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For this card to be good, there has to be good enough Deathrattle minions for Rogue which would be worth paying 5 mana to pop twice. Here are a couple which are neato with this card:
Carnivorous Cube: 5 mana summon 4 copies of a minion. Sounds pretty good, but I don't think Rogue has enough support for Cube to justify running this.
Kobold Illusionist: When you have something tasty in hand like Malygos. Illusionist --> Prep --> Vial out 2 Malygos --> Eviscerate --> Sinister Strike --> Sinister Strike is a 10 mana deal 40 damage, Cool OTK, but it's quite impractical when you factor in you need to empty your hand of minions to make this play.
Mechanical Whelp: 11 mana, 2 card combo, but it allows you to get 5 mana 14/14 worth of stats. To get this to work, however, you need either a Coin, Prep, or for your Whelp to stay on the board for one turn and NOT die.
Ultimately, it just doesn't seem like 5 mana for 2 Deathrattle pops isn't worth it just yet. That said, I am looking forward to that one time where some guy goes Mechanical Whelp --> Preparation --> Necrium Vial --> Prep --> Necrium Vial for the 10 mana 30/30 worth of stats.
One way to make the meme more reliable is if you Whelp --> Master of Disguise the Whelp so it has Stealth. Now they can't target the whelp, so it's much harder for them to kill it... unless they want to spend a board clear just to kill a 2/2.
Great effect for rogue but I do not know if it's not too expensive. I guess it all will be sure in two first weeks of expansion.
If only it was 4
not too bad to Preparation this... it boils down to d same cost of the Play Dead... and you can play it at higher cost, if you have to... it's the same effect as 2 x Play Dead but different... and rogue is much more tricky than hunter (too fair for my taste... :P )... but I'm not sayin' it's great or anything... just playable... ^^
It's more like Play Dead, draw another Play Dead and cast on the same target, which is actually better than just 2 mana worth of value. But I don't think you're supposed to just assess cards as if they're always or even regularly going to follow Preparation. If you applied that logic to all rogue spells, then this would still have a lower relative power level than a majority of them.
Kobold Illusionist + Malygos in your hand + Necrium Vial + 2 Sinister Strike + any form of gaining mana/ reducing spell cost ( Preparation , The Coin , etc.) = 26 damage in one turn. There's probably more clever OTK's other than that but that's just the first thing I came up with.
It's not a bad card. This is Play Dead twice for 5 mana? yes, but Rogue doesn't have a way to trigger deathrattle directly
idk about you guys but the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this card was Dane and his Wild Big Rogue deck
Yup. I just had a vision of him getting Ragnaros off Silver Vanguard then going cube + this and getting 4 Ragnaros (plus the extra 2 Ragnaros still inside the cube.)
inb4 "but play dead x 2 is better :("