New Druid Spell - Living Seed (Rank 1)
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A new Rare Druid Spell, Living Seed (Rank 1), has been revealed!
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2 mana draw one beast is ok. upgraded is better
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Draw beast tutor? Meh for Druid... But maybe there's a broken Legendary awaiting
The cost reduction is not great either
I always fail to estimate the tempo effect of cost reductions and I will do so again: seems rather unimpressive to me right now.
As long as beast druid is good this will be amazing.
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First ranked spell I don't like. You need card draw in the early game imo...
But, it's for a ramp class, so maybe this hasn't been designed for that...
I mean its fine. It won't be broken it won't be bad really. I think if you run a beast in your deck that is decently impactful then you will consider this an option. Otherwise you won't I feel. Not a ton left to say.
Good card for Beast Druid, if it will be a thing this expansion.
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This one seems weak but at the same time discounts tend to get underestimated. It depends on the beasts in the set for sure. Maybe this goes into some N'zoth thing with a few big beasts you can discount.
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Maybe I'm missing something but does the cost reduction really matter if you've already got 10 mana and can basically play everything you want? Sure, it fits in better if you also want to play something else on the turn you play the discounted beast and the tutor effect is nice. However, the other upgraded spells feel like their effect on each mana level fits better to the way the game is played at these levels like AOE growing stronger because there are bigger minions at later stages. This here doesn't feel that way.
The upgrades for each ranks seem pretty small compared to some of the other ranked spells.
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beast druid again, well it seems we are going to see this card a lot
I'm not sure cost reduction will be THAT relevant at higher mana costs
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beast druids coming in large amounts, but yeah easy to get to the next levels so pretty worthfull for them
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Reminds me a lot of Scavenger's Ingenuity, both allowing you to play a beast with relatively high stats for the cost in return for a tempo loss the turn before. However, this isn't great later on, you'd preferably play it on turn 2, and there aren't any good 4-cost beasts in Druid right now. So I don't have a lot of faith in it.
I have not seen a beast druid deck ever and there are better spell out there then this .Maybe i am wrong ,we need to see all the druid cards but for now for is kind of meh
This card's art for the effect is so weird. You'll think this card would have something to do with treants, coz there is a tree growing in each of the ranks. Regardless, it's a very good tutor but we need to see more beasts that are worth the cost reduction.
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Considering that Druids are the best at ramping to 10 (or at least 5) this is actually pretty strong as a set up for later turns.
Don't forget thatMenagerie Warden is in the core set for just 5-mana. You can do some crazy tempo plays with that
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Interesting Card - if some sort of Beast Druid emerges this could be good ! I mean druid has some beasts right now but i guess thats not worth playing that card for ... so i guess we will have to wait and see what comes with the expansion.
So far i would say decent card!
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Good card mainly because the menagerie warden is back.
A tutor with a discount? Absolutely fine by me. Druid could use some draw tools after rotation and if you have some beasts in your deck this could be very useable. Best levelling spell so far imho.
It's an OK card. Let's see if that Nature tag will be effective.
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Well, 10 mana is like turn 6 for Druid, so tutoring a 2 mana Twilight Runner is pretty nice. That being said, Menagerie Warden is back, so there's a chance to copy bigger beasts more easily with this card. However, Guardian Animals feels more powerful than this combo, as the beasts summoned that way have rush, so they're more impactful right away.
Also, can someone tell me how is growing a tree related to beasts?
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Okay, so the best targets for this are: Druid of the Plains, Marsh Hydra, Umbral Owl, Lake Thresher, Moonfang, Teacher's Pet and Twilight Runner.
I think it might see play in some kind of beast druid, but it might mess a bit with Guardian Animals. However Druid can easely ramp up to 10 mana and upgrade Living Seed (Rank 1) very easely. Actually on turn 3-4 you generally have Living Seed (Rank 2) already. I think it might see play alongside Guardian Animals and it will only get better if they give us some more good beasts for druid.
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At first i didn't understand the flavor but now i do and it makes me love the card.
Also beast druid is my favorite archetype so that's a double win in my book.
Great tutoring effect on a 2 mana spell card. I'm not surprised that the ranking effect isn't this good, seeing how easy it is for druids now to get at 10 mana on turn 5. 🙄
tutor effects are nice to have. this one being specific to beasts will make it valuable to finishing game moves for sure
Basically rank 2 is draw a beast for free... 4 stars, good card nothing more to say.
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I just love this dorky Tauren druid.
There's some combo potential down the line, I can feel it. But for now, its not really what I would put in my druid deck.
Druid neither needs the draw, mana cheat, nor is there any specific beasts they would like to tutor. In other words, this is not worth it...for now
Menagerie Warden costs 5, so as early as turn 5 you can use the rank 2 version of this to start drawing your big beast (e.g. 7-drops like Marsh Hydra and Druid of the Plains) to set up some big late game value plays.
Eh, seems alright, there's always potential in mana cheating. I wonder if it upgrades with temporary mana (Lightning Bloom) since it should stay upgraded afterwards.
Will have no problem getting this to tier 3 at no time with how druids ramp up so quickly.
A card for Beast Druid? Is that even a thing? Could be viable with the necessary support but right now I have my doubts
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I think beast druid reached the point where it becomes playable after seeing the core set and this
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If this were a Hunter card, it would be amazing. For Druid, meh. Druid already has so many ways to draw cards and cheat mana, this just seems underwhelming in that category. Plus, since you can't got the full discount on this until you're at 10 mana, you will likely have drawn the beasts you want to discount already (unless you have managed to optimize the aforementioned mana cheat to reach 10 mana on turn 4).
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Tutor draw with discount.
Always solid to have tutor draw.
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At first it appears as one of the weaker ranked spells, but remembering how quickly druid can capitalize on mana ramp; this card gives druid the recovery needed and can either keep them in the game or depending on other reveals, outright win it. If beast druid is a thing, this will be part of the reason why.
Meh. Very specific tutor for just a small benefit
Because it is Beasts only I don't really know what kind of deck would want it... seems pretty not good.
Wouldn't you just run Guardian Animals instead?
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This doesn't seem amazing, but maybe beast druid becomes a thing and gets a beast it absolutely wants to draw early.
More druid mana cheating.... feels more like a hunter card?
power level seems fine, but I can't think of a beast that Druid wants to combo with this. Maybe Druid will gain some OP beast in this expansion.
I like this. Don't know if beast Druid is a thing. The card art on level 3 is dope.
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nice tutor. will play this in hadronox druid fo sure!
Could have potential, but it probably needs better targets.
Cant see a meta with this in the deck..
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When I first learned of ranked spells, I was like, "Oh, those could be really powerful in Druid. Maybe Druid won't even get them."
When I saw this was a Druid ranked spell, I was like, "Uh-oh, they actually gave a ranked spell to Druid. Is it broken?"
After I read the card, I was like, "Ah, so they didn't actually give Druid a ranked spell. This is fine."
Targeted draw is always playable, and the mana reduction keeps it from utterly sucking, but let's be real: This is an utter waste of a ranked spell. They could have released the middle version on its own, and it would be exactly as good as this ranked version.
To make proper use of the ranked mechanism, the scaling part should be something like a stat boost, or even adding increasingly potent keywords, or an additional keyword at each rank.
I think having it draw more beasts would've been a better way to do it and just keep the 1 mana discount. I think they tried to account for druid's ramp but ended up making it too wea
It's a good card, but I really don't like beast druid thematic too much
This is great, target draw and discount are great, comparte this to Insight and how that one is.
Would not have guessed Beast synergy based on the art. Currently the best Beast to draw seems like Druid of the Plains, which can get pretty spicy if you can ramp into it early enough.
Oh boy, the fun this might cause. I envision playing this to beasts, bringing them below five, and comboing with that core set card for OMEGAVALUE
Doesnt seem strong at all but I can this be useful in a Hadronox deck in wild
I am very glad to see support for Beast Druid, I really want that deck to work. This card will definitely see play somewhere, even if it isn't in a dedicated beast deck. Tutoring a card for 2 mana and reducing it's cost is very useful, even if the cost is only reduced by 1. If nothing else I will have a blast using this with Hadronox in wild.
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Pretty weak
Good support card for beast druid. Is it better than just ramping to get out big beasts? Time will tell...
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I'm 100% there will be a combo to use this
Beast druid here we go!
Feels....fine. Not amazing or great, just fine. I'm sure there will be some use case scenarios where this will be great, but usually just fine.
I guess this is a decent effect. Druid ramps fast enough that the beast you want to draw can still be in your deck by the time you hit 10 mana. The question then becomes what deck do you run that you want a targeted beast to draw with reduced mana cost? I'm not sure I see it right now.
Unfortunately, common sense isn't as common as it should be.
Don't think it's great unless there's synergy with playing the spell itself (most likely Nature synergy).
Fine card. It tutors a beast.
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Ooh, interesting!
Big Beast Druid is slowly coming together! Play Druid of the Plains or Marsh Hydra, draw it with this, and copy it with Menagerie Warden.
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Ramp/Mana cheating= Good.
Draw= Good.
Beast druid inc.
2 mana draw a card with upside is great, even better at rank 3
It's a lot better than it looks since druid can ramp to the Rank 2 and Rank 3 versions faster than other classes.
This could be good if druid runs big beasts. Druid will be able to upgrade to rank 3 well before anyone else, and paying 2 mana for draw plus a 3 mana discount is pretty nice.
if some deck needs tutor for specific beast, this might work, otherwise it's meh.
Idk how relevant the cost reduction will be, plus with Guardian Animals, you almost want to just keep the beasts in your deck unless we see some more beast synergy soon.
4 Mana 7/7
This card seems like it is better at the lowest rank, rather than the two higher ranks.
Nothing outstanding nor terrible with this one. Not impressed, but who knows what the beast pool could look like for the Barrens? I'm sure some lore guide will soon enlighten us all, if not the reveals itself
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Why does a seed draw a beast? Maybe a beast eats it, sure, but show that on the card!
I like this, though. Couldn't care less about Tempo Beast Druid, but cards that draw specific cards are always good. If not in competitive decks, at least for fun - drawing what you want consistently is freakin' awesome! And did I mention Hadronox? Maybe even Malorne, teehee.
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Meh, I'm having a hard time getting excited by this card. Maybe, this can be used to tutor out a specific beast. Otherwise, I don't think this will make the cut.
Arena > Wild > Standard
I like the idea behind Beast Druid, as long as it will diversify meta.
Increasing Druid-Beast synergy
Unless druids needs to tutor a specific beast, this card seems to have little value to me.
Decent
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Meh card, unless you want to mana cheat for combo, druid usually doesn't care about draw or mana.
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Needs help, standalone do not think it's worth a spot in Beast Druid which is not competitive right now.
Maybe some Combo shenanigans. MarkMcKz will probably use it for some funny OTK
Good card to be played in turns 2 or 5, but a little useless in the late game.
tutor draw with discount, solid card
This seems to fit the themes of ranked spells in this class.
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dont think this card does enough
It's an ok card, not much else to say
2x in my Moonfang + Winged Guardian Taunt cancer deck.
Maybe could be played as a tutor for important beasts, might enable some cool value combos a bit later in the game. Could see this being played.
It seems very weak, the effect gets better when you have more mana, but when you have more mana you don't need to cost reduction as much. Maybe some sort of OTK potential that I can't think of? Idk, I need to see more beast support before I fully judge this card.
good card
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I suspect the tutor effect is what's really important for this card.
Not bad, not good. Beast druid hasn’t been a thing really
2 mana for draw a card is not that impressive, but we must consider that druid have access to the ramp cards. Some high value beast card are available and with the mana discout this card can enable some crazy tempo play
Good card for Beast Druid
Doesn't the 8 mana spell already tutor 2 beasts and put it on field?
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Beast Druid, but that's Hunter's thing.
Wouldn't put it into my deck, I better have more beats in my deck than spend mana just to draw one
Not a bad spell to cast even at 2 mana right before ramping
quite weak - doubt beast druid is going to be viable
nice
Listing the other ranks for reference:
Living Seed (Rank 1)
Living Seed (Rank 2)
Living Seed (Rank 3)
Very useful card draw for the right kinds of Druid decks. I think Guardians Druid and Taunt Druid both have real reasons to run this card, and I think that it will see play. Obviously Druid has the best potential for abusing the Ranked spells with their Mana ramp, so power plays with a ranked up version of this spell can come a lot sooner and be a lot more impactful.
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Doesn't look that crazy, not sure where this card will fit in
Nice one :) I like it!
nah, it's too weak
Draw and mana reduction = good
Could be good with mana cheating but I doubt.
Will have to see if beast druid is a thing.
Tutor is never bad, but... At the moment I don't see what Beast is impactful enough for Druid to want to run this.
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Beast Druid's time to shine? I don't see it, but that sort of cost reduction could lead to some wacky combo I guess. Feels like Druid just has way better things to do though.
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Druid already has some decent beast support, and drawing cards and discounting them is never bad. The only reason this wouldn't see play in standard is if there aren't any beasts worth playing.
This card is weird for a couple of reasons. First, I don't think you'd want to run this until Guardian Animals rotates out as that is a more consistently powerful way to cheat out beasts. Second, I don't know if the discount is all that substantial with the current pool of beasts available to Druid. If there was a good beast that costs in the range of 8-10, then the second rank of this spell may have an effective application for its discount, but right now the best application is for discounting Druid of the Plains to six mana even though Druids have other efficient ways to potentially play that beast more than a turn early.
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