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So its two mana win the game, or two mana do nothing.

Quote from AznAriez >>

Don't like it. Depending on the deck, its battlecry is randomly win the game.

auto include in every warlock deck

Quote from codyischida >>

So its two mana win the game, or two mana do nothing.

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Quote from Aeris >>

Ridiculously overrated card. The effect isn't any worse than Deathlord or Dirty Rat, both of which weren't really "meta-definining". Playable maybe, but far from being broken.

 Dirty rat and deathlord have downsides. They potentially give your opponent game winning tempo. This new card however, does not have that downside at all. No risk involved.

Quote from Sundayman >>

auto include in every warlock deck

Personally I think this is one of the strongest cards ever printed. Even if it whiffs on removing one of your opponents key cards or win conditions it's still going to get rid of a card they specifically put into their deck in order to achieve that condition. Twice if running two. At 2 mana and a 2/3 body which can be played on tempo.

No need to have to use additional removal or trade as you might with Dirty Rat or Deathlord. The card is simply gone. Can remove not only minions but spells and weapons etc as well. Usually you try to mulligan for cards you can play in the first few turns, shuffling your bigger cards back into your deck. This played against you T2 or coin T1 is usually going to have a better chance of going after your later round cards.

I'm just not seeing a downside to this at 2 mana with a 2/3 body. At best it destroys your opponents win condition. At worst it destroys a card they put in their deck in order to get to achieve getting to their win condition. That's crazy good imo.

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Quote from CheeseEtc >>

I thought Blizzard had a "don't mess with your opponent's cards" policy ?

 If they had such a policy priest would not be able to stole your cards LUL 

Quote from yakuzajones >>

Personally I think this is one of the strongest cards ever printed. Even if it whiffs on removing one of your opponents key cards or win conditions it's still going to get rid of a card they specifically put into their deck in order to achieve that condition. Twice if running two. At 2 mana and a 2/3 body which can be played on tempo.

No need to have to use additional removal or trade as you might with Dirty Rat or Deathlord. The card is simply gone. Can remove not only minions but spells and weapons etc as well. Usually you try to mulligan for cards you can play in the first few turns, shuffling your bigger cards back into your deck. This played against you T2 or coin T1 is usually going to have a better chance of going after your later round cards.

I'm just not seeing a downside to this at 2 mana with a 2/3 body. At best it destroys your opponents win condition. At worst it destroys a card they put in their deck in order to get to achieve getting to their win condition. That's crazy good imo.

 

2 manas 2/3 and you have a chance to eliminate something vital in opponent strategy? Of course 2 of this go in any warlock deck forever except for Reno ones, if 2/2 or 1/3 the battlecry don't pay off the lose of status...

This card is almost arcanologist for warlocks.

People saying warlock don't go to fatigue never play any control warlock.

In Wild, brann + x2 this card and opponent is really in trouble in lategame.

Maybe warlock can make a mill deck much more reliable than rogue in Wild.

Quote from ThisOtherGuyTox >>

So basically a 2 mana do nothing?

Since Warlocks don't go for fatique, a card removed from the top of their deck is on average irrelevant. Sometimes you remove something strong, but usually you will remove something that they don't want to draw.

This only really hardcounters combo decks, and only if they have an reasonable amount of combo pieces.

A magic the gathering level card. Very strong indeed.

Mostly irrelevant unless the opponent goes into fatigue, which never happens against self-loathing Warlock.  That Tirion or Alexstrasza or Hero card was just as likely to be at the bottom of the deck and never drawn anyhow.

Assuming the card gets revealed, it even lets the opponent know which card they will never draw, allowing them to adjust their strategy accordingly.

One look at the discussion regarding the new card, Gnomish Vampire, suffices to see that there is still quite a lot of misunderstanding regarding the effect of burning the first a random card of a deck.

With a given randomly shuffled deck (Hearthstone's case, since there are no positional mechanics as of yet), i.e., on average:

Burning the TOP card of a deck == burning a RANDOM card of a deck == burning the LAST card of a deck !!

Hence, the effect of Gnomish Vampire, for instance, won't matter against a combo deck unless they consistently manage to draw their ENTIRE deck before it ends. In other words, it only matters if the combo deck reaches fatigue.

For those skeptical, here is a spreadsheet I've made detailing the situation: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16jdgjPfFQKbb7R21X8umdyd0HZ-KlNuxHCZAm93iMX4/edit?usp=sharing

If you burn a key combo piece, he can surrender.

Quote from definitelynotsalty >>

Mostly irrelevant unless the opponent goes into fatigue, which never happens against self-loathing Warlock.  That Tirion or Alexstrasza or Hero card was just as likely to be at the bottom of the deck and never drawn anyhow.

Assuming the card gets revealed, it even lets the opponent know which card they will never draw, allowing them to adjust their strategy accordingly.

With my luck, I should stop playing control and combo decks after this expansion

Quote from Nearthel >>

If you burn a key combo piece, he can surrender.

This is a REALLY good card... I don't like it (I don't like the idea of messing with your opponents cards... especially if I'm on the flip side)... but it is a good card.