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It is cool that the Ringmaster as his Baton work so well together
It always amazes me how quick people are to judge a card based solely on whether it would fit in a current deck. The meta always changes after a new expansion. Whether more or less similar to now, there will be some new decks. A card that draws three for 5 mana, regardless of stats attached and especially if they are specific cards, will never be bad. As previous commenters have said, there are some great dragons and mechs in Warrior that just needed a little more consistency to be good, and some which become insane with a buff. Decks have and will change just to make use of good card draw. It happened with Pirates when Patches was good, and it happens in Hunter every time there's a Secret tutor; there's no reason it wouldn't happen with one or both of these cards.
It's all just speculation. It's the fun part of reveal season honestly.
Very nice now give Shaman and Paladin card draw
Good Mechs for Warrior: Omega Devastator (yes, it is still in standard), Tomb Warden, Scrap Golem
Good Pirates: Risky Skipper, Sky Raider, Dread Corsair, Kobold Stickyfinger
Good Dragons: Scion of Ruin, Crimson Hothead, Deathwing Mad Aspect
While almost all of them benefit from buffs, the bolded ones also summon copies of themselves. Galakrond is nowadays an inclusion in control warrior, so we can see these two revealed cards having a big impact in the archetype. Also, there is a win condition now, with the Old Gods.
The viability of control warrior will depend solely if they manage to outvalue other Old Gods decks. Probably if they play a more aggressive, tempo oriented game, they can run with the game early. Tempo warrior comes back?
You don't need to have a menagerie deck for ringmaster. It can be good in any deck that runs some of those minion types, it's still good if you only draw two cards.
This is exactly correct. This card is a 3/5 that draws 3 cards for a mere 5 mana. And it doesn't even just draw random cards - it draws specific ones. All you need to do in order to make this card very good is having two copies each of a specific dragon, pirate, and mech.
This is so much better than Curator could ever have hoped to be. Not even a contest.
I like this idea, but do not think the archetype is gonna work. Nzoth or not...
Not even good in wild, ancharr is better in controlling warrior for fishing risky skipper I dont know why this card was even made, yet it being so terrible statwise.
Yet another The Curator wanabe without taunt
That also happens to be 2 mana cheaper, which makes a really big difference, as well as drawing much more relevant tribes for the class.
Wow, Menagerie Warrior, I wasn't expecting that archetype!
and now we can mark off "warrior Weapon" from the bingo card
Just a reminder, you can play Multi Minion Type decks without also playing New'Zoth. I think this might make for a more tempo oriented deck rather than a "Big" New'Zoth deck.
Ringmaster Whatley seems very strong, drawing 3 cards for a mere 5 mana with a respectable body is really good. But whether it will ever see more than niche play would depend on the power level of mechs, dragons and pirates in a warrior deck.
At present you have mechs like Omega Devastator, Tomb Warden and Scrap Golem. For dragons there's Evasive Drakonid, Deathwing, Mad Aspect, Alexstrasza. Pirates, well, both Hoard Pillager and Risky Skipper are still good.
Ringmaster's Baton, not that good. The idea of a menagerie build can be an amusing idea, but in practice is simply not good enough. There's just better weapons at present, from Reaper's Scythe to Livewire Lance
I'm thinking Whatley is more likely to be used in an aggressive deck, so pulling something like Southsea Deckhand + Skybarge.
I agree about the weapon: the buff isn't good enough to compensate for the tempo loss.
I like that idea myself, but most aggro warriors tend to want to finish up games by turn 6, and at present I can't see a warrior deck that doesn't also play plenty of pirates so you wont always get the pirate you want. He's also not really presenting much tempo, being mostly a draw card, and on turn 5 aggro warriors probably want to weapon up with Arcanite Reapers instead.
I think midrange is most likely where he'll end up.
Part of the reason aggro warriors need to finish games quickly is that they don't have much card draw. For example zoolock uses cheap cards as well but gets more turns to do its thing because of the hero power. That said, since this can only be a one-of, it's not very reliable card draw. There is still Ancharrr though, maybe together they're reliable enough.
The more I think about it, the more this looks like one of those good cards that ends up seeing very little play because there is no deck for it. But who knows; there are still a lot of unrevealed cards remaining.
At the time of release, I say "What?" I guess menagerie warrior is going to be a thing at least for at least one xpac. outside first release I guess being able to tailor 3 cards is nice especially when they are all already part of warrior archtypes
Ringmaster's Baton seems pretty bad. You don't want multiple pirates, dragons, and mechs with N'Zoth - you want exactly one good one of each if possible. You want multiple guys to ensure Ringmaster's Baton buffs on curve. It seems a little unsynergetic, but we'll have to see the other Warrior cards.
Maybe this is not for a N'Zoth deck, but for a tempo deck. 1/3 weapon seems bad for a tempo deck, but think of this.
If you equip it on turn 2, you swing it that turn. On turn 3 you swing it again and play a minion. That's +2/+2 on that minion. That may continue with +3/+3 and +4/+4, potentially on multiple minions. It may compensate that tempo loss from turn 2.
I know it's hard to have this scenario all the time. Handbuffing is usually bad as we've seen before, but multiple buffs for 2 mana, and sometimes board control with weapon may work just fine. I dunno, we'll see.