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Does Bolvar get the bonus since he technically has 1 attack and gets buffed up in your hand? Perhaps maybe he'd be playable since your using your other sacrifice able 1 attack minions before you draw Hobgoblin.

out of boredom, i made a midrange paladin with hobgoblin and its certainly fun.  i feel paladin works with the buffing nature the deck has and has some nice combo cards overall.  thoughts?  i'd have to play it to get a feel for what has to change but it atleast looks interesting.

Man, this card sure seems like the next Undertaker to me...

does this work with bolvar? 

I was trying to come up with a hobgoblin jeeves deck. I went with warrior because armor smith and acolyte of pain. not every minion is 1 attack because I thought the deck would suck like that. There are still plenty of  minions who work with hobgoblin but none of them are dead weight without him. Frothing berserkers and junk bots are just to give the deck a little bit of extra reach. 

This card will be a must have for Shockadin and aggro hunter decks.

This thing plus Dark Wispers :D

With this even Demolisher becomes incredibly useful. 

Hobgoblin does NOT work with paladin hero power, muster for power, or dark whispers. hobgoblin's bonus is purely for minions you play straight from your hand. 

Haha that is terrible combo. Fill your board with tokens, which is hard itself and you probably already won. The play vanish and hobgoblin for 9 mana just to have a board of 3/3 but gIves your opponent time to react. 

Infinitely worse then than just savage roar. Let alone two savage roar or savage roar+force of nature. 

Mogu'shan warden + Hobgoblin value!

WISP TIME! OP Turn 3!

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Cool card but card name makes no sense with effects its make.

Makes sense if you just read the lore from WoW

The Hobgoblins were once goblins altered by some foul alchemy becoming tough, powerful, and "dumber than an ogre with a hangover"

You guys totally forgot about Shockadin!

@ThaBusDriv3r @CM_Zeriyah Hobgoblin does not work with the Paladin hero power. It only affects minions played from the hand!

— Whirthun (@CM_Whirthun) December 4, 2014

This also applies with any spells that generate monsters like Unleash the Hounds or any monsters that generate tokens like Imp Master. The 1/1 minion has to be played from the hand. Even if you make a minion in play a 1/1, it won't work. ONLY PLAYED FROM HAND.

Awesome in General with Hobgoblin:

• Armorsmith
• Imp Master
• Lightwarden -- obviously only in decks that have some other good healing (Priest).
• Mistress of Pain
• Secretkeeper -- obviously in decks with Secrets.
• Acolyte of Pain
• Mana Wyrm
• Northshire Cleric
• Timber Wolf -- obviously in Beast synergy decks.
• Voidwalker
• Echoing Ooze
• Haunted Creeper
• Undertaker
• Unstable Ghoul
• Webspinner

Pirate Deck with Hobgoblin:

• Captain's Parrot
• Bloodsail Corsair ... I still might not use it.

Mech Deck with Hobgoblin:

• Junkbot
• Demolisher
• Jeeves -- can also work for other zoo-style decks, such as Murlocs
• Annoy-o-Tron
• Cogmaster
• Flying Machine
• Micro Machine
• Warbot -- as someone else pointed out, the Enrage combo is especially good with the stat boost. Probably worth including in a Warrior Hob deck even without other Mechs.

Murloc Deck with Hobgoblin:

• Hungry Crab ... if you're willing to sacrifice your own guys. Probably not worth it even with Hob synergy.
• Murloc Tidecaller
• Grimscale Oracle

This is a Cool Combo, but ... what if you don't draw Hobgoblin?:

• Angry Chicken -- sadly, I'm still skeptical about him being worth including.
• Mana Addict
• Argent Squire -- Silvermoon Guardian for just 1 mana.
• Mogu'shan Warden
• Wisp
• Young Dragonhawk
• Dalaran Mage
• Gnomeregan Infantry
• Silverback Patriarch
• Stonetusk Boar
• Baron Rivendare -- better than most of the cards in this section. Very interesting possibilities.
• Stoneskin Gargoyle

Meh:

• Bloodmage Thalnos -- stats aren't really why you play him anyway.
• Patient Assassin -- see above
• Master Swordsmith
• Elven Archer -- not bad, but you can do better, if you're specifically looking for 1-mana Hob synergy.
• Explosive Sheep -- Even though it's a Mech, it probably hurts a Hob deck more than it hurts the opposition.
• Goldshire Footman -- not awful, but you can do better if you're trying to use Hob to set up Taunts.
• Novice Engineer
• Nerub'ar Weblord -- when I play this guy, I'm not sure I want him to have more than 4 Defense.

Doesn't Work At All!

• Bolvar Fordragon -- since his Attack gets buffed before you play him, I doubt he will get the Hobgoblin buff.
• Imp
• Hound
• Snake
• Violet Apprentice
• Whelp (from Onyxia -- I don't think anyone will try this combo with Leeroy)
• Silver Hand Recruit -- so stop recommending it, people!
• Boom Bot
• Slime
• Sheep -- although it would be hilarious if you Polymorphed your own 2/2 to buff it up to 3/3.
• etc.

Would this work with the summoning portal. If it does this is gonna be a new zoo deck coming soon and I'm going to make! Because your playing for 1 mana if they are that which is fairly op.

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Would this work with the summoning portal. If it does this is gonna be a new zoo deck coming soon and I'm going to make! Because your playing for 1 mana if they are that which is fairly op.

Nah, just 1 attack minions only.

#3 deck on the Hearthpwn front page right now that incorporates Hobgoblin heavily:

I don't see how it works with Warlock - you really need Druid and Innervate to pull it off.   Adding +2/+2 to a minion really just brings them into the turn 3/4 range.  Unless you can get the thing out early, it becomes a moot play because past turn 3/4 you are limited by how many cards you have more than how much mana is available.  This is what happened to me in play.  When I coined and got him out on turn 2, it was devastating and the opponent never recovered.  When he showed up later, even when he wasn't immediately removed, the drops were underpowered for the phase of the game and the tempo conversion made no difference.