Hunter Legendary Reveal - Vereesa Windrunner
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Vereesa Windrunner's 5/6 body is worth about 5 mana, and a vanilla 2/3 weapon is probably worth about 2 mana, so just from a raw stats perspective, Vereesa Windrunner seems like a playable card.
The big question, of course, is how useful Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury's effect will be. Spell damage is more often used for OTKs and face damage, but in Hunter I think this synergizes a lot more effectively with Hunter removal tools. You can activate Baited Arrow much more easily, especially if you attack a minion before using Baited Arrow on it, and the spell damage boost makes Wing Blast effectively a Fireball (maybe even a 1 mana Fireball if minions have already died this turn). Given the 7 cost of Vereesa, you also have a potential immediate synergy of attacking and playing Kill Command on the same turn that you get Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury.
Of course, it never hurts to muse over OTK potential. Drop Vereesa Windrunner on turn 7, and on turn 8 attack face and play 2x Arcane Shot and 2x Kill Command for something between 20 and 24 damage. Wait until turn 10 to drop that combo and you can add Bloodmage Thalnos to boost it to 24 to 28 damage.
All in all, seems like a pretty sweet card.
Do not forget explosive shot that become almost a Meteor.
Hunter doesn't have spells that synergize well with spell power. Only good if you want face damage, but if you want face damage then you are not playing 7 mana 5/6 in your face hunter deck. Maybe they will add some spells that are good with this, right now it's pretty week.
How can you call this just a 7 mana 5/6? It's a 7 mana 5/6 that deals 6 dmg to the face over 3 turns, even without the spell power. 2 dmg's an immediate effect.
This honestly is pretty balanced. It is meant as a finisher or meme combo win condition. For 7 mana you're not going to be able to push face damage that is any more crazy than a pyro or the old 10 mana kazakus potion.
All I have to say now is that when the face equips bow me still go face.
Wished for SD weapon. But never for hunter.
Oh joy... hunters getting yet more tools to put damage to the face.
7 Damage Kill Commands, 4 Damage Arcane Shot
Another Ooze meta I reckons!
Get Gonk, the Raptor and become Malygos incarnate lul.
How'd you get Gonk? From a random summon a beast effect? Be hilarious but horribly inconsistent. We will definitely see it on a Trolden video eventually.
Mind Control Tech and a shit load of luck?
Yeah, it would for sure be pretty hard and super inconsistent, but it can happen :D
There's a reason why I put Harrison Jones in all my decks
Nice!
Excellent now I can play Vareesa and Sylvanas as Alleria
Don't forget double Baited Arrow you own face for another 10 damage and summon a 5/5 because second one overkilled yourself...
Pretty decent card and an amazing art. Probably one of my favorite cards on the xpac so far
She should be 5/5. With the weapon together for 7 mana it is probably too strong.
14 damage Kill Command turn. GROSS. This seems like a weird card, but it has powerful synergy in any hunter deck that isn't all beasts.
Solid card, but not gamebreaking. I like that it's a strong hunter card that is good because of value rather than immediate impact.
Well Im glad finally we'll get to see some hunters in ladder