Since priest got radiant elemental, every new spell is so overpriced. When radiant elemental rotates out next year, all these spells become even more useless.
Priest desperately needs a cheaper board clear in this set or they will be trash Tier for the next 4 months.
So disappointed by the card. I got high hopes when I read the name. I directly imagined a cheap echo spell, but as the site/card was loaded all hopes where crushed. Farewell priest.
Worse than Faceless if the minion has more than 5/5 stats (or similar stats in a better spread, like 4/6); better if the minion has less than 5/5 in stats.
Given that you'll generally want to copy big power minions like Lich King, I can't imagine this will be very desirable.
Shaman always gets a cool card, but Priest... really? I always wanted to try priest and get a break from maining shaman but this is super disappointing!
It's not that bad.. you get a 5/5 + an effect of a minion if you use it on an early game minion it gets better stats, otherwise vivid nightmare (which didn't saw any play) is just better...
The first instinct is radient elemental.. but I said the same thing there about it copying it and costing less.. but MEH.. I am not making the same mistake against, I predict this whole cloning thing is garbage and won't work.
what will work is the deathrattle combo priest. with the experimenter, cubes and eggs, and other stuff.
I looked at winrates today priest has the lowest winrate currently at 45%
Priest keep getting trash tier cards that are so clunky, while Druid keep getting cards that draw their whole combo on turn 4 and game is over by turn 10. Priest is the worst card currently in standard and Blizzard keep printing garbage cards for it.
Only redemption I see for this card is to cheat out Reckless experimenter and then play lots of deathrattles and copy them with this card.
not going to lie not feeling the route they are going with priest this xpac, but this is prolly the best one of this cloning mechanic so far in terms of playability
Edit: to copy your minions summoned with the legendary spell, yes. But I mean, in what situation that actually makes sense.
Edit 2: with Zerek, Master Cloner, does the copy also resummon since it is a copy of a zerek that had a spell cast on it? Even still Vivid Nightmare would be better for that deck.
Its better when you don't want your barnes and shadow essences summoning useless vanilla minions?
I am gonna give this a go. I am not super confident it'll be any good but find Blizz i will try a Zerek Cloning deck. I would like it recorded I am doing this under duress of my favorite class getting bad cards.
Seems like this is a one-trick pony strictly for supporting Zerek, Master Cloner decks. I can't think of any other type of deck in Standard where you would want to run this over Faceless Manipulator.
You use this on small, high value minions. (Just for example, something with a great effect like Wickerflame). I can't think of any good Priest ones atm, May be something you buffed with Unidentified Elixir
It's good for minions you would rather have a larger body on however most powerful end-of-turn effects such as The Lich King or Ysera already have great stats making Faceless Manipulator a better option.
Compared with Faceless Manipulator, this card cannot be used on enemy minions, which can be life-saving in the right situation, in exchange for altering the stats of the copied minion. This would be useful if I wanted to create a stronger version of a weak minion with a powerful effect, but that situation sounds so specific I doubt it will happen.
Or maybe the advantage is supposed to be that I can use this card in addition to Faceless Manipulator and possibly Mirage Caller for copying minions, and using all these cards gets me more chances to copy.
Compared with Faceless Manipulator, this card cannot be used on enemy minions, which can be life-saving in the right situation, in exchange for altering the stats of the copied minion. This would be useful if I wanted to create a stronger version of a weak minion with a powerful effect, but that situation sounds so specific I doubt it will happen.
Or maybe the advantage is supposed to be that I can use this card in addition to Faceless Manipulator and possibly Mirage Caller for copying minions, and using all these cards gets me more chances to copy.
It can also be used to make weaker versions of bigger bodied minions with powerful effects for less mana. Though I am not sure how useful a deck like that will be on the tier list. For example, if you got your velen killed earlier, you could the play out 2x Radiant Elementals, Eternal Servitude for Velen, Power Word: Replicate, then Mindblast, Holy Smite.
Vivid Nightmares works better obviously but this gives you a bit of redundancy to draw this effect.
There are some cards that also may be functionally better as a 5/5 depending on the situation, like Obsidian Statue for example. I dunno, I am not currently super stoked for the card but I'll give it a whirl.
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Since priest got radiant elemental, every new spell is so overpriced. When radiant elemental rotates out next year, all these spells become even more useless.
Priest desperately needs a cheaper board clear in this set or they will be trash Tier for the next 4 months.
So disappointed by the card. I got high hopes when I read the name. I directly imagined a cheap echo spell, but as the site/card was loaded all hopes where crushed. Farewell priest.
Worse than Faceless if the minion has more than 5/5 stats (or similar stats in a better spread, like 4/6); better if the minion has less than 5/5 in stats.
Given that you'll generally want to copy big power minions like Lich King, I can't imagine this will be very desirable.
Shaman always gets a cool card, but Priest... really? I always wanted to try priest and get a break from maining shaman but this is super disappointing!
I like elementals and totems.
It's not that bad.. you get a 5/5 + an effect of a minion if you use it on an early game minion it gets better stats, otherwise vivid nightmare (which didn't saw any play) is just better...
The first instinct is radient elemental.. but I said the same thing there about it copying it and costing less.. but MEH.. I am not making the same mistake against, I predict this whole cloning thing is garbage and won't work.
what will work is the deathrattle combo priest. with the experimenter, cubes and eggs, and other stuff.
I looked at winrates today priest has the lowest winrate currently at 45%
why my answers are here??? and i even cannot delete it now it looks like i am an idiot.
why answer cannot be under comment which it belong to?
Power Word: Boredom
Priest keep getting trash tier cards that are so clunky, while Druid keep getting cards that draw their whole combo on turn 4 and game is over by turn 10. Priest is the worst card currently in standard and Blizzard keep printing garbage cards for it.
Only redemption I see for this card is to cheat out Reckless experimenter and then play lots of deathrattles and copy them with this card.
not going to lie not feeling the route they are going with priest this xpac, but this is prolly the best one of this cloning mechanic so far in terms of playability
Its better when you don't want your barnes and shadow essences summoning useless vanilla minions?
I am gonna give this a go. I am not super confident it'll be any good but find Blizz i will try a Zerek Cloning deck. I would like it recorded I am doing this under duress of my favorite class getting bad cards.
This made me laugh lmao
Ok followup to Barnes, assuming the 1/1 didn't die.
Not sure where this card fits, though. Maybe Quest Priest.
Bad players whine.
Good players adapt.
Seems like this is a one-trick pony strictly for supporting Zerek, Master Cloner decks. I can't think of any other type of deck in Standard where you would want to run this over Faceless Manipulator.
Nice :)
Boring yes, don't know why this is an epic.
You use this on small, high value minions. (Just for example, something with a great effect like Wickerflame). I can't think of any good Priest ones atm, May be something you buffed with Unidentified Elixir
Power Word: Replicate is in a hot contest between Faceless Manipulator and Vivid Nightmare.
It's good for minions you would rather have a larger body on however most powerful end-of-turn effects such as The Lich King or Ysera already have great stats making Faceless Manipulator a better option.
Cheap and turnly effects that you may want to use Power Word: Replicate upon may be Acolyte of Pain or Northshire Cleric.
There are currently seems to be purely better and more common options for using this card.
Boring
1) get Velen out early
2) resurrect and copy
3) profit
Compared with Faceless Manipulator, this card cannot be used on enemy minions, which can be life-saving in the right situation, in exchange for altering the stats of the copied minion. This would be useful if I wanted to create a stronger version of a weak minion with a powerful effect, but that situation sounds so specific I doubt it will happen.
Or maybe the advantage is supposed to be that I can use this card in addition to Faceless Manipulator and possibly Mirage Caller for copying minions, and using all these cards gets me more chances to copy.
It can also be used to make weaker versions of bigger bodied minions with powerful effects for less mana. Though I am not sure how useful a deck like that will be on the tier list. For example, if you got your velen killed earlier, you could the play out 2x Radiant Elementals, Eternal Servitude for Velen, Power Word: Replicate, then Mindblast, Holy Smite.
Vivid Nightmares works better obviously but this gives you a bit of redundancy to draw this effect.
There are some cards that also may be functionally better as a 5/5 depending on the situation, like Obsidian Statue for example. I dunno, I am not currently super stoked for the card but I'll give it a whirl.