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this is fucking op card. just played warlock and he used this he cleared my 4 minion board..
fuck ghis op card.
NEEDS NERF NOW!
Only 4!? Look at the turn 16 of this game.
Defile should cost at least 4.
Not a combo that stands out when you first think of the card, but Tainted Zealot + Defile will usually result in 6-8 damage to the entire board, if theres at least 1 other minion with 2 or less hp left.
I love this card so much. It makes you think really hard on what to damage so you can get the maximum value. I wiped the whole enemy board by just damaging one minion.
Violet Teacher and Yogg don't get more fuel from this
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This spell was originally designed to help warlocks clean up their hard drives.
I'll admit, I 101'd
Took me a few days after thinking it over to get it
So thats why Dreadsteed is getting nerfed
Dude, the spell would never end hahaha.
Could you imagine? Pre-nerf Dreadsteed + Defile happening in just 2 game instances played in every county of the US and other regions throughout the world? :P
The Game Suicide Crash to Desktop combo.
Or limit it to 15 or 30 runs, like they already did for Patrons/Dinomancers?
an inverted bouncing blade :D
Another AoE for Renolock? Handlock has enough and Zoo or Discard probably wouldn't run this...
yet another shit card. Warlocks dont need more aoe
what happens if you use this on a board with 5 Cruel Dinomancers (with 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 health?)
is the effect going to be like with Grim Patron (if the patrons really die only after defile stops), or like pre-nerf Dreadsteed, so it'll just kill the dinomancers infinitely?
This is a really nice question. If you manage to have 5 Cruel Dinomancer with (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Health on board) and the only minion you discarded this game is another Cruel Dinomancer, this card will trigger an infinite loop, right?
I guess it should, since using two Deathspeakers, Knife Juggler, Necrotic Geist and one random spell damage card does a similar effect (HysteriA made a video about that OTK), though both are obviously nearly impossible to properly use against players in standard (and barely possible in wild).
It's been confirmed that defile can only recast itself up to 14 times, so it would continue to recast until it hit that 14-cast margin.
yeah, I found out about that not too long after posting the previous comment. it's obviously a good thing, that it doesn't break the game, but it still doesn't really change the card's (experimental) OTK potential with such minions like I mentioned.
Awesome answer to Aggro Shaman
How the hell will this interract with Pyromancer ?
Pyromancer > Cast Defile > Deal 1 dmg, kill one minion ...... and OPTIONS >>
1. Recast untill no minions die and pyro casts one last wave
or
2. Cast kill > Pyro > Cast kill > Pyro ?
or
3. Cast before dmg Pyro > after pyro dmg of defile + kill > again pyro ??