New Hunter Card Revealed: Play Dead
A new Hunter spell has been revealed by CreMasterHS.
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I love that puppy so cute, idk if is useful, Reincarnate, saw play being used just for this effect, well that was in shaman, and before gvg
EDIT: if Hunter get good control, maybe, in wild it could go with Feign Death to secure to pop an early egg, also even if feign death is "better" is not strictly better, is easier activate the deathrattle of a minion you just play with this, lastly if you have both in your deck, you can activate a good deathrattle multiple times in a turn a lot easier (Sylvanas Windrunner)
while it looks like a nice card, i can't help but remember that Feign Death is far better and saw no play, but who knows, we live in the future now, right!?
Part of the reason it was no good was it was so hard to trigger more than one thing. So it was basically a 2 mana version of this most of the time. And the cost difference between 1 and 2 is the most meaningful in the game.
Ooh, next can they release Fetch? 2 mana Hunter spell, Target friendly Beast does damage equal to its attack to a random enemy minion.
randon enemy!*
Hunters get a lot of good cards that they'll just never use.
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what a terrible card. Worse than feign death, worse than princess Huhuran, worse than that 3 mana 3/3 that does the same damn thing.
Pack filler at best. Deathrattle hunter DEFINITELY doesn't need such a card to be viable. Wasted slot.
Abominable summons beasts, not deathrattles. So it won't summon Cairne or Mistress.
The reason this card is actually different and better than the other ones it's copied from is entirely on the 1 mana. For an effect like this you don't care about it coming with a body. That was the problem with the Princess and the other thing. I think of this card adding "Battlecry and..." in front of deathrattle minions. I think it will see a lot of play and be very strong.
Great, Hunter now has several cards to play with big deathrattle minions. Now they just need good big deathrattle minions.
I think Hunters have always had at least one very very good big Deathrattle minion
Yep, one's not enough though. Abominable Bowman is another one but it has anti synergy with Savannah Highmane, so they really need at least another big deathrattle effect.
This card could actually be pretty good in a midrange/control style hunter deck that needs to get deathrattle value early to maintain board presence. Kind of a shame that it's also another potential victim of Skulking Geist, but you obviously wouldn't pay more than one mana for this spell so there's not much to be done there.
By the time, Skulking Geist becomes playable, You don't care if this card is destroyed. You are already dropping Savannah Highmanes and Abominable Bowman to N'Zoth
Well, Feign Death is one of my, like, two or three favorite cards ever, so any baby-Feign Death, especially this cute, is nice. I'm not so sure it works though, but it doesn't need to, honestly. I'll still have two of them golden, no matter what(it's not too much of an accomplishment, I know :) )
Princess Huhuran definitely needs a rework... At first they copied her effect on a rare card and now on a comon card. She does not seem to be a legendary card at all nowadays...
Her eyes were always wet ... as if existence, or maybe that crown, was harassing that poor thing ... Blizzard, look at what you have done :
*cough* What is this "rework" of which you speak?
Blizzard never, EVER improve cards. EVER. The only time they ever change cards is when they're nerfing the shit outta them, and even that is something they only ever do very reluctantly. Buff a card? Why would they ever want to increase the value of something you already have?