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Marsh Drake ´s Drakeslayer into Betrayal 

<header class="related-header">Works with    Betrayal       and kills the enemy minion instant. :D </header>

Please stop playing this card. Drakeslayers are going extinct.

Frost Lich Jaina's best friend. She needs targets for her hero ability to kill in order to give you 3/6 Water Elementals and by playing this card you get a 5/4 Marsh Drake Dragon and a 3/6 Water Elemental for 5 mana after killing the gifted 2/1 poisonous Drakeslayer.

In arena: T2 Rogue hero power, T3 this and kill the 2/1. 

thank you i will taunt it immediately.

I'm thinking it's that card that's gonna get it's stats nerfed in a month. There are so many ways to clear that 2/1 minion it's not even funny. 

Not really. Yeah you get an over-statted minion but you lose tempo by having to kill the 2/1. You either need to have a cheap minion survive from the turn before or use a weapon/hero power/spell so this really costs about 4 or 5 mana, maybe more.

It will likely see play in druid, rogue or mage because they have a reliable ping, but I don't think it will be that strong.

 

I hope so, as I'm not keen on having another Corridor Creeper :P If Rogue got better cards, it would be scarier. Time will tell, I'm really looking forward to this exp!

Really? What if I WANT to kill the token? What if I WANT to use Mortal Coil on it?

And part of the Zoolock deckbuild is Argent Squire, a 1/1 Divine Shield minion minion that can trade into the Drakeslayer token with no issues and leave you with a 5/4 as early as TURN TWO.

To understand how good a card is, one has to figure out how they can make the most out of a card with all the classes. This is an EXTREMELY powerful card in Zoolock.

Like I said. you need to have a minion on board to trade or use a spell/hero power/weapon to kill the 2/1 so you are basically paying at least 4 mana to play this

I'm not saying it will be bad and It might see play in zoo/aggro it's just a bit clunky to get into action so I don't think it's going to be totally bonkers and people will be yelling for a nerf.

I feel like I'd need an elven archer to 1 shot it or a mage/druid to attack. I don't know much about tempo, but this card does seem like it works best if you're at 4+ mana or if you have some taunts up that you don't mind losing.

Yeah you have to have either a Wicked Knife/Poisoned Dagger, Candleshot, or Icy Touch from Frost Lich Jaina

I think that the Marsh Drake is the Corridor Creeper of this expansion--it doesn't initially appear intimidating and people miss it during the reviews, but it will eventually plague the meta. So many classes have ways to prepare a solution to this downside that we could be seeing a lot of turn 2 (coin) or turn 3 tempo swings with this card.

Zoolock can use Mortal Coil

Hunter can equip Candleshot

Warrior can equip Woodcutter's Axe or Whirlwind

Aggro Paladin always has a 1/1 out on turns 1 and 2 so you can easily just trade one in against the minion you summon.

In short, fast and aggressive decks, especially zoo decks, love this card.

Here is a link to a preliminary warrior tempo deck that aims to exploit this card: https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1068686-witchwood-rush-tempo-warrior

Rogue has Dagger Mastery.

Icy Touch

Fireblast

Shapeshift

the list goes on...

I'm not sure why you are down-voted, this card seems really strong to me too... maybe not Corridor Creeper but I see it being a staple in any aggro deck.

It enables Cathedral Gargoyle too

The thing with Mage and Druid though it it costs a whole 2 mana, might as well play a 5 drop.

A rogue uses a previous turn's dagger.

Wild dragon priest with Potion of Madness is just disguising with this card.

With further consideration, I think that the Marsh Drake is the Corridor Creeper of this expansion--it doesn't initially appear intimidating and people miss it during the reviews, but it will eventually plague the meta. So many classes have ways to prepare a solution to this downside that we could be seeing a lot of turn 2 (coin) or turn 3 tempo swings with this card.

Zoolock can use Mortal Coil

Hunter can equip Candleshot

Warrior can equip Woodcutter's Axe or Whirlwind

Aggro Paladin always has a 1/1 out on turns 1 and 2 so you can easily just trade one in against the minion you summon.

In short, fast and aggressive decks, especially zoo decks, love this card.

Here is a link to a preliminary warrior tempo deck that aims to exploit this card: https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1068686-witchwood-rush-tempo-warrior