This card might see competitive play and here is why:
At first I thought that you would get the chance to play some cards from your opponent's deck. After watching the video you can see that your opponent get's King's Ransom immediately.
So with an 8 mana card you can play a 2 mana card or something like that (no discounts, coins or anything else considered).
Your oppenent has to pay 5 mana to get his deck back, so actually this card makes your opponent skip half of his turn or otherwise he looses more cards of his deck.
From a tactical and strategic point of view this is AWESOME!
It's a card like Dirty Rat or Gnomeferatu which can completely fuck up your oppenent's deck's gameplan.
I love it!
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Works well on Queen Carnassa. You get three 11-11 for 5 mana that adds 15 Raptors in your deck, sick value AHah !!
Make sure to keep a Tundra Rhino in your hand...
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The quest is accelerated with the addition of Oaken Summons and Cursed Disciple. After that you can cycle pretty easily with Ultimate Infestation, Nourish and especially with Gadgetzan Auctioneer + Wild Growth.
About Barnabus not affecting cards in hand, the combo needs 4 cards but you only need like half of it at 0 cost and there's many combinations plus Kun the Forgotten King can cheat your way in sometimes.
Otherwise Leeroy Jenkins + Bonemare + Faceless Manipulator combo still does 20 damages and you only need Bonemare at 0 cost (+ Alex if your opponent is full life).
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Check this out :
The dream combo, after you played Barnabus :
1) Ixlid, Fungal Lord
2) Leeroy Jenkins
3) Bonemare on one Leeroy
4) Faceless Manipulator on the same Leeroy
5) You end up with one 6-2 Leeroy plus THREE 10-6 Leeroy = 36 charge damage !!!!
Add Alexstrasza to the mix for 15 extra damage ;)
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Sure, after you played Barnabus you need a combination of the following cards : Alexstrasza < Leeroy Jenkins < Bonemare and Faceless Manipulator for 20 damage on a 15~ Health opponent. You can draw the combo pieces with Ultimate Infestation or Nourish.
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Well with Cheat Death we might have a way to make it stick to the board somehow, otherwise it's still good AFTER the quest's done.
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1st try !