They both require combos, whereas Ticking Abom works on an empty board. I'm honestly hyped a bit for the meme but I think its going to do well in Arena.
The problem of Ticking Abomination is the same as Venture Co. Mercenary, it is going to limit your next turn play, so the best thing to do, if your opponent plays it, you go face, he won't be able to play any minions next turn, and even worse if your opponent freezes it or puts a small taunt in the way to prevent good trades. Is it really worth it to play a tiny better Chillwind Yeti that can lose you the game just by itself ? The answer is pretty obvious.
It's a lot slower than Explosive Sheep, which is not seeing play in constructed (in wild) and I think the sheep is really powerful
But even if it looks really slow & sketchy, it is a board clear and druid really need one, I guess it'll be playable is meta slows down tiny bit, which I don't think so but we'll see.
Don't fantasy on Houndmaster, it is just a vanilla 4/3 minion 90% of the time.
lol ok. We'll see how you feel a month from now when midrange Hunter is punching you in the face with it every other game. This card is very good and horrible for the game.
I won't try to convince you that a 3 drop that dies to most 2 drops of the game is bad, I'll remind your comment, tho !
A lot of people are wondering if this weapon is playable if Blizzard releases more Freezing effect for Shaman. Mage has the best freezing effect of the game, the question is, would you play this card as mage ? They never even bothered to play Shattered, who has the same effect.
And with the fact that Shaman probably has the best removals of the game (Devolve, Hex, Maelstrom Portal, Lightning storm, Volcano) Which one of these will you cut out to put a Freezing card + this weapon ?
Envenom Weapon is a strictly better version of this card and sees absolutly no play in constructed.
Envenom is better, but it doesn't get played because rogue has no heal. All rogue weapons suck because of that. Shaman has plenty of healing. This weapon with ftost elementals and a couple more freeze cards will be great for a control type elemental deck.
So, you will remove Hex or Volcano, to play a 2 cards 9 mana combo that kills 1 minion in exchange of health ? And you think it's good because you'll play healing aswell ? I can see you don't do too much deck building...
A lot of people are wondering if this weapon is playable if Blizzard releases more Freezing effect for Shaman. Mage has the best freezing effect of the game, the question is, would you play this card as mage ? They never even bothered to play Shattered, who has the same effect.
And with the fact that Shaman probably has the best removals of the game (Devolve, Hex, Maelstrom Portal, Lightning storm, Volcano) Which one of these will you cut out to put a Freezing card + this weapon ?
Envenom Weapon is a strictly better version of this card and sees absolutly no play in constructed.
My biggest problem with this card is that 2 mana cards are so important to establishing board presence and tempo for the rest of a game. Plus, just like The Mistcaller before it, the +1/+1 buff with only a 1/30 chance of drawing it is still pretty bad and overall not worth it.
You can just cut your 2 drops and replace them with 1 and 3 drops. You either HP turn 2, play 2x 1 drops, coin a 3 drop or play keleseth if he's in your start hand. I laugh at everyone thinking he's bad, I expect him to be in every warlock and in most aggro/midrange minion heavy tempo decks.
I'd say it's combo because the win condition of the deck is to draw a lot to combo Auctioneer + Jade Idol when you drew all your deck. Even if it's true, it doesn't happen too much because the meta is really fast, so you don't have too much occasion to go on to fatigue. So a lot of time, you play this deck like a midrange one.
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4 mana Frost Shock OP ... Kappa
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This card is literally 100 dusts.
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It's a lot slower than Explosive Sheep, which is not seeing play in constructed (in wild) and I think the sheep is really powerful
But even if it looks really slow & sketchy, it is a board clear and druid really need one, I guess it'll be playable is meta slows down tiny bit, which I don't think so but we'll see.
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Don't fantasy on Houndmaster, it is just a vanilla 4/3 minion 90% of the time.
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A lot of people are wondering if this weapon is playable if Blizzard releases more Freezing effect for Shaman. Mage has the best freezing effect of the game, the question is, would you play this card as mage ? They never even bothered to play Shattered, who has the same effect.
And with the fact that Shaman probably has the best removals of the game (Devolve, Hex, Maelstrom Portal, Lightning storm, Volcano) Which one of these will you cut out to put a Freezing card + this weapon ?
Envenom Weapon is a strictly better version of this card and sees absolutly no play in constructed.
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A very good arena card, weaker than Vilespine Slayer tho, because it can't bypass a taunt.
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Renolock is pretty much dead right now. You will have a better chance with zoo even tho it's not in a good shape either.
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I'd say it's combo because the win condition of the deck is to draw a lot to combo Auctioneer + Jade Idol when you drew all your deck. Even if it's true, it doesn't happen too much because the meta is really fast, so you don't have too much occasion to go on to fatigue. So a lot of time, you play this deck like a midrange one.
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So, from my own experience... 20% of the time it was amazing, 40% of the time it was below average and another 40% total garbage.
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