The actual reason this card might be good is that, like Deathlord, it’s a deathrattle which means you may never actually see this it trigger making it just a 3/9 vanilla taunt. A serious consideration probably for priests in an aggro enviornment. Unfortunately for this card tho, there’s all ready so much strong defense and healing in the game now that I don’t know how you can compete playing an aggro deck so this card may just not have anything to counter.
Look at the card again, it's a Battlecry. Happened to me a few times before as well, mistaking one for the other. I was first confused about the lukewarm reactions to Hadronox until I realized it's actually a Deathrattle.
Hopefully this card will single handedly purge Wild of Big Priest, and if it gets more ress cards in the next expansion then this could also be a nice tech card in standard. And it's not exactly dead against aggro either since it at least has taunt, in druid you could combo this with swipe for example.
For 3 manas this card will be good, for 4 manas it is too slow to counter priest (remember, you have to kill the minions and this take time) and hard to deal with the minions in the same turn.
It will become far less common for a while, but then people will stop using Zul'Drak Ritualist because there's no reason to. At that point, Res Priest frequency will increase again, but to a more reasonable level than Wild is seeing at the moment.
So, yes, it will lead to a healthier meta, but you're kidding yourself if you think you'll never see Rez Priest again.
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sure it can kill every 1 drop it summons no problem, but with some of the really good class 1's being in the pool I dont think its worth the risk, not very good with MCT either as you are more likely going to get one of the one drops.
This card sucks. I love how everytime a card like this comes out though, we always get the "hurr durr, rezz priest iz ded!". Wont see serious play, guarantee it
Look at the card again, it's a Battlecry. Happened to me a few times before as well, mistaking one for the other. I was first confused about the lukewarm reactions to Hadronox until I realized it's actually a Deathrattle.
That made chuckle, so thank you. Somehow I keep forgetting that Gonk even exists, despite having him myself.
Hopefully this card will single handedly purge Wild of Big Priest, and if it gets more ress cards in the next expansion then this could also be a nice tech card in standard. And it's not exactly dead against aggro either since it at least has taunt, in druid you could combo this with swipe for example.
For 3 manas this card will be good, for 4 manas it is too slow to counter priest (remember, you have to kill the minions and this take time) and hard to deal with the minions in the same turn.
Rez Priest won't completely die out, of course.
It will become far less common for a while, but then people will stop using Zul'Drak Ritualist because there's no reason to. At that point, Res Priest frequency will increase again, but to a more reasonable level than Wild is seeing at the moment.
So, yes, it will lead to a healthier meta, but you're kidding yourself if you think you'll never see Rez Priest again.
"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
oh i misread it. yeah this card sucks then. just use hecklebot.
sure it can kill every 1 drop it summons no problem, but with some of the really good class 1's being in the pool I dont think its worth the risk, not very good with MCT either as you are more likely going to get one of the one drops.
This card sucks. I love how everytime a card like this comes out though, we always get the "hurr durr, rezz priest iz ded!". Wont see serious play, guarantee it
I'm sure everyone who writes a comment saying big priest counter didn't read all the previous comments exactly the same
Hecklebot was used by Oaken Summons, so this is good with that or against Big Priest but against decks aggro is useless
Wild evolving rabbit like this
Wild ressurecting priests not so much.
This was very needed and should seal the deal should ressurect ever go off the chain again. Now let's work on our timing next, Bliz...