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Can functionally Rush/Charge minions actually be "asleep". I think it should automatically ignore the effect of Sleepy Resident

I like Sleepy Resident as a powerful anti aggro tool but some decks like Handbuff Paladins have ways around it. Paladins can clear the taunt with what they have on the board then summon their rush or charge minions to continue attacking what is left. 

It is certainly is strong though. Summoning copies of this with Elise, Badlands Savior would surely annoy some decks.

It has a potential condition that makes it very weak. If the opponent's damage is enough only to kill that and do nothing further - or close to that, then it's like the keyword didn't exist.

Priests are gonna find a way to make beached whale the most annoying thing ever, aren't they? 

Beached Whaled might be my new all time favorite minion.

Taunt Whale Warrior incoming

Sleepy Resident seems decent in a combo deck just looking to stay alive.

I swear Sleepy Resident looked familiar, there's a tavern brawl with a very very similar card and it was the best card in that tavern brawl by a mile.

Red Riding Hood

No it wasn't. I would much rather get a 5/6 or three 3/2 elementals out of that portal.

Quick Review

• Cryopractor: N-Ice pun. I don't know how much I care about a Cryostasis with legs. But I could see it in a very Frost focused deck.
• Sleepy Resident: I don't get the flavor, but is a very strong Taunt, probably the strongest Taunt it's kinda as stronger Red Riding Hood which is an special card that it's supposed to be unbalanced.
• Resort Valet: A random card of any set is still a random card. But is not a bad option to pick from Pirate generators, and is *kinda* and okay Pirate with "card draw" but the pool is small enough to give you cards that you are already playing in your deck more often than not.
• Coconut Cannoneer: Not too impresive cause most of the time is only going to deal 2 damage, but combined with cards that can attack multiple times per turn, could be interesting. It's also a cheap Pirate with a big booty, so never is going to be totally umplayable.
• Hozen Roughhouser: Pirate Rokara what else I can say? Feels like a really solid option, and unlike Roky, the minions get +1/+1 *before* attacking, so it has immediate impact when is played. Quite a strong Pirate support.
• Terrible Chef: Terrible name, okay effect. In an egglock gives you 2 bodies to sacrifice. You are kinda paying 3-Mana to summon a Nerubian Egg with +2 Attack, so is instantly enabled. It could perfectly replace Devilsaur Egg .
• Wave Pool Trasher: Sketchy. If you are a swarm/zoo deck, the Battlecry is bad for you, if you are not, the Deathrattle is bad for you. It is unreliable, specially cause it's going to often die in your opponents turn, but I kinda like the idea.
• Beached Whale: Very cute art. Too similar to Damaged Stegotron , and that card isn't that hot, but 20 Health is a hella lot of Health. I don't think that is worthit for a Inner Fire OTK, too much work for that. But if you can special summon it it's quite a overwhelming wall as long can't be hard removed, and...it can. But maybe you can play it in a Recruit deck, maybe you can sneak a malicious Health-Attack swaper to finish the game in case that the minion sticks. But that's a bit of living in a fever dream.

Beached whale is absolutely disgusting. A 4/10 taunt for 7 mana is already decent. There are currently a few ways to summon it from hand or revive it too. Vs any deck that's minion based, if you revive this with 20 hp, the game's literally over. They need to stop printing big taunts. I want to play minions again. So sick of the dogshit control meta where players do nothing but prevent their opponents from playing the game. If this card sees no play, it's a testament to how powercrept the game state is

It has implications where you can get it as a 4/20, but a 7 mana 4/10 taunt is anything but decent today lol. That’s just a horrible ancient of war, which wouldn’t see play in any sense of the word for the last 5 or so years. 

What does sleepy resident do?

I'm assuming "asleep" is the status minions have when they first enter the board (unless they have rush or charge), because they have the "Zzz" coming off of them. 

So when Sleepy Resident dies on your opponent's turn, the opponent won't be able to attack anymore. They can kill your taunt, but won't get to hit face after that.

Hence, it's an extremely weak keyword, *IF* you have the damage only to kill that.

4/20 is finally getting into my territory. I have wanted for many years weird and uneven statlines.

Chef is a kinda dumb amount of beef for 3 mana and no conditions. We're getting a whole ton of pirates and a lot of them have attack synergies. Patches the Pilot gives you a lot of little attacking pirates. I think DH is gonna be a pirate synergy class.

Beached whale art is wrong. It was supposed to be an image of your mum!