New Neutral Minion - Mortuary Machine

The new Bittertide Hydra, it will be played by aggro decks for sure.

I personally think, that the effect might be the worst we have seen for all 5 mana 8/8 cards currently in the game. If you play this against a control deck, the chances are, that they would play a taunt and slow down your aggression. Warriors could do this and follow up with an Execute or Shield Slam. Against mech hunter you could be hard countered by Spider Bomb and Venomizer and you would just risk your other minions dying from those mechs. Dunno if mech hunter would run it despite the obviously good magnetic possibilities.

Interesting enough in wild this could be good against big priest prior to turn 8, before the deck actually plays its big dudes.

It looks like most of the neutral epics in this set are either hard to use or too memey.  This one looks really bad because unless you are agro and can finish the game, giving your opponent creatures Reborn would help stabilize their board (especially if it is a taunt).   

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The new Bittertide Hydra, it will be played by aggro decks for sure.

I doubt it, you don't want to double the amount of taunt minions for your opponent.

This feels like it doesn't really have a home, except maybe in silence priest, but that deck already had plenty of better targets.

The only thing that immediately punishes this is a taunt, right? That's a pretty big fucking punish though.

Assuming no taunt, though, you're going to magnetize this and smash them in the face for a million.

In the pantheon of 5-mana, 8/8's, I think this is the worst. But It's also still a neutral 5-mana, 8/8, and those typically do see play to some degree.

Specifically, I think this sees play in Silence Priest or not at all. You want a card like this in games where Taunt is most common. Therefore, the massive punish of taunt is cripplingly doubled.

Run this with two Shieldbreakers to take care of your opponent's Reborn Taunts.

Note to self: Do not Conjurers Calling your own 5-cost minions under any circumstances.

Treachery decks could at least consider Bittertide Hydra and Defile at 10 mana as a meme finisher.  Mortuary Machine is just too awful even for those decks.

At least the existence of this card is a big nerf to Omega Assembly

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The new Bittertide Hydra, it will be played by aggro decks for sure.

I doubt it, you don't want to double the amount of taunt minions for your opponent.

 

This feels like it doesn't really have a home, except maybe in silence priest, but that deck already had plenty of better targets.

There are a few taunts in meta right now, and you can play silences against them (or sap if you are Rogue).

The only one high problema are the rush minions, but only warriors use them (same for taunts).

All the 5 mana 8/8 in HS have seen play in competitive games and tournaments, and that drawback is better than "discard 3 cards" or "get 3 damage". 

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All the 5 mana 8/8 in HS have seen play in competitive games and tournaments, and that drawback is better than "discard 3 cards" or "get 3 damage". 

Wrong. This is by far the worst drawback out of the three for aggressive decks.

Aggro decks don't give a damn about their own life total.

They care even less about their own deck size.

What they do care about is the board state. Guess which of the three negatively affects the board state for you.

This isn't fel reaver or bittertide hyrda at all.  This card sucks.

As aggro you don't care about cards in your deck or your own HP

but do you know what you do care about?

your opponent having a zilliax that deathrattles into another shielded zilliax.  do you know what deck runs zilliax? that's right, all of them. 

taunts and rush minions are also strong against this.  imagine a warrior plays the 3/2 rush reborn into this.  does the double dip and get two reborns? because if so this is hella bad.  it's bad either way tho.

I really like your way of thinking, nobody expects the Shieldbreaker. Could be a real game changer