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This could help make deathrattle priest a thing. Good synergy with Herald Volasz, since opponents will likely leave the 1/1 alone, and make you pop it in your turn.

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Deathrattles like this have some use as simply a minion that your opponent does not want to kill. I've been playing Zoo, and sometimes the Nerubian Egg is great just to sit there and add that extra body you might need for Gormok's battlecry. Or as a body that you're pretty sure will be there next turn for Power Overwhelming. Multiple people have already, of course, mentioned it as AOE protection.

 Well, what rates such plays are?) I'm trying on any good chance to kill that egg (even if it is silenced))), just not to give zoo-lock additional body for Argus or Overwheelming

bad card is bad.

Good card but is it so good ? It remain to see.

Ok.. So on paper 6/6 stats for 4, Good. Very vulnerable to silence, Bad but not totally horrible, lots of cards are vulnerable to silence but still good. possible combos with <card>Unearthed Raptor</card>. Excellent.

BUT lets talk about that... you play this on 4 and they have a descent board. there are then 3 Most common outcomes. This first one, Which I see as most likely, they kill it and then deal with the 5 drop as best they can to keep you from getting the Raptor combo. the second, and worse, is they silence it and you just played a really expensive <card>Captain's Parrot</card> with 4 mana and lose the game because of the tempo swing. Or three they ignore it? and probably lose if you have a raptor.. or even worse you have coin raptor raptor and are f-ed....

So.... 2 of in a raptor deck probably not.. One of??? MAYBE if you have Nzoth also i guess..... I dunno. I don't see this being played THAT often just because the risk out weighs the benefits....

Very good in zoo for sure.

Power overwhelming it, get a trade, void terror it and you end up with a giant void terror and a 5-5 along with whatever else on the board. Also good in N'zoth decks.

So my quick look at the card is like this.

The obvious stuff: Weak to silence, Strong against board clears.  Fits in death rattle theme decks.  It's a tempo investment.

I think Zoo is it's most likely home, though being neutral it'll have a few of those I imagine.  With the absence of Egg cards I could see this card replace Defender of Argus potentially.  Since Zoo also can be a bit weak to board clears as well this will also help in that way.  The potential issue being Zoo is a high tempo deck and this card is a loss in tempo for tempo in future turns.  In many cases you are playing this because you expect a board clear to keep your tempo up in Zoo, otherwise it may not get played out unless you are already pretty far ahead.

Paladin also can get a lot of mileage out of this card.  Buffs work well with this guy and paladin has a lot of those between actual spells like Blessing of Kings and other minions like Keeper of Uldaman this little guy can put in some work.  However this does double down on his silence-ibility.

If N'zoth decks are a thing, almost certainly he'll be a thing in that thing, though again, he is a bit slow, and N'zoth is also slow, so you are being doubly slow here.  Not saying it can't work, just that it's going to require some planning and a slower overall meta (which seems likely).

Overall I think the card is good and will likely see play, even in faster decks like Zoo because the meta is likely to slow down over all.  But it's possible that he is too slow, which will mean he will still see play just not as widely.

Calling it a 4 mana 6/6 isn't accurate, if you're going to do something like that it's more accurate to call it a 4 mana 6/5. As it's capable of dealing 6 damage, but the whole thing dies to 5 attack.

This of course is still an oversimplification, and doesn't take into account the weaknesses like silence or cabal, but it's more accurate than saying 6/6.

In the same way I'd call shredder a 6/3  instead of saying 6/5. That's assuming a 2/2 from the second body.

Looking at it like this makes it seem better than shredder, but it's far slower and more vulnerable to silence. Seems like a good balanced card. Will definitely see play in decks with deathrattle or buff synergy.

Amazing in raptor rogue, +2 total attack and equal health over Nerubian Egg for two more mana, which is way more balanced. Better on its own than the egg, though, and the 5/5 body is definitely better than a 4/4, so yeah. I think this will definitely see some serious play in midrangey-zoo decks.

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On the first sight, I'm quite clueless why you would want to run this. It's certainly not on the level of Egg and much more vulnerable to silence.

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The fact this requires atleast 2 hits to kill makes this card very good. This also have a good synergy with tentacle of n'zoth and corrupted ghoul since unlike nerubian egg. This card only need 1 ping to activate. Very good card

Yeah but they are nerfing silence. Honestly this card's existence is further evidence of that, because it would be so bad if it were still as common.

A worse nerubian egg, might see play in Standard mode Zoo or Raptor Rogue

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On the first sight, I'm quite clueless why you would want to run this. It's certainly not on the level of Egg and much more vulnerable to silence.

I imagine it won't see play. Realistically, it gives a 1-mana discount on the vanilla 5/5 it produces, which isn't really worth spending 4-mana on a 1/1 - you fall behind when you play it, and you might catch up when it pops, but you probably won't, as it's a big tempo loss. Egg costs half as much, and gives a 2-mana discount on its vanilla 4/4, yet it was really only successfully played in Zoo. Raptor decks might play it, but Twilight Summoner seems a lot worse than Piloted Shredder, and Raptor decks don't exactly dominate the meta-game right now.

This is way too slow for Zoo.

That doesn't mean it doesn't show up in other decks like reincarnate shaman or something, but if Dreadsteed is too slow for zoo I don't see this getting played either.

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On the first sight, I'm quite clueless why you would want to run this. It's certainly not on the level of Egg and much more vulnerable to silence.

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On the first sight, I'm quite clueless why you would want to run this. It's certainly not on the level of Egg and much more vulnerable to silence.

 If anything, egg was more vulnerable to silence, because it left you with a 0/2. Silence this guy and you get a 1/1.