New Hunter Card Revealed: Venomstrike Trap
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A free Emperor Cobra is good, but if you are against Mages and Priests, the Snake will be dead before you can use it, or a Priest can even turn the Snake against your board's biggest minion.
Yeah I really wouldn't play this secret with a big taunt minion on your own side of the board.
Next expansion is Rat Trap.
So they finally decided that Control Hunter can exist. And Rogue can have a heal (lifesteal weapon). Guess Blizz can admit their mistakes sometimes.
I suspect they decided it on the grounds that in this expansion they are death knights as much as hunters and rogues (similarly druids got AoE), so this might not continue in future expansions.
Besides, homogeneity across classes is not a good thing, and a class being able to do everything isn't good for the game either (see shaman last year) so I don't think it was a mistake to begin with
So stupid. Forcing beasts and beast synergies every single expansion pisses me off, really. It's annoying to realize that you literally cannot build a competitive hunter deck without beast synergies.
Are you the guy who hit my cat with his car and then just left him to die on the side of the road?
of course u need Beast synergy it's a Pet class in WOW
Really it's like saying "It's so hard to play Warlock without demons". What?!
Ya man....im so with you...been tring to build a mage around beasts but fricking blizzard is forcing me to use spells...who would have thought a mage is a spellcaster...i guess i'll just play a hunter...dumbass
Well, you are still lucky, at least Blizzard gives you nice spells for your beast mage. I am trying to create spell warrior with malygos as finisher, but it seems impossible! Who has decided that warrior can go only either with weapons or armor?
It's not. For the history of Hearthstone, warlocks had big taunts, zoo theme, all kinds of demons, discards, dealing damage to yourself, killing ppl with 20+ damage combo, dragons and Malygos also were there. All of those themes were represented in competitively viable decks. You could build a warlock deck without forced mechanics, easily. And that is not the case for hunters.
And hunters... Well. They have had and they will have only beast decks with different degrees of aggression. Prove me wrong.
If that feels fun and interesting to you - well, sorry for triggering you, boys (sorry for assuming your genders either), but it is not the case for me. I literally cannot play the class without beasts theme - and I'm not talking about good cards which happen to be beasts (e. g. highmane) - just in case I have to say it out loud for you to get it.
Spells in general are not a theme, unless you mean spell synergies or creating a shit load of random spell generation. Well, guess what, there had been a lot of mage decks without those, using not more spells than a regular deck of another class would. Therefore, your sarcastic analogy is invalid.
Damn, this card is disgusting.
Good in the early game as a 2/3 board controller who's a beast, good in the late game to snap a big fatty.
Just all around great for 2 mana, plus getting this from Professor Poisonous or w/e will be amazing too.
Not saying this will be meta defining, but I think it goes in every Secret Hunter deck for sure.
Isn't the whole point of rolling out an expansion to release cards that will be used?
It would be even more disgusting if it acted like Noble Sacrifice
I feel like the creation of Professor Putricide for this set is only achievable because of this card. We were going to get more Secrets for Hunter, which is good. Hunter needs to have a presence on the board if the Hunter is going to be relevant at all that match. This Secret is great. My first impression was "Hunter needs better than this with this expansion", but remembered Hunter gets at least one Secret each expansion, which really is a good thing, and this Secret could be quite what it needs.
Especially with Bear Trap being Wild.
not bad for a 2 mana secret.