This card is too clunky. It comes out turn 10 but 5 armor won't always save you. Drawing 5 cards is great, but 5 at once can sometimes over draw you. 5 damage will help you remove a decent threat, and a 5/5 is mostly trivial.
I look at all these awesome and potentially powerful Druid cards and get excited. Then I remember that Jade Druid will use them.....
I have good news for you. This is unlikely to be used by Jade Druid. As long as Gadgetzan Auctioneer is around this card is strictly worse in that deck. Gadgetzan Auctioneer is more flexible in that you can play it earlier as well as it can provide a board and more healing through Jade Idol and Earthen Scales. As the card is now its too slow for Jade Druid as any board presence on your opponent's part will cause immense pressure to your life total, so it would be hard to justify there. Where I think this card really shines is Quest Druid, because you can leverage the fact that your minions cost 0 to make up for the small board presence this generates.
Better than Sprint. Good enough to see play ? I hope not, draw 5 is absurd.
I usually love 10 drops, I love the name and I knew it would be a 10 drop when I read it, but this is even more boring than Kun the Forgotten King.
I think the value is to insane for it not to see play. Druid, with ramp is also one of the few place this CAN be played. I disagree with your sentiment though, this is very excited...for whomever is the druid and down right scary for who isn't. Just innervating this out on turn 8 with no other ramp is pretty damn bonkers.
Would you run two of these instead of two Gadgetzan Auctioneers in Jade Druid?
Serious question.
I don't see how you can run this INSTEAD of Auctioneers in Jade Druid, they create so much return on investment if you play with an innervate and some Idols. This card could be a useful tool in the deck to maybe replace a Nourish with for some late game power but using this by itself as a replacement for the Auctioneers won't bring you the tempo needed to flood the board with giant Golems in one turn.
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My Calc: Iron Hide =1 mana 5/5 stats vanilla = ~4.5 mana 1 card draw no body is 1.5 mana (1 half of an Arcane Intellect) times 5 = 7.5 mana 5 damage no other effect = 3.5 mana (Lava Burst is 5 technically but the value comes from being able to play it for 3, so its a bit less than Fireball)
Total value is ~16.5 mana, give or take.
Finally, a top deck that makes Astral Communion good. In standard, a Deathwing immediate removal is now less of a death sentence.
This card it's awful, it takes your whole turn in a lot of mediocre effects. When do you play this? when you need armour? Earthen scales it's a thousand times better in both jade and ramp also 5 armour barely does anything when you need to survive. When you need draw? Draw 5 cards and not have any mana to play them? your'e better with Nourish or the auctioneer. When you need board...? 10 mana for a 5/5 or maybe when you need 5 damage and you can put your whole turn into it??
10 mana cards are super akward to play, and all the immediate impact this card has it's really poor and mediocre. Compare this with a good turn of nzoth, or the 10 damage and the finisher of a card that can be a pyroblast in conjunction with an Ice block. If you draw this card early in the game it's gonna rot in your hand. Even if you play it in curve it's still a bad turn.
This shows how they didn't had any idea of what to do with Druid this expansion, It's no like it matter thou, Jades are still gonna be tier 1.
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What the bloody #*%$£& hell?!?
12 wins in ArenA with: Mage and Paladin, first time legend with Rogue
5 armor = 2 armor
*insert math lady meme* - DO YOU EVEN BRAIN, BRO?!
This card is too clunky. It comes out turn 10 but 5 armor won't always save you. Drawing 5 cards is great, but 5 at once can sometimes over draw you. 5 damage will help you remove a decent threat, and a 5/5 is mostly trivial.
holy shit thats a card !
Courage is not the absence of fear, Courage is the presence of faith.
A Bit Too Strok....
SORRY IM NOT ORIGINAL
Good Card tho
My Calc:
Iron Hide =1 mana
5/5 stats vanilla = ~4.5 mana
1 card draw no body is 1.5 mana (1 half of an Arcane Intellect) times 5 = 7.5 mana
5 damage no other effect = 3.5 mana (Lava Burst is 5 technically but the value comes from being able to play it for 3, so its a bit less than Fireball)
Total value is ~16.5 mana, give or take.
Finally, a top deck that makes Astral Communion good. In standard, a Deathwing immediate removal is now less of a death sentence.
Shield Block + Firelands Portal (with a slight upgrade, a 5/5 is better than a random 5 drop) + Sprint.
Yeah, let's do this.
Why does trump's reveal video has 600 dislikes and 300 likes? Am i missing something?
I can smell the value in arena!
All those effects in one card is insane... Awesome!
God of Arena
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The value is real. Strong arena card for sure, draw, kill something, develop the board, and heal?! broken. Questionable in constructed though
Druid and Fatigue as long Jade Idol is to words that dont belong in the same sentence
This card it's awful, it takes your whole turn in a lot of mediocre effects. When do you play this? when you need armour? Earthen scales it's a thousand times better in both jade and ramp also 5 armour barely does anything when you need to survive. When you need draw? Draw 5 cards and not have any mana to play them? your'e better with Nourish or the auctioneer. When you need board...? 10 mana for a 5/5 or maybe when you need 5 damage and you can put your whole turn into it??
10 mana cards are super akward to play, and all the immediate impact this card has it's really poor and mediocre. Compare this with a good turn of nzoth, or the 10 damage and the finisher of a card that can be a pyroblast in conjunction with an Ice block. If you draw this card early in the game it's gonna rot in your hand. Even if you play it in curve it's still a bad turn.
This shows how they didn't had any idea of what to do with Druid this expansion, It's no like it matter thou, Jades are still gonna be tier 1.