Very strong for clown druid, maybe a wall archetype again will make some apparition on the set

0 mana 2/3 when played, and 2 mana discount every turn it sticks. Not bad.

Decent Enough to see play!

It appears that Taunt druid is becoming more and more possible again with these new cards being introduced. 

Hm there are a few 5 mana taunts like Greybough or Teacher's Pet to curve into, but not sure if deck itself will come together

Vanilla stats with upside, so good card in Taunt Druid. Does Hadronox return in the Core set?

Ok. So the taunt package makes a lot more since. Greybough looks like the center piece with this and the other new druid legendary, plaguemaw. Aside from dh getting a mass silence, this should be pretty good

This looks solid!

Taunt druid incoming

Hmmm.   Do I have to craft Greybough now?  This may help make taunt druid a viable thing.  

Druid is going to be a wall of taunts

It's good, but maybe Druid has already access to better ways to cheat mana i feel like ?

I like it on paper, but in practice it feels like the kind of card that only works if you get on the board first and snowball ahead (which means running some of the average 2-mana taunts like Bonechewer Brawler to really capitalize on the initial effect).

I just can't imagine a deck that runs this, but maybe we get some really strong taunt synergy that works as a win condition.

I like it. Obviously, a 0 Mana 2/3 with Taunt is nice for the second/any generated copies of this card. I don't think the discount will stack with multiple copies; that seems too strong, and (base Mana cost) - (2) is still (base Mana cost) - (2) even if there are two cards in play that reduce it by (2). But most potentially good Taunts tend to be 1 or 2 Mana too expensive.   

How does this work with corrupt. I guess the effect will reduce all taunt costs in your hand until you play a taunt minion. But can I corrupt my Dreaming Drake by playing a 2-cost card, while Razormane Battleguard is on the field?

Mana cheat is very good

Ideally, we'll be getting a low-cost (2-4 mana) druid taunt that can easily be paired up with this. When combined with Greybough and the remaining neutral taunts, that could produce a viable deck, or at least a very annoying one to play against.

Premium 2 mana minion. 

Given that druid's ramp is a thing this WILL see play one way or another.

As if Druid needed more support for taunts! Great card that allows crazy combos!

Good for Taunt Druid, not so much in other decks, maybe Clown deck? Idk

Uh... ways to cheat things out of your hand faster with a class that mana ramps?  I'll take two!

Greybough BBF

Great for  this taunt druid they want to create . Greybough for 3 mana maybe good ,and the legendary on top could see something maybe not this expansion but in the future.

This two new cards (will repeat the comment) are excelent This new synergy is crazy.... if you play the taunt guy the same turn the little guy goes for 0 mana. And the legendary... Damn....

Decent card to help drop larger minions sooner

Decent stats with mana cheating ability? Count me in

A River Crocolisk that costs 0 mana when played before a Taunt is not a good card. Not in Druid, anyway.

And yes, that's all this is, because it's not going to stick consistently enough to be worth including.

On the long list of effects that can singlehandedly make decks become viable, I think 'enables cheating of mana during the first few turns of the game' is right at the tippytop. This can allow you to pull out 4 mana worth of minion on turn 2, which is madness for how consistent it could be. Even if you don't draw into that, if it sticks you could have 5 mana worth of minion on turn 3... absolutely a five star Michelin card, top tier diners, drive ins, and dives, finally, some good fucking food.

cost redcution is always welcome esspecialy in wild for combo decks

Mana cheat is pretty much always good. It's good when it discounts 1 minion, then it's protected, and if it sticks for one turn it gets insane value. Play this on two with a taunt, play Greybough on 3, play Plaguemaw the Rotting on turn 4, gg.

Functionally a 0 mana 2/3 in a deck that wants to play taunts....seems great.

this is basically a 0 mana 2/3 if you play a taunt. and you get benefits next turn too if this lives. crazy

DOn't think it will stick around on board for long, but looks good.

Mana cheat - oh yeah! Foxy was pretty useless, so this won't see ANY play.

Just free with taunt

Yeah I mean, this can be a strong early minion, I love taunts so nice to see the mechanic being empowered.

I like the idea of this in a corrupt deck. Wonder how the two will interact, but it would be much easier to corrupt discounted taunts. This + anything 2 or higher corrupts that taunt dragon, this + 6 mana+ corrupts the 7 mana 6/6, and this + even guardian animals corrupts clowns. So I see this fitting naturally into that deck.

Found you! 

This is a pretty good card that appears to be getting plenty of support in this expansion.

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Vanilla stats with upside, so good card in Taunt Druid. Does Hadronox return in the Core set?

Nope, but there's always Wild for such shenanigans ^^

Teacher's Pet on t3 sounds good.

This card is strong. If you were planning on dropping a taunt this turn, it's a 0-cost 2/3 with upside for future turns.

With this much support taunt druid will see play. Whether only for a week or it will establish itself wil be seen.

I am more and more tempted to craft Greybough

What a beautiful Taunt Druid deck

druid can ramp and mana discount, they are going to build huge taunt walls against aggro

It's ok, but it will difficult survive one round to give you the discount...

Could be nice for taunt druid

A neat trick this card provides is making Corrupt Taunts like Dreaming Drake, Strongman, and Carnival Clown easier to Corrupt. While this is on the board, the cost of the Corrupt Taunts in-hand is reduced by 2, so the requirement for corrupting should be much easier.

Oooo yay. My Greybough was looking forward to seeing more action. Taunt druid looks very awesome to play, but annoying to play against. I like it 😁

taunt druid hmm, dont like the idea so much but could be better than token stuff what is even better is token + taunt combo

Very fun taunt druid support. This card really pushed forward the taunt heavy archetype, and could be a key piece of the deck. It is likely to be a must kill when dropped, so also not bad. 

If you're building a deck full of taunts, this guy is just a free 2/3 most of the time.

Just don't go dreaming that this card would survive more than a turn.

Not bad, it already pays for itself the turn you play it, and if it survives (which is fairly likely since you just played a taunt) you will be cheating things out 2 turns sooner. This should see a fair amount of play if this taunt druid is any good.

Looks quite good, can't wait to see taunt druid

Will see play in Arena as a vanilla statted minion, but I doubt a Taunt Druid will live on after the experimentation phase. Maybe, this makes sense in some Hadronox lists in Wild.

How ironical is the fact that druid will receive a better support for taunt archetype than warrior have ever received

Not great, not terrible

Alright card, good to cheat out cheap taunts. Not sure that's the way taunts want to go but any discount can be abused.

This does look scary, big snowball potential, not easy to clear early. It forces midrangey Druid build, which would be a nice change from spell archetypes if it succeeds. Good one

Seems solid, curves very well into Teachers Pet and synergizes well with the taunt legendary, I hope the deck is fun

Dreaming Drake loves this. After playing Razormane Battleguard, I believe Dreaming Drake will be corruptible by 2 mana cards making it insanely easy to stick a 1 mana 5/6 Taunt. Not only that, since Razormane Battleguard discounts Taunts, the opponent will most likely have to go through the Taunt before killing him, making Razormane Battleguard surprisingly sticky.

That is a good card in order to push this taunt druid archetype. Will see...

Saronite Chain Gang and friends will see play again

We will see a lot of Greybough this expansion

With this card whole concept of Taunt Druid getting stronger and stronger.

Definitely getting lots of support for taunt druid. Now we just need to know what taunt minions will be available.

Taunt Druid was one of the decks I hated facing the most back then. Thankfully there's no Hadronox-type card this time around, so maybe this new archetype they're pushing won't be as annoying. 

That said, Razormane Battleguard is a solid card that will probably only see play in the Taunt Druid archetype. 

Good with Greybough. Really strong is survive, you can cheat a bigger taunt

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This one looks very promising. If unanswered on curve, you opponent will be in heaps of trouble when the Taunts start dropping. I might even go as far as to claim this could be a nerf candidate if those tempo swings prove too reliable and strong.

You said it right there

Looks interesting, would obviously be a staple in any taunt druid.

Taunt Druid new meta?

good card

Seems good on paper, but in practice i'm not sure. It could reduce the cost of your clowns to 7 mana when your on 10 mana, and then corrupt it with Cenarion Ward or Guardian Animals. So that's a use of it, makes you less reliant of drawing Survival of the Fittest, even though Clown druid will probably use Primordial Protector to draw the Survival of the Fittest....

ACTUALLY when druid has 10 mana they can Razormane Battleguard + Primordial Protector and both draw Survival of the Fittest & summon a 10 cost minion, AND corrupt Carnival Clown in the same turn! Actually i'm changing my mind about Razormane Battleguard, it has a LOT of potential and druids ramp + now mana cheating could end up with something very powerfull.

this and Annoy-o-Tron on turn2 seems good

This with any good 2 mana taunt seems amazing. We might have an aggro taunt druid.

I have trouble seeing this being played. If you are going for tempo or aggro I think Druid has better methods and if you are going for huge taunts at the end of the game I think you'd rather just have more of them alongside ramp cards, of which a fair amount aren't leaving.

Looks ok-ish, but idk, feels too aggro for a Taunt (= control) deck. Greybough sounds great, but in reality it's probably too "mild" for druid and its combos.

Has good body, but if it is killed without any time to activate, it is just a river croc, which sucks so bad.

Great tool.

This is a really high tempo card, and it's better than Foxy Fraud, because if you're playing this and then a taunt, this is more likely to survive to board damage and give you a second discount next turn.

That is a staple card.

Taunt Studies

Taunt Druid

This seems like a worthwhile inclusion in Taunt Druid. It will essentially be a free 2 / 3 most of the time, and sometimes better than that.

cool card. nice for clowns too

Discount for taunt decks. Also more mana cheat for Druids. Decent but Druids have other options that might be better.

Lol imagine ppl like me who thinked they have found a bad legendary time ago!

very good in taunt deck.

Free taunt, and if it survives you get free mana, nice

very good taunt druid enabler - though not very confident this archetype will work, this card seems good enough to be tried

taunt synergy

I like that this helps to enable Taunt Druid, and cheat out big bodies (while coincidentally being protected by the Taunt minions it enables). Can be really good on curve with Annoy-o-Tron or the Toad boy, then you can get into your bigger Taunts and keep protecting this guy. Very good for Taunt Druid, you will feel it in the games when you don't have him early.

Very strong druid card, mana cheat always is good

This has potential, might help push Taunt Druid a bit futher as a meta deck

Druid might just have a decent taunt build coming. I've not seen many people talking about it, but I think it could be a sleeper deck.

very nice, with the oppurtunity to get two solid minions out on turn two

if you protect it, mana cheating each turn can be good 

Seems very strong for archetypes that already have a foundation in Druid.

Pretty good mana cheat. It pays for itself immediately and only generates more value the longer it survives. The Taunt minions can also protect it. The only question is whether Taunt Druid will be a thing.

This will single handedly make taunt druid work. Such a scary card

Strong 2 drop

Really seem to be pushing taunt druid this set.

Seems unlikely to survive on curve, but it's basically free if you play a taunt the same turn, so... not bad?

Can reduce cards to 0, so if you have a 2 mana Taunt in hand you can drop them both at the same time, which is a pretty good swing early on. I'll try out Taunt Druid just for Mark of the Spikeshell, but cards like this do make me wonder if it might actually be good.

Taunt druid making a comeback!  Did it ever leave?  Do we actually want it back?  I don't know.  All I know is that cards that steeply discount other cards are very powerful, even if it's an aura effect instead of a permanent decrease.

Lets go taunt Druid :)

There are some interesting applications with this in an aggressive Taunt Druid deck cheating out a Toad of the Wilds or Bonechewer Brawler alongside this. Razormane Battleguard isn't consistent enough mana cheat to warrant inclusion in a slower Druid deck, but it is aggressive enough with low cost taunts. This probably isn't more aggressive than Token Druid, but it is something to keep an eye out for in the future.