New Neutral Minion - Sunwell Initiate
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A new Common Neutral Minion, Sunwell Initiate, has been revealed!
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A new Common Neutral Minion, Sunwell Initiate, has been revealed!
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I really like the early game stickiness of this for a nice midrange deck.
I think the divine shield buff is a great idea and makes for consideration with soft trades.
At this point I have spent too much money on these games to quit.
Now pass me another pack, and lets see what I pull.
Really sticky minion tough to deal with especially on curve
4 Mana 7/7
take a licking keeps on ticking. good card
As with all Frenzy cards, this is going to need something like rush to push
Best 3-drop in the entire Arena pool, yet I don't envision this going into a constructed deck.
Arena > Wild > Standard
Now that's an annoying mofo
good card ... even if frenzy playability have still to be assessed
I am 69 years old and still reach Legend
now this might be the best neutral card I've ever seen
Really annoying to deal with
aside from being god-tier in Arena, I could see this in buff decks. Opponents won't really target this unless they can wipe it in one go and if you bufff it in any way that becomes a lot harder to do.
I tried having fun once.
It was awful.
I really think this is super cool. With this effect it's so hard to clear and worth the three mana.
This will see play will work great against aggro decks
Good for midrange decks, and because there are a lot of AOE things around it might be easy to trigger the Frenzy.
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.
Pretty decent, could even be one of the few Frenzy cards for the Revival of frenzy minions in warrior.
Annoying if it manages to trigger. If it is played on 3 I feel like it usually will, a fair bit weaker after turn 3 though.
Seems like a very good card for aggro decks.
good
Kenny's little poet. 😇
good body could see play
Now this is survivability
Rogue DH
Anoyabuff
It's alright, but most decks aren't interested in playing generically-decent-slightly-better-than-vanilla 3 drops.
Carrion, my wayward grub.
Only good if you manage to damage it in the same turn
thats some tempo if frenzy triggers
Crazy
Lemushki - The one and only since the 2006 rebranding.
Looks like a worg/elf hybrid.
Nice
Good with delays in a Moonfang deck?
Oh hey it's a Paladin card
It's really good in the early-game, but in the late game a 3/3 Divine Shield would be better.
Arena value card
decent stats
Good arena card, but in constructed you just want a little bit more than a pile of stats for three mana.
3 mana 3/4 Divine Shield seems pretty good to me.
If the meta can somehow become more about curving out minions and using minion combat to control the board, this will be an all-star. Otherwise, it could be a nice 3-Drop for some decks that are lacking in quality 3-Drops.
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Sticky dude. Great if played on curve.
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great card for a lot of decks like aggro tempo even warrior could play this with the frenzy deck tehy want to build.
Hesitant 5 stars, it is a really good 3 drop no doubt but the frenzy potential remains to be seen
English is not my native language, so please excuse occasional mistakes
Good in Arena. Not as strong as Goody Two-Shields, though.
Seems like a good card, but IMHO not in many decks after rotation and expansion.
The neutral divine shields can be pretty powerful.
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Mmmm Rocket Augmerchant's best bud.
Cool synergy with Divine shield for duels?
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Really nice 3-drop! Played on curve, it's pretty likely to manage a trade, and that means 2 more potential trades.
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I wouldn't call the card amazing, but I love this use of Frenzy.
Good zoo card
May have a place in Warrior Frenzy deck.
A natural complement to the Frenzy keyword. I like it.
its okay. nothing to write home about, not worth the space in the deck. arena/duels potential?
He can trade most of turn 3-4 minions and keep hitting. Very powerful card
Yeah, I can definitely appreciate how it gets stickier once the frenzy have triggered ; interesting design
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Feels like pack filler to me, but that 4-health really makes it tough to kill so it'll probably gain divine shield often. Aggro and midrange decks could use this.
I think this is going to be more arena then constructed
Difficult to remove as seen in the livestream and quite sticky, but hard to see it fitting it anywhere in any constructed deck, not an "unfair" enough neutral with synergy with other pieces
Yeah, i think i agree with you.
With a ping, this becomes Silvermoon Guardian. Great flavor!
oooo boy.... instant 5 stars coz this card will be a pain to remove if you can't do 4 damage to it
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Annoying little bug
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Annoying effect, you will need to kill him with one shot, and 4 damage at turn 3/4 it's a lto of damage.
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Perfect card to frustrate your opponents
Very annoying one to deal with
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Very good and will stick around most of the time to clear some minions.
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Annoying card, I love it!
awseome only arena card
Interesting, really sticky if not removed. Great for Arena.
Strong card. Not OP, but definitely strong.
Lol. The very point of a divine shield is to prevent attacks, and this one only comes out after one.
Theoretically played on curve its very difficult to deny this value, but spidertanks aren't exactly hard to get rid of nowadays.
I can't see this outside of arena. Had it been 2/5 then at very least there's something, but with only 4 health its not going to consistently trigger to ever be viable.
Can turn out to be unexpectedly good. Will depend on the meta how easily this can find those value trades that allow the effect to trigger. Should not be counted out immediately.
Decent minion, upside can be interesting too
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Great arena card we have better frenzy cards in constructed so we don't need to run this.
Decent card, will like be played in Arena.
good
There's enough upside to this that it could see some play in a deck that wants to frenzy.
Probably the top 3 best frenzy card behind samouro and the warrior pirate that draws. We just need to find his place in one deck because like that i cant see wich archetype can use this.
Murlocs <3
Arena meta breaker
I like the frenzy effect
Ribbit
Reminds me of Goody Two-Shields but way worse. Good Arena card tho.
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Good target for buffs. Reminds me of Goody Two-Shields in some ways.
Might be useful in Zoo because it discourages <4 damage board clears.
~ An expertly disguised dinosaur
Nice stat but the opponent will never let this minion alive. So Sunwell Initiate is great with broomstick or when we are in control of the board
Seems fine, but I don't expect this will see much play outside of Arena.
This is just okay to me.
This is so annoying to deal with in the early-mid game, I can see this in some early-game focused deck.
Looks extremelly annoying to deal with, super hard to remove
can be pain to remove
Perhaps the one Frenzy card you don't want to immediatly trigger. You just leave it on the board standing there menacingly if the opponent can't deal 4 at once. That's why it's broken in arena.
Rating cards on coolness factor rather than predicting power because I like screwing up rating averages (and because I suck at predicting real power levels, but we'll ignore that LUL)
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This could end up being a very frustrating card. It will be hard to trade one for one if it comes down on curve and then having to deal with a divine shield after that just makes it extra frustrating.
Unfortunately, common sense isn't as common as it should be.
I think this card has very high potential, in arena it's absolutely busted.
Sticky boy
good card
I think will see minimal standard play IMO. Pretty decent arena card.
Will it fit it any deck?
I love the stat-line, and the fact that it should be able to get its frenzy effect more often than not. It's a pretty good early drop, but it's all about value, not aggro. I like it!
4 health at 3 mana seem to make this have a good chance of sticking around. Nice card.
at this moment I have never been more sad that Blood Knight is leaving Core.
If everything is broken in Arena... Nothing is broken in Arena?
Reminds me of Goody Two-Shields. Really sticky minion that I can see being quite annoying.
Good body, solid Arena card.
Nice, if they can't kill it in one hit, it will take at least three. That's what I call sticky.
Prepare a good shot to kill this one instead of making that shield trigger
For The HORDE!
Seems like an arena card.
Makes it a bit trickier to trade into, but I don't see this being a powerhouse unless you plan on giving it Rush so you can force the Shield to pop up.
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The shield coming off the first hit makes this real annoying to clear. Seems decent.
Casual Dragon Cardgame enthusiast.
Great stats, great effect. A very hard card to remove.
Arena
I like this card, very annoying to remove especially if dropped on curve.
The main issue with Sunwell Initiate is that an initial one mana discount on Silvermoon Guardian is worth triggering the frenzy effect. Also, I just don't see how this synergizes with any class except Paladin, and they already have Goody Two-Shields.
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