Any card that makes people think twice about how they build their deck is meta-defining. If you look at the threads from other new cards, especially those with deathrattle, people are saying things like: "great card...except Psychic Scream". Deathrattle decks just became a lot worse solely because of this card. That's meta-defining.
I'm kind of reminded of how everyone drooled over The Mistcaller when it was first shown. How'd that work out for y'all?
The Mistcaller stats suck on it's own. Even if you get nothing from Grumble, Worldshaker's ability, he's still above curve. This card is auto-include in almost every Shaman deck. No comparison.
Well, I wouldn’t call it above curve. The stats are just average. Boulderfist Ogre
I'm kind of reminded of how everyone drooled over The Mistcaller when it was first shown. How'd that work out for y'all?
The Mistcaller stats suck on it's own. Even if you get nothing from Grumble, Worldshaker's ability, he's still above curve. This card is auto-include in almost every Shaman deck. No comparison.
I suddenly want to play a bad Silent Priest deck just to make my opponent draw a bunch of useless cards like Ancient Watchers and Humongous Razorleafs. Sure they will probably win, but I'll be the one laughing. Mwa ha ha!
This is going to suck to have to play around. There are now 4 mage secrets in standard that trigger when a minion is played (Mirror Entity, Potion of Polymorph, Frozen Clone and this). What is the optimal way to play around all of these? Something like Tainted Zealot wouldn't be too bad against any of these. What else?
Love the idea. Stats aren't good enough to compete with other 6 drop deathrattles unless you build a deck around it. Will be fun to play with but not competitive.
TBH every option by itself is mediocre but even the combination of 2 effects aren't really good but the flexibility of this card is really really good.
if you calculate all the options it's 2.5 mana or 3 mana worth of stuff
+1 attack and 6 armor maybe 1.5 mana - worse one but situationally good with the spellstone card (specially if it upgrades twice, but I believe it won't be.)
Decent for The Marsh Queen and The Caverns Below but pure crap everywhere else? Even in those decks it's going to die before it can make use of itself 90% of the time.
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Any card that makes people think twice about how they build their deck is meta-defining. If you look at the threads from other new cards, especially those with deathrattle, people are saying things like: "great card...except Psychic Scream". Deathrattle decks just became a lot worse solely because of this card. That's meta-defining.
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I suddenly want to play a bad Silent Priest deck just to make my opponent draw a bunch of useless cards like Ancient Watchers and Humongous Razorleafs. Sure they will probably win, but I'll be the one laughing. Mwa ha ha!
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This is going to suck to have to play around. There are now 4 mage secrets in standard that trigger when a minion is played (Mirror Entity, Potion of Polymorph, Frozen Clone and this). What is the optimal way to play around all of these? Something like Tainted Zealot wouldn't be too bad against any of these. What else?
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Wow! So many good Battlecry effects with this. And would you look at the body on this guy?! He's a beauty!
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Love the idea. Stats aren't good enough to compete with other 6 drop deathrattles unless you build a deck around it. Will be fun to play with but not competitive.
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Makes a golden version just for kicks. How cute.
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Just to be clear, no card in Hearthstone has ever kept a buff when put into your hand. This card is no different. Buffs will not stick to copies.
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Decent for The Marsh Queen and The Caverns Below but pure crap everywhere else? Even in those decks it's going to die before it can make use of itself 90% of the time.
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This is Meta-Defining! Rogues have secrets now. This is a whole new can of worms being opened up here.