so... who knows? /s
It should be able to give you Deathrattle minions from other classes. It doesn't specify that you can't, it just states "a random Deathrattle minion" and cards of this nature normally can give you cards from other classes.