New Paladin Card Revealed: Righteous Defender
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To standard Pirate Warriors: hello again, hello again, hello again.
This is my first "News Post Comment".
Strictly better Argent Squire, which is already an insane 1-drop.
Not really, if you buff Argent Squire you may want her to hide behind another taunt.
But in most cases, yes it is like a void walker.
The new bolvar will probably be in a deck with argent squire, now with this, it will make it so that before you can even attack bolvar, he would be a 3/7 divine shield, hit him once and he become 5/7
Bolvar won't gain +2 attack if he loses his divine shield. He only gains +2 attack when a friendly minion loses it.
He is a friendly minion. It can happen because it doesn't say another friendly minion. For example the 4/12 that gives friendly minions +3 attack can give itself a buff
You right lol. My bad
Absolutely my favourite card so far.
I think its a very interesting minion. At the worst it will give a psudo Annoy-O-Tron effect but lets look at a few archetypes of pally it could be in:
Buffadin: Quests have always been a little odd with one drop plays but pally quest can always be played on turn 2 given that pally buffs are at 1,4,6 right now in standard you can T1 a minion and still have the option of T2 quest + buff. It is robust so its more likely to still be alive turn 2 but if you go second you will have to consider hero abilities vs its divine shield.
Hand Buff: It could be strong. From what I recall handbuff used to use a good number of cheap taunt minions. Its probably not like.... amazing though in that often hand buff has a preference of high toughness taunts to buff over a divine shield.
Rallying Blade / Sword of Justice these are not really archetypes but cards that could have some good synergy with it that dont really have decks now.
Small-Time Recruits this card has never really seen any competitive play. What this card needed is more relevant 1 drop minions to justify it. Perhaps this wont be enough to make it happen but its always something I look at when we get good 1 drops.
Corpsetaker this minion gives several of the good keywords.
Bolvar, Fireblood I have been very skeptical of this legend but if you were to pair him with the 1 drop it would mean for creatures to take Bolvar down it would take 2 attacks to clear the taunt and then your opponents would have to deal with a 3/7 divine shield and then a 5/7 minion so it would take at least 4 sorces of damage to clear utilizing combat.
Sunkeeper Tarim You can cheaply drop this new minion and turn it into a 3/3 divine shield taunt
Spikeridged Steed Spikeridge is a strong card. Comboing it with divine shield seems not too shabby.
Soooooooo yea I am optimistic and really looking forward to this minion. I think there are a lot of places to test it in for pally.
Having taunt on this doesn't make it vastly better than Argent Squire unless you have something you want to protect.
Good for handbuff since it likes Divine Shield, maybe good in quest because it's sticky (but I doubt it), and good in aggro to protect your bigger minions.
Also nerf to Stonehill Defender, or possibly a buff, not sure. Getting this when a Pirate Warrior is going face-mode is pretty damn good, it depends on if a midrange/value Paladin can/could compete.
I would say nerf to stonehill because paladin usually get the good taunt like tirion, and if you dont, since you can pull out stonehill defender it would atleast be the 3rd turn so getting this might not be good rather than a 4 or 5 cost taunt instead for card advantage
That is the current midrange Paladin decks, more aggressive decks usually don't care about value since they refill with Divine Favor, but they could still use Stonehill. Tirion is also a terrible pick if you're up against something like Pirate Warrior or Token Druid.
So damn good. You'll see this card in a lot of decks.
I hope she says "Hello" at least once when you play her... I understand that not every taunt with divine shield is Annoy-o-Tron, but this one is pretty similar, and I think we're going to see her in a lot of decks.
The real question: who or what is she pointing at? ;-)
Answer to your Question: She is pointing at your next rank forward
This was needed to balance Stonehill Defender because its too strong in paladin atm
Powercreep Argent squire
Corpsetaker synergy for one of the classes that might run it. :)
All those decks already run Tirion.