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This is a decent card. Pulling out the worst cards in a midrange deck with 6,7 and 9 mana threats can make the late game curve very powerful (secret paladin says hi). That being said, a 3/5 for 5 is pretty weak, so im not sure of the benefits outweigh the risks.
It's not like I desperately want to abandon all the money I poured into this game (because as we all know, unlike TCG's, we're not getting it back), but I sure don't intend to pour more if they keep delivering stuff that makes no sense, or if it does, isn't explained. This isn't even debatable, the communication they have with the player base is TERRIBLE. Criticism is rarely addressed, and when it does, poorly.
Yes, I'm getting tired of this back and forth. I don't like that they feel entitled to expect us to purchase expansion bundles before they show us all the cards, not to mention the undefined release date. Am I being unreasonable here? I don't know, dude. I praise them when it is due, but I won't pretend this cards isn't a giant middle finger to the player base.
Just as situational as small-time recruits.
Its strength relies on the quantity of useful 1-drops a Hunter can include in the same deck.
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I'm sorry, but are people actually complaining about a 2 card draw for Hunter?
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1. Put plenty of 1-drops in your deck so that you actually draw them on turn 1 and but then "thin your deck" so you draw your playable cards after turn 6.
2. Put an appropriate amount of 1-drops in your deck so you either draw them early and have a useless understatted 5-drop, or you don't draw them and then play this card and draw 1-drops you don't want to play.
3. it's turn 5, 6, or 7 and shit I have no more cards, drop this and suddenly have something to play because I'm playing a fast deck and this is my highest costing card.
Those are the three scenarios I predict. In the first two....why not just play cards you actually want to play? The third one has potential.
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Card draw for Hunter? But why is it so weak? It's 1 mana overcosted, especially with those stats. If it was 1 cost CARDS it would have been good, but not this.
Dat pretty bad one. Low stated card draw is not what hunter needed
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I think that a reasonable number of one drops being currently played in hunter decks would be 4, exactly 2 cats and 2 fire bats.
You're not really going to reliably have any of them on your opener, but it is enough of a chance worth the risk of drawing too many of them in the late game. Let's start with the assumption that you're not willing to increase the number of one drops, even with the addition of this new card as a one-of (assuming that you're not going as far as to say that this is a two-of, especially because in that case you'd add more 1 drops). I'm not capable of running the math here, but my long time experience playing card games tells me that the odds of getting everything to run smoothly (a.k.a. getting one or two 1 drops in the early game > playing this card on curve, or early enough to not have drawn any remaining 1 drop in your deck) is minimal, it won't happen too often, it is less likely than playing Fandral @4 and having it survive to play nourish @5. Now, how much did you gain? A couple percentage points of not drawing that 2-3 one drops still lurking in your deck by turn 5-7, plus, hopefully, 2 (weak) cards. The sheer amount of stuff that can go south seems remarkable. Now, what are you paying for that? An highly inefficient body, to illustrate, it won't trade DOWN with the 4 mana 5/4 rogue card, that's how bad it is. That is to say, playing this card is a ginourmous tempo loss, it has no beast synergy, it poses literally no threat at all to your opponent and it doesn't help to maintain board control, not for the entire 5 mana you sinked into it.
On top of all that, now talking about stuff outside of the card, the hunter class has no support for a more value oriented game style. Cards like power shot and explosive shot are very clunky, extremely situational, there is a lack of flexibility. Mages, for instance, have their ping hero power, along with very versatile spells (frostbolt, arcane missles, arcane blast, fireball, flamestrike...), paladins have a 1/1 factory, big heal effects, equality, divine shield minions... warrior has brawl, shield slam, execute... what I'm trying to get at here is that they have cards that support that playstyle, and on top of that, hero powers that help with control/value game plans. Hunters do not, they suck balls at it.
I think you slipped on your though about the "draw 3". I might have not understood what you meant, but it seems to me you can only really make that assertion if:
1. You actually drew 2 cards (you could draw them naturally before you got a chance to play your 5 drop, either because you didn't draw it or because you didn't find the space)
2. You can't really say it drew you a third one except if you knew the card you tutored was on the top of your deck
But I am a bit confused about this, so I might be wrong.
Desert camel is actually a lot different, I think. It seems to me to be an excellent tech card IF the meta is filled with greedy decks containing zero 1 drops. It also differs a lot because it actually puts the card in play, meaning you're not losing that much tempo, and maybe even getting more tempo then a 3 drop should give you (injured kvaldir).
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TLDR: I get it that it filters your deck and draw is a very strong mechanic, trust me I do. I don't think the card is good enough, specifically because it is in the hunter class, that has no support for the play style the card wants to promote. You're better off playing a 5/5 stealth for five mana, as a hunter.
Desert Camel even with his downside is way better than this......if it was summoning the minions directly to the field it might be useful. As for Handbuff synergy.....Paladin can kind of make Handbuff work (with the right minions) still an up hill battle though..........Hunter doesn't have the support to make a really good handbuff deck (imho, tried it a bunch and was never able to make it extremely consistent).
Paladin has Small-Time Recruits and that doesn't see play. 1-drops past turn 4 are barely useful as they make little to no impact on the board and don't offer enough pressure to warrant immediate removal.......especially with a lot of the big bad minions we have already seen from this expansion. Unless hunter quest has to do with summoning a lot of minions (or a lot of little minions) i see this guy going largely unplayed........that's just my opinion though.
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Glacial Shard is not that bad with this one
This card might be better with any other class seriously Swashburglar good deal! Babbling Book good deal! Malchezaar's Imp good deal! tho you need imp earlier. Tunnel Trogg Good Deal! I hope it never come back there is still Dust Devil Tho an elemental it what makes it worth Selfless Hero Good Deal! especially to give divine shield to big drops you can use it on late turns Northshire Cleric Good Deal. Only classes which doesn't get value from this cards are Hunter,Druid and Warrior and they gave it to Hunter
Really Team 5 will you really turn Hunter into absolute trash class ? with all unplayable cards you are releasing ? Shaman dominated meta for an entire year yet gets full of love.
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PinocchioMalygos?"If aggro or a combo hunter wil be a think, this card will be in it.
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