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With the reveal of Filletfighter and Buccaneer (although I don't think Buccaneer is good), Hooktusk Deck have better consistency in getting Hooktusk active by turn 8. 

Azsharan Vessel is looking a lot better with Gone Fishin' and Preparation not rotating out.

I am still skeptical but guess we have to wait until players get hold of her and see how the meta shapes up.

FFS, leave my Shudderwock deck alone, it was never OP to begin with...

Buffed Hookstuk plundering kazakus cards? I'm in.

 beautiful hooktusk

Quote from ArcyroX >>

I see your point, but 8 cost minion is a bit too "costy" to return and play again.

maybe Tenwu of the Red Smoke tho?

 You'll need to discount one of them for that to work, sadly, since rogues only have 10 mana :D

edit: wait, octo-bot isn't rotating is it? so that would work yeah

Octo bot isn't rotating. Tenwu on the other hand is going to wild. 

Doesn't look very playable, but maybe with some good pirates it will just click.

Lt. Eddy will be happy

It seems scary and theme is great.

We'll see how it works but It is certain that playing this card will be super fun.

For standard mode I'm glad its not Warrior haha

this does look crazy at first, but I think its actually not that good.

think of it: it has a requirement of playing this in pirate decks only. and the reward?

mind control? meh, not that impactful since games are fast and big minions rarely see play.

take 5 cards from opponent's deck? this is basically tickatus that gives you some card advantage, but still nnot that rewarding since tickatus was much more easy to proc

steal 2 cards from hand? this sounds the most crazy one but when I think about it, this can be just an 8 mana double mutanus with some huge deck requirement.

also, "if you have summoned 8 pirates" line is lowkey like a quest card. this is a quest reward that can be played as an 8/8 vanilla, except you might never draw this.

so ask yourself this: would a quest card that rewards an 8/8 that does these be impactful and powerful enough? I would say no.

do you remember when they released the new rafaan that was used in the aggressive witch? it was like a last resort against control decks, I see that it can work that way, I'm sure the team put 8 pirates as a prerequisite to brake der broken like king togg

Yeah, except Rogue has 2 shadowstep (maybe not in core in the next year), or bunch of return tools.

I see your point, but 8 cost minion is a bit too "costy" to return and play again.

maybe Tenwu of the Red Smoke tho?

Yes I agree with you ArcyroX

For me, like now, it is not clear at all the use of this card. 

Yeah, except Questline hunter and pirate warrior will obliterate you before u even play that monster, let alone get value by stealing cards :D

Disgusting effect. On the plus side, this punishes both combo decks and Kazakusan more than value and aggro, so I guess it would actually be quite healthy for the meta if this deck turns out good.

This might be more impactful in quest warrior, this is an 8-8 the juggernaut can give you, and then you just play Smite from hand and whatever other pirates for an easy game. Can't wait to lose to Gorehowl-Hooktusk+Smite.

Hooktusk lookin a little different today