New Card Reveal: Hungry Ettin
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We will see this card on all control decks.
Battlecry not working with recruit.
4 attack minion strong aganist priest.
Twisting Nether with a 2 Mana discount. I think that's pretty good.
So what?
Moonglade Portal Buff I guess.
#edit :shit, i'm trying so hard to embed card :/
EZ Patient Assassin
I KNEW IT
Arena insta pick? Like: "value trades with half of opponent's deck"..
The end is coming!
How can it be hungry if it's always Ettin?
I think you have the backwards. It's Ettin because it's hungry.
This shitty joke just made my day.
Well, this statline is obviously excellent, and the downside is notable, but let's take a look at how it actually stacks up.
How good is the statline: Let's get this out of the way; It doesn't die to shadow-words. That's a serious upside, and puts this card in a solid position just to start with. As far as aggro decks go, I'd say this works as a better healing potion, since, while you do get 2 less HP to work with, you do get a way to claw yourself back to the board, destroying most aggro minions that hit in. Even if they silence, you've still got a sizeable body to work with at that stage of the game.
How bad is the downside: Well, your common stats are 2-3 damage, and almost none survive 4 damage, so this minion drops a few pegs there, making him roughly a 6 mana 4/7 with taunt, lets say. Now is that any good?
Short answer? Not really. It's maybe playable, but nothing broken, by himself.
But I think that's the point, and he's not pack-filler. Or at least, he's not supposed to be. He's meant to be recruited. This works with Guild Recruiter for that turn 5 play, or most especially with Grizzled Guardian, making for the beginnings of a truly painful Hadronox druid, if you can clear out your 1-4 mana slots from everything except solid minions and removal spells. Hadronox into naturalize is just going fill the board to an untouchable extent...
Unless they're priest, in which case they just Psychic Scream and that 4-attack minion is still missing from the board. And then you cry.
...How precisely does this work with Guild Recruiter or Grizzled Guardian? Those cards recruit by Cost, not Attack.
this costs 6 and can't come out of a Grizzled Guardian or Guild Recruiter
Guild Recruiter and Grizzled Guardian recruit minions that cost 4 or less. Hungry Ettin card costs 6. Aside from that, I generally agree with your post.
This doesn't have synergy with Guild Recruiter for the fact that this is a 6-Drop not a 4 Drop yo? Nor Grizzled Guardian
You do realize that the minions with the recruit mechanic you mentioned pull minions based on their mana cost not attack. They won't pull the Hungry Ettin
10/10 best card