New Warrior Legendary Card Revealed - Captain Galvangar
Wronchi Animation just revealed a new Fractured in Alterac Valley card: Captain Galvangar
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Did you just seriously put 'aggro' and 'gain armor' in the same sentence? No aggro plays heavy plate nor has time to gain enough armor to play this.
This won't see play in aggro unless Blizzard 'somehow' prints aggro-stat minions who gain armor on attack or something.
Yeah exactly, people really fear charge as a keyword. This card is not a 6 mana 9/9 with charge that comes down on turn 6 after a good curve and an aggressive playstyle. This is a finisher for control decks and for control decks only beacuse they have the time and tools to gain armor and maybe combo this with something. 15 armor is not practically achievable for aggro decks not if you don’t want to give up early aggression which would be kinda weird considering the nature of aggro decks....
Grommash Hellscream is just having a Heart attack
Did he? Sure, 9/9 charge for 6 is great on paper. But decks which run Grom tend to focus heavily on tempo, and while 15 armor probably isn't too hard, I don't think I'd want to waste time gaining it in a tempo deck.
More Charge for Warrior, Mr. Smite could have been a class card. Then the mechanic could be exclusive and more welcomed to be back in Standard.
And I guess Midrange/Control Warrior has a quick finisher instead of stalling the late game to find finisher like Rattlegore... Kinda the direction the devs want the control game to be like (similar to the new Priest hero card and the hero power)
Seems more to supplement than replace Rattlegore, IMHO. A stray 9/9 charge can follow up a smack or to from Rattlegore to to finish a game, or just be a strong removal piece. If a deck is already finding a slot for Rattlegore, I think RG fits more with that deck's likely gameplan than this dude.
Feels slow for aggro, in that you have to spend time and cards building armour. Suspect - and hope - it'll be a control tool. Initially parsed it as a pirate and thought "Oof, Juggernaut", but that would be a stupid decison from lore and from balance.
I think this is fine, it’s a charge card that only really works in a control deck.. doesn’t seem that great
Hmm doubt you could play this turn 6 with that effect, probably not even in wild without gearing your deck entirely for armour gains. By the time you reach 9 mana you may well play alex. For aggressive strategies mr.smite is just better, for control do you really need this? Not sold on this one
Frozen Buckler and Heavy Plate exist
I mean there are a lot of armor cards that slower warriors run anyways. You have Sword and Board, Heavy Plate, Rancor, Cargo Guard, Shieldmaiden, Scrap Golem (this one is the one that I don't see seeing play tbh), Kresh, Lord of Turtling (even tho this one doesn't apply on curve but it's still worth mentioning), and the new Frozen Buckler (There has to be at least 1 more armor card in the new set I'm sure) which is fine enough as an anti-aggro tool but the fact that just ones gives you 2/3 of this dude's battlecry means it'll almost for sure see play. So I don't see it being too difficult to have this active on curve. The real issue is drawing it but I could see a slow control frenzy warrior making a comeback and this helps the deck close game with better consistency.
control quest warrior didnt have enough burst. lets gooo.
in wild Skipper and Mercenary git a good friend but too slow for wild
The only positive about this thing is that its not a pirate .
Lmao I was going to comment that exact thing!
Realistically I don't mind this card too much, it's a much better design than Mr. Smite, it requires a relatively defensive deck to work (since you need to gain a LOT of armour, and it can't randomly spawn on turn 6 to deal 16 damage to you from a previously empty board.
This can be a finisher for a more midrangy Control Warrior deck, I'm never exactly excited to see more charge minions printed (especially after Blizzard said they don't like charge since it's too uninteractive), but if they have to do it it might as well be on a card like this.
Good for Pirate Warriors. We definitly needed this. :))))))
Good finisher for control or midrange. I don't think aggro plays this with the armor requirement. This is an example of good charge imo.
agree
So this is an easy 6 mana 9/9 to face, there is a 2 mana card that gets you 10 of that 15 right away. Nice
this card ... i think go for control deck ... because you need armor.... and control deck with finisher
I have always tried to make even Warrior work but never seem to have any reason to play it, but this is generally amazing. Thank you!