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New Neutral Minion - Barrens Stablehand
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A new Epic Neutral Minion, Barrens Stablehand, has been revealed!
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A new Epic Neutral Minion, Barrens Stablehand, has been revealed!
Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!
Learn more about Core 2021
Head on over to our dedicated guide for Core 2021!
Get Cheaper Card Packs
This section contains affiliate links.
If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.
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Still never gonna be put ina deck ever at all.
This card stayed just because of the new expansion (Barrens), right?
Improved, but still not great
yeah the problem is all the cheap beasts, maybe the buff should have been a specific cost or a range of cost like 3-6
Do you think when they printed this card (not that long ago, right?), they were hinting at the upcoming expansion? We know that they plan things long in advance, before we ever hear about them.
I agree with DarkFrostX: a cost specification would make this playable, like 3 mana or more. We need the dream of getting King Krush off this, but it shouldn't happen too often.
"Be excellent to each other." -Bill and Ted
This thing saw no play as a 4/4, so team5 decided after a collective meeting of the brains to make it a 5/5, instantly transforming this from an execrable pile of stinking trash, to slightly less trash than before.
But jokes aside. The real reason why this one will never see play is simply because of the mana cost, as opposed to the guaranteed body. Even if this was a 6/6 body (which means at its lowest low row of Stonetusk Boar its still 8/7 stats for 7) its a 7 mana card that doesn't win you the game. Then there's the variance of getting something really good like Teacher's Pet or the legendary King Krush, as opposed to Stonetusk Boar or the famous River Crocolisk being so great, is there any reason to not just play a good card as opposed to something that might be good.
Bear in mind that cards like these are designed for memes. Its simply impossible for team5 to ever make this a good card because its just going to replicate the famous 'will rag hit minion or hit face' scenarios in all games. Narrowing the beast pool so it gets you good beasts more than 50% of the time will make this playable, but at the cost of making the game frustrating for everyone, including those who play it.
Trash, even with the core set removing a lot of beasts the pool is still too bad. The only reason it's still in the core set is because it's literally called Barrens Stablehand...
RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.