This will trigger Keeper of Secrets and Emerald Spellstone, but it won't trigger Counterspell, correct? Counterspell only counters spells cast by cards, not spells cast by battlecries.
What the heck is it with Blizzard trying to get Hunters to care about Hero Power synergy this expansion? If they wanted to push that paradigm, they needed to not Hall of Fame Genn and Baku before this came out.
What the heck is it with Blizzard trying to get Hunters to care about Hero Power synergy this expansion? If they wanted to push that paradigm, they needed to not Hall of Fame Genn and Baku before this came out.
Cards are desgined long before they get released, All the cards that came out this year, or at least most of them, were probably designed while the design team thought Genn and Baku would still be in Standard. I wouldn't be surprised if this one was indeed designed before it was even decided that Genn and Baku would be rotated prematurely.
So what I'm hearing is, we're getting a bunch of support cards for a deck archetype in Hunter that hasn't existed for months?...
This entire expansion isn't a nothing-burger for Hunters, but it's really hard to see how on Earth any of this is going to keep Standard Hunter competitive. Clear the Way and Phase Stalker for Beast decks, Dragonbane for Mech decks... How does that possibly hold up against the support Dragon decks like Dragon Warrior and Dragon Priest are getting this expansion?
This will trigger Keeper of Secrets and Emerald Spellstone, but it won't trigger Counterspell, correct? Counterspell only counters spells cast by cards, not spells cast by battlecries.
Correct. The text of Counterspell would be more precise if it read: "When your opponent plays a spell, counter it."
I'm just glad they are continuing the Secret support.
Hunter gets too predictable to play against when its Secrets are hard to use.
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Day 1 playable in Secret HL Hunter
Coldarra Drake for hunter?
This will trigger Keeper of Secrets and Emerald Spellstone, but it won't trigger Counterspell, correct? Counterspell only counters spells cast by cards, not spells cast by battlecries.
They REALLY want to even hunter be a thing in Wild.
What the heck is it with Blizzard trying to get Hunters to care about Hero Power synergy this expansion? If they wanted to push that paradigm, they needed to not Hall of Fame Genn and Baku before this came out.
Cards are desgined long before they get released, All the cards that came out this year, or at least most of them, were probably designed while the design team thought Genn and Baku would still be in Standard. I wouldn't be surprised if this one was indeed designed before it was even decided that Genn and Baku would be rotated prematurely.
Other cards from this year that obviously make more sense with Genn and Baku are Brazen Zealot, Diseased Vulture, Splitting Axe and possibly Toxic Reinforcements and Secure the Deck.
So what I'm hearing is, we're getting a bunch of support cards for a deck archetype in Hunter that hasn't existed for months?...
This entire expansion isn't a nothing-burger for Hunters, but it's really hard to see how on Earth any of this is going to keep Standard Hunter competitive. Clear the Way and Phase Stalker for Beast decks, Dragonbane for Mech decks... How does that possibly hold up against the support Dragon decks like Dragon Warrior and Dragon Priest are getting this expansion?
Correct. The text of Counterspell would be more precise if it read: "When your opponent plays a spell, counter it."
"Why, you never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose nor a body to kick." -- Lady Saba Holland