New Warrior Common Card Revealed - EVIL Quartermaster
Brian Kibler just revealed a new Descent of Dragons Warrior Common card: EVIL Quartermaster
Brian Kibler also revealed a new Warrior card Scion of Ruin and a neutral rare, Cobalt Spellkin.
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it will be better if it invokes Galakrond instead getting a lackey. Since it is a common card, it is good enough.
This is solid. Not as insane as some of the other cards, but still very solid.
Jesus f*ck this card is good...
Lackeys are usually used in aggro/tempo decks. The 3 armor is useless effect in this case.
No way
Not bad but compared to everything else it feels weak
New lackey is good and this card has good value for 3 mana as well. It happen to be good year in hearthstone.
The lackeys are weak in warrior for an aggro deck as in a deck control
So warrior can generate lackeys... so what? They have no incentive to have lackeys like rogue, shaman, or warlock, other than a slight tempo boost. I doubt they will release a card which rewards running lackeys in Warrior, so it seems out of place.
Draconic Lackey. Lackeys are also just really good cards in general with how strong their effects are.
I disagree. Theres 2 class cards that generate Lackeys before this one. Ones a weapon that gives 2 lackeys. the other is a 1 mana spell that gives a lackey. both consistent and easy to use. now with a 3 rd lackey generator, plus the neutral makes 4. thats plenty for a midrange deck. however, with the power creep lately, it might not be enough!! now isnt that crazy!!??
Except they don’t have any reason to run lackeys, unless they release a card which rewards using lackeys.
But lackeys are (generally) good quality, low cost cards.
Then why aren't lackey generators found in meta decks in which there are no lackey-synergy cards? I agree that lackeys are just generally good regardless of your class or deck archetype, however I also think PizzaCats is absolutely right. It has been proven by every meta since lackeys were introduced that, in the most meta-competitive decks, it is generally not worth running lackeys without lackey synergy cards.
Shamans run lackeys because of Weaponized Wasp and because Lackeys are extremely efficient at completing the shaman quest. Rogues do/did because of Heistbaron Togwaggle and because of Shadowstep and Spirit of the Shark shenanigans. Warlocks do/did because of EVIL Recruiter and I guess Dark Pharaoh Tekahn, and because Magic Carpet Zoo absolutely loves/loved to flood the board with tiny, super-efficient tokens. You might argue that Druid is an exception because unoptimised Token Druid lists sometimes used to run EVIL Cable Rat. It's true that these decks ran lackeys with no cards which synergised explicitly with lackeys, however, similarly to Zoo Warlock, Token Druid is completely reliant on having tokens stick on board, regardless of the size of the minions, so I would say that the synergy here is that lackeys are extremely synergistic with any token-style strategy. Regardless, Token Druid on the whole decided to cut the rat, and then eventually the deck fell out of the meta anyway. Probably the one true exception is tempo/aggro warrior, which runs/ran Livewire Lance simply because early board control + early mini tempo/value swings all wrapped up in one card is simply just good in a tempo/aggro deck.
So apart from tempo/aggro warrior, the general consensus has always been that it's not worth running lackey-generators without significant lackey synergy (either explicitly, e.g. Weaponized Wasp, or implicitly, e.g. Magic Carpet). Therefore it seems objectively obvious that the statistics suggest that this card is more likely not to make the cut than it is to make it into the meta. I know you might argue that warrior is the only class which has run lackeys without any lackey synergy, and this is a warrior card, so it's obvious that this will naturally go in decks which already run Livewire Lance. This is illogical: warriors do not run the lance because they need to generate lackeys to synergise with other cards in their deck. They run the Lance because, as I said earlier, the raw, pure power level and flexibility/versatility of the weapon is simply just generally strong in a tempo deck. Therefore, aggro/tempo warriors would not run this new card just because they already have another lackey generator, because it's not the lackey generation which tempo warriors desire - it's the non-specific, non-synergistic, pure tempo they are after. You therefore have to assess whether this card is similarly high in pure, standalone tempo, regardless of the fact that it would be a second lackey generator, and I believe the card is actually too low in power level/tempo/versatility to be worth running in tempo warrior. The card itself is a significant tempo loss on a crucial early turn - playing this instead of a Frothing Berserker or an active Bloodsworn Mercenary on 3, for example, would feel awful and would seriously potentially be a game-losing loss of tempo for a tempo deck. As others have said, the 3 armour is basically meaningless in any tempo deck (and you would never dream of running this in a control deck), so the question is: "is it worth it in my tempo deck to run a vanilla 2 mana 2/3 with +1 mana for "add a lackey to your hand?"
Well, would you run a River Crocolisk in tempo warrior? God no. Would you run a warrior copy of Sinister Deal except the lackey is random, not discovered? Almost certainly not. So, would you run this new card? Well, I very much understand that combining the utility and cost of two cards into one makes the new card significantly better than either of the old ones (see Frightened Flunky versus Frostwolf Grunt + I Know a Guy), but I think in the context of tempo warrior, this card is far less versatile than the lance and represents an immediate tempo loss (you pay 3 mana for a 2 mana body), as opposed to the lance which gives you the ability to remove the opponents' early minions and therefore usually represents some sort of tempo gain.
Jesus Christ - sorry for the essay.
Tempo warrior?
I spent so long trying to see the image from the reveal thumbnails in this card... only to remember that it's from the Warrior Dragon/Scion Dragon that was revealed early. XD
Heistbaron Togwaggle made a Sinister Deal with Dark Pharaoh Tekahn. They had an EVIL Quartermaster forge the Livewire Lance in order to Improve Morale.
good card .well see some play
Actually good card but seems weak when you’re getting used to all the op stuff revealed so far
Lackey?!?!!??! in a warrior deck?!?!?!?!?! WTF?!?!!?!?1