New Neutral Epic Card Revealed - Grimtotem Bounty Hunter
Hitomi just revealed a new Fractured in Alterac Valley card: Grimtotem Bounty Hunter
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"Big Game Hunter barely sees play so this play rate will be even less"
How do you read "Big Game Hunter is better than Grimtotem Bounty Hunter" from that???
If you want to compare what is "better" be my guest with someone else. I did not "invite" you or anyone else to compare which card is "better" I just mentioned that Big Game Hunter sees little to no play and this will too.
Cornelius Roame is a good card. Nobody will say that its effect isn't good. Is it seeing play? No, it barely sees play. Is it not seeing play because its effect and stats aren't good? Absolutely not. It is not seeing play because the current meta does not allow it to shine.
Get your head out of the gutters you miserable troll.
A bit too situational, methinks.
Why is it always legendary. Never "destroy an epic minion"
Interesting that it is enemy legendary minions. Both Rend & BGH (and a lot of targeted removal actually) do not specify. This allows you to play it for the body without forcing a target on your own legendary (if your opponent does not have one). It can also be repeated through macaw or other means with more certainty.
The battlecry should have been: "Destroy the current Questline of the enemy"
just so it auto wins yeah thats not a good idea as all quest decks just die off since this being a 3 drop means little to no reason to not run this
Good. It's exactly what the game needs.
this is a sad day for a sad warlord
RIP Rend Blackhand
First card it reminded me of too
Well, to be fair, it was absolutely underpowered even at the time of its release. Everyone wanted to scream "Are you f kidding me? Who the hell would want to use this crap?"
Does this card target or just randomly eliminates a Legendary minion from the board?
Looks like it should target. They are never shy to throw the word "random" on a card if they intend for it to be random.
Right, I didn't even think of Robes.
Seems too niche for a ladder card. Maybe good for tournament decks?
I'm trying to think if this battlecry was a spell. Would you play it if it cost 0? Just a zero cost spell that said 'destroy a legendary minion'.
I'm not sure you would. I'm just not sure you see enough legendary minions to justifiy the card slot.
I would have tacked tradable onto this if I was making the card.
All decks have at least one legendary. At one moment in the game, you'll be able to play that card properly so, even as a tech, very easy to add without the "It's useless against everyone else" issue.
Quest Mage has no legendary minions unless you count the quest reward. Aggro Druid has one.
and you don't want to kill it unless it's alone, not worthy to run legendary killer unless decks running more legendaries become a thing
This will be in almost every deck at least one of these. When Big Game Hunter used to be 3 mana with the same stats every single deck had it. I don't see why it wouldn't be the same this time around, most decks will have decent size legend cards.
When BGH was around at 3, the game had much more of a focus around minion combat and big minions were more of a win condition instead of the current Quests & combos. In today's meta, Legendaries rarely serve as win conditions outside of Quests - something Grimtotem can't cancel out and are typically reserved for setups/tech cards. Also, many legendaries these days have lower stats/cost and aren't nearly as valuable to destroy as a Deathwing or Ragnaros (who were the typical prey of BGH). Hero cards are also being reintroduced so there are even less targets for Grimtotem. I wouldn't be surprised either way if this card saw play or not
and this means you slowed them down and they have to play their cards in diff order , removes their flexibility so while yes good players play around its still a good tech if it was designed like this.