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imagine if if was a battelcry effect
it will be the best card in the game by far !!
At least they could have made it 7 mana 4/4 for the memes.
The point is not playing a 3/3 on turn 7, the point is Barnes Play Dead Terrorscale Stalker Seeping Oozeling... It is worth to try at least, it's a common...
Except Hunter doesn't have any usable early game removal or life gain to actually make it to turn 8. When a Tempo Rogue punches you in the face with Bonemare on turn 7 then a two card combo on turn 8 might not really save you.
People were awfully excited about Howling Commander last expansion for it's ability to give you a guaranteed Tirion Fordring on curve. How the landscape has changed.
They're both a means of getting it onto the board on turn 8. Exactly how it gets there isn't the important part.
and the odds are not that bad that you would have it in your deck, you should have a 2/3 chance to NOT have drawn it. And actually, how it gets there is important, because recruiting him onto the board will let you use 8 extra mana on turn 8, so geting an 8 cost on the field and using 8 mana the same turn is huge...
I think people are totally missing the point and why this card's stats are so bad.
so are there counters to this card, of course there are, you can silence it, you can sap it, you can take control of it. but what is it's strengths?
well the way the creators of the cards are seeing it is probably a deterrent to board clears. similar to how the eggs were or those new minions that summon something if they die on the enemy's turn.
you are paying 7 mana to get an 8 mana minion and a 3/3 minion as well. so really you are getting quite a discount, except the cost is time. the game has been evolving to try to be a slower game and trying to be more control oriented and in some cases its been doing well at that. making this slow card maybe possible.
so if this card does survive the 1 turn, and you are able to kill it by trading it into something, this means you just got a free 8 mana minion and also 8+ mana to cast more. allowing for more combo potential. for example, you can cast Al'Akir the Windlord and also cast buff cards to add more damage, Charged Devilsaur and attack face if need be, while also buffing it with additional cards. Grommash Hellscream and still be able to play additional cards to buff him and trigger his enrage. Rotface and ping him a few times for additional legendaries. Sindragosa and still have mana to pop those frozen champions.
though I am not saying this is going to be an amazing card, just that it has potential.
The last like 4 expansions we have been saying "man, looks like they are pushing for control" but every time they release at least one crazy early game card that (combined with already crazy early game cards) makes almost all the cool looking, powerful control cards just too greedy to ever play for more than fun.
I'd love to see the game slow down and get rid of a lot of the aggro cowards but I have stopped getting my hopes up.
Sadly sindragosa is a battlecry effect
Why play this over Bonemare? Heck, why play this over Skelemancer?
Achachachacha...nope!
it couldn't be worse