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I love this card, and I'm gonna craft just for the memes because it will be so fun to pull it off BUT that doesn't mean I think the card is good. It is way too slow for the meta and the first like 3-4 seals are leaving warlock in a huge disadvantage. 5 mana 2/2, 3/3, 4/4. Not good enough to keep up against aggro decks. That said, Warlock does have a shit ton of spells to clear the board and DK will help with the health BUT there is another problem. 6 5 mana spells take 3 turns at least. If you decided to play Rin on turn 6 and start turn 7 then you can only afford one seal a turn till the 5th one. By the time you get this Azari guy the opponenet probably had >10 cards i his deck making it practically useless to play him.
Rip, I was really hoping this was a good card but I doubt it.
You certainly make a point with Jade Behemoth not being a comparison, but what you call a 5/8 for 6 is wrong. That's because behemoth isn't a 5/8 for 6, it's a 3/6 and a 2/2 for 6. The difference here is that the latter is much weaker to AoE spells and will die to things such as Shadow Word: Pain or the like. The 2/2 generally doesn't make much of a difference, which I did mention before, it's the main chunk that is the 3/6 with taunt that does the work (given it's played on-curve on turn 6). Also, the bigger the statline, the less influence one or two points have. On a 2 drop, being a 3/2 or a 2/2 makes all the difference when trading into f.e. a Radiant Elemental. Being a 6 mana 3/6 or a 6 mana 4/7 doesn't make a difference when you're trading into a 5/6 for example.
Sure, a 3/6 with taunt for 6 mana is very bad mana-wise, and I suppose wording it as a "very strong" might have been a bit of a mistake on my part, but that doesn't take away the fact a 3/6 with taunt is still a pretty good alternative to simply casting Siphon Soul on maybe a 2/3 Prince Keleseth'ed Fire Fly. Additionally, we have the scenario that say keleseth was Shadowstepped once or twice and the minions exceed the 3 health value, an Abyssal Enforcer on turn 7 would generally clean up all of these minions that were forced to trade into Rin, the First Disciple and the 2/2 golem from say a Jade Behemoth would've probably hit the enemy face and then died to the AoE of abyssal anyway.
Edit: You also mention the seals as even worse tempo plays than rin himself, but remember that rin's deathrattle in no way affects your card draw or anything of the like. You're not forced to play the seals, they're a side-effect stuck on rin's 3/6 taunt body, you can still use your hero power and sling cards like you're used to. Against control you generally end up not spending a big chunk of mana on several turns and investing this into seals can be good, while against aggro you simply use rin as a taunt alternative to Siphon Soul to improve your chances of winning ever-so-slightly.
That's Incredible!
I'm looking forward to the neutral legendary reveal: "Battlecry: Fill your opponent's hand with copies of Millhouse Manastorm".
Anger is the punishment we give ourselves for someone else's mistake.
Seems like a much less efficient version of Jades. I don't see how taking up most of your mana on five turns playing vanilla minions is going to keep you alive long enough to get to the payoff. Maybe the format slows down enough that this is viable, but just from a numbers perspective it seems incredibly unlikely. Even if you get to destroy your opponent's deck it's no lock that you win the game. They could still defeat you if they control the board and have enough gas in hand to finish you off.
I honestly don't see a world where this even goes off in an actual game the more I think about it.
Assuming you play it on curve, you've both drawn 6 cards already, so roughly 20 cards left each. Then it has to die, another turn or 2...18....then you have to spend 5 more turns playing objectively bad turns 13 left, then you could possibly play it with 12ish cards left you your opponent on turn 13-14 at the soonest.
I don't know what game the rest of you are playing, but on turn 8-14 people are making exceptionally strong tempo plays (I mean are you playing a 2/2 into a lich king or are you siphon souling it?), have already won the game, or have likely conceded. I don't see a hearthstone world where you have the luxury of playing playing a 5 mana 2/2, 3/3, 4/4/ 5/5 or 6/6 period during these turns.
You're going to take 5 dmg to bloodbloom out a 2/2?
The thing about this card is that Rin herself isn't unplayable. 6 mana for a 3/6 taunt is decent, whatever. You aren't going to lose the game for playing that.
But people keep saying "OK, next turn you play the first seal, then next turn you play the second seal, then..."
No. You would immediately lose the game due to massive tempo loss if you do that. Instead, she sets you up for a longer control game. You play the seals as they become available to play, over a multitude of turns.
Against an aggro deck you will likely play Rin for the taunt, but you will NEVER play the first seal. Unless you're already winning...
I believe this card will definitely be played in Control warlock and will sometimes do "the big thing". The seals are always playable when the common "draw go" happens in a control game. The taunt is always useful in an aggro game. This card should be ranked Playable.
you guys keep judging this card by itself "Oh a 3/6 for 6 taunt is bad." "the seals are bad tempo plays" "it takes too many turns"
This will be put into a DECK where the time to play the 'low-tempo' cards will come naturally or they just won't be played. (depending on what the deck is facing) The deck will be a control/fatigue deck with lots of the control cards like Dreadlord and Defile and Golakka Crawler if Pirates are still trouble.
This will be a keleseth-type win condition card where if you draw it in time, it makes the odds of winning much higher, but the deck itself can win without the card.
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It just seems waaaaaayyyy too slow.
Thinking it may work in something like:
That's 3 cards which we can use life for instead of mana, but it does push the Warlock WAAAAY to low on life to do so. I think the deck may actually need more healing.
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Main thing is, you're not always going to get the whole thing off, but the effect is still valuable even if you don't necessarily finish it. Getting a 3/6 taunt against any type of aggro in a control deck that just wants to stall until you can make big plays doesn't mind playing an understated taunt necessarily, especially if it lets you scale up to something which will just end almost any control match up. A 2/2 for 5 is actually better than some of the plays control warlock makes now.
I think it's really similar to the Paladin Death Knight which maybe doesn't bode well for it, but it's a little more versatile because the initial effect is so much cheaper.
Even the threat of 'if you don't apply enough pressure to me, I'll just cycle my seals and destroy your deck' can force certain slower decks like Quest mage to make weird plays just to try and rush.
Playable as fun card. No chance for it to see play in competitive ranked - it would be weird if it could with such strong effect.