Its stats are just awful, a 5 mana 3/3 just isn't good enough.
If this was a 5/5 with the same ability, or it dealt 5 damage to each minion of a type, then it could be a good shout. However it just isn't good enough in its current form.
The teants not being a tribe thing has always been strange to me. Considering that there are cards that count your treats across different expansions for a card’s effect (Aeroponics or Goru for example) it stands to reason that Waste Warden should see these are the same type of minion even if they wouldn’t belong to a tribe
The reason why they’re not a tribe is because they don’t actually act like a tribe. Minions of the same tribe are mostly different cards with a wide variety of abilities and statlines, whereas treants are ALWAYS the exact same as one another. Just like silver hand recruits. There’s only like two cards I can think of that are an exception to this, but for the most part, almost all treants are clones of one another.
The teants not being a tribe thing has always been strange to me. Considering that there are cards that count your treats across different expansions for a card’s effect (Aeroponics or Goru for example) it stands to reason that Waste Warden should see these are the same type of minion even if they wouldn’t belong to a tribe
The reason why they’re not a tribe is because they don’t actually act like a tribe. Minions of the same tribe are mostly different cards with a wide variety of abilities and statlines, whereas treants are ALWAYS the exact same as one another. Just like silver hand recruits. There’s only like two cards I can think of that are an exception to this, but for the most part, almost all treants are clones of one another.
It's just not good enough. Even in its most ideal situation, you're still spending five for a 3/3 that clears a bunch of low health minions at its absolute peak efficiency.
The rest of the time it's a dead draw and there are better options at the 5 mana slot.
Maybe if it was a 5 mana 3/5 with taunt that dealt 4 to all minion types it might see some play.
The teants not being a tribe thing has always been strange to me. Considering that there are cards that count your treats across different expansions for a card’s effect (Aeroponics or Goru for example) it stands to reason that Waste Warden should see these are the same type of minion even if they wouldn’t belong to a tribe
The reason why they’re not a tribe is because they don’t actually act like a tribe. Minions of the same tribe are mostly different cards with a wide variety of abilities and statlines, whereas treants are ALWAYS the exact same as one another. Just like silver hand recruits. There’s only like two cards I can think of that are an exception to this, but for the most part, almost all treants are clones of one another.
Its stats are just awful, a 5 mana 3/3 just isn't good enough.
If this was a 5/5 with the same ability, or it dealt 5 damage to each minion of a type, then it could be a good shout. However it just isn't good enough in its current form.
The reason why they’re not a tribe is because they don’t actually act like a tribe. Minions of the same tribe are mostly different cards with a wide variety of abilities and statlines, whereas treants are ALWAYS the exact same as one another. Just like silver hand recruits. There’s only like two cards I can think of that are an exception to this, but for the most part, almost all treants are clones of one another.
Just slapping the tribe on all tree cards would be fine imo. There are a few of them, like Ancient of Lore, Ancient of War, Volcanic Lumberer, Ironbark Protector, Lucentbark, Splintergraft etc.
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It's just not good enough. Even in its most ideal situation, you're still spending five for a 3/3 that clears a bunch of low health minions at its absolute peak efficiency.
The rest of the time it's a dead draw and there are better options at the 5 mana slot.
Maybe if it was a 5 mana 3/5 with taunt that dealt 4 to all minion types it might see some play.
Not a lore expert but I think in Warcraft lore ancients are an entirely different race than treants.