Only reason TBK isn't used nowadays is because the biggest taunt minion most decks will have is Sludge Belcher, and you can see why that wouldn't work out very well for TBK. Should the meta slow down from aggro-midrange to midrange-control (likely given the direction of the currently released cards for this expansion), then bigger taunts (like this) become more appealing and thus TBK also becomes more appealing. He'll always be most relevant right when you'd want him, the benefit of being a tech card.
Plus he's a hard check that helps prevent cards like this from ever really dominating. Can't build a deck around a massive Taunt creature and expect it to be tier 1 with such an efficient answer to your play existing as a neutral. Exactly the same case made with BGH and anything over 6 attack nowadays.
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I think spell mages could really like this card. Especially with effigy. Buffing all their spells by 2 is huge. Only spell decks will ever use this card though.
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Want a 3/6 charge?
Stonetusk Boar
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Does this work even in C'Thun is in the graveyard?
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This is actually bad. Because most of the good deathrattle cards are now wild. THis card will be in every Wild Hunter deck. Normal will not see this card.
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Theraxin, no other class can freeze you right out of the game, or wrek your face with 10+ damage worth of spells over multipe turns. Also the water elemental is one of the best 4 mana minions in the game. Also Flame strike is the most OP aoe in the game. It's apppropriately exoensive though. That card alone is why rush have 6-7 turns max to beat mage.
I would say mage is more broken than most classes. It has no situationally OP minions but it has a ton of situationally OP spells. Also there is almost no bad mage cards. Almost every other class has a few really bad cards. So bad they are unplayable. The only really unplayable mage card is Flame Leviathan and it's getting relegated to the wild garbage dump soon anyway.
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Having all the information out there is good to know.
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