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If auctioneer+ unstable evolution didnt see play, this won't either. Sure it has better stats, but you won't really draw much with this the turn you play it, and on t10 the 4/8 stat is not that hard to remove.

I hope Fen Creeper, Bog Creeper, Moat Lurker, and Loatheb get the Elemental tribe. It already bugged me how Ixlid has it while the others don't (yeah, I know Blizzard handwaved that by saying he's actually a mossy Earth Elemental, but that's dumb and you're dumb and your face is dumb).

Seems like a really powerful card "infinite" draw engines have  proven to be very powerful, shaman has a lot of cheap spells and a lot of spell generators were added this expansion..

dunno if it will see play but it has potential.

mmmmmm......Maybe, it does have 8 health.

That being said, Loatheb, Fen Creeper and Bog Creeper aren't elementals, so why is this one an elemental?

An elemental deck works pretty well against aggro. 

Wax Elemental, Tar Creeper, Hot Spring Guardian, Stone Sentinel, and Tol'vir Stoneshaper should keep you alive unless you get an extremely bad opening hand and somehow miss all your taunts.

Also Fire Plume Harbinger can reduce Bogshaper's mana cost.

We still need those great shaman spells we were promised, but it looks like this'll be part of a real deck, at least a tear 2 one

I think it is really good cause Shaman need card draw.

Why do they create odd or even and then do not give any synergy to the classes? Hagatha should have more support.

Seems slow. What makes Auctioneer so good is that you can draw into cards that can draw you more cards whereas this only draws minions and doesn't add fuel to the fire 

Shaman has lack of card draw (Mana tide totem sucks as the meta goes fast) and this card is the only hope for the shaman to have his cards drawn. Bad damage but has good health for being a 7-cost minion, this is also a good combination with Hagatha.

Let's say your hero power gives you low-cost spells and you don't like it, you can use it with Bogshaper and get a minion instead of another spell (Now you see... totemic might is actually a good card now). This card is totally not meta-defining, but it's the only great card draw engine for shaman!

Quote from WillsGT >>

Seems slow. What makes Auctioneer so good is that you can draw into cards that can draw you more cards whereas this only draws minions and doesn't add fuel to the fire 

In Dreamland: "this card seems pretty good"; now let's get back to realistic-land: This is a 7 mana 4/8 that does NOTHING on it's own. Every minion after 6 mana needs to have an immediate impact on the board. 7 is far too slow, even compared to the nerfed auctioneer that is still far better than this card.

This card is ANTI-TEMPO. And in Hearthstone Tempo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Value

If you survive playing this minion on turn 7 or with 1-2 spells at 8/9, then you might have won the game already. But a 4/8 without taunt, that has no impact on the board will NEVER work out on it's own. So if shaman does NOT get a

RECRUIT AN ELEMENTAL

card, forget this minion.

Quote from SavageSoul1 >>

in a miracle deck you are cycling for a win condition.
The stats on the card matter less in that situation than both the cards you can draw and the next turns you can set up.

I don't think this will see play at all, shaman does not have the win condition for it.

Obviously comboes nicely with the new hero card but since in this case it's turn 10+, you are already halfway through your deck and may fatigue yourself. It also doesn't affect the board the turn it's played and usually such cards see fringe play at best nowadays. In this case the card is similar to Ysera but worse as a value engine.

And Elemental tag is not consistent with Moat Lurker, Fen Creeper and Bog Creeper. I wonder if they will update them now.

I am unconvinced.

Auctioneer is self-fuelling in that the deck is often very spell based. This card is jarring. You’re getting minions for spells. I don’t know how efficient it is going to be unless you can get it to survive for a while.

Im going to sit on the fence for now.

Wow shaman card draw our prayers have been answered. But damn thats an expensive booty.

Can work nicely with unstable evolution tho

Ya I think the Gadgetzan Auctioneer comparison is the right way to think about this card. This is primarily a card generation tool for one more mana and 4 more health. Hagatha the Witch decks will tend to be minion heavy and this, after her... or before... will be a card generation machine. The only differences are the mana/health difference AND Miracle Rogue tends to be midrange so this card might not work in the developing Shaman archetype which seems to be control centred. 

While I have high hopes for this possible Hagatha elemental deck that is starting to surface, shaman needs some important pieces.  Mainly, an early board clear that isn't lightning storm and a strong 2 drop that doesn't require an even deck build.  It has strong mid-game but lacks early iniative and board swing capability.  The latter was a more subtle key element of the powerhouse that was midrange shaman pre-MSoG.  I'm not saying it should be dominant but just good enough in those areas to be good.

Quote from tictactucroc >>

Huh ? Shaman card draw, why are people not liking this card ? You have been bitching about card draw since forever.

This is auto include in Hagatha deck. Turns all your cheap useless spells into card draw. 

Now I wonder what I'm supposed to do with Stone Sentinel though ? 

if they give shaman insane boardclear or something like that, shaman could make a comeback!