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Ooh ooh baby. Bring back Control Warrior! 

At first I thought this was total crap as a more expensive Justicar, but I didn't see the "start of game" part. Wow... Still unsure how useful this will be overall, but it seems really strong. Some cool decks will be spawned as a result of this.

Calling new Baku Facehunter meta

I am not sure, if it was mentioned or if it is really obvious: does this need to be in your opening hand or does this act like prince melchazar

Probably gonna try it in Shaman, Malygos OTK style, with additional and constant threat & support from neverending Totems of Air (or Stoneclaws when you really need that taunt!)

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I am not sure, if it was mentioned or if it is really obvious: does this need to be in your opening hand or does this act like prince melchazar

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Quote from 1xbenx1 >>

Here is an important part no one is mentioning:

Upgraded hero powers make missing your 2nd turn less painful. This is similar to how Keleseth fit best in rogue. When a HP on 2 is good enough, you can make those sacrifices for the long term improvement of your game.

 

 Well it's less painful but except the rogue one, none of the upgraded hero powers actually is worth 2 mana, and I doubt rogue will play it.

with the current cards the only class I see playign this card is warrior, and it's just cuase the justicar hero power of warrior is SO GOOD. (still worth less than 1 mana to gain 4 armor in warrior Iron Hide

This card will be meta defining. It very nearly already fits into a couple meta decks already. Top fits would be:

- Dude paladin (two 1/1's every turn might be better than Call to Arms)

- Spell Hunter (HP upgrade while still having access to most of your burn and impactful spells)

Pays for itself in Warrior, Warlock, and possibly Paladin.

Self-synergy is really cool here - you can't run 2 drops, but then, that's fine as you can hero power on turn 2.  An upgraded hero power on t2 is pretty decent and for the right classes the effects are often almost worth a whole card at that point in the game.

A shame that actually drawing this is almost a complete brick except in really grindy match

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Really bad. There is not a class that can run only odd-cost cards, lol.

Aggro Hunter gets pretty close.

Any kind of control deck I think would hurt way too much from the loss of even cards.. but a hyper aggressive hunter deck with only 1 and 3 drops could work.. throw in leeroy.. it depends on the rest of the meta.. but a deck without healing is going to have a hard time dealing with that 3 damage a turn

Quote from konawolv >>

This card will be meta defining. It very nearly already fits into a couple meta decks already. Top fits would be:

- Dude paladin (two 1/1's every turn might be better than Call to Arms)

- Spell Hunter (HP upgrade while still having access to most of your burn and impactful spells)

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Any kind of control deck I think would hurt way too much from the loss of even cards.. but a hyper aggressive hunter deck with only 1 and 3 drops could work.. throw in leeroy.. it depends on the rest of the meta.. but a deck without healing is going to have a hard time dealing with that 3 damage a turn

Something to consider - these legendaries will create whole new archetypes. 

This needs some way to reduce its cost or cheat out the effect before you have 9 mana, otherwise it most likely will not see play.

Maybe we get some card that says, "When this is in your hand, gain the battlecry of a random battlecry minion in your deck" that is low cost that could justify playing Baku. 

Quote from Kaladin >>

This needs some way to reduce its cost or cheat out the effect before you have 9 mana, otherwise it most likely will not see play.

Maybe we get some card that says, "When this is in your hand, gain the battlecry of a random battlecry minion in your deck" that is low cost that could justify playing Baku. 

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Quote from Kaladin >>

This needs some way to reduce its cost or cheat out the effect before you have 9 mana, otherwise it most likely will not see play.

Maybe we get some card that says, "When this is in your hand, gain the battlecry of a random battlecry minion in your deck" that is low cost that could justify playing Baku. 

 Someone didn't read the card... It triggers at the start of the game.

 

I hope this will make control warrior a thing again, I loved that deck.