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Quote from leoshock2000 >>

 it doesn't fit in a single druid deck at the moment.

 

 Therein lies the problem with this analysis. Expansions aren't meant to be cards that fit into existing decks, they are meant to encourage new decks and archetypes. Also, this would fit quite nicely into a Wild Aviana, Kun the Forgotten King deck.

Obvious Wild synergy with Flame Leviathan.

Quest Druid wins by flooding the board with big expensive minions for free by drawing a bunch of cards after Barnabus the Stomper is played. Even if the echos of Phantom Militia cost zero, I wouldn't want it in a Quest Druid deck. I would rather pull an Ultimate Infestation than Phantom Militia.

Quote from FizzleFoot >>

Bugged?  I was playing as a rogue against a rogue.  Went to attack this card with a combo-activated Eviscerate and it added 4 attack to the card (which was sitting at 4/4) and did zero damage.  I was out an eviscerate and they now had an 8/4 Hench Clan Thug.

I agree that the effect doesn't have a Legendary feel to it, but could you imagine playing against 2 of these constantly refreshing their Divine Shield's? I don't think that's a world I want my children to grow up in.

The comparison to Hunter's Mark is only valid in the situations when you're using 1 Minion + 1 Spell to kill 1 Enemy Minion. There will be plenty of times when when you use 1 Minion to kill 1 of theirs + this spell to kill a second minion of theirs.

Flavor text is from the line in "The Dark Knight Rises" 

I just came up against one of these in Arena, and I am sold on this weapon. It doesn't just buff your current board, it buffs everything you play for the next 3 turns too. If anything survives the first round of buffing, it can get a second, third, fourth buff. On an evenly-matched board, or even a slightly-behind board, this thing can turn the tides rather well. Even if you're behind, it can help trade more favorably, and at least stabilize a little bit. The only time I see this being bad is if you have a way-behind board, but that is true of most cards.

A mediocre body at a high cost is a small price to pay for an effect that lasts an entire match.

Angry Chicken Meta incoming.

The reason the individual cards don't see play is that there aren't enough situations where they are useful on their own. They are sometimes good in some situations, and not useful in others. That is why they get pushed out by more useful, less situational cards. But what if you had a card that covered all situations? That's this card. It's never dead and it's going to have a combined impact far greater over the course of 100 matches by a pretty large margin compared to any of the individual cards. 

Unless your deck has Oaken Summons, I see no reason not to run this.

...care to elaborate...?

Fixed Bolf Ramshield.

Man, this expansion, Blizzard's got a thing for taking bad cards and fixing them.

This is probably going to be a 4-star card featured in every druid deck going forward for the next 2 years. I'm not saying it's a power-house or that it's meta-defining or anything like that, but you'd be hard-pressed to do anything better at 3-mana for just about any given situation when you have a Giant Wasp, Crypt Lord, Dalaran Mage and Druid of the Scythe all in one card. It's not flashy or even powerful in its effect, but it's probably ther best 3-mana card Druid has access to. It's got you covered against aggro all the way to even warlock and everything in between. I mean, you can't just say the card is merely playable when it's literally the best 3-mana option you have access to, right? It's very good.

If it was discovering a copy it would say "Discover a copy". Seems pretty clear.

took it out thanks

This card's not really that great. Yes, you can cheat out something at 7-10 mana - with the beast restriction - and that's fine... you have no shortage of excellent targets - but you're actually paying 6 mana to simply give a minion rush. This means your opponent can safely use up to 2 cards to answer it and not feel all that bad about it.

Some good targets are: Giant Anaconda, Grizzled Guardian, Tyrantus, Charged Devilsaur, Oondasta, and probably the new druid legendary minions (although they haven't been spoiled yet as of this writing).

I'd like to remind everyone that Rocket Boots exists, and with this card, you can give ANY minion rush and draw a card for 2 Mana, replacing itself. Obviously Rocket Boots has limits to how big you can go because it basically adds 2 mana to any minion to give it rush, but with Stampeding Roar, you're paying 4 more mana with no card replacement here, and unless you have a REALLY good justification for that self-inflicted card disadvantage, I don't really think you'd want to play this card, especially in arena.

Stampeding Roar can be a good tempo card on exactly turn 4-6 (it's usefulness later in the game plummets as the game goes on), but once Ultimate Infestation is rotated out of standard and Nourish is sent to wild (it's going to happen sooner or later), the card disadvantage here is really going to hurt, especially since you're already taking card advantage losses by simply ramping in the first place. Also, many of the best targets are going away post-rotation as well... like almost all of them. I give this card like 3-3.5/5 stars now and 2/5 stars post rotation.

r/woosh

Seriously, i think that he was sarcastic. I too