The Ransom
This card is given to your opponent after you play King Togwaggle. They can swap decks back for 5 mana.
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The spell should cost 7 or 8 mana so it immobilizes the enemy player at least 1 turn. I can see this maybe in a mage deck with Counterspell.
I think a meme deck with King Togwaggle is possible after all. It was shown in the reveal video that King's Ransom is added to the opponent's hand, and not their deck. So if you play Togwaggle while the opponent's hand is full, it will burn the Ransom card. This can probably be done the easiest in Druid and Rogue, due to cards like Naturalize to fill up the opponent's hand, and Shadowstep to reuse Coldlight Oracle's battlecry.
This is going to be fun.
Aggro Deck + Hement, Jungle Hunter into King Togwaggle maybe
DISAPPOINTING!
The stories.
I could see this is as a finisher in an aggressive deck with a lot of card draw. You build a board, then play this. If they swap decks immediately, they're giving up 5 mana worth of tempo and you get to keep hitting face. If they don't swap, you get to draw their value cards and leave them with the early-game trash that your deck is full of. Either way it's good for you.
First play Coldlight Oracle to fill up your opponent’s hand, to destroy the Ransom... Seems more like a meme though...
I think this card would be better if the king's ransom was activeted by deathrattle
Would have been a lot cooler if the King's Ransom was shuffled into the opponent's deck instead of placed right in their hand. It would have created this whole new dynamic instead of basically being "Battlecry: Overload your opponent for 5 and replace their next draw with a card from your deck"
Yeah that sounds way more interesting and much stronger than how it's currently printed. Were the ransom card shuffled into the opponent's deck, we'd get some nutty games playing each other's cards. Maybe, if Togwaggle's Ransom had a payment plan/tribute system or a deadline that had to be met over some turns, we'd get something more interesting than the 5 cost spell. Just a few turns of Hearthstone chaos isn't too much! Still, a fun card with meme/combo potential
Well, I think I see one way to use it, but its gambling. A mage control deck with a lot of draw. You empty your own deck, while establishing board control. It is important to keep two counter spell secrets in your hand, or at least one.
The turn before you play the king you play a counter spell secret, then hope the opponent doesn't cast a spell on his next turn. That is the gambling bit. Then you play the king on your next turn. He gets your deck, and when he attempts ransom, unless he cast another spell first, he keeps your almost empty deck, while you have your opponent's deck, hopefully with more cards. You win by card fatigue.
However, there are so much that could go wrong, and if the opponent has a spell in his hand, and see the secret, he is almost guaranteed to try another spell first. If he does that he might put you in a position from which you cannot recover. Also, if you got board control, you could win in far more reliable ways.
I love how ppl, "you lazy f*cks", dont read it well, it gives your opponent a spell to swap back the decks for 5 mana, this card is really interesting, it's like noggenfogger, soon or late you'll figure out(or copy a netdeck) an interesting way to get the value out of this card.
I love it!
Is this serious ? o.O well, i think this should be a priest legendary, not a neutral legendary, just sayin...
fuistes ps
Best combo I could think of :
Aviana + Kun the Forgotten King + Brann Bronzebeard + Ancient Shade + Zola the Gorgon (targeting Ancient Shade) + Ancient Shade (x2) + kill Brann Bronzebeard (with Jasper Spellstone at 4 attack) + King Togwaggle + hero power face and pass.
Your opponent gets 42 damage from the combo, 1 damage from hero power (or 3 lul) and finally 1 fatigue damage.
you should have no cards on your deck in order to do that, so I don't think is even viable memeing
With double ultimate infestation and nourish, Druid has the ability to enter fatigue sooner than other classes. It's definitely doable, maybe not viable tho.
besides you should probably just work on killing it with aviana kun
May be somthing like this: destroy your deck with Hemet, Jungle Hunter - next turn Kabal Lackey + Counterspell + King Togwaggle.
The best use for this seems to be meming on expansion bosses, but they'll probably limit it like Sideshow Spelleater because you're not allowed to have too much fun.