As the title said I came up with a potential 10-cost play featuring the new card Saronite Taskmaster. Before starting up, I want to clarify that this is NOT an OTK but only a fun combo that may lead to victory under the right circumstances.
In this way you will end up with a board full of decent minions (2/3s are not great but still better than nothing) and your opponent will be really limited in his plays, having only one space available to play minions.
Is this combo invincible? No
Is it counterable? Yes (especially if your opponent can buff their taunts in some way)
Druid would be stuck gaining armor and dealing 0 to the enemy hero
Finally, Combo also takes 11 mana (4 Umbra, 1 Taskmaster, 5 Cube, 1 PlayDe/Natural)
w/o PlayDe or Nat. Your opponent only has 3 taunts and the three more after your stuff dies (if they do. If this deck is realistic people won't kill your minions for you.)
Edit: 'it' is not a suitable pronoun for 'your opponent' and other text simplifying
The idea of deadlocking your opponent's board isn't new, it was done in witchwood by Marin the Fox/Shudderwock combo. New expansion also brings us sweet Zentimo/Hex combo, which can basically consume 3 of your opponent's board spaces for 7 mana and 2 cards. Saronite Taskmaster could probably be a good addition to that meme combo, but other stuff you've mentioned is way too complicated IMO.
Hi everyone
As the title said I came up with a potential 10-cost play featuring the new card Saronite Taskmaster. Before starting up, I want to clarify that this is NOT an OTK but only a fun combo that may lead to victory under the right circumstances.
So, we're playing as a Hunter.
Turn 10: we play Spiritsinger Umbra followed Saronite Taskmaster. In this way, your opponent will have a 0/3 on his side of the board.
The next step is playing a Carnivorous Cube: thanks toTaskmaster's Deathrattle and Umbra's effect, now our opponent will have 4 0/3 taunts.
The last piece is Play Dead on the Cube.
In this way you will end up with a board full of decent minions (2/3s are not great but still better than nothing) and your opponent will be really limited in his plays, having only one space available to play minions.
Is this combo invincible? No
Is it counterable? Yes (especially if your opponent can buff their taunts in some way)
Is it fun? Well I think yes.
It can also be done with Druid, using Naturalize instead of Play Dead
Do you have any suggestions to improve it please let me know
its sound complicated to give your opponent a free kind of spreading plague
The point is that if they do not have a board clear, your opponent is unable to play minions because their board is full of taunts that cannot attack.
you cant attack neither because you dont wanna kill the taunt you just gave to them, so your lock to
I thought of doing something like this in priest with Mass Dispel and Psychic Scream (like in the old Weasel Tunneler cancer deck).
Doesn't Really work that well with either....
Hunter has trouble drawing such a combo
Druid would be stuck gaining armor and dealing 0 to the enemy hero
Finally, Combo also takes 11 mana (4 Umbra, 1 Taskmaster, 5 Cube, 1 PlayDe/Natural)
w/o PlayDe or Nat. Your opponent only has 3 taunts and the three more after your stuff dies (if they do. If this deck is realistic people won't kill your minions for you.)
Edit: 'it' is not a suitable pronoun for 'your opponent' and other text simplifying
The idea of deadlocking your opponent's board isn't new, it was done in witchwood by Marin the Fox/Shudderwock combo. New expansion also brings us sweet Zentimo/Hex combo, which can basically consume 3 of your opponent's board spaces for 7 mana and 2 cards. Saronite Taskmaster could probably be a good addition to that meme combo, but other stuff you've mentioned is way too complicated IMO.
Damn you're right! For some reason I though Umbra was 3 mana. That's embarrassing since I have it in my collection...
Anyways, someone could develop a similar idea to prevent your opponent from playing minions
That's why (for example) you're a hunter, and after you pull off this combo, you can slam face with hero power, kill command, etc.
May not work but will be fun to try :)