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Corridor Creeper would have its cost reset every time tho. Also no Vicious Fledgling? King Krush?
If I cast this on my huffer twice do I get copies that are 7/5s and 10/8s?
Edit: It shouldn't. Found my answer here https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/3318-mike-donais-clarifies-the-various-copy-mechanics
Pretty sure spells can't have +3/+3
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This card is huge on value, but I'm not 100% sold that hunter wants to play essentially a 4 mana 3-3 with charge. There will be good targets, but you won't draw this consistently, and you won't typically have this hit a card you want imo.
Bottom line: houndmaster is still better for the on-curve play, and the lack of payoff consistency for this card means it will probably be too clunky to see play in anything other than a slow hunter deck.
You are seriously not thinking hard enough if you don't think this card is better than houndmaster.
Why is it better than houndmaster for a traditional hunter deck? Typically you want to take the board early as hunter, and end up winning through either snowballing, or attenuation of hero powers. This is true for aggressive, and midrange hunter variants, even the slower hunters that use the DK. The only current hunter deck this is potentially better in is spell hunter, but barnes will be rotating, and spell hunter is not good enough in wild.
How would this be good in spell hunter? It has anti synergy with the archetype to begin with.
Spell hunter actually has several different ways to generate minions: Cat Trick, Wandering Monster, Animal Companion, Unleash the Hounds, Flanking Strike, Lesser Emerald Spellstone, and the minions generated off of Deathstalker Rexxar. All of those are popular in the current ladder list, so 13 cards ~ 1/2 of your deck either is, or directly generates a beast so it's not completely horrible, but then again my point is that even in a deck that is inherently slow... Dire Frenzy isn't great.
You... You do realize that Spell hunter decks...
Don't want minions in their decks. Adding minions to deck, is not what they want to do.
I've been playing a deck with this card at rank 25 and I can confirm that it is op
This is going to have amazing application for quest hunters.
Also, does anyone know if the shuffled Hunting Mastiff will create buffed echo mastiffs?
Only first one will be buffed
SMORC likes this new Huffer Buff...
I don't think this will be very useful to face hunter.
yees! more power to the beast hunter!
Quest hunter will be bonkers! Finally I will have possibility to play it a little more than for memes!
This is the idea I was thinking as well. Everyone else seems to be stuck on the Huffer idea.
Pretty damn strong card. Even if you just use this on a 1 or 2 mana beast it's still worth it. The only problem is hunter's card draw sucks so it might be a bit slow to re-draw and play them again.
Plus hunter has heaps of good 4 cost cards right now so you might have to make some cuts to fit these in.
This gives the Beastmaster a run for his golden money.