Necrium Apothecary

Necrium Apothecary Card Image

Card Stats


Card Text

Combo: Draw a Deathrattle minion from your deck and gain its Deathrattle.


Flavor Text

Necrium: Get the afterlife without the aftertaste!


Keywords

Combo - A bonus if you already played a card this turn.

Deathrattle - Does something when it dies.


Necrium Apothecary Sounds

Play VO_DRG_031_Male_Kobold_Play_02

Attack VO_DRG_031_Male_Kobold_Attack_01

Death VO_DRG_031_Male_Kobold_Death_01


Card Balance and Changes

Patch Change
January Nerfs

Cost increased to 5 (from 4).

Forged in the Barrens

Nerf reverted, cost decreased to 4 (from 5).


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Comments

  • og0's Avatar
    Red Riding Hood 1570 1062 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    This is a cool card - doubt will make a strong deck but I'm often wrong!

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  • CuakOn's Avatar
    1070 296 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Cool card for a Deathrattle Rogue deck.  Waxadread, Mechanical Welp, Anubisath Warbringer  ... Lots of great deathtrattles available that can make this archetype really good. 

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  • Rippy's Avatar
    Darkmaster 335 141 Posts Joined 06/04/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Reverse Elven Minstrel with a twist. Deathrattle Rogue can be a thing now...

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  • CgL7's Avatar
    95 18 Posts Joined 04/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Deathrattle Rogue shenanigans? I can see this card helping it being OP pulling big minions

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  • Trimutius's Avatar
    1580 2533 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    They are pushing deathrattle rogue... Not sure if good enough after nzoth goes out of standard again.

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  • Aymoon's Avatar
    190 203 Posts Joined 07/06/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    little something for deathratle rogue

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  • infiniteclock's Avatar
    145 94 Posts Joined 04/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Good tutor for any deathrattle (Waxadred is amazing). The combo is irrelevant since Rogue already had lots of combo enabler. 

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    N'Zoth decks in Wild will be awesome for this.  Draw AND additional Deathrattle.  I'm so down for that. 

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  • Solertis's Avatar
    280 50 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    For now I really don't see the deathrattle rogue archetype being a thing.

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  • Comadiroma's Avatar
    120 63 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Hard to know how good this is after N'Zoth leaves without knowing all the deathrattles that we'll have but the potential is there for sure.

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  • Mahobear8's Avatar
    355 284 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Reminds me a bit of Elven Minstrel.  Pretty spook

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  • CosmX's Avatar
    310 28 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    This could be useful in a Big Rogue deck (wild) to draw the Silver Vanguard or Kobold Illusionist early. I wonder if Dane will use it.

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  • StormCountTwo's Avatar
    180 142 Posts Joined 07/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Possible synergy with Waxadred or you know, strong deathrattles in general. In wild this struggles to compete with Kobold Illusionist, which allows more control of deathrattles by limiting it to your hand and making it easy to activate as a 1/1. In arena, it's a solid coin turn 3 with decent deathrattle in your deck but otherwise it was be a little tricky to activate.

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  • vprr's Avatar
    Face Collector 560 209 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Quite comparable to Myra Rotspring.

    I would argue that this card is straight up better, with its only downside requiring that it needs to be combo'd to activate. It draws from your deck allowing you to somewhat control its effect. Can easily imagine a multitude of different targets you would like to hit, perhaps this might also help Anka, the Buried see some play?

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    • PLANETCRUNCH's Avatar
      E.V.I.L. Dragon 820 1248 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
      Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

      I'd think this would help Anka, since it draws one of the minions you want her to discount. 

       

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  • kevin's Avatar
    160 155 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    With sylvanas rotating out of standard this card will see no play at all(jokes)... it's a good card, but a think we need se the entirely set to see if have more deathrattle to support this.

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  • BloodMefist's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 850 804 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I really like the design, but I'm not sold on how effective it will be.  Being a combo means that you can't just play it on turn 4 in a lot of cases and being a 2/5 makes it hard to kill.  That said, being hard to kill could open more opportunities for Necrium Blade or Vial.

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5607 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    It draws, it has 5 health, and it will most likely have a decent deathrattle. And it curves well with Necrium Blade. If this doesn't push deathrattle rogue somewhere then nothing will. Only weakness being that its a combo card, but theres more than enough low cost cards in rogue.

    Anubisath Warbringer deathrattle into necrium blade after getting a bunch of lackeys = druid auto concede. Or Mechanical Whelp into necrium blade at 4. Full 9/12 worth of stats at 4 with a nasty deathrattle.

    Hope big rogue gets back into the game in standard.

     

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2285 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    This card is nuts. DR Rogue is already very strong, and will continue to be even when Sylvanas and N'Zoth go back to wild. This card will help to keep it relevant when they leave.

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  • Skonakos's Avatar
    180 123 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I think unless you actually construct an OTK combo with this, you would want a more consistent deathrattle than Waxadred along the lines of Mechanical Whelp .

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