Madam Goya
Battlecry: Choose a friendly
minion. Summon any copies
of it in your deck.
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Why would you put this in a deck with Battlecries? It's much better for Deathrattle/passive effects. Barnes is horrible with Battlecry minions as well but he's not unplayable.....
Depending on how many battle cry minions you running (like say just 1 being yogg lol, or nzoth), then you can recycle em to play again. Though another good thing is charge cards lol
GUuuuuys! it doesn't say random...
It is random, check out the gameplay in the reveal video. Is the same wording as in Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound or in Onyx Bishop. They don't have the word "random" in their texts, but the minions pulled out/resurrected are random.
I think she can be useful for swapping a damaged minion on board with a beefy taunt or a charger.
Otherwise, i think she is too slow even for meme decks.
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Madam Goya - 6 mana - 4/3 - Battlecry: Choose a friendly minion. Swap it with a (random) minion in your deck.
On the surface, it looks like garbage. 6 mana for a 4/3 is terrible stats and the battlecry ability is super RNG dependant in the average deck. Typically a vanilla 4/3 costs 3 mana in Hearthstone, so how do we get our value from the other 3 mana invested?
My second glance at Madam Goya had me recall a powerful MTG deck with Natural Order as it's main win condition. For those who are not familiar with this deck (or MTG), the purpose was to create a Green Token at a cheap cost, then Cast Natural Order to find something HUUUGE and powerful to slam the board with (typically a 10/10 that basically can't be removed from the board to kill your opponent in 2 turns).
This gave me the idea to then go back to Hearthstone and do a search for any Token generators and came up with a few, the best being for Druid. Other tokens from different classes: Warrior (Blood to Ichor), Mage (Mirror Image), Paladin (Hero Power), etc. However we have to keep in mind that this combo works best in a Control style strategy.
Druid has multiple, the best being Living Roots and Power of the Wild. Living Roots requires you to either protect and setup tokens on t5 for a t6 Goya. Otherwise a turn 7 Goya is much more consistent, but a turn behind.
Looking at an average Malygod Druid deck, your early game is mostly spells, leaving your end game filled with big heavy hitting minions.
Other minions you wouldn't mind swapping being Mire Keeper, Fandral (after he's gotten value), and Azure Drake. Look at all the beef in your top end that you potentially could hit (frequently and consistently) with Madam Goya.
Remember, we only need Goya to give you 3 mana worth of value extra to the board just to break even (which wouldn't happen often with this style of deck).
There is also the potential of swapping a minion that has been damaged (gotten you value already) for the ultimate value plan.
I don't believe Madam Goya will work in every deck, but there are definitely decks that exist and more that will arise that can take advantage of her.
Madam Goya is not garbage, she just requires a little bit of thinking and deck building skills to work.
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You are overthinking it mate, the dream can happen for every card but there are just simply better alternatives for druid to run. The token druid list is getting tight with all the new cards you can play in it and the malygos one is too tight to run token generators. We already dont run a great card like Moonglade portal and we are sure as hell not gonna be running a 6 mana 4/3 thats gonna replace your Mire Keeper for an Azure drake or vice versa.
Imagine playing this after the Golden Monkey.
Double monkey value!
Or maybe, you could use Madam Goya to pull Golden Monkey out of your deck without triggering it! Kappa
I can see this card having great value in Ramp Druid being able to switch a huge body that is damaged with another big threat. Also putting reno back into the deck can be a huge deciding factor in a control warrior game for example.
I think the stats are bad but it will see play because RNG is a fun aspect of the game, I also think this card will cause a lot of salt.
All of you saying this card is garbage. *pfft*, please. All those times you know your last card in your deck is a game winner (Leeroy Jenkins, Ragnaros the Firelord, even Doomguard. You draw this chick (panda, sorry) and you've basically won the game. This is one of those cards you save for last, not mid game. Not when you have 16 cards left in your deck, not 10, not even 3. When you have 2 left. Just two, no more. If you don't see the value in that then you need a head check.
Or you could draw that minion instead.
400 dust
...Nothing else needs to be said
This card is pure garbage. A 6 mana 4/3 and you need to pay a cost on top of that to POSSIBLY slam dunk your opponent? And thats not all:
1) Say you are playing shaman or pally and play this on turn 8 with a hero power. Even if you get really lucky and pull Tirion or Ragnaros, it's still only a 4/3 body better than just playing the card you pull. You are undertaking too much risk with this, you need to do way more with this than just break even, as the 4/3 body is wayyyy below average, barely grazing 3 drop territory.
2) The garbage minion you put back in your deck may and probably will come back to bite you, as you now have a dead draw in your deck.
3) And before anyone says "this can recycle Reno", you can already do that with Brewmaster and you actually get it in your hand too, so this card is even worse than other alternatives for that.
I have no idea why Blizzard made such a card considering we have Barnes, which is a ridiculous card that can do everything this card can already for combo decks for way less.
I thought one reno was enough.
Granted, it relies on your Reno surviving for one turn. Or getting lucky with an Emperor Thaurissan.
Just 3 mana more and Battlecry: choose a friendly minion, swap it with a minion in your opponent's deck . That will be x100 more fun and x100 more annoying.