New Journey to Un'Goro Card Revealed: Raptor Hatchling
A new Hunter Beast has been revealed by GNN! Thanks to czhihong for the translation.
Update March 29 2:30 PM: Blizzard has given us the proper names for the two cards. Check them out below!
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This card may not be that strong, it's all depends on how quick you can draw the one mana 4/3, so the chances are you are not draw this high value card at all or you draw it for late game, which does not matter if you can play one mana 4/3. Overall, this card works more or less like white eyes, but more powerful, because you can play two of them and play them earlier to dominate the board.
Have you not seen the Hunter quest, dude? Or the 5drop that pulls two 1drops for you?
Hunters are basically going to get to T7 and flood the field with 1drops, that IS their new lategame
Cancer Hunter is back! Thanks, Blizzard! (rollseyes)
Clever girl...
For some reason the preview on the main site lacks the beast tag. I was *this* close to rant to blizzard how come a raptor is not a beast :)
Does anybody thinking too, that too many 1-mana drops with OP stats? 1-mana 4-3 is pretty strong and imbalanced.
True balance is impossible unless every class had the same card. Oh yeah no hero powers too :(
EDIT: I suggest you play Euchre or Poker.
1 mana 4/3 is only OP if you could draw it/mully for your opening hand to play turn 1 or 2. That being said I still think this is a strong card, but it does start out as a standard 2/1.
Well, look at it like this. Evolve and Devolve are both terrible for the 4/3; but you're likely going to use it only with Tundra Rhino, which any Hunter will likely go back to running if they haven't been. (I don't really keep up with decks well)
Except you clearly didn't look at the Hunter quest, which adds 15 1drops to your deck with "Battlecry: Draw 1"
You also obviously didn't see the T5 minion that adds two onedrops to your hand.
1 mana 4/3... *sigh*
I really thought when I first saw it that would be a 3 mana 4/3 raptor, but being a 1 mana, this card is insanely op.
The actual name of the card could be "Raptor Hatchling".
https://dekki.com/en/games/hearthstone/dekk/raptor-hatchling
I think this is good for constructed (especially paired with some other cards like the Hunter Quest), but I'm not sold on this being good for arena.
For Arena, typically you want something which has an immediate effect and/or impact on board. For example Fiery Bat puts a random 1 damage into play which the opponent has to immediately work around. This card (Small Raptor) on the other hand is very slow. The 2/1 doesn't immediately do anything, and generally I don't feel vanilla 2/1's are very strong for arena (especially against Mage/Rogue who can cleanly take care of them). So you have to wait for the 4/3 to be drawn before you gain the benefit... but drawing a 4/3 for 1 is only game breaking if you draw that in the first few turns. Later on, the low mana cost for stats does not make a huge impact on the game.
Blizz, stop buff Shaman. Maelstrom Portal OP (I'm talking about the the small raptor with deathrattle)
The Raptor is an uncollectable token, so it can't be summoned by Maelstrom Portal.
But the 2/1 can. (Arguably, this can backfire on the Shaman too, filling your deck with a token and clogging card draw), depends I suppose.
-____- I'm talking about the small raptor. You summon a 2/1 with deathrattle shuffle a 4/3. Shaman has better draws than hunter and you eventually gonna draw it
Ah, sorry, somebody else below also brought up Maelstrom Portal and claimed the 4/3 raptor could be summoned by it, so I thought that's where you were going too. =P
Thats ok =]
Oh god...a 4/3 from Maelstrom Portal in a aggressive deck would be insta-concede but shuffle it in a deck with double Mana Tide Totem it is pretty good when you can cast some AoE and and still have mana left to drop a 4/3 and 2x 5/5 taunt