Hearthpwn

There is no reason to put this in your deck lol

Seems fun tho

It doesn't work in combo, too much inconsistency and loss of tempo.

Now, MAYBE it can work in a Keleseth Mage. Run Keleseth, this, Grand Archivist, maybe Aluneth for cycle. If that deck can work, maybe this can see play. I still don't really see the point of that though since you never want to draw this and you will have to run a fair amount of low costed minions to ensure you curve out well, from which you don't really get a big benefit from playing as a 1 drop.

By the way even if you get the Dr Morrigan chain going somehow the moment you draw the second copy you get screwed

Wild. So it never dies? Wacky.

I don't know how to evaluate it, but it's certainly a legendary all right.

Overhyped. I'd rate Bad to Dust it.

A solitary copy of a spell in a 30 card deck that needs to be played as early as possible to see any benefit while causing a huge tempo loss? Doubtful. It's too inconsistent because you can't control what you have left in your deck. Different from Florist because you can Melon into your wincons. More like Quest Druid reward, which was never meta. Can't see it.

Even in a supposed "Big Mage" deck, would be just worse than Big Druid without the ramp, targeted draw, and also it's a 7 mana do nothing the turn it comes out. And you have to wait a few turns until you draw your minions.

Even in Quest/OTK Mage, blowing 7 mana to do nothing isn't something you can do anymore since Ice Block rotated. In OTK, if this doesn't hit your Antonidas, you're screwed. That means you get screwed automatically more than 50% of the time (since this can be either in front of or behind Antonidas so a 50% chance to be good/bad, but you're not guaranteed to be able to play the card straight away, which means you could get screwed even after drawing this card when you draw your Antonidas with this card in hand) - which automatically makes it not good as a deck premise.

Even with Aluneth, then you want to blow 13 mana doing nothing on the board? Way too risky. And Aluneth decks have traditionally utilized low cost cards because you needed to be able to dump your draws. If you load your deck with high cost stuff to take advantage of this spell then what about half of the time when you draw Aluneth before this card? You will end up with a clogged hand.

If you load your deck with low cost stuff why play this card?

Edit: It "might" have been playable if it was your hand only, then it would have very likely competed with Leyline Manipulator, although this deck would still be a really slow combo deck, but "your deck" just makes it super unreliable. At 7 mana it is WAYYY too expensive to use as any sort of tempo deck card imo.

So this basically gives you the Druid Quest reward provided you draw it quickly.

Because it's limited to cards currently in the deck I doubt whether this can see play

 Yes, OTK mage might love this if it got the free turn to play it early, but 7 mana for no board impact at all is not something you can do anymore since a certain card rotated out, and you won't be guaranteed a 1 mana Antonidas.

Those of you calling this slow need to take a good long look at Skull of the Man'ari.

5 mana do nothing LUL, so slow!

Turns out it's pretty good if you cheat out an expensive minion for free.

This thing does essentially the same thing; yeah, weapons are harder to interact with than minions obviously, but in return it's not tribe- specific.

I'm thinking about it, and imo this is really only worth if getting that extra copy of a spell is vital to your gameplan. Otherwise, just put that spell in your decklist instead of relying on RNG since the minion is highly mediocre.

To me it doesn't seem that viable in any other class but perhaps Shaman.

Best candidate imo is Kangor's Eternal Army in Paladin, since as is Paladin could do with a value grind using this card. but there are actually a fairly high amount of high costed Paladin spells that dilute the discover pool.

Maybe some kind of Control Priest could use it - their discover pool is good along with Mage, although Priest currently doesn't lack for additional high costed removal since Shadow Visions does that already. As for Mage...I don't think Big Spell really needs to put a third Meteor in their deck. Druid...again, I think they'd love a third Spreading Plague as an anti-aggro card, but there are quite a few spells that I don't think you want from this, notably UI no. 3+, Webweave, Living Mana, Force of Nature. Also not quite sure what you'd take out for this. The others I really don't see why you'd want a third copy of a spell.

Shaman currently has just 3 spells over 5; Bloodlust, Volcano, and the Spellstone. While Shudder could certainly do with a third Volcano, perhaps this may clog the hand way too much with expensive spells that are hard to get rid of that could be detrimental against a Control opponent, especially with Hagatha up. 

Edit: Also realized this lets you discover Bloodlust in Even Shaman, although doubtful on that because the tempo loss is so big. And thanks, forgot about Eureka.

As a PSA of sorts, "tutor" just means you draw a specific card. So Howling Champion for instance is a tutor. Recruit is a summon from deck effect so unless you care about the Battlecry, it is in effect a tutor effect.

So yes, Psychmelon is a tutor for this card.

Kinda surprised about how positive the voting is.

It's not a bad card by any means. It is good, but I'm not really thrilled about it either. It's a very decent 2-drop that can also be played with some healing effects later for some good recovery. It also has great synergy with other Lifesteal minions, and conveniently Corpsetaker.

In the days of Pirate Warrior, this card would have been amazing. But nowadays, the majority is control/combo decks, and slow Paladin decks have no win condition to close games out. Even the Death Knight is worthless against the competition.

Maybe one of the epics in this set puts this in a different perspective. If not, maybe in a future expansion, someday, when Paladin gets a card that can keep up with other lategame strategies. For now, I don't find it very appealing, aside from the fact that it's just a good card. But as a "good" card, it's not a must-have.

3/3 for 2 sounds okay. However, King's Defender has never seen play (although that was at the time of an unnerfed Fiery War Axe ) (Kings Defender is a three mana weapon). Additionally, it is a two mana weapon that only has 3 attack, when you are suffering a drawback. Spirit Claws didn't see play either after it was upped to two mana, although the condition is more advantageous (a spell power minion) and not too difficult to meet. And to benfit of the attack buff you need to be overloaded three times and know in beforehand that you need to attack next turn.

All in all, I think the risk of having a 2 mana 1 attack weapon and other drawbacks is not outweighing the benefit of the potential 3/3 attack weapon for two mana. I voted bad.

Edit: Would be better if the indication that you will have overload next turn also counts for the buff.

Control just won't work for paladin.  Control decks need a payoff: a final offense that made stalling and draining your opponent worthwhile.  It needs to be something that causes them to DIE outright.  

Paladin doesn't have that card or combo.  Shirvy is a powerful situation swinger, but he actually doesn't take over Tempo. What he does is a UI type effect.  In one turn you kill a minion, heal for 7, and have a minion that might as well have taunt.  Think Zilliax's daddy.  He won't win games due to being too strong. What he will do is destroy your opponent's offensive.  So he doesn't GIVE you Tempo, but he ruins your opponent's Tempo.  

What these cards do is give Paladin a strong TEMPO deck.  For example I found that Crystology mixed with a lot of 3 mana 1 attack taunts resulted in A LOT of slowdown against aggro decks.  You never gained the board but you kept them from your throat.  Then cards like Spikeridged, Spirit of the Tiger, and Templar let you push for pressure.  Lynessa, Silver Sword, Dinosize, and Prelate, those are big threats to further keep the pressure.  Cards like Tiger, Zillax, and hte like help to disrupt the opponent before you fully lose Tempo.  

Thus I believe Paladin will work as a Tempo deck with threats from turn 1 to turn 20.  

But CONTROL.  Control doesn't DO "drop a 4 mana 7/7". Galvadon isn't strong enough for that.  Tirion isn't strong enough for that.  You need a Grom, a Shudderwock, a Kingsbane, something that WILL WIN if given enough time and energy.  

Paladin just isn't a control deck.  They always worked best as Tempo with good recovery against aggro.  

I've got a bold prediction - it won't see play. Against aggro you can't afford to spend the mana required for healing without addresing the board first and against Control and Combo this doesn't do much. Hooked Reaver is a proactive play, this is way too slow.

it's like a worse hooked reaver. Doesn't do squat in control matchups.

Why do they insist on giving Paladin heal synergy when healing is one of the most ineffective and anti-tempo action in the game.

skulking geist lol

Quote from Trollbert >>

“We want a combo counter!”

”Here’s a niche counter card.”

”This makes us angrier for some reason!”

 Calling it a counter is being generous and acting like this is even close to anything people were asking for is being flat out disingenuous. People want neutral hand disruption or at the very least, more hand disruption spread throughout the rest of the classes. This card is garbage, that is why it makes people angry. Anyone who thinks this is going to break the meta or stop combo decks is a moron.

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COntrol pal for real?

 Control paladin needs a closer. This isn't it.

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if you play aluneth on turn 6, and then this on turn 7,you only draw 3 cards extra, which is nice, and it allows for some insane tempo, with aggro like plays with control minions

 Doing nothing on turn 6, followed by doing nothing on turn 7, is the exact opposite of insane tempo.

I really don't think that this card will make it for reasons already discussed here.

Cheap Spells/Costly Minions just doesn't seem practical.

Costly Spells/Cheap Minions could be made in to a deck but you take a big tempo hit paying 4 mana for this prior to playing your big minion for cheap. You also have to accept some pretty fierce deckbuilding restictions in order to make this happen.

Only two possible ideas can save this :

1) Playing the reduced cost minion the turn after you play Prismatic Lens, thus allowing you to play other cards alongside it which would not normally be possible. Archmage Antonidas would be a perfect example but is a Mage class card. Malygos has already been mentioned but Paladin doesn't really have the correct burn suite available to make this work.

2) Using this as a tutor for a particular card. Anyfin Can Happen has already been suggested and this idea may have merit but would probably feature iun a deck with only 3 spells : 2 copies of Anyfin Can Happen and 1 copy of Prismatic Lens alongside 27 or so Murlocs with as much Charge as you can get.

Option 2 seems good enough but is Wild only and isn't a serious upgrade upon the existing Anyfin deck since you want to play 7 Murlocs before casting Anyfin and, ideally, this will include Old Murk-Eye, Bluegill Warrior and Murloc Warleader. It takes time to draw and play enough of these cards so you don't necessarily need a cut-price Anyfin Can Happen as you are likely to be close to 10 mana by the time you even want to cast Anyfin.