New Demon Hunter Minion - Line Hopper

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A new Common Demon Hunter Minion, Line Hopper, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    A new Common Demon Hunter Minion, Line Hopper, has been revealed!

    Line Hopper Card Image

    Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!


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  • FrostyFeet's Avatar
    Senior Writer Derpcorn 2170 1449 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    I don't think the payoff is good enough to incentivize playing this over some more impactful minions.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    with how much draw DH has this can make for quite crazy turns with chaining skulls of guldan and such.. miracle DH

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Cool effect and that statline for (3) mana alone is enough to make it work

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Premium stats with a very useful ability which can help an otherwise underused keyword become more popular. What's not to love?

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Turn 5 Skull of Gul'dan is gonna be back, if you don't clear Line Hopper. Line Hopper also has amazing stats for 3 mana, so it fit's in aggro very well. In the reveal stream we did see that Eye Beam couldn't get it's cost lowered to 0 mana, but i guess it's because Eye Beam is hard coded to cost 1 mana when outcast. Just to clear things up.

    Standard: This will see play in aggro DH, because of synergy with cards like 1 mana Spectral Sight, 0 mana Crimson Sigil Runner and free Consume Magic. "when the face plays taunt, we still go FACE." 

    Wild: Good stats and ODD Costed, so it would seem like a ODD DH card. But i'm not that sure about it honestly. A LOT of Outcast cards are EVEN costed, so their is not that much benefit to include Line Hopper. (Only good ODD outcast cards are Crimson Sigil Runner and Consume Magic.) Actually now that i check it, Dreadlord's Bite seems nice to cost reduce, so you can play some other stuff alongside it... Actually i change my mind, Line Hopper MIGHT see experimentation. But that's all i can think off.

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  • BloodMefist's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 850 804 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Discount aura on a premium statted body, I suspect this will see play.  I don't think it fits into current lists, but I think there will be a more dedicated Miracle DH this expac.

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2285 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Seems a bit of a win-more card to me. Good stats/cost though!

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  • DescentOfDragonsOp's Avatar
    530 353 Posts Joined 12/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    if there enough need for  dh to have a value oriented deck this this will definitly be played

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    The card is good, but what makes it really good are the amount of 1 mana cards with outcats DH has.
    Specially all the draw options.

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    If you happen to have a few low cost Outcast cards in hand when this drops, it could be good. 

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Question: does the Outcast need to be active for this card to discount it? If not, you can drop un-oucasted cards with a discount for extra tempo, which can be game winning in its own right.

    And even if Outcast does need to be active, Aggro DH uses Outcast a lot AND has a small shortage of good 3 drops, often relying on a "not really a 3 drop" 3 drop in Satyr Overseer.

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  • Trimutius's Avatar
    1580 2533 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    well maybe we start including more Outcast cards? Maybe not though

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Even with vanilla stats, this thing is just not good. The effect lets you have something like Eye Beam for free (if outcasted) but since it doesn't curve into skull, what exactly are we hoping this card would actually do?

    Besides which, its not like dhunters are lacking 3 drops, with Satyr Overseer and Felsteel Executioner or even Frozen Shadoweaver the better card compared to this.

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2225 2544 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    I don't see what archetype this would fix in? A bit too slow for aggro and I don't think soul DH has many outcast casts. Maybe we lucky and we can finally get a viable mid range DH with lots of outcast, maybe...

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  • Demonxz95's Avatar
    Senior Writer 2255 2708 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    3 mana 3/4s with upsides usually see some play, so I can see this card being experimented with, although the upside isn't that big, so it might fall off. It's hard to be able to use the Outcast and discount together effectively. Although that said, the Outcast cards will be discounted even if their Outcast effects aren't active, and maybe reducing their Costs by 1 might incentivize you to play them without Outcast? In most cases, it probably won't though.

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  • SilverWolf's Avatar
    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Best scenario is when it can be used along 1 mana outcast cards

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  • KillaFIsh's Avatar
    375 250 Posts Joined 07/10/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Just kinda not worth it.  Randomly getting it won't be that bad, but it's not worth running in your deck.

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  • MenacingBagel's Avatar
    Zombie Chow 815 723 Posts Joined 09/24/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Nice aura I guess not sure if it will stick around long enough for you to use it too much though 

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  • Sparkinarius's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Like with Redeemed Pariah, I just don't think Outcast cards are cheap enough, abundant enough, or easily played from hand enough to make use of multiple discounts in a given turn. When compared to Sorcerer's Apprentice in Mage, there are plenty of cheap spells that don't require hand position to make cheating out multiple spells way easier than what Line Hopper can accomplish in DH. 

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  • NebuchadnezzarHS's Avatar
    Supporter 2035 1411 Posts Joined 06/14/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Totally worth it in the new heavily outcast themed DH deck.

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  • Lundy's Avatar
    Little Devil Teemo 1555 707 Posts Joined 06/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    There are other cards you'd prefer to have in your deck, but this is on the edge of playable.

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  • Fisguinho's Avatar
    The Raven 1190 411 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    I can already see DH just cycling cards left and right(literally)

    All hail the banshee queen.

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  • Geno9999's Avatar
    Metrognome 1620 1217 Posts Joined 11/10/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    On one hand, most Outcast effects that people care about are very expensive cards like Skull of Gul'dan. On the other hand, yeah, I can see Crimson Sigil Runner and Spectral Sight being run again.

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  • Input's Avatar
    470 259 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    I don't yet see the combo you're trying to pull off with this guy.

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  • slychd's Avatar
    Sparklepony 1175 484 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    It's not  bad card stats-wise, but I don't know if it's effect will make it a must have.

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  • randomfan's Avatar
    Elemental 1255 744 Posts Joined 03/17/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    The outcast cards that get mana reduction as the outcast effect will like this, but the ones that have other effects won't bother. I don't think this gets included in current DH lists.

    Unfortunately, common sense isn't as common as it should be.

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  • sule's Avatar
    Dinosaur 830 995 Posts Joined 08/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Spider Tank with upside, and still probably not good enough to make the cut in a good deck.

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    If there are a hardoutcast deck maybe will see play with the new Redeemed Pariah.

    By The Holy Light!

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1570 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Likely to be a staple in most Demon Hunter decks, since the stats alone make it worth it

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 4 years, 1 month ago

    Honestly not a good enough pay-off to take up a slot I think. Still, you don't have to cast the Outcast cards from the left or right, just in general, which might make it worth a 1-of.

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