It would have been better as a 2-drop. a 2 mana 2/2 that gains +2/+2 on destroying a minion. Because then I could have cut my Darkshire Librarian. Currently no 1-drop is worth cutting because they serve as a target for this card - Fire Fly, Possessed Villager, Voidwalker and Flame Imp, Malchezaar's Imp are not worth killing but they are too good to be removed from deck. Maybe I still would have to cut the Librarian and play many 1-drops! or maybe Fire Fly has to go.
People seems lack of understanding potential of this card it is fkn 4 mana 8/8 yeah you use two cards but it also have two different body probably they will release another egg card + This leaves a fkn big body for at early turns. This card is fkn OP
Don't forget Warlock's hero power so throwing around some cards is not very hard.
While it is true that the best case scenario is very good, the most important scenario is the average one. Zoo needs board. To get the board, zoo needs to play stuff early. And a 0/3 for 3 mana with a very good deathrattle turned out to be too slow in the present meta. Sure, playing egg and this on turn 4 is a very good swing, but you need to be able to play Sanguine Reveler without the egg and the egg without him to make the cards viable. Eating anything else than an egg decreases the stat win for Sanguine Reveler (you kill a 1/1 and get +2/+2). And playing him early on an empty board is bad, as is eating your 2 drop.
I see the potential, but if decks like Aggro Druid, murloc paladin and token Shaman (strong and board centric early game) are staying in the meta, I think this card is not the one that brings back zoo. And it needs more egg like minions.
Warlock already has a strong deathrattle activator to be fair and I wonder if people are purposely ignoring abusive sargent in that regard as well? This could be good assuming we see more cards you want to eat, as is I can't say I am impressed. If you eat the villager you are really only getting a 2/2 for 1 mana since you are losing a 1/1 body.
I won't write off a 1 mana 3/3 as bad, but if you are paying any stats to get it besides an egg, this is worse than it looks. Maybe you run runic egg now as well?
2/2 bonus isn't worth the loss of card value, even as warlock, plus the 3/3 is still really easy to kill
lots of cards give warlocks 1/1s, this is very much worth it. Vicious Fledgling was borderline constructed playable (maybe would have been playable if warlocks in general were more powerful during ungoro), but this is an extremely cheap version of that without any of the inconsistencies.
This game doesn't need more powerful 1 drops though, so as cool as this card is i kinda wish it didn't exist lol
I don't see a reason to why you wouldn't play this in zoolock. Great egg destroyer and zoolock always has disposable minions. Gonna vote "very good". (but tbh I'm just glad it's not another discolock synergy card)
Ok, since people don't seem familar with Zoo all that much or don't seem to understand why this card isn't all that good.:
You already have more than enough 1-drops, which are better. Seriously, what would you cut for it?
Terrible opening play -> It will dilute your chance to get a 1 drop for turn 1.
It clunks up your hand, since it's wasted to play without target. Creating the correct board state where this yields advantage is situational.
Apart from Possessed Villager and Devilsaur Egg it lacks any decent targets. Even the former requires you to play another card first.
Even if you only sacrifice 1/1 or tokens, it basically get's +2/+2 but also destroys a 1/1, so you only get a net advantage of +1/+1 with the effect. That means 2 stat points.
Abusive Sergeant basically does the same, except instantly and with a better trade-potential distribution. Using that 1/1 token to trade with a <3 health minion is vastly superior to just having a 3/3 that probably dies to that card the next turn, except you give your opponent the initiative.
It's basically a win-more card. It does nothing if you are behind. Plays into 3).
It's not a demon. That might not always play a role, but demon-zoo is already the best Zoo deck at the moment and with a few more cards can easily become meta-viable.
A synergistic 2 or 3 drop (preferably Demon) is what Warlock truly needs, not another 1-drop. Now don't get me wrong, the card isn't terrible, but -as of now- is not all that good. Maybe that will change with better targets or token generators, but as it stands, it's sub-par.
Sorry but unless it eats an Egg, it is a bad card. It is bad as a 1 drop and you will not always eat an egg or a 1/1, consider that. It is too situational card, no place for it in zoo, unless they print some other strong deathrattle minion/egg.
People seems lack of understanding potential of this card it is fkn 4 mana 8/8 yeah you use two cards but it also have two different body probably they will release another egg card + This leaves a fkn big body for at early turns. This card is fkn OP
Don't forget Warlock's hero power so throwing around some cards is not very hard.
While it is true that the best case scenario is very good, the most important scenario is the average one. Zoo needs board. To get the board, zoo needs to play stuff early. And a 0/3 for 3 mana with a very good deathrattle turned out to be too slow in the present meta. Sure, playing egg and this on turn 4 is a very good swing, but you need to be able to play Sanguine Reveler without the egg and the egg without him to make the cards viable. Eating anything else than an egg decreases the stat win for Sanguine Reveler (you kill a 1/1 and get +2/+2). And playing him early on an empty board is bad, as is eating your 2 drop.
I see the potential, but if decks like Aggro Druid, murloc paladin and token Shaman (strong and board centric early game) are staying in the meta, I think this card is not the one that brings back zoo. And it needs more egg like minions.
This card has Nerubian Eggs as a target as well and the Egg can be killed by Pterrordaxes, Doges, DoAs, Void Terrors, POs etc etc. With that many activators this card won't make a huge difference but it's viable for sure.
I think this card is good, it doubles down on the Ravenous Pterodactyl tactics making playing sacrifice token and eggs more consistent. The dream is egg + this card on turn 4 to put a 5/5 and a 3/3 on the board.
Still not sure if the deck will be viable as it relies on cards that are only good in combination. But hoping non-discard zoo will be viable.
People seems lack of understanding potential of this card it is fkn 4 mana 8/8 yeah you use two cards but it also have two different body probably they will release another egg card + This leaves a fkn big body for at early turns. This card is fkn OP
Don't forget Warlock's hero power so throwing around some cards is not very hard.
While it is true that the best case scenario is very good, the most important scenario is the average one. Zoo needs board. To get the board, zoo needs to play stuff early. And a 0/3 for 3 mana with a very good deathrattle turned out to be too slow in the present meta. Sure, playing egg and this on turn 4 is a very good swing, but you need to be able to play Sanguine Reveler without the egg and the egg without him to make the cards viable. Eating anything else than an egg decreases the stat win for Sanguine Reveler (you kill a 1/1 and get +2/+2). And playing him early on an empty board is bad, as is eating your 2 drop.
I see the potential, but if decks like Aggro Druid, murloc paladin and token Shaman (strong and board centric early game) are staying in the meta, I think this card is not the one that brings back zoo. And it needs more egg like minions.
This card has Nerubian Eggs as a target as well and the Egg can be killed by Pterrordaxes, Doges, DoAs, Void Terrors, POs etc etc. With that many activators this card won't make a huge difference but it's viable for sure.
As I stated in my first post, I think it is playable in Wild, although I still consider it as not a very good card. Obviously, I was talking about Standard, hence the reference to the present meta and the board centric decks you are meeting very often. And in Standard I presently don't see Sanguine Reveler working.
Weak card due to the low impact pay-off. A 3/3 is not scaring anyone past the first couple of turns, which is the part of the game you won't be able to turn this into a 3/3. It could be useful as a Deathrattle proc but that's in the wait and see category.
It would have been better as a 2-drop. a 2 mana 2/2 that gains +2/+2 on destroying a minion. Because then I could have cut my Darkshire Librarian. Currently no 1-drop is worth cutting because they serve as a target for this card - Fire Fly, Possessed Villager, Voidwalker and Flame Imp, Malchezaar's Imp are not worth killing but they are too good to be removed from deck. Maybe I still would have to cut the Librarian and play many 1-drops! or maybe Fire Fly has to go.
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This is a PRETTY good deathrattle activator, im kinda scared tbh.
It's a good deathrattle activator, but warlock needs actual spells and minions (preferably demons).
Warlock already has a strong deathrattle activator to be fair and I wonder if people are purposely ignoring abusive sargent in that regard as well? This could be good assuming we see more cards you want to eat, as is I can't say I am impressed. If you eat the villager you are really only getting a 2/2 for 1 mana since you are losing a 1/1 body.
I won't write off a 1 mana 3/3 as bad, but if you are paying any stats to get it besides an egg, this is worse than it looks. Maybe you run runic egg now as well?
As soon they reveal more egg type of minions, we will see tons of them.
A synergistic 2 or 3 drop (preferably Demon) is what Warlock truly needs, not another 1-drop. Now don't get me wrong, the card isn't terrible, but -as of now- is not all that good. Maybe that will change with better targets or token generators, but as it stands, it's sub-par.
Sorry but unless it eats an Egg, it is a bad card. It is bad as a 1 drop and you will not always eat an egg or a 1/1, consider that. It is too situational card, no place for it in zoo, unless they print some other strong deathrattle minion/egg.
Finally, a card that has no word discard in its text.
Not a bad card, might become really good if we get more token generators and egg-like minions.
I think this card is good, it doubles down on the Ravenous Pterodactyl tactics making playing sacrifice token and eggs more consistent. The dream is egg + this card on turn 4 to put a 5/5 and a 3/3 on the board.
Still not sure if the deck will be viable as it relies on cards that are only good in combination. But hoping non-discard zoo will be viable.
Weak card due to the low impact pay-off. A 3/3 is not scaring anyone past the first couple of turns, which is the part of the game you won't be able to turn this into a 3/3. It could be useful as a Deathrattle proc but that's in the wait and see category.
In Standard this is one puzzlepiece for zoo. But it aint enough to make it work so far. Lets see the rest of the set first ;)
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This could be kinda good in an egg type deck or with deathrattles so it definitely has the potential to be decent.
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very good zoo card