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I actually laughed when i saw this one , wtf ..

Assassinate that can't bypass taunt, with a body that almost will never survive. Meh, hunter did not need this and has better removal tools in general. Still waiting for hunter card draw..

Honestly, this has to be high cost, otherwise it would be huge for DK Rexxar. The poisonous means the attack doesn't matter, and already, with Stegodon, it would make a 9 mana 3/9 Poisonous Rush Taunt. Just realised it would be in pool 2, so no Stegodon. It could be used with Exploding Bloatbat as a 9 mana board clear, or Cave Hydra as a 3 minion removal, or Witchwood Grizzly in the same vein as Stegodon. In wild it would work well with Dispatch Kodo and Fiery Bat, serving as a remove 2 minions for 9 with Kodo, or 1 + potentially 1 random with with Bat. Gives more options for a Dreadscale poisonous combo as well.

On it's own merits... It's not a good card. Could see play if comboing with Bestial Wrath becomes a thing, but I really really doubt it.

worst assasinate version ?

Only positive to this is bestial wrath synergy

Ahahahahaha!

I love Blizzard for their consistency. 

There can never be an expansion without completely shitty Hunter card!

Should really have been a 4-mana card. Deadlyshot or Hunter's Mark beats this any day. HOwever, it does have interesting implications with DK rexxar.

Think Cave HYdra + this for an 8-mana: kill 3 minions. That's a pretty powerful out in a dire situation. So, if Hunter gets Rexxar early enough they might become a really strong control class (occasionally) after all.

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This is better than people give it credit for. It's an assassinate that's blocked by taunts, in a class that has weak hard removal. That can be tutored for/have extra copies produced by stitched tracker. I don't think it's *quite* good enough, but it's notably better than bloatbat level.

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This is better than people give it credit for. It's an assassinate that's blocked by taunts, in a class that has weak hard removal. That can be tutored for/have extra copies produced by stitched tracker. I don't think it's *quite* good enough, but it's notably better than bloatbat level.

 

Everything is better then bloatbat. It is one of the worst cards ever. The design behind is so awful Blizzard should be ashamed of themselves. It's so bad, it doesn't even work in DK Rex. 

This card will be good and even sometimes great in DK Rex. And I believe it is the only reason it was added, besides Blizzard maintaining their consistency with Hunter of course.  

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This is better than people give it credit for. It's an assassinate that's blocked by taunts, in a class that has weak hard removal. That can be tutored for/have extra copies produced by stitched tracker. I don't think it's *quite* good enough, but it's notably better than bloatbat level.

 

Everything is better then bloatbat. It is one of the worst cards ever. The design behind is so awful Blizzard should be ashamed of themselves. It's so bad, it doesn't even work in DK Rex. 

This card will be good and even sometimes great in DK Rex. And I believe it is the only reason it was added, besides Blizzard maintaining their consistency with Hunter of course.  

 I think it works quite well in DK. In fact, I'd argue thats why Hunter has a fair few bad beasts since the DK released (Exploding Bloatbat, Cave Hydra and now this). Simply put, while they're really bad cards on their own, I've lost count of the number of times a Bloatbat/Gastropod mix has saved me while playing DK Rexxar. Bloatbat has plenty of good combos with DK Rexxar as will Cave Hydra and this when they're (finally) added. With the addition of Vicious Scalehide as well, I think DK Rexxar will form the backbone of any Control Hunter.

Decent removal.

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Honestly, this has to be high cost, otherwise it would be huge for DK Rexxar. The poisonous means the attack doesn't matter, and already, with Stegodon, it would make a 9 mana 3/9 Poisonous Rush Taunt. Just realised it would be in pool 2, so no Stegodon. It could be used with Exploding Bloatbat as a 9 mana board clear, or Cave Hydra as a 3 minion removal, or Witchwood Grizzly in the same vein as Stegodon. In wild it would work well with Dispatch Kodo and Fiery Bat, serving as a remove 2 minions for 9 with Kodo, or 1 + potentially 1 random with with Bat. Gives more options for a Dreadscale poisonous combo as well.

On it's own merits... It's not a good card. Could see play if comboing with Bestial Wrath becomes a thing, but I really really doubt it.

better than it looks, but it wont see play in constructed

I don't think this is completely awful, while it may not end up seeing play, it's still basically 5 mana removal for something, yes it can't get past taunts, but we'll see, I doubt you'd wanna play this in your deck though. lol

Not sure what to do with this its basically assasinate, the fact that it doesnt bypass taunt is pretty irelevant, since than opponent would have multiple high value targets on board which means you have lost already.

Can see this as a 1 off in midrange when there are good targets for this.

-Acceptable arena removal
-Good DK possibilities
-Utter garbage in constructed

I think you forget not every class should have the best removal, the best bodies, the best spells, the best hero power. Giving hunter removal is good. Giving him 5 mana destroy a minion is both unoriginal (boring) but also showing how this expansion looks like Blizzard is toning down some effects on cards. Rush being the prime example, and card concept being a big one too. This is removal, but counterable.

5 mana to kill a minion has long been recognized as a fair trade, and this card grants hard removal to a class that does not have much of it. It is a potentially useful tool for the new Control Hunter decks, and something I would greatly appreciate as an option for Build-A-Beast.