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Quote from Pmanda >>

Oh no! My late game card costs ONE MORE!? What ever will I do?

Quote from siggees >>

how is that scenario invalid exactly? Turn 2 coin + Questing, turn 3 2x Ancestral Totem. then just stack the totems on each other for infinite value. Please.

The first Ancestral Totem would be forced to bounce the Questing Adventurer.

You get back a copy of the minion that was killed. If the second "spawn" of the Harvest Golem is killed, you'll get a copy of the second one. If the first is killed, you'll get a copy of the first.

Same goes for Sludge Belcher and every other similar minion.

In other words, if the enemy kills the 3/5 Belcher, you'll get the 3/5. If he kills the 1/2 spawned by the Belcher, you will get two 1/2s, NOT 3/5 Belchers, in your hand.

Quote from Banquetto »

I don't get it. You had 2 armor 1 health, he fired two Arcane Missiles and three of the six missiles hit you. You lose.

How did RNGESUS not smile upon him?

Armorsmith

You may want to do some diagnostics on your network connection, that sounds like packet loss to me... Not saying it's guaranteed to be, but what you're experiencing seems to be the exception rather than the rule. The only time I've experienced similar issues is when my internet connection was degrading and dropping packets.

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Quote from metulwurker »

I agree that you will get gold, you certainly will not get 700 a week by "usual game play experience".

12 wins and 60 G quest per day is too much time for you?

12 wins, assuming 50% win rate, is 24 games. At 10 minutes a game (some games may go faster, most won't), that's 240 minutes, or 4 hours. Most people don't play 4 hours of Hearthstone per day.

Quote from modded »

Because it dies to everything, you can't protect it. At least patient assassin has stealth, but his hp is too low.

To counter this point - The majority of 3 drops die to anything, the only really reasonable exception is Harvest Golem.

The difference? Aside from dealing with 2 drops, Harvest Golem is, at best, a 1-for-1, and outright dies (0-to-1) to higher cost drops. For instance, it dies to a Chillwind Yeti (over two turns, maybe, but it does). If you're top decking and draw one on, say... turn 9, it's going to feel like a semi-weak draw.

Emperor Cobra may die to everything, but it's very close to a guaranteed 1 for 1. It doesn't die to most AoE (Blizzard, Holy Nova, Consecration, etc - one of the big things it has over Patient Assassin), will trade for anything at the same rate that Harvest Golem does, can actually be useful later in the game (unlike Harvest Golem), and to top it off, provides an amazing amount of control if you can drop it on an empty board... it throws a threat down that Harvest Golem can't even begin to compete with.

Again, I'm not saying it's even close to a top-tier card, but in the 3 drop slot, I think it's actually one of the better minions (in any stall/control deck at least, as it actually has some late game presence). Especially against Young Priestess/Blood Imp-pumped low cost taunters.

Anyways, just my thoughts, interested in hearing some counterpoints - honestly, I'm just trying to see the card from all angles, to make sure I'm not missing a weakness (or a better card for the slot) elsewhere. I've been playing it in my Paladin deck, and it's provided me with some incredibly strong trades in combination with some protection and Argent Protector.