Hearthpwn

YOU FRICKIN MAD LAD! +1 from me~!

That's the thing with Lone Champion being "better" in some ways; You need to somehow specifically design a deck that has elemental in order to get the taunt/divine shield. You also need to play that said elemental a turn prior to playing Tol'vir Stoneshaper, which in my opinion is low flexibility for a neutral card (Mage, Shaman, and probably Priest utilize this more easily than the rest of the class). Sometimes ya can't afford to play Tol'vir Stoneshaper right away and end up losing the synergy.

For Lone Champion the condition is much more easier to set as it simply requires you to have no board, and Mid-range, Control, or any other non-aggressive decks can satisfy the condition to enable to battlecry anyway. You have a bit more control with your own board state... So in my opinion I wouldn't want to consider Tol'vir Stoneshaper since Lone Champion is a card that is more reliable in all classes that can effectively utilize its battlecry.

Personally I am very optimistic about this card because not only is it a supposed taunt/divine shield minion but it is available to all classes. These types of cards are normally limited to classes like Paladin or Priest... But as a Hunter player I am thrilled to try this guy out in my Control Hunter deck I've been developing. If your deck has a slow progression, or just non-aggro, then being able to activate the ability isn't really that hard.

Based on the statistics it looks like Hunter is the class that uses this card the most, which I say "Hell yeah!".

Funny thing is, Dreadscale + a poisonous minion was how I *almost* defeated the Lich King xD.

What happened was that after I used my hero card to wipe the 2nd phase of the Lich king (Frostmourne and spirits) I was already low on health and needed to prevent him from building a board. I wasn't aware that the adventure format was wild so I when I saw Dreadscale I just picked it along with a poisonous minion unknowingly and awaited for the turn to play it. After the Lich King ended his turn I played Dreadscale along with a removal to remove one of his big minions, after ending my turn Dreadscale's effect triggered and I realized, "...Oh yeah... >:)".

Although I maintained board control as Dreadscale continuously cleared the Lich King's board and dealing damage to him his hero power was stacking up in damage and I had 2 lifesteal minions in which I didn't want to lose. Since I couldn't find a charge + lifesteal minion I ended up dying to the hero power with the Lich King barely having 5 health left :C.

My Zom-beast: 4 mana 4/4, "Charge. After this minion attacks a hero, Adapt"