It gets Silenced/Hexed/Polymorphed/Sapped/whatever. The opponent goes face with his bloodlusted/magnetized/giants/whatever minions.
How are they playing bloodlust and using a silence the same turn? Silences are expensive and they leave your opponent with stats on the board for trading. Transform effects are even more expensive.
Also Applebaum is just one example. There's Zilliax, there's Imposter, there's lots of other cards which slow down your opponent and keep you in the game. I'm not saying this is the best card in the game, or even that it'll see play (I have no idea, no one does), but it's not a bad card because it gets "beaten by silence".
If the opponent silences your minion and kills you, how have they been "baited"?
Because silence effects dilute your ability to actually deal damage to your opponent. If you spend the turn silencing something, you've spent it not doing much, giving your opponent a chance to mass hysteria or use another board clear or play another big taunt to get back into the game.
I think you are missing the point. There is a certain amount of value to the card. But it is useless in Priest because Priest has no winning archetype right now.
I am not missing the point. There is no point in discussing the meta until the whole set is revealed, or honestly, until the whole set is actually out and we can test it and play around with it. Especially considering we don't even know what the priest quest is.
An Applebaum revived by this card is most definitely a target of silence whether it comes from a "low tempo" Spellbreaker or "low value" Silence spell, or Hex or Earth Shock or Owl or Polymorph or whatever.
Then you baited their limited silence effects onto a thing you summoned with a four drop and you still have a 3/1 and a 4/5 on the board. Seriously how is "beaten by silence" still an argument. Did we not use sludge belcher because it got 'beaten by silence'?
Except most decks can kill both the revived minion and the reborn one in one fell swoop. And then there is silence effects.
Silence effects are low-tempo (spellbreaker) or low value (silence spell). Destroying a minion and the reborn one requires multiple resources to deal with a single four drop.
I don't think this "saves" priest (as much as that's worth talking about before the whole set is revealed) but I think this is definitely a sturdy card in a multitude of priest decks.
Harvest Golem effectively has rebirth. That is a three mana card that is not really strong enough to be played, but we will liberally call it worth three. So then reviving a 2/3 is basically like playing a HG and a 3/1. You are only paying one extra mana for that 3/1, so it is a reasonably "good value". And of course reviving something bigger (such as IBM) is very good.
I was talking about the worst case scenario. And reviving a 2/3 with this is better than harvest golem is, while the extra 3 health from onyx bishop for 1 mana is effectively irrelevant for what you're using this card for.
An applebaum revived by this is essentially almost a sludge belcher that heals you twice. A zilliax revived by this is like two righteous protectors. An infiltrator gets to kill 2 targets. Yes it might mess up your long-term plays with mass resurrection, but against a lot of faster decks that could be worth it just to get that rebirth zilliax. And priest still has lots of other value plays it can make.
It feels like it about as good as Onyx Bishop, which did nothing to revive Priest. It is also likely to have the same fate.
It's way better than Onyx bishop, it's 4 mana instead of 5 which is a significant mana difference. For one thing, you're not running vanilla 1/1s with this. (What vanilla 1/1s does Priest even run?) And literally even a 2/3 is decent-ish value with rebirth. Even Northshire Cleric isn't bad. Rebirth is so much more of a powerful mechanic than people are giving it credit for.
How are they playing bloodlust and using a silence the same turn? Silences are expensive and they leave your opponent with stats on the board for trading. Transform effects are even more expensive.
Also Applebaum is just one example. There's Zilliax, there's Imposter, there's lots of other cards which slow down your opponent and keep you in the game. I'm not saying this is the best card in the game, or even that it'll see play (I have no idea, no one does), but it's not a bad card because it gets "beaten by silence".
Because silence effects dilute your ability to actually deal damage to your opponent. If you spend the turn silencing something, you've spent it not doing much, giving your opponent a chance to mass hysteria or use another board clear or play another big taunt to get back into the game.
I am not missing the point. There is no point in discussing the meta until the whole set is revealed, or honestly, until the whole set is actually out and we can test it and play around with it. Especially considering we don't even know what the priest quest is.
Then you baited their limited silence effects onto a thing you summoned with a four drop and you still have a 3/1 and a 4/5 on the board. Seriously how is "beaten by silence" still an argument. Did we not use sludge belcher because it got 'beaten by silence'?
Silence effects are low-tempo (spellbreaker) or low value (silence spell). Destroying a minion and the reborn one requires multiple resources to deal with a single four drop.
I don't think this "saves" priest (as much as that's worth talking about before the whole set is revealed) but I think this is definitely a sturdy card in a multitude of priest decks.
I was talking about the worst case scenario. And reviving a 2/3 with this is better than harvest golem is, while the extra 3 health from onyx bishop for 1 mana is effectively irrelevant for what you're using this card for.
An applebaum revived by this is essentially almost a sludge belcher that heals you twice. A zilliax revived by this is like two righteous protectors. An infiltrator gets to kill 2 targets. Yes it might mess up your long-term plays with mass resurrection, but against a lot of faster decks that could be worth it just to get that rebirth zilliax. And priest still has lots of other value plays it can make.
It's way better than Onyx bishop, it's 4 mana instead of 5 which is a significant mana difference. For one thing, you're not running vanilla 1/1s with this. (What vanilla 1/1s does Priest even run?) And literally even a 2/3 is decent-ish value with rebirth. Even Northshire Cleric isn't bad. Rebirth is so much more of a powerful mechanic than people are giving it credit for.
Even if you bring back a 3 drop with this, the Rebirth part makes this pretty worthwhile I think.
I don't see what kind of deck this belongs in right now (big priest is pretty awkward) but it's got some potential!