Firelands Portal is a very good card for 7 mana. This let's you draw FIVE and gain 5 armor for just 3 more mana. With how well Druid can ramp with Wild Growth, Innervate, etc, this is sure to see play. This card is pretty insane.
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.
The problem with Quest Druid is that it couldn't use the extra mana it got for much and the 0 mana minions you had weren't as impactful, with this that is clearly no longer the case. Traditional Ramp Druid and Jade Druid probably don't want this card because of the very low board impact. Excellent way to design a new card as far as I am concerned.
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.
I mean unless you are absolutely saving your Gadgetzans until you can go infinite with Jade Idols (which is probably a big mistake most of the time), I think this card provides more value.
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Usually I would agree but the fundamental problem with Quest druid it's that it forces you to put bad cards in your deck that don't work well with the big high value minions that your'e suposed to have. For example the Elder Longneck , Shellshifter
I think big druid shows us how a good ramp no combo druid should work, and having this kind of cards doesn't really fit in that deck.
Love this card, I always wanted to play Cruel Ultimatum in Hearthstone.
I thought we were supposed to get some anti jade stuff, not a Jesus spell that fits directly into Jade :(
I hope it make a little push for Quest Druid to at least reaches Big Druid levels of playability.
Should sooooo have costed 5 mana.
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Firelands Portal is a very good card for 7 mana. This let's you draw FIVE and gain 5 armor for just 3 more mana. With how well Druid can ramp with Wild Growth, Innervate, etc, this is sure to see play. This card is pretty insane.
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WOW!!! And you can use duplicates in deck!!!
When druid hire Kazakus?
Yogg buff but don't play so close to fatigue...
This is the type of value card Druid has been missing for quite some time auto include in every control Druid deck
Usually I would agree but the fundamental problem with Quest druid it's that it forces you to put bad cards in your deck that don't work well with the big high value minions that your'e suposed to have. For example the Elder Longneck , Shellshifter
I think big druid shows us how a good ramp no combo druid should work, and having this kind of cards doesn't really fit in that deck.
nice buff for yogg , anyws good card