As some of you must have noticed, the new card Arfus is a beast. Nothing wrong about that, it is an undead dog after all. But, if any of you remember, the Naxxramas token Spectral Spider, which spawns off of Haunted Creeper, does not have the beast tag. Blizzard wanted to prevent the card from being too powerful, so they made them undead. This way it makes more sense for them to lack the beast tag... Guess they didn't remember that.
Well, if you really want to highlights consistency issues ; Haunted Creeper's token are not beast, you got that right, but the Infested Wolf's token - that was added with OldGods expansion - are indeed spidey-beast
And anyway around, Arfus is a (spectral)dog with such weak stats line, it isn't like they doomed it all
Sometimes things have to be inconsistent for gameplay. Arfus needs to be a beast for what they intended, while the spectral spiders being beasts would have been too powerful at the time.
but the Infested Wolf's token - that was added with OldGods expansion - are indeed spidey-beast
To be honest I'd argue it's fine for them to be a beast, since the wolf is infested with actual spiders, while the creeper is haunted with ghost ("undead") spiders.
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As some of you must have noticed, the new card Arfus is a beast. Nothing wrong about that, it is an undead dog after all. But, if any of you remember, the Naxxramas token Spectral Spider, which spawns off of Haunted Creeper, does not have the beast tag. Blizzard wanted to prevent the card from being too powerful, so they made them undead. This way it makes more sense for them to lack the beast tag... Guess they didn't remember that.
it's 4 mana 2/2, I think that's fair
I honestly don't mind it being a beast, all I'm saying is it's inconsistent. They could've made it something like a zombeast instead, for example.
Well, if you really want to highlights consistency issues ; Haunted Creeper's token are not beast, you got that right, but the Infested Wolf's token - that was added with OldGods expansion - are indeed spidey-beast
And anyway around, Arfus is a (spectral)dog with such weak stats line, it isn't like they doomed it all
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PinocchioMalygos?"Sometimes things have to be inconsistent for gameplay. Arfus needs to be a beast for what they intended, while the spectral spiders being beasts would have been too powerful at the time.
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