Also against face decks. Try playing this against murlocs or pirates, you are dead before your next turn. Overall this card is bad because unlike his cousin Fel Reaver this card can easily kill you if your opponent is smart with his damage. 3 pings and you lost almost 10 health.
lol this card is far from bad, it's borderline broken. Do you think an aggro player cares about its health? If control doesnt hit this 6+ times, which it can't since there will be more minions on the board and more will be played at turn 6, this card alone will end the game.
And it doesn't concern you that these examples all need 4 cards to deal with 1? It's exactly like with Fel Reaver where people spam cards to mill the opponent just to realize that suddenly they are dead to the aggro board.
I was talking about counterplays punishing the trait of this card. Another option is to just use 1-for-1 removal ofc.
You don't punish the card if you're using 3 cards on it just to deal 9 damage to your opponents face. That's such a humungous loss for tempo AND value that unless you're actually killing your opponent with that 9 damage you probably just lost yourself the game. If I'm playing this I want people to try and game the mechanic and 'punish' me because it usually means they're making stupid plays, same thing always happened with Fel Reaver.
This is almost a better version of flamewreathed faceless. Will see play for sure in agressive decks. maybe even in druid, Menagerie warden doesnt look to shaby on this on curve.
I think anyone playing this card in aggro is in for despair. This isn't like Fel Reaver where you can ignore cards being burnt in exchange for face damage. This guy will literally kill you if your opponent can deal small incremental damage to it. Backstab, shiv, si, prep evis. You just took 12 damage! Insanely bad card. Especially if zoo is on the ladder. They might kill you outright if you play this! Control warrior will ignore it while you are forced to deal three damage to yourself hitting their taunts, on top of their taunts hitting you as well!
This is the sleeper card of this set, this will without a doubt be the most played and talked about minion of this set. New dr boom if you were to ask me, such a powerful card indeed. Let's pray to the gods that i draw 2 of these in golden in my packs. I cannot believe that there's not more talk about this one.
Lol you are in for a world of sadness my friend. I doubt Flamewreathed will even see any play after Trogg leaves. Dr. Boom had no draw backs. This guy does, you will die in one turn if you drop a Hydra against the wrong opponent. Imagine you are playing aggro righand you are playing against zoo or murloc shaman. They trade their full board into this guy, you take anywhere between 9 and 21 damage on turn 5, you also no longer have a minion on board and they just play some more small minions.GG
I think this has soo much potential, give it in a aggro deck and yea its really high damage face, but the thing that is exciting is that its pure stats alone are so amazing it could be run as a tech card in control decks, sure you sometimes lose to bouncing blades XD but if they have bouncing blades then they are gonna drop to rank 26 eventually. Big usable body to taunt, play out in the late game along with removal, relatively early way to pressure opponent. This card is definitely really strong just that it depends on how the game is going, even a 5 mana 8/8 is not good tempo wise because no immediate effect on board unlike for example, doomguard. Overall solid card design on a slightly overstated minion that can work on both control and aggro decks as a 1 of
Volcano
It depends, you only need to hit this guy 3 times a turn to outrace him. The dream would be something like:
Flamewaker+Arcane Missiles+The Coin+Frostbolt or
Wild Pyromancer+Circle of Healing+Circle of Healing+Shadow Word: Death
Then there is adapt+divine shield or poisenous.
Lost in the Jungle deal 6 to face if you run it into this guy.
Not to mention taunts, especially ones like Tol'vir Stoneshaper you can hide your little guys like Glacial Shard behind, to hit him next turn.
There is counterplay, worse than Fel Reaver imo.
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That's incredible!
Bittertide Hydra + Tundra Rhino
If we are in a control meta, aggro will play this...if we are in an aggro meta, they will not.
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You don't punish the card if you're using 3 cards on it just to deal 9 damage to your opponents face. That's such a humungous loss for tempo AND value that unless you're actually killing your opponent with that 9 damage you probably just lost yourself the game. If I'm playing this I want people to try and game the mechanic and 'punish' me because it usually means they're making stupid plays, same thing always happened with Fel Reaver.
This is almost a better version of flamewreathed faceless. Will see play for sure in agressive decks. maybe even in druid, Menagerie warden doesnt look to shaby on this on curve.
This is the most overrated card of the set by far.
Would you play it if it read 5 mana 8/8 deal 9 damage to your hero?
It's a very good card, but you can never play this in an aggro mirror unless you're ahead.
A win more card.
I think anyone playing this card in aggro is in for despair. This isn't like Fel Reaver where you can ignore cards being burnt in exchange for face damage. This guy will literally kill you if your opponent can deal small incremental damage to it. Backstab, shiv, si, prep evis. You just took 12 damage! Insanely bad card. Especially if zoo is on the ladder. They might kill you outright if you play this! Control warrior will ignore it while you are forced to deal three damage to yourself hitting their taunts, on top of their taunts hitting you as well!
I think this has soo much potential, give it in a aggro deck and yea its really high damage face, but the thing that is exciting is that its pure stats alone are so amazing it could be run as a tech card in control decks, sure you sometimes lose to bouncing blades XD but if they have bouncing blades then they are gonna drop to rank 26 eventually. Big usable body to taunt, play out in the late game along with removal, relatively early way to pressure opponent. This card is definitely really strong just that it depends on how the game is going, even a 5 mana 8/8 is not good tempo wise because no immediate effect on board unlike for example, doomguard. Overall solid card design on a slightly overstated minion that can work on both control and aggro decks as a 1 of
WALOCK ONLY MAIN
FOR THE WIN MOTHER FAKAS
Dis gits da guds
I got it from Tortollan Forager and was like "Well, I'll never be able to play this piece of crap this game"
Played it on turn 5 anyway, drew Menagerie Warden on turn 6, won the game... Not as bad as I thought!
EDIT: sorry, it was turn 4 and 5, played a Wild Growth on turn 2 and two tortollans on turn 3.