New Demon Hunter Minion - Battleworn Vanguard

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A new Common Demon Hunter Minion, Battleworn Vanguard, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

    A new Common Demon Hunter Minion, Battleworn Vanguard, has been revealed!

    Battleworn Vanguard Card Image

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


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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

    Its only good because token generation in a token deck. And because even a mere felwing is dangerous with the new token support cards.

    Outside of that, this card is not really anything to scream about. Its basically a much weaker Umberwing all things considered, because you cannot get the tokens without having either a weapon on 1, or coin into this on 2. Or you play this on 3, and your opponent scratches his head. And plus, it has only 2 health, basically all but a generic 1 drop can kill this.

    You might even debate whether its worth running this over Sigil of Summoning, which at very least does curve well into Flag Runner ,of which this card does not without help.

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

    Animated Broomstick has yet ANOTHER purpose

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  • Lundy's Avatar
    Little Devil Teemo 1555 707 Posts Joined 06/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

    Umberwing, but a minion instead of a weapon. This is interesting as it can also summon multiple minions with weapons like Warglaives of Azzinoth.

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

    This is a pretty convenient tool for most DH decks. 
    Most turn, DH wants to use its HP anyway, so fair to say you'd get value, or are already putting pressure

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

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  • meisterz39's Avatar
    925 1200 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

    Probably doesn't fit into every Demon Hunter, but it's a solid card for token decks.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

    Satyr Overseer but better?

    Obvious token support but might be useful in other decks as well.

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2225 2544 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

    This card will only be good if the whole token DH archetype is good. The stats are bad for this day and age, so he won't last long and will probably only summon 2 1/1s. Might be good enough? Will have to test it out, but highly doubt the token archetype will be meta.

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  • Erodos's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

    This is obviously best after equipping a 1-mana weapon on turn 1, but I don't really believe in Dreadprison Glaive. Maybe in some kind of tempo deck with deathrattle minions that runs Tuskpiercer?

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago
    Quote From Erodos

    This is obviously best after equipping a 1-mana weapon on turn 1, but I don't really believe in Dreadprison Glaive. Maybe in some kind of tempo deck with deathrattle minions that runs Tuskpiercer?

    Lifesteal OTK DH runs Tuskpiercer targeting only Persistent Peddler as the Deathrattle target. This will always be a powerful 4 card package to cycle through your deck. I believe Battleworn Vanguard might be enough of a payoff to include this package on token DH.

    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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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

    Amazing minion for Token DH. Will see play because of Kurtrus, Demon-Render, and will probably be Animated Broomstickd later into the game.

    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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  • Swizard's Avatar
    1190 913 Posts Joined 04/30/2020
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

    Is this better than the weapon. I wouldn’t play this.

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  • GoddammitDontShootMe's Avatar
    Relaxed 2195 2055 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 1 month ago

    This would be one of those token DH cards. There's been a bit of support printed for this expansion, so maybe this will be alright.

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  • KillaFIsh's Avatar
    375 250 Posts Joined 07/10/2019
    Posted 3 years ago

    I think this is a super good card, not just for Token, but it could be run in other decks as well, maybe even to starve off early aggression in Big DH.  I like it alot, and if it sticks, can be super annoying.

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

    Slightly better than umberwing since it can synergize with your base hero power.  May see play in aggro/token decks.

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

    Seems ok and in DH swarming flavour, kind of wonder if those tokens will have separate art.

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

    I think this one is solid. We have seen other token generators that see play and get annoying. As easy as it is for DH to attack, this will turn into a must remove target.

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

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

    Permanent token generation at turn 3 and has to be taken asap preventing a token snowball

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

    Satyr Overseer 2.0, really good if you had a weapon on 1 and curved into it, and still pretty decent turn 3+ with a Hero Power to immediately activate it.

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

    I've found Demon Hunter cards particularly tricky to evaluate in the lead up to this expansion. I can't tell if I just don't play the class enough, or if it just hasn't settled down into a smooth identity yet, but something about cards like this makes my brain shut off and just go 'I guess it's good?'.

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

    Very powerful 2-Drop for a variety of aggressive Demon Hunter decks. Tokens loves it, Aggro loves it, basically any deck that runs cheap weapons that it can play on turn 1 will love it.

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

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

    Improved Umberwing on a stick which has a repetitive ability. Auto include in Token Demon Hunter for sure.

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

    It's like a mini satyr, and I love it!

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