Blizzard has been getting, let's say flak, for their treatment of Rogue, notably only giving Rogue 2 Jade Golem Cards, instead of the 3 granted to other classes. That's a fair enough criticism, just looking at it.
And then I had a thought. The Jade Golem 'scaling' mechanic occurs whenever you summon a jade golem. It doesn't have to be the newest or the best golem, according to the text, just a golem. So, theoretically, if you have the first golem you summon, the 1/1, and you shadowstep and replay it twice, you're now on 4/4 golems. And this can, with perfect luck, mean that while the other classes, namely druid, have bigger golems in the long run, you can be 2 or 3 golem levels ahead of them in the early game. Take, for instance, the dream. You go second with a swarmer, 2 shadowsteps, and a prep. First 2 draws, shuriken. (Obviously, that's a ridiculous amount of RNG, and the results will probably be worse than that 90+% of the time.)
Your first turn, you coin out the swarmer, against whatever 1drop they played. As it's in stealth, there's nothing they can really do about it. Next turn, you trade, shadowstep the golem, play it, shadowstep it again, play, and shuriken, prep, shuriken. Assuming I'm right, that leaves you with a 1/1 (Which you've been shadowstepping), a 4/4 and a 5/5. On turn 2, in a deck that may or may not have even more jade synergy.
I'll repeat myself here, that's a ridiculously unlikely series of events. But on the other hand, that's just the dream.
I think that's why rogue didn't get the golem synergy they wanted. Shadowstep, and tiny golems that turn the deck into more of a C'thun where you're playing multiple, smaller, but still growing, C'thuns.
I don't know, that's the dream, so all you Rogue players out there, keep an eye out. You might, and mind you I say might, be okay this expansion.
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So, when a warrior uses Dead Man's Hand, what does that actually mean in terms of flavor? Is he the dead man? Does he cut off his own hand? Is that why he has Tentacles for Arms? Does he think that tentacles are actually as good as arms?
These reasons and more are why I think warriors are more mysterious than people give them credit for.
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Blizzard has been getting, let's say flak, for their treatment of Rogue, notably only giving Rogue 2 Jade Golem Cards, instead of the 3 granted to other classes. That's a fair enough criticism, just looking at it.
And then I had a thought. The Jade Golem 'scaling' mechanic occurs whenever you summon a jade golem. It doesn't have to be the newest or the best golem, according to the text, just a golem. So, theoretically, if you have the first golem you summon, the 1/1, and you shadowstep and replay it twice, you're now on 4/4 golems. And this can, with perfect luck, mean that while the other classes, namely druid, have bigger golems in the long run, you can be 2 or 3 golem levels ahead of them in the early game. Take, for instance, the dream. You go second with a swarmer, 2 shadowsteps, and a prep. First 2 draws, shuriken. (Obviously, that's a ridiculous amount of RNG, and the results will probably be worse than that 90+% of the time.)
Your first turn, you coin out the swarmer, against whatever 1drop they played. As it's in stealth, there's nothing they can really do about it. Next turn, you trade, shadowstep the golem, play it, shadowstep it again, play, and shuriken, prep, shuriken. Assuming I'm right, that leaves you with a 1/1 (Which you've been shadowstepping), a 4/4 and a 5/5. On turn 2, in a deck that may or may not have even more jade synergy.
I'll repeat myself here, that's a ridiculously unlikely series of events. But on the other hand, that's just the dream.
I think that's why rogue didn't get the golem synergy they wanted. Shadowstep, and tiny golems that turn the deck into more of a C'thun where you're playing multiple, smaller, but still growing, C'thuns.
I don't know, that's the dream, so all you Rogue players out there, keep an eye out. You might, and mind you I say might, be okay this expansion.
So, when a warrior uses Dead Man's Hand, what does that actually mean in terms of flavor? Is he the dead man? Does he cut off his own hand? Is that why he has Tentacles for Arms? Does he think that tentacles are actually as good as arms?
These reasons and more are why I think warriors are more mysterious than people give them credit for.