New Warlock Minion - Commander Ulthok

This feels like it could potentially be powerful but it's super hard to judge without seeing it in practice. On paper this can effectively skip your opponent's turn because they might be too afraid to die on the following one (specifically in Curselock). ON the other hand it might just kill you.

I guess it's matchup dependant, but it could be really strong, but should only be played if you are convinced you can kill them the following turn. Probably not a good play against Boar Priest

Its just bad. There's plenty of memes up in reddit faceswapping this card with Millhouse Manastorm and that's an apt comparison. Because for the price of infinite mana to your opponent you put up a good stated minion on turn 5. If your opponent cannot kill you outright on turn 6, then very likely their health would be low enough for you to finish them off the following turn.

But the problem starts from the fact that warlock really hasn't got a lot of burn in standard. There's cards like Hellfire, Demonic Assault, the curse cards, and that's about it. Forget about this card living for a turn, or your board for the matter. If youre allowing your opponent carte blanche on their turn, only an aggro deck is not guaranteed to answer this card's 7/7 stats. So a good estimate of health shaved would be around the lines of 10 health, dealing with this minion and developing a good board. Hardly enough that warlock can take advantage of it on their turn to kill the opponent.

And then there's worse case scenario, your opponent is a control deck. Plays his entire deck, heals back all that lost health (via armor, which is always cost efficient, or via maki roll which guarantees a reno effect) and then completely outvalues you (via kazakusan etc.) or outright destroys you.

Even a respectable midrange deck will play enough stuff while suffering around 10-15 damage. Develop a board warlock is ill-equipped to handle (divine shield etc.) and then wipes that smile off your face.

In my opinion, the cons far outweight the pros. I cannot imagine many scenarios where playing this card leads to success. Unless warlock gets lots of burn, stealth minions, or defensive tools like Cloak of Shadows, I cant ever see this being played.

Hmm im on the fence with this card. It seems good for aggresive warlock decks because they can slam this down when their opponent is low hp in order to prevent them from playing certain cards. And it seems good in abyssal curselock, because you can slam this down and then fill their empty hand with curses.

But that's the best case scenario. Most of the time your opponent can probably use the free mana cheat in order to win the game. Playing against a OTK deck and they have their combo + enough life to play it? Well gg, your dead. Honestly i'm baffled with how much their currently crapping on warlock in terms of giving them weak cards, only to step in and buff them later. I guess The Demon Seed fiasco REALLY made them scared of printing good warlock cards.

That or i'm really overlooking how strong this card actually is. Yet again, still on the fence. I've seen plenty of people calling this Millhouse Manastorm #2, and other saying this will be very OP.