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At first I thought this card is 100% garbage but the good mana cost/stat attribution makes it actually decent in fatigue decks I think. You can just play her on curve and play your whole game. If you play against aggressive decks she is just a body. If you play against another super slow deck you can play the monkey statue after you have used every card you want to use. Controll warrior for example doesn't want to use his card draw cards anymore after he realised that the game will end in fatigue. Those anyway dead cards can be transformed into probably usefull ones with her. So you will get a free 6/6 and between 2 and 5 random legendaries out of no where. This is most likely enough to beat an enemy without her in the deck. Since her stats are good enough you really don't lose anything against most other decks.
Who can take your trash out?
Stomp it down for you?
Shake the plastic bag
and do the twisty thingy, too?
Fun card, can work in fatigue decks, but still not enough for a competitive fatigue deck I guess
I really think this card is just meant to be a fun card and card targeted especially towards players who can't afford many legendaries. But it is definitely not a competitive card.
I mean that even if we could obtain the golden monkey directly I'm not sure it would be worth it. Sure the 6/6 with taunt for 4 is great, but transforming all your cards into random legendaries will only make your deck worse. It doesn't give you any edge because you end up with random cards (with good average quality yes) in your deck and in your hand instead of handpicked cards that have synergy. And the important part is that those obtained cards could theoretically be the one you handpicked yourself. You don't get any bonus cards. In the end:
deck quality after golden monkey <= deck quality before golden monkey
So if you add the two other cards and the average late where you can play the golden monkey, in the end it is not competitive at all.
If someone want to get an experience of the card before the wing, just play a 30 legendary deck
It's almost the same thing
She should be used as an alternate win condition in matchups where you typically run out of cards/damage in your deck and lose, eg. Freeze Mage or Oil rogue vs Control Warrior. Even if the Golden Monkey is your last card, you can turn 5-8 cycling or weak cards in your hand into legendaries and maybe out-value them.
Or you can build an extremely anti-aggro Priest or Shaman deck and play Elise so you have a chance against control by surviving until your draw it and turning a bunch of weak removal spells into legendaries.
I am more hyped about Elise than any other card in the set. I think she will add some very interesting endgame strategies, which are my favorite part of the game. The fact that she's a sassy elf doesn't hurt, either.
If you really think about it, sometimes the RNG element is rightfully hated when it becomes excessive, but then again in other cases like Elise's it can provide fun and unpredictability in a game that, let's face it, gets predictable really quick after the meta settles.
Let's see when someone play a deck with her, because Reno Jackson wasn't good when i first saw it but it pretty good
I think this card may actually see a lot of play in heavy control decks. A 4 mana 3/5 is reasonable since the difference between 3 and 4 Attack is negligible to a Piloted Shredder and often in control mirrors both players are in fatigue holding Acolyte of Pains and Shield Blocks that they can't play. In the control mirror those cards are useless and in the super late game you can use Elise Starseeker to turn them into actual threats.
At the worst, I just see this card as a 4-mana "reset your Fatigue counter", which can really come in useful for those metapod wars.
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I plan to run this in my heavy draw aggro warlock. Its not uncommon that control decks run me out of cards before i can kill them. What if i could suddenly transform all of those weak early game cards into expensive end game legendaries? And i only need to open one card slot to do this? I think it could actually be viable.
Anyone else think this card is actually good?
This card is obviously really fun looking but most people have dismissed its possibility as a competitively viable card. None other than Elise Starseeker herself. This card, I believe has the power to fundamentally change how control decks are built and shake the meta almost as much (if not more) than Reno Jackson. With most control decks, the late game is something you only really want to draw against other control decks. As a control deck you don't wan't to have too much late game in your deck because otherwise you'll just get trampled by aggro decks. However if you don't have enough late game you'll get beaten by other control decks. Here comes Elise Starseeker to save the day. For those of you who play Magic the Gathering, Elise Starseeker essentially serves as a side board for your late game. By putting Elise Starseeker in your deck you give yourself the ability to remove a large amount of your mandatory late game cards in favor of more anti-aggro and early game. You can make your curve significantly lower than you would otherwise be able to get away with and as such, be able to deal with aggro expertly as you will rarely draw a dead card since you no longer have big cards in your deck. For those who know too well those long drawn out control vs control match ups where both spend 20 turns armoring up with 6 or so cards in your hand. Those Acolyte of Pains, those Shield Blocks, those Brawls which you can't play. Imagine the value in being able to turn those anti-aggro cards into anti-control cards at a moments notice. There's also the fact that you have complete control over when you decide to play Golden Monkey which means that it there's still a card in your deck or hand that you need you can just hold onto it. And lets not forget that Elise Starseeker herself is a 3/5 body which is completely fair as against a Piloted Shredder, a 4/5 and a 3/5 are virtually the same.
Anyone else think this card is actually good?
This card is obviously really fun looking but most people have dismissed its possibility as a competitively viable card. None other than Elise Starseeker herself. This card, I believe has the power to fundamentally change how control decks are built and shake the meta almost as much (if not more) than Reno Jackson. With most control decks, the late game is something you only really want to draw against other control decks. As a control deck you don't wan't to have too much late game in your deck because otherwise you'll just get trampled by aggro decks. However if you don't have enough late game you'll get beaten by other control decks. Here comes Elise Starseeker to save the day. For those of you who play Magic the Gathering, Elise Starseeker essentially serves as a side board for your late game. By putting Elise Starseeker in your deck you give yourself the ability to remove a large amount of your mandatory late game cards in favor of more anti-aggro and early game. You can make your curve significantly lower than you would otherwise be able to get away with and as such, be able to deal with aggro expertly as you will rarely draw a dead card since you no longer have big cards in your deck. For those who know too well those long drawn out control vs control match ups where both spend 20 turns armoring up with 6 or so cards in your hand. Those Acolyte of Pains, those Shield Blocks, those Brawls which you can't play. Imagine the value in being able to turn those anti-aggro cards into anti-control cards at a moments notice. There's also the fact that you have complete control over when you decide to play Golden Monkey which means that it there's still a card in your deck or hand that you need you can just hold onto it. And lets not forget that Elise Starseeker herself is a 3/5 body which is completely fair as against a Piloted Shredder, a 4/5 and a 3/5 are virtually the same.
Anyone else think this card is actually insanely good?
This card is obviously really fun looking but most people have dismissed its possibility as a competitively viable card. None other than Elise Starseeker herself. This card, I believe has the power to fundamentally change how control decks are built and shake the meta almost as much (if not more) than Reno Jackson. With most control decks, the late game is something you only really want to draw against other control decks. As a control deck you don't wan't to have too much late game in your deck because otherwise you'll just get trampled by aggro decks. However if you don't have enough late game you'll get beaten by other control decks. Here comes Elise Starseeker to save the day. For those of you who play Magic the Gathering, Elise Starseeker essentially serves as a side board for your late game. By putting Elise Starseeker in your deck you give yourself the ability to remove a large amount of your mandatory late game cards in favor of more anti-aggro and early game. You can make your curve significantly lower than you would otherwise be able to get away with and as such, be able to deal with aggro expertly as you will rarely draw a dead card since you no longer have big cards in your deck. For those who know too well those long drawn out control vs control match ups where both spend 20 turns armoring up with 6 or so cards in your hand. Those Acolyte of Pains, those Shield Blocks, those Brawls which you can't play. Imagine the value in being able to turn those anti-aggro cards into anti-control cards at a moments notice. There's also the fact that you have complete control over when you decide to play Golden Monkey which means that it there's still a card in your deck or hand that you need you can just hold onto it. And lets not forget that Elise Starseeker herself is a 3/5 body which is completely fair as against a Piloted Shredder, a 4/5 and a 3/5 are virtually the same.
Basically she lets you make your entire deck anti-aggro and still be able to have late game.
You also get to choose whether or not you actually want to have late game in your deck depending on the matchup by choosing whether or not to play the monkey.