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I have been messing around with Zola the Gorgon for a month and a half since I opened her in a pack, and I am very disappointed with the Hearthstone community for not taking advantage of the complexity of the card. 

Lets break down the power level:

Power/Toughness:  As a 2/2, this is the largest deterrent to playing Zola. She is not a strict tempo or aggressive creature, but this has little bearing on her usability because of the next field, mana cost.

Mana Cost: Three mana for a 2/2 is not the most absurd. Providing a body yet being cheap enough to use her ability for strong plays that lock down both card and field advantage. This card is fair to moderately cheap for the effects it warrants.  Mana cost is a pure advantage when considering this card.

Functionality: This is where the true comparisons begin. Consider for a moment the playable creatures that return another to your hand, all playable to chain battlecry triggers, but none LEAVE THE TARGET ON THE FIELD. The implications of this are the card's most ignored feature. This opens up avenues with cards such as Grumble Worldshaker where a player can go infinite with advantage, and keeping creatures are crucial to an evolve deck for example. I'm barely scratching the surface, but Zola is a BOMB with nearly ANY battlecry effect. 


Here is a list that I have been in the 80 percentile winrate for over a month with:

I've kept her as a 2 card combo with Lynessa Sunsorrow in several decks, really helps with people holding a silence against your legend drop.

Ok, crafted her day 1 for fun.  It's a great and well balanced card, but there are a lot of times it's just a dead card in my hand while I'm waiting for another card worth keeping to stick.  

The best deck she's worked in for me was a modified tempo rogue deck with the tasty shadow dancer legend lady.  They work well together.  Rogue deck has a lot of great combo/battlecry/deathrattle worth copying.  

I was thinking about Zola a lot last night too as I imagined some of the combo decks I might try during wildfest. It's very interesting that in wild you can easily get two ticks off of emperor thaurissan through the use of Zola or Prince Talderaam. Zola is definitely underappreciated for its utility.

I really want to craft her, but im waiting for the next expansion first; cause i want it to use it in a Quest Priest.. i think that would be insanem specially in wild with reno

I don't underrate her at all, I know what she's capable of and I actually run her in quite a few of my decks, I like her alot. :)

I actually use her with Yogg Saron if he lives, I know I'm messed up.

Very good card. Having nice combos with it in a wild decks. 

I just know that it's good in Quest Rogue (which is coming back as a top deck btw) so that makes it good.  :P 

I don't think anyone is saying shes bad. It really depends on the deck. Combo decks can benefit huge from having her. 

Dont tell anyone but in druid taunt decks she can create an extra taunt wall with the copy.

In quest rogue with Sonya you can create some insane sequences.

You can't pretty much double down on any high value minion or battlecry with her.

Any deck builder will support the use of this card in various decks and for good reason. It definitely is a high skill card to use effective in competitive decks, which, is probably the reason alot of players overlook her. Overlooked>underrated.