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To all the people saying this would be good in mill rogue, If you mill one of the candles off your opponent, they never get the draw a card effect, which is the same as extending their deck size by 1. Also, the 20/20 will never summon. I think this has good synergy with Valera the hollow though, as your opponent has 6 candles and only needs to draw 3 for your 20/20s to activate.

Remember your talking about at least turn 10 to play the darkness in that case because you need Valera and the passive hero power to duplicate the card. After you have not played any card but Valera the turn before, you will play 8 mana for cards that wont do anything. You better have board control to play it. If not your opponent has at least three turns to go face if the candles come out one after another, but that likely wont happen. Its more likely they will have 4 or more turns and you have sacrificed tempo.

Faceless shambler

nuff said

what the heck? can i just silence it and smash face? or faceless shambler?

This plus windfury and murmur in an elemental control deck. Meme OTK time! Throw in devolve to wreck any taunts. Unfortunately the opponent gets a chance to counter it because it activates on their turn. I wonder if it can attack on your turn if you activate it with coldlight though..

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 Then why is mill rogue top tier in wild?

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No one has mentioned it that I've seen yet so let me bring this possibility to light. This card in a priest deck... They have a 0 mana silence... turn 4 20-20.

Don't do that! Believe me it's better that way!

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Anyone freaking out about this card killing "Reno" is being silly. Blocking Kazakus doesn't really matter. Blocking Raza is far more important. Because this and Raza are both 1-ofs, it's basically a 50% chance in every game of who will draw each card first. Are you going to spend 50% of your games drawing a completely dead card? Dirty Rat is way more effective and versatile (drew out and killed Velen the other day ftw - also, aggro). And then actually playing this card for the 20/20 effect is laughable. Your opponent will out-tempo you and attack face. Now, if it works in a mill deck that would be hilarious and great. I enjoy mill decks. But they're never top tier.

 Then why is mill rogue top tier in wild?

The number of people saying silence it or taunt it is amazing. Rank 25 forum.

Could you imagine this and the ancient one in the same game

I found interesting description, dunno if it is there yet, dont want t oscroll through 21 pages so:

EDIT: As I see this so much, no, the card cannot be silenced since it's not a minion until it's awaken, similar to Sherazin, Corpse Flower. And yes, the card will have summoning sickness the turn the minion is awaken. Yes, this is a nerf to evolve (unless u/mdonais tells us this is out of the evolve pool or something) and a buff to devolve.

EDIT2: Thanks u/deviouskat89 for this: If you recruit it then it is dormant, so it cannot attack until 3 candles are drawn. Also there are no candles if you recruit it so it is a bad card to put into a recruit deck. It is strong with Bran because you get 6 candles and need to draw 3 of them to activate. -Mike Donais

EDIT3: Another thing I've seen questioned here: Yes, the candles will mill if your opponent would mill the drawn card. So, if your opponent has 10 cards, and they draw a candle, The Darkness will be rendered useless unless you somehow add more candles to your opponents deck.

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So far, 43.2% of 1267 voters suspect that spending a card and 4-mana to do nothing is meta-defining.

Apart from aggro, virtually every other deck in the game runs multiple answers to individual big threats, or they run board clears. The Darkness is kind of like a 4-mana 20/20 with "Battlecry: Freeze this minion for 10+ turns" - except you can't Silence it, Taunt it, or do anything else with the body. If you manage to survive long enough for this to activate, it gets answered before it attacks. As far as using this to prevent Raza from triggering - about half the time, the Priest plays Raza before you stick a bunch of candles in their deck.

 The reason most people voted meta defining is that you have a card that 100% of the time fucks over razakus when played on curve.

The rest does not really matter.

against raza prist? I think it will be fine against the druid jedi with 10.

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Hello Darkness my old friend. I've come to talk with you again...

This + Simulacrum

This will be a new meme people will draw 3 candles at turn 5 and hello darkness my old friend will play in our heads.

A huge and well deserved kick to the crotch for Razakus Priest.

Ayy yo I’m getting ganked by Nocturne

Rip if no one plays lol

I personally see this card as a hard counter to exodus mages and a support card for any kind of control deck. You're playing the long game anyways it's just a ticking bomb for your opponent to deal with.

But ya exodus usually burns through their deck and giving your opponent 20/20 when you trying to stay alive is incredibly counter intuitive. I'm glad there's a new punish in the form of this card, we needed more than a lucky dirty rat or the mage milling themself due to miss play.

One thing no one can argue is that this card has more flavour and awesome artwork than the rest of the expansion combined. GG to the artist and creator!