New Neutral Minion - Corporal

Great effect, but won't see much play in Constructed with how busted everything else usually is. If we ever get into a minion heavy meta, I can see this being used. Great for Arena however, and might be experimented with using Highlord Fordragon.

This + Animated Broomstick + whatever the hell out have on the board with taunt = frustrated opponent

Maybe a tech card for some decks in an aggro or midrange mirror?

This batch of 2 drops is pretty strong, and all so diversified
Not sure if this is that good that most token decks run a pair, but I'm sure I'll want it in my arena's draft

On paper it looks inconsistent at best. But I'm not writing this one off until the meta settles because the pay off is so great its not impossible for this to see some play, even if its only in aggro decks. Being able to give your board divine shield is about as good as it can get.

Drop this out on 2. Your opponent will scramble to kill it or play no minions, because of this work, it'll give you such a massive advantage.

Quite a powerful Honorable Kill effect. This is basically a paladin only card but would allow for great value in arena for any class. I'd definitely recommend playing Corporal with a rush effect to instantly get the divine shield off. One this to also note, seeing as the honorable kill mechanic can activate it's effect multiple times, you'd need to kill this minion or risk your opponent getting another round of divine shields. Least Corporal doesn't get a shield. 

This kinda settles that Honorable kill will be a rather difficult effect to activate on minions because this would be really broken otherwise.

No rush, so too difficult to activate. Bad card.

Has some potential, but I think the setup for it is just too much hassle and a more straightforward gameplan is the better choice.

Nice 2-drop in arena that needs to be countered and it could be great to combo with Broom. But obviously situational = mostly bad.

Very good combo if you can give it rush with any other card, like broom, and make all your minions divine shielded

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No rush, so too difficult to activate. Bad card.

Why thank you piece of cheese for your incorrect opinion.  I'm sure everyone here is thrilled!

You ever consider that a card doesn't have to have rush in order to be good?  There are plenty of times it's right to play a good minion on a vanilla board. Take for example: A shaman plays Bolnar on 2 just for tempo/risk.  Why? Because it lets you learn something: Does my opponent have an answer.  If they do have an answer are they going to over-use resources to kill it?  Are they going to "save" resources or attempt to play around it in some way? (i.e. in this case a high health minion, a freeze effect, etc)

Sometimes playing a good card that doesn't get immediate effect or requires combo pieces to "be good" is still a good play because it can cause you to learn more about your opponent's hand, and their ability to counter your board state.

Honorable kill is very inconsistent I'd go so far to say that it is an unhealthy mechanic for the game because of the random line-ups.

Yup, this is basically insta pick in Arena. We love stacking 2 mana 2/3's and this one has a severe upside. Not as good as Peon, but close enough.

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No rush, so too difficult to activate. Bad card.

Why thank you piece of cheese for your incorrect opinion.  I'm sure everyone here is thrilled!

You ever consider that a card doesn't have to have rush in order to be good?  There are plenty of times it's right to play a good minion on a vanilla board. Take for example: A shaman plays Bolnar on 2 just for tempo/risk.  Why? Because it lets you learn something: Does my opponent have an answer.  If they do have an answer are they going to over-use resources to kill it?  Are they going to "save" resources or attempt to play around it in some way? (i.e. in this case a high health minion, a freeze effect, etc)

Sometimes playing a good card that doesn't get immediate effect or requires combo pieces to "be good" is still a good play because it can cause you to learn more about your opponent's hand, and their ability to counter your board state.

Bolner has a great pay-off, this doesn't. You need your opponent to have exactly a 2-health minion on board, and yourself to have a board impressive enough that you want it to gain divine shield. If that wasn't enough, you have to wait an entire turn, or use another card like Animated Broomstick, only to get it to go off. And it's not like it's hard to eliminate, it only has three health! Any class can deal with this on turn 2, let alone later. Just because your opponent has to spend 3 damage to kill it doesn't make it good.

Sounds interesting alongside Animated Broomstick in a deck like Divine shield handbuff paladin. But that's all i can really think off. Still this has a lot of potential.

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No rush, so too difficult to activate. Bad card.

Why thank you piece of cheese for your incorrect opinion.  I'm sure everyone here is thrilled!

You ever consider that a card doesn't have to have rush in order to be good?  There are plenty of times it's right to play a good minion on a vanilla board. Take for example: A shaman plays Bolnar on 2 just for tempo/risk.  Why? Because it lets you learn something: Does my opponent have an answer.  If they do have an answer are they going to over-use resources to kill it?  Are they going to "save" resources or attempt to play around it in some way? (i.e. in this case a high health minion, a freeze effect, etc)

Sometimes playing a good card that doesn't get immediate effect or requires combo pieces to "be good" is still a good play because it can cause you to learn more about your opponent's hand, and their ability to counter your board state.

Bolner has a great pay-off, this doesn't. You need your opponent to have exactly a 2-health minion on board, and yourself to have a board impressive enough that you want it to gain divine shield. If that wasn't enough, you have to wait an entire turn, or use another card like Animated Broomstick, only to get it to go off. And it's not like it's hard to eliminate, it only has three health! Any class can deal with this on turn 2, let alone later. Just because your opponent has to spend 3 damage to kill it doesn't make it good.

Bolnar was just an egregious example (one from personal experience as well as streamer feedback so I decided to use it) and as expected you use it as a specific "well that is great payoff card, this isn't".  Which ...it actually is.  Yes, it's a "measly 2/3", however it makes your opponent play around it.  Here I'll use a more "in-line" example since you seem so caught up on specific details. Peon same exact stat line.  Relatively powerful effect (for it's cost).  You don't want to give your opponent card advantage.  So this card CAN be played on a vanilla board.  What does that do? Denies your opponent from playing a 2-health drop.  The same can be said of Corporal...

It can deny your opponent from playing certain drops.  Not to mention but the HK mechanic can be scaled with buffs, so classes that can manipulate the attack of their own minions, or the health of enemy minions will have better efficacy with HK mechanics.  In fact it seems like will be able to "sacrifice" your unit triggering the HK effect, where you couldn't do that with frenzy.  

So let's recap:

• No, you don't need "exactly a 2 health minion on board"
• No, you don't need "a board impressive enough that you want it to gain divine shield" (but that is the cherry on top, and inherently the threat that the card makes)
• No, you don't "need" animated broomstick for the card to be good, but that does improve the efficacy of the card quite a bit.  That is what we call "synergy" picks in the deck building process.  I know that's probably hard for you to fathom, but that's why deck building exists.  If you want to include broomstick for the sole purpose of improving the use of this card, you sacrifice including other cards in your deck.  That's card games 101 stuff.

Your argument that "any class can deal with this" is some weak ass position, that's the same age old fallacy that newbs used to use for Shadow word Death being "overpowered" back in the first few expansions: "Any card that has 5 attack or more is weak because SWD can remove it for just 3 (at the time) mana!"  

Your opponent spending mana on turn 2 or 3 to remove this means that they lose tempo and thus initiative in the match.  I think you are GREATLY discounting how much pressure early turns can snowball out of control by forcing your opponent to make difficult decisions.

This might be decent in Paladin with Highlord Fordragon or Prismatic Jewel Kit. Assuming you can activate the honorable kill.

Another card that will totally depend on usefulnness of HK. It's actually a nice WoW joke. You kill this and you get HK:Corporal pop up.

This could be good with paladin's hand buffing weapon. Other classes could use it as well just for the stickiness of the minions afterwards. Honestly, the scariest thought is putting this in an aggro deck to make it that much harder to clear off a board of small minions.

Neat effect. Might make it into aggro lists who'd appreciate making their boards more resilient sometimes, and like that it eats a removal spell others.

This could be really scary in handbuff decks (I'm thinking Paladin, specifically thanks to Bolvar). This probably has a chance to be the best 2-Drop in Arena, and I think there's a good chance it finds a home somewhere in Standard. Is it a bit of a win-more? Sure, but it's not just win-more, it's win-a-lot-more.

Gonna blindside somebody in arena (read: me) and they're going to be mad about it.

Quite a strong card, specially in arena. Might also see some play in buff Paladin decks.