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Also, another honorable mention is Drain Soul. Deal 3 heal 3 for 4 mana is not bad. If Tainted Zealot steaks, you can play Defile, Hellfire for more board clears.
well, this is a replacement for thalnos
The reason thalnos is popular isn't because it's a worse statted kobold geomancer, it's because card draw is extremely powerful. By no means is this a replacement, probably going to end up running all 3 in most decks that use any. God knows shaman and warlock will for sure.
nice card for those who doesnt have bloodmage thalnos like me ... XD
decks that run thalnos mostly need cycle this is trash compared to him maybe its a bit better than the geomancer 2/2 but no one plays that garbage
I mean it's a hundred times better than geomancer, but even compared to Thalnos, it's still decent. geomancer was trash because it didn't have any meaningful synergies and it didn't have any value, and still there were decks that used it. This, on the other hand, has a boatload of synergy and can provide what would effectively be a better than 2/2 statline because of the nature of divine shield. with defile, it's an insane amount of damage for 4 mana and 2 cards, especially against aggro.
I take back what i said this plus defile could get out of hand
Those saying that this isn't as good as Bloodmage Thalnos seem to be overlooking that Thalnos is a Legendary minion, so of course Thalnos is going to be better value. But the fact that this little COMMON card is even somewhat comparable to a Legendary minion is pretty damn impressive! For new players, this is a great cheaper alternative, and for veteran deck builders, this can be run as a "second/third Thalnos".
Edit: Also worth mentioning that this combos well with Corpsetaker for Control Decks :D
Not as good as Bloodmage Thalnos, but spell-damage decks that previously ran Kobold Genomancer (Like spell damage shaman and some miracle rouges) might run this instead.
Well, some freeze mage decks used to run Kobold Geomancer occasionally... This is slightly better for the same purpose.
Maybe in wild, where there is Ice Lance still...
With this you can get a 2 damage dealing Defile twice. Could be cool.
Edit: Actually it will be 2+2+1, as this one will die too. Damn.
plus whatever else might die at 5 health. that's a lot of damage to do to a board, so it wouldn't be surprising.
Spell Damage with survivability is good. The reason why Spell Damage minions aren't run is because they easily die, that's only fine for Bloodmage Thalnos because it draws you a card. This could see play in Rogue along with Bloodmage Thalnos and Tuskarr Fisherman, making a new spell power deck archetype, they have a lot of cheap damage spells that can go face.
Really really good card its Thalnos with survivability
It looks like one of the group of crazed Scarlet Crusaders that ended up in Northrend. Not quite a pirate.
It looks like one of the group of crazed Scarlet Crusaders that ended up in Northrend. Not quite a pirate.