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That's a good DK, board wipe vs midrange and a HP that's at least 4 damage a turn ... yeah I'll craft it.

People need to stop and consider that unlike Earthenring Farseer, Acolyte of Agony requires Pirate Warrior to invest resources into removing it from the board AND Life Steal "powers up" Corpse Taker as well.

Surprising this card hasn't been well received, it seems custom made for Paladin to take advantage of with four, 1 mana Divine Shield minions.

I would love to see Ice Block deleted from the game, it's the epitome of non interactive cards in Hearthstone and facilitates even more non interactive decks. Blizzard should be able to design "smarter" cards for Mage sustainability than "nah na nah na nah na, you can't kill me." I could do it in right now, like; Secret, 3 mana - whenever a character attacks your Hero, Freeze all enemy characters. At least then you'd still be able to do damage with Charge, Spells and Hero Powers to end the game.

Just the Water package in an aggressive Shaman deck lets this card find Finja, Warleader, Bluegill and fill out your curve along the way - I don't think you even need the quest for this card to be really strong as one of and if you're playing in Wild with Murkeye maybe a two of. Definitely playable.

This card is going to be played if for no other reason it enables Corpse Taker with Taunt and Life Steal and N'Zoth with Deathrattle, the card may be slightly under powered in and of itself but N'zoth recurring this is no practical joke.

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Imagine thinking people are upset about this card because it's gamebreaking and not because its RNG distilled down to it's least interactive form. That's why I hate it. I know it's not going to ruin every game ever, but the idea of dealing with Warlock having an RNG based card burn that doesn't even require a mill setup for the next two years is really bumming me out because it will be incredibly boring to play against. Half the time it will burn nothing, half the time it will burn N'Zoth or something equally important. That's just shit card design. Having no negative effect just doubles the "might as well" nature of the card. 

 How is that any worse than the RNG already present in the game of not drawing the card you need for the entire game?

 Because you normally at least have some level of control over your own deck? Sure, it's RNG, but you can put in more draw, weight your deck towards certain cards and effects, and even then, it's a card game. Some RNG is always present. This, on the other hand, is your opponent messing with your deck to absolutely no detriment of their own. Just because Poker is about RNG doesn't mean it wouldn't be irritating to play a game against someone who's allowed to tell the dealer to skip a card when they deal to you personally.

 Your opponent is not messing with your deck. Your opponent is revealing to you a card you are not going to draw this game. This is generally useful information for you.

 ...and if that card is N'Zoth in a deathrattle control deck? Or White Eyes in a shaman deck? Or Leeroy in an OTK warlock deck? I understand the argument that relying on one card out of 30 to win is stupid, but some decks just DO rely on having a few cards be important, and this will screw those decks every now and then. Again, Im not saying this is a game breaking card, this isn't the end of the world, I just see it as a really uninteractive way of messing with your opponent and I'm not keen to deal with it. As DisguisedToast put it: "Competitive potential 0. Salt potential 9001"

I love this, it makes combo Hunter a real thing if you consider how consistently you tutor for Emperor, Malygos or Yogg Saaron with it

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The people who aren't complaining about it are the people who play brainless aggro decks.

I think people are just venting their frustration over the mechanic being something that they believe shouldn't be in Hearthstone at all, and it's something of an overreaction considering A) the card is practically unplayable in control and B) it's limited to Warlock which is currently an unplayable class and C) we've already been dealing with similar issues ever since Deathlord and Dirty Rat were released.

I understand people who hate these effects just in principle tho', counter spells, discard and mill are all "unfun" mechanics better left to Magic in their minds.

This isn't a resident sleeper like Dirty Rat was, Control isn't going to play it because it's worthless vs aggro and aggro isn't going to play it because there are more threatening minions to pressure their life total with.

This is going to be more interesting in Wild than Standard I think, the synergy with Implosion and Impgang Boss means the opponent has to take the tokens seriously or it's a board wipe.

Man, not much of a reason for this not to be at least 2/3, it's not like Fallen Hero had any impact.

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In Paladin its not broken. It will be a Wickerflame with 3/3 for 4 mana...

In Shaman with AL'AKIR it has the potential to be very good.

I vote playable

In order to be broken it has to meet ALL 4 conditions which will not happen. If it happens we are talking about a VERY GOOD card

Not meta defining though. PPL are overreacting 

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"If your deck has...." makes this more interesting; if a paladin has Wickerflame, for example, but draws him before this card then Taunt, Lifesteal, and Divine Shield might not be in their deck. It's unlikely, for example, that you'd run enough windfury cards to consistently have one behind. 

 I do agree, but the sick thing is that if you are playing a paladin deck you already will have multiple taunt and divine shield activators (tirion). If you are running 1 of the chillblade champion, you most likely will have enough triggers to reliably get pseudo wickerflames like crazy

 That's another good point, but it'll be challenging to get ALL of the special abilities. Taunt is easy, as is divine shield for the paladin class. We'll see how many lifesteal minions there end up being, but I'd not bet that it's many. There've never been that many windfury minions which see frequent play. 

 Barring a good windufry minion coming out with this expac it'll be pretty rare to see outside of shaman I think.  Whom also has some good synergies with the card.  I think the key to success to this card will be including enough other minions that will feature 3 of the 4 effects at least and that you can afford to have two sources of each.  2 divine shield, 2 lifesteal 2 taunt etc etc.  This to avoid drawing those minions out of your deck entirely and severly hampering this cards effectiveness.  Paladin already does this extremely easily.  Taunts = Stone Hill Defender, Divine shield = Tirion Fordring and WickerFlame Burnbristle, Life steal = Wickerflam and maybe add in one of the new 3/2 lifesteal chargers.  This isn't too far off from what some Paladins are already playing.  Other than the two spots (or one) for Corpsetaker itself, that makes 7 cards you could still build another entire other theme in.  Control paly, or midrange murloc would probably still be playable here.  You may still be able to play aggro as well and just remove the stonehills, cause taunt is less important and add in some argent squires to double down on making your little face rockets harder to remove.  You could even remove wickerflame at that point, further ignoring taunt and just add in another 3/2 lifesteal charger, more aggro and lifesteal is pretty dang good against other aggro decks.