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Gorehowl face lul (only if can steal it though)
If you have equipped a Shadowblade or buffed Wicked Knife with Deadly Poison and uses this card to increase your weapon durability, then even if this gets killed immediately, it is sort of like 4 mana 5-3 deal 3 damage with soft taunt, we compare this to a pretty good card Fire Plume Phoenix which is 4 mana 3-3 deal 2 damage, it is pretty decent.
If you buff your weapon even more with Leeching Poison and Envenom Weapon, then the value gained from the durability increase is sizable.
All in all the value of this card depends on how valuable your weapon is. If Rogue gets something close to Atiesh level weapon/buff then it would definitely shine. Otherwise due to Rogue weapon's low value this card might see no play.
Acidic Swamp Ooze still works (not to mention other Oozes and Harrison Jones) and this guy is too fragile, you would have to run taunt, which rogue rarely do...
5/3 is really weak, even with a followed up Crazed Alchemist it's still weak.
But it might be worth the 4 mana for an extra swing of Shadowblade to finish a big minion, in that case the 4 mana are a good invested pseudo-heal with a 5/3 body. Very situational, yes, but I think Shadowblade will see play so this card might be put in decks alongside with it.
If it lives 1 turn you can follow up with a Corpse Raiser. Hmm, maybe it's not that bad of a card at all ;)
We said this about sherazin...
sherazin can come back easily in miracle rouge this cant
Oh, now I see why Leeching Poison costs 2 mana. I think that (in control rogue) this is about "battlecry: restore 3 hp, equip 3/1 weapon". Of course control rogue is not a thing (yet), but this could be a playable card, even though it requires setup to be useful and has bad stats.
So I think the main reason to play this card is to save charges of Leeching Poison and/or Envenom Weapon, not the actual weapon.
Control rogue is a thing lol
In a vacuum it's not great, but it makes deck construction around Weapons a lot more appealing.
Not strictly bad, but only constructed viable in a deck that focusses on weapons as much as pirate warrior. Rogues only weapon you`d like to Combo with this is the new one. Without more of this, Runeforge Haunter wont see Play. There are just better Options.
3 health makes it way easier to kill also and the new weapon is a battlecry: your hero is immune this turn unlike the hunters 7 mana classic weapon where your hero is immune while attacking
I do not think this will be played as the rouges hero power is a 1/2 weapon and since this takes up a slot in your deck for essentially nothing.
The only way this would ever be played would probably be if rouge got some really good weapon buffs and even then this card would not be played in a meta deck
if it is used It would most likely be in a fringe deck
not bad at all
unlike the others i think it’s ok