New Neutral Minion - Gankster

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A new Common Neutral Minion, Gankster, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    A new Common Neutral Minion, Gankster, has been revealed!

    Gankster Card Image

    Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!


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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Wow a 2 mana does nothing, and your opponent can EASELY play around it. Yeh this filler "definately" sees play.

    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.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Eat shit Quest Mage, guess you needed Minions after all, huh?

    (IN any other matchup this is just awful unless your opponent literally has no way to just take it out with a 1-drop)

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • SilverWolf's Avatar
    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    This can kill most, if not all, 3 mana minions. It's a pack filler, but I have an interesting effect

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  • Swizard's Avatar
    1190 913 Posts Joined 04/30/2020
    Posted 3 years ago

    This will go into a deck with Swamp King Dred and Ram Mount. Minion decks without spell removal beware. Other than that it’s not bad stats so maybe stealth rogue will play it.

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  • Lundy's Avatar
    Little Devil Teemo 1555 707 Posts Joined 06/21/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Snipe but Neutral, and also very easily played around.

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  • Sykomyke's Avatar
    Grand Crusader 780 985 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 3 years ago
    Quote From YourPrivateNightmare

    Eat shit Quest Mage, guess you needed Minions after all, huh?

    (IN any other matchup this is just awful unless your opponent literally has no way to just take it out with a 1-drop)

    Wouldn't quest mage not care about this though?  You either leave it stealthed (where it does no pressure against them) or you go face, and then use Runed Orb to kill it off.  Or I missing some thought process here?

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Ramming Mount found its besty <3 

    Struggle with Heroic Galakrond's Awakening? I got your back : 

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  • Geno9999's Avatar
    Metrognome 1620 1217 Posts Joined 11/10/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Neutral Snipe as a minion. Though getting Ramming Mount or Ace Hunter Kreen with this makes it even spicier.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years ago
    Quote From Sykomyke
    Quote From YourPrivateNightmare

    Eat shit Quest Mage, guess you needed Minions after all, huh?

    (IN any other matchup this is just awful unless your opponent literally has no way to just take it out with a 1-drop)

    Wouldn't quest mage not care about this though?  You either leave it stealthed (where it does no pressure against them) or you go face, and then use Runed Orb to kill it off.  Or I missing some thought process here?

    Point is that they can't clear it with a minion so you're basically getting a 2-mana 4/2 with stealth that's almost guaranteed to go face.

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Has decent attack. But honestly, is there any reason not running Sneaky Delinquent instead?

    The fact is that this will nearly never live past the turn. You can do some shenanigans with Ramming Mount or Ace Hunter Kreen, but no hunter can keep a card in hand just so this can gain more value than it deserves.

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  • Live4vrRdieTryn's Avatar
    505 931 Posts Joined 07/14/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Hey, look- everyone gets Snipe! Snipe sucks.

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  • shelkem's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 375 117 Posts Joined 03/23/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Good card overall, Snipe isn't great but this can be buffed and can trade at will next turn.

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  • NebuchadnezzarHS's Avatar
    Supporter 2035 1411 Posts Joined 06/14/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Snipe on a schtick, so slightly better but attacks automatically so still not good.

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  • Erodos's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Loving the flavour and art, might see play with some handbuffs to block combos.

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  • edalyas's Avatar
    Magma Rager 520 165 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Rogues do it!

    It seems like a fun idea, any imminity effect turns it into real value but combo with ram mount is 5 mana already, all will depend on list of actually played minions. I'll try it though.

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2225 2544 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 3 years ago

    I'm sure there's a way we can abuse this minion down the line. Reminiscent of Swamp King Dred but being a low cost, there's spells you can use to make this a scary threat. 

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  • GoddammitDontShootMe's Avatar
    Relaxed 2195 2055 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    This probably kills most things you could play on turn 2 or 3, so it might slow your opponent down a bit. Too bad it will likely die the first time it attacks.

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  • meisterz39's Avatar
    925 1200 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Honestly, I think this is pretty solid. It's true you can play around it, but there aren't that many 1-drops with 2 or more attack that see play, so in the early game your worst case here is often trading a 2-drop for a 2-drop. That's pretty fair, and the upside is that sometimes you get a 4-Attack minion on board going into turn 3, which is very powerful. If it doesn't auto-trade on your opponent's turn, it will curve nicely into Greyheart Sage, so maybe this can help a last hurrah for Stealth Rogue before it rotates.

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    5 star solely for the naming convention!  That is hilarious.  I don't see this being used a lot based on the fact that I would see my opponent just throw a random 2 attack minion on the board to nuke this.

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  • randomfan's Avatar
    Elemental 1255 744 Posts Joined 03/17/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    I think this will be good if only for possibly causing your opponent to play a little off curve to value remove it. it will at least cause them to have to think about how they are playing their next turn.

    Unfortunately, common sense isn't as common as it should be.

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 3 years ago

    Snipe but the opponent knows about it? Far better than something like Harbinger Celestia, I suppose, but I'm not a fan of letting your opponent pick how the interaction goes down. Maybe worth it just for the Stealth?

    Welcome to the site!

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  • sule's Avatar
    Dinosaur 830 995 Posts Joined 08/21/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    Could be neat if you need to disrupt a Combo deck (btw, lines up nicely with Efficient Octo-bot), otherwise it doesn't feel like it should be any good in tempo decks unless they care a lot about Stealth and don't want to run the dozens of other Stealth minions in Standard.

    I don't want to cure cancer; I want to turn people into dinosaurs.

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1570 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    It has nice attack for its cost, but the fact that your opponent can decide which minion it hits makes it rather weak. Will only see play in Arena, if even that.

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