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Okay, so before I go submit this card, I have a few questions I want feedback on. My idea with the card was to give Discard Warlock a new, cool card to use. Remember, it's only MINIONS; no discarded spells will be cast.

• Is it unique enough?
• Is the effect too overpowered for its cost/attack/health?

 

Thank you in advance.

 Let's see here.

This effect can be pretty bonkers in the earlygame if you discard like a doomguard off of succubus and resummon that, but that's not really any more broken than Barnes is I'd say, so perfectly balanced, amyrite?

Considering that doomguard is the biggest thing that feeds this as well as probably the best thing to bring back through it brings up an interesting conundrum (and a solution to having both doomguards in hand ;) ).

In the earlygame it can net you a powerplay, in the endgame it can net you a pseudo n'zoth turn, depending if this thing lives or not.

Let's see what kind of situations could arise from this. The obvious synergies would be deathrattle minions, right? You summon all the deathrattles you discarded, twice because you can run 2 of these, and the deathrattles trigger regardless.

Would mean you'd have to play a deathrattle theme and a discard theme in the same deck to get maximum (and still inconsistent) value off it. You probably don't want to run a lot of spells in a deck like that as well. So you end up with a deck that has barely any spells, and as a result barely any AoE. The spells that you do have have a chance of being discarded.

So you'd want the crazy deathrattles, like maybe sylvanas, cairne, etc. But all the discard cards are pretty aggressive, aren't they? I don't think you can really play a control game if you rely on doomguard and the like. You're just going to run out of cards. And an aggressive approach gets damage from the discarded charge minions and then just gets wrecked when the guy gets destroyed, drawing maybe a card off of a revived librarian. But in the end, you don't really lose anything for running him.

An aggressive option would love to combo it with a silence, too. But I doubt that situation would come up often enough considering you're playing a discard theme. Keeping 2 specific cards around while you burn random cards in your hand is not exactly... reliable.

That's my analysis. Bonkers card if it can survive. Not too detrimental if it doesn't. Not really any burst combo potential. Wouldn't spawn new deck archetypes, would go into an existing aggressive discardlock. Jokers would probably combo it with spellbreaker or owl, but it wouldn't be broken even if you do that, I'd say - unless you play a super greedy deck, in which case you lose against aggro anyway.

 Well, didn't this become quite the wall of text :) . Guess that at least proves that the card is interesting.

 

Okay, so before I go submit this card, I have a few questions I want feedback on. My idea with the card was to give Discard Warlock a new, cool card to use. Remember, it's only MINIONS; no discarded spells will be cast.

• Is it unique enough?
• Is the effect too overpowered for its cost/attack/health?

Thank you in advance.