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I think that Blizzard decided to be careful with a mana cost of this thing. In card games synergy factors so much in, especially now that we have way more cards than back in the beta days.

But that just cant lead to every card beeing overpriced! And There must be at least some beta testing goig on before release, so i say this is just lazy gamedesign.

Just by manacost, this card cant realy have that much synergies, 6 Mana is a lot and there is sylvanas, highmane, thaurissan, so this will never see play.

This should be costed araund 4-5 Mana as a playable card. Just the same bulshit they made with poisoned blade which is around 3 mana overpriced, like most of the set so far is.

Ofcause there should be weak cards and im fine with that but there is just a limit of how bad cards should be. Espacially if they want to push hunter out of face decks, those cards are crucial. And so far the released hunter cards are terrible as is most of the set.

Furthermore i realy hate the argument "but there maybe combos yadayada". Just because rouge has prep doesnt mean all the spells should be costed more. Its like saying all druid minions should cost 2 more because they have inervate.

And there are already 30+ otk combos in this game, so how worse can it realy get?! Especially when the card is completely random like this, how can there be a reliable combo with this piece of filth?

Terrible gamedesign from blizz.

Ball of Spiders is one part of a 2-card draw engine that fills your hand.  It doesn't compete with Savannah Highmane, Sylvanas, or Thaurissan because you don't drop it on turn 6.  You drop it on turn 8 with Feign Death to fill the hand that you've come close to emptying.  It's good that Hunter finally has something to fill that 8-mana slot with.

This card isn't as abysmally bad as you seem to think.  As the card pool grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to fit everything you want into a deck.  Ball of Spiders solves this problem by being three cards in one, allowing you to cheat the system and fit more cards into your deck than you normally could.  The Webspinners provide you with beasts, allowing you to fill the rest of your deck with fewer minions and more spells.  This in turn increases the effectiveness of Lock and Load, which gives you all sorts of Hunter cards and increases the size of your deck even more.  You don't need to draw out everything in your "real" deck as quickly as a Rogue or Warlock would, but you can still sift through it with Tracking, and stall to draw more cards while your opponent deals with the stampede of beasts you've just dropped down.

I'd say forcing the game to slow down by having players take multiple turns to finish combos and get value is great gamedesign from blizz.

Having slow cards available does not force the game to slow down. 

The game will slow down if slow cards are better than what you could achieve with faster cards.

Wild Pyromancer + Scavenging Hyena + Ball of Spiders ?  :)

fighting savannah highmane for a spot isnt a good thing....

this card should cost 5, at least then it can combo with vulture on turn 10 >.>

4 is already a bit too broken. 5 seems fair. If it had an implosion effect where you could summon 2-4 spiders for 6 mana i'd think it would be better tho. 

I use one copy of this in my mid-range Hunter alongwith 2 Highmanes.

If I don't draw one of the highmanes I play this. Always nice to get Young Dragonhawk which I buff with Tundra Rhino and Houndmaster xD

I saw this card in play once in casual mode. It's too rng dependable and too expensive to see competitive play, but can be fun in troll decks.

Agree with edalyas.  I had some fun in casual mid-range with it, but would never use in ladder play.

It´s to give you more value in arena. I wouldn´t pick it over savanahh highmane but it´s definitely better than other rares out there...

I'm sad. no animation for this card :(

I remember the second the Double Deathrattle Tavern Brawl came out I stuffed two of there into my deck lol

Behold, a Ball of Spiders deck that works!

 Thanks for your deck Cyg2112     :)