New Demon Hunter Legendary Card Revealed - Death Speaker Blackthorn
Gamespot just revealed a new Forged in the Barrens card: Death Speaker Blackthorn
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This is very powerful as an effect - Feugen, Stallag, Sludge Belcher, and even Rotten Applebaum, Fishy Flyer, Renowned Performer, or Piloted Shredder are solid hits in terms of huge value for the cost.
The problem is that the vast majority of what I just mentioned is wild-only; in Standard we just have Flyer and Performer. As a seven drop there's a real risk of "drawing patches" before you cast this, and Performer is really really lousy when it isn't being cheated out here. It's a lot of setup and deck pollution for an effect that seems to only be "about as good" as Soulciologist Malicia when it works perfectly and you hit three rushing death rattlers. And I'm not sure Wild can accommodate such a slow and inconsistent play.
That's before we talk about the issues of Demon Hunter really wanting to go face and not play a slow value game, or the issues of a Deathrattle deck wanting to probably run cheaper deathrattles which then ruin your Blackthorn pool. Overall this seems extremely crummy now, and I'd have doubts even if we see a ton of powerful 5 drop deathrattles this year.
There's also: Al'ar and Taelan Fordring that are worth considering.
DH looking at all these activators with no good cards to benefit from them (yet)
Nzot for DH
The tempo from this card is insane, but what exactly are you summoning?
Renowned Performer, Al'ar, Taelan Fordring, Fishy Flyer
Fun card in wild, gonna need some serious Deathrattle reveals to make it good in standard though
So deathrattle DH is going to be a thing eh?
They are really building up to this demon Hunter death rattle reveal, these cards have got to be crazy to be worth it
its actually annyoing seeing all these cards printed for DH knowing no DH will play them and any other class would love to get card like these
An embarrassment of riches. DH can't lose.
5 or less!?? Holy smokes! That's broooken
boring effect, bad card
type the following in your collection for Scholo/Darkmoon/Outland + Classic as a DH (deathrattle mana:1-5) and tell me what do you find ???
They are trying to push DH in a control fashion but as with Hunter, as long as you have weapons and a go-face hero power, that will always be your win condition.
Card looks solid, and its the start of the year, with more expansions it will one day shine.
oh no plz not other DH combo plz just be a good tempo card. Plz.
In the dictionary at "trying really hard", you find this card
This card looks great on the surface but the death rattle pool isn't that strong. More reveals could change that but in the current pool of cards you've got a couple of choices. Not ones that are really worth building a deck around this card. Still pretty cool card.
Lifesteal pool for DH was not great too and they end up with a OTK combo that is almost imposible to play around (on rotation) if you need to win with minions.
Amazing.
We have even more DR synergy in DH, but we still haven't had any good deathrattles xD
Look to the Wild side, @TheHiddenNinja7. They've got stocks of Deathrattle cookies.