New Priest Minion - Chronobreaker

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A new Rare Priest Minion, Chronobreaker, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    A new Rare Priest Minion, Chronobreaker, has been revealed!

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

    Comparable to Chillmaw.

    Doesn't have taunt, but it also doesn't damage your own board. Seems like an exceptionally powerful tool against any aggressive or midrange deck. Should see lots of play in dragon Priest decks going forward.

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  • RavenSunHS's Avatar
    Refreshment Vendor 880 1487 Posts Joined 03/27/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    This card is in check, as long as Priest doesn't get Play Dead.

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  • linkblade91's Avatar
    Senior Writer Serra Angel 1720 2904 Posts Joined 02/09/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    If it had Taunt like Chillmaw, I might have given it 5 stars. As it is, you have to activate it yourself; the card is okay, but I think you can do better.

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  • Koetti's Avatar
    1095 863 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago
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  • IlBelTia's Avatar
    Wizard 440 333 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Damages only the enemy minions? Pretty insane.

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  • frosthearth's Avatar
    655 585 Posts Joined 03/18/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Very interesting...gives you a reason to try a deathrattle dragon deck

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  • Meteorite12's Avatar
    670 696 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Really doesn’t seem that great since it can be ignored against a swarm. Not having taunt makes it a lot worse

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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  • dembro's Avatar
    Peon 375 317 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Anduin, Aggro Annihilator (though this card is harder to trigger without Taunt).

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  • Drageren's Avatar
    Noisemaker 470 187 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    yeah, this card really need taunt, without it it's meh card, but it can be good if no mid range dragons in neutral set, coz dragon priest will need some mid drags for synergy also ok with resurrect and reborn. Oh, and very good with Galakrond, good random priest minion.

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  • meisterz39's Avatar
    925 1200 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    This is not necessarily a bad tool for Dragon Priest, but it's worse than Duskbreaker most of the time. With Duskbreaker, the 3 damage came down earlier and was immediate. Best case scenario here is that on turn 6 you hit your opponent with a 3 damage AOE to clear, and then have 6 mana to do what you want with. That's pretty good on its face, but it's not going to stop an aggro deck that has already run over you because your AOE has to wait a turn. Moreover, if you need an AOE on 5, you're typically better off using Mass Hysteria to clear, and if you need single target removal you could use the new Time Rip. The only minor advantage here is that you can play Chronobreaker without a dragon in hand and hope to get one before the effect needs to trigger.

    Maybe I'm being unfair here - with tools like Embalming Ritual and Wretched Reclaimer to combo with this, the deathrattle might be better than a battlecry, but I expect that if its good enough to see play in a Dragon Priest deck, that deck will need to be a tempo oriented deck where you can fight for the board in the early turns and set up Chronobreaker as a way to suppress any comebacks from your opponent.

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  • Farfelee's Avatar
    Draconically Dedicated 400 151 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    While not as effective as Duskbreaker for clearing the board, the card is great nontheless. Decent stats with a potential board clear. Even without taunt, the potential clear should force your aggro opoonents to sacrifice their minions so that they can rebuild another board.

    The effect being a secret is not really important since your opoonent has to judge it as it being activated same as for Chillmaw.

    This card also works with cards such as Wretched Reclaimer, Shadowy Figure or even Reckless Experimenter for the guaranteed immediate effect.

    A great card for dragon priest with a good amount of synergies.

    More dragons? Yes please!

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  • DelkoHS's Avatar
    Child of Galakrond 485 481 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Art is amazing though, reminds me of the Galaxy archetype in YuGiOh xd

    Strong effect, but it might be too slow for Aggro meta's. Taunt or direct activators might make this card better however.

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  • Mercynary9's Avatar
    355 239 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    5 Mana feels so slow, Im not sure if the yeti on turn 5 is worth it in trade of dealing 3 damage to all enemies only. Priest is more control oriented class, but in wild, midrange dragon priest does exist I think. So not hurting your own minions are nice.

    Bu again, do you really want a yeti on turn 5? thats the most important question. I say the mindflayer legendary is much better than that since it has very good stat body and the priest in wild has already has tons of better midrange minion.

    I’l give it a try, but doubt its gonna be great.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I think this card is too slow, priest doesn't have many ways to instantly activate it and your opponent can choose to not even trigger it at all (if they have minions with less than 5 attack) and just go face or just trade into this with the board losing the impact of the AOE it's Chillmaw -2 mana  -2/-1 and more importantly no taunt, so it's not that great probably won't be run since it's a deathrattle, unless you have deathrattle support.

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  • Nona's Avatar
    Child of the Night 940 258 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Could be an interesting piece of tech, will have to see how the Meta evolves once this set launches.

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  • ArngrimUndying's Avatar
    Draconically Dedicated 520 626 Posts Joined 06/11/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    This card is weird - I'll certainly give it a tryout in Dragon Priest (really the only deck that can play it since you need a dragon in your hand at all times lest the deathrattle be useless) but i'm not expecting much. 

    I made a similar comment on a Warlock card: this class is all over the place in DoD and it'll be interesting to see which (if any) archetypes are viable. You've got Galakrond Priest (Control?), Dragon Priest, Thief Priest, and Deathrattle Priest all getting 2-3 card each, but none of them being the obvious winner. My guess is some Galakrond Dragon Hybrid Priest just carried on how crazy strong Fate Weaver is by itself.

    Maybe in the reveal stream we'll see what the designers had in mind and how well it works? I'm just hoping one of them is good enough to put Res Priest back in the box because good lord has Nzoth Wall Priest been an absolute boring, annoying shitshow to play against the last month+. Please let it be over.

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  • BossWalrus's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 255 53 Posts Joined 06/04/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago
    Quote From linkblade91

    If it had Taunt like Chillmaw, I might have given it 5 stars. As it is, you have to activate it yourself; the card is okay, but I think you can do better.

    That's where I'm at with it, I think at 5 it's a bit too slow against aggro, but Priest does have Reckless Reclaimer for an easy trigger, so maybe something like that could find it's way working.  Either way it'll be fun to give it a tr

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  • Freforos's Avatar
    Draconically Dedicated 330 320 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I don't think this card is good and at the same time I don't think that this is what priest want. 

    Talking about the card itself we already had cards with similar effects and they never were good enough. Is similar to the mage secret, the difference is that here your opponent can go face with all his minion and completely ignore it. If they decide to not ignore it is only because they can trade with the minions that would die anyway and keep one with more than 3 health. 

    Basically giving you opponent the choice of what happens and when isn't good, and is even worse if we are talking of turn 5 where things starts to get nastier. 

    A proactive dragon would have been more appreciated at this point, i don't see the win condition of a control priest of any kind. If is just running out opponent of resources it will work only versus aggro, hearthstone is far away from the time that "fatigue" decks existed and worked. Now decks generate too much value and most importantly have huge powerspike turns that will close the game even if you would eventually wins the value war. 

    Galakrond version can at least use Talanji for a single powerful turn, which i don't know if it will be enough. 

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  • padoru's Avatar
    Explorer of Outland 180 154 Posts Joined 12/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    priest has ways of activating its deathrattle (also can give it reborn).. i think this could be a pretty powerful 5 in control priest. doesnt matter that it doesnt have taunt bc u threaten with a possibility of triggering multiple times

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  • UnGoroh's Avatar
    130 49 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Obviously this doesn't have taunt. Cards needs to be somehow balanced, ok? This is a strong card in the right deck, not just in every deck.

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  • AliRadicali's Avatar
    465 713 Posts Joined 06/06/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Sweet googly mooglies, that is one spicy meatball. 3 damage to all enemy minions is worth 4-5 mana alone. This card is like Starfall + Anubisath defender rolled into one card. That is sick.

     

    Yes, it's situational. I guess we're putting lots of dragons in our priest decks now.

     

    Whew. For a second I thought this was a battlecry, not a deathrattle. OK, that makes this card a lot more fair. Still seems pretty busted tho. The fact that it doesn't damage your side of the bard is huge, it means you can proactively drop this even if you have an army.

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  • Bersak's Avatar
    Magma Rager 720 432 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Chillmaw is so much worse! Having the effect as a battlecry is essential.

    Chillmaw didn’t see play because aggro just trades the low health minions into it

    Winner winner chicken dinner

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  • mayhern's Avatar
    Wizard 355 294 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Good, not great. If it had taunt it would be a great card. Don't think it'll see play.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Ah yes, that classic Deathrattle Priest that randomly gets support once in a blue moon. I remember when Chillmaw was occasionally run, but at least that thing had taunt.

    Even if you put Reborn or Shadowy Figure into the mix it'S still a pretty slow and unreliable "boardclear"

    At best I'd run this in some weird Deathrattle/tempo build where the focus isn't so much board clear but board denial (noone's gonna go wide while this is in play.

    Still, at this point Priest has enough decent Deathrattle minions, but no real gameplan. What do I do with all these guys? There's no N'zoth, no Amara and no actual win condition.

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • angelkas's Avatar
    Pikachu 350 85 Posts Joined 08/17/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    A 3 card combo that... DEALS 3 DAMAGE TO THE ENEMY BOARD!

    There are 4 card combos that OTKs the opponent for crying out loud.

    Wait, how do you sign here?

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago
    Quote From UnGoroh

    Obviously this doesn't have taunt. Cards needs to be somehow balanced, ok? This is a strong card in the right deck, not just in every deck.

    Chillmaw likes to say hi.

    I too remember the oppressive turbo Chillmaw meta of '86

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • Valord's Avatar
    465 281 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    A cheaper Chillmaw, but enemy minions only and no taunt. While its not bad the body is decent and your opponent can kinda play around it.

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Not a bad card for res/dragon priest. The deathrattle makes the card a less reliable AOE, but it also allows you to continuously re-summon the minion. I have a feeling this card will be played about the same way Convincing Infiltrator is being played.

    This is not a very responsive card because of the deathrattle, but this will just keep on coming back and bombarding your board with more damage, and when played alongside cards like Khartut Defender and Convincing Infiltrator the fact that it is a little slow won't matter. 

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • Almaniarra's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1000 1509 Posts Joined 03/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago
    Quote From YourPrivateNightmare

    Ah yes, that classic Deathrattle Priest that randomly gets support once in a blue moon. I remember when Chillmaw was occasionally run, but at least that thing had taunt.

    Even if you put Reborn or Shadowy Figure into the mix it'S still a pretty slow and unreliable "boardclear"

    At best I'd run this in some weird Deathrattle/tempo build where the focus isn't so much board clear but board denial (noone's gonna go wide while this is in play.

    Still, at this point Priest has enough decent Deathrattle minions, but no real gameplan. What do I do with all these guys? There's no N'zoth, no Amara and no actual win condition.

    They want you to resummon them.

    I guess they wanted resurrect priest in the meta.

    Unpopular Opinion Incarnate

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  • PipoHs's Avatar
    Vampire 220 142 Posts Joined 11/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    slow antiaggro, but it will see play. 

    at least not so powercreep as duskbreaker

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago
    Quote From Almaniarra
    Quote From YourPrivateNightmare

    Ah yes, that classic Deathrattle Priest that randomly gets support once in a blue moon. I remember when Chillmaw was occasionally run, but at least that thing had taunt.

    Even if you put Reborn or Shadowy Figure into the mix it'S still a pretty slow and unreliable "boardclear"

    At best I'd run this in some weird Deathrattle/tempo build where the focus isn't so much board clear but board denial (noone's gonna go wide while this is in play.

    Still, at this point Priest has enough decent Deathrattle minions, but no real gameplan. What do I do with all these guys? There's no N'zoth, no Amara and no actual win condition.

    They want you to resummon them.

    I guess they wanted resurrect priest in the meta.

    even then, what's the point. Like great, your opponent won't be able to build a board, but how do you win against any deck that isn't bothered by Hellfire spam?

    Rez Priest just doesn't work without a N'zoth like effet (and it shouldn't because the deck is boring and binary)

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • Almaniarra's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1000 1509 Posts Joined 03/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago
    Quote From YourPrivateNightmare
    Quote From Almaniarra
    Quote From YourPrivateNightmare

    Ah yes, that classic Deathrattle Priest that randomly gets support once in a blue moon. I remember when Chillmaw was occasionally run, but at least that thing had taunt.

    Even if you put Reborn or Shadowy Figure into the mix it'S still a pretty slow and unreliable "boardclear"

    At best I'd run this in some weird Deathrattle/tempo build where the focus isn't so much board clear but board denial (noone's gonna go wide while this is in play.

    Still, at this point Priest has enough decent Deathrattle minions, but no real gameplan. What do I do with all these guys? There's no N'zoth, no Amara and no actual win condition.

    They want you to resummon them.

    I guess they wanted resurrect priest in the meta.

    even then, what's the point. Like great, your opponent won't be able to build a board, but how do you win against any deck that isn't bothered by Hellfire spam?

    Rez Priest just doesn't work without a N'zoth like effet (and it shouldn't because the deck is boring and binary)

    There are still cards to be revealed.

    Katrina and whitemane might help tho.

    Unpopular Opinion Incarnate

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  • Wagnuz's Avatar
    125 67 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Decent, nothing more or less. I think it will be playable, but replacable.

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  • Hedwyn's Avatar
    Draconically Dedicated 325 161 Posts Joined 07/05/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    A balanced Duskbreaker? I think it's a bit slow and don't will see play.

    I'm sorry for my bad english :)

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  • p's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 615 127 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Another board clear! Exactly what priest needed this time proactive, conditional and slow a trio that always finds a way in tier 1 decks /s

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  • troY's Avatar
    Funnel Cakes 250 271 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I think this card is actually too slow to be effective. Opponents can play around Deathrattle.Might not even play depending on the Dragons available. But cool design though

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  • Emptyness's Avatar
    Supporter 520 525 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Nice board clear for priest. You can't have enough of them. 

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  • ArcanisDF's Avatar
    660 214 Posts Joined 08/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    pretty good card for dragon priest instd. no so in wild. 

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  • 8Nikano's Avatar
    155 144 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Pretty weak, because it doesnt have taunt. If this was battlecry or it has taunt, it would be broken

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  • Freshjive's Avatar
    110 27 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    A Duskbreaker with a bigger body? Yes plz!

     

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  • johnyDI's Avatar
    Island 210 172 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    This will only see play if dragon priest is played. A board clear that depends on your healthy minion dying and you having dragons in hand isn't as viable as people might think. Any possible combo to instantaneously activate it will require you to fill your deck with the combo and dragons, leaving very little space for an actual win condition.

    Again, it will see play but as soon as better cards appear this is one of the first cards to be cut from decks.

     

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  • TwistedFate's Avatar
    140 60 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    The effect is strong, but not as a deathrattle...

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  • JackJimson's Avatar
    670 673 Posts Joined 11/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Not a bad card but doest seem to fit in existing archetypes.

    I feel the card has more value in a board-centric control priest rather than an anti aggro tool:

    • It only damages any minions thus will preserve your board. In the standard priest, that rarely matters since you won't have board most of the time.
    • Does nothing on the turn its played. Aggro will ignore and hit face.
    • Seem a little too durable at 5 health. Aggro usually has a swarm of weak minion. This will unlikely die on a trade. 

    The card has value but just needs a deck to fit in.

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  • Narfi's Avatar
    175 148 Posts Joined 03/23/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    It’s fine and will likely be included in dragon priest if that deck works.

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  • TheOdinson's Avatar
    515 153 Posts Joined 06/04/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    This one is fine. I mean its a bit clunky in what it does, like Sylvanas. Because this is a deathrattle and not a battlecry you have to figure out how to activate it right away or the right situation for it. That said, its an interesting Dragon and Deathrattle for priest, so it likely sees play but isn't an insane key card for them.

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    One of the coolest names.

    Aside from that, if your opponent does not want to kill it you can keep healing it, really good card.

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  • liontail's Avatar
    Draconically Dedicated 210 277 Posts Joined 09/04/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    enemy only duskbreaker effect on death but a decent minion..could be good in certain situations have to see what the remaining cards bring us..

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    How many board clear does priest needs?

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

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  • snowcannon11's Avatar
    180 27 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Fun card, another board clear for priest.  I’m curious to see if this makes its way into battlegrounds as a tier 6 card,  seems suited for a way to make the dragon tribe unique in battlegrounds

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  • Svintusevich's Avatar
    Draconically Dedicated 185 153 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Chronobreaker is one of the cards which power level is hard to predict before the expansion launch. Potentially it's storng but might be too slow since an opponent can ignore it. So there should be a way to activate it's deathrattle or give it a taunt. Right now i think priest has more interesting options to clear the board but we might need this card after the new year rotation.

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  • Joda's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1020 150 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Mini chillmaw without taunt... The opponent Will ignore it and it has too much health for you to sacrafice. I think its not good enough.

    Never netdeck, craft Whizbang instead!

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  • Sol's Avatar
    375 111 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Duskbreaker but with a deathrattle and cheaper. This could be like Depth Charge wherein if it lasts more than 1 turn, it can be a multiple turn board clear.

    Well it's over

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  • theo333's Avatar
    Outlandish Rager 975 889 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Really slow. Stick with Hysteria.

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  • Elfensilver's Avatar
    595 663 Posts Joined 03/14/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Against a lot of small minions (quest shaman) this is not practical, since it has a hard time killing itself. And against boards of larger minions, you are pretty dead in the water already, and your opponent knew of the coming boardclear beforehead...

    Still seems somewhat playable, at least after the rotation.

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  • Juan73908's Avatar
    Magma Rager 290 157 Posts Joined 11/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    With this card dragon priest seems pretty pretty strong. Even without taunt I see this being played. Not great though

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  • ssaabbuu's Avatar
    225 210 Posts Joined 08/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Not sure about this one. The AOE is pretty good but the fact that it is a deathrattle makes it not much viable imho.

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  • allthehype's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 630 739 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Deathrattle instead of battlecry makes the card much slower. Still very scary for wide decks.

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  • Neoguli's Avatar
    Duskrider 880 599 Posts Joined 06/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Looks very interesting. While it seems slow, I think this can be pretty decent. It's not instant, but it does have decent synergy with some of other Priest cards like Shadowy Figure or Psychopomp. Also a decently nice Deathrattle for Da Undatakah - not that it breaks that card, but it's something to note nonetheless.

    Should see play in Dragon decks, as their shell seems pretty decent with all new removal, their Galakrond and some cards from the previous year like Wyrmguard. They should be theoretically able to keep quite a lot of boards in check, perhaps they could take a slight Deathrattle approach for this card and previously mentioned ones.

    4/5

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  • Elric's Avatar
    Zombie 245 165 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    When priests run out of AoE they somehow always have Dragons to fall back on.

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  • Guenh's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 725 633 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Pretty good minion. 5 mana for 4/5 plus 3 aoe damage is crazzy. Auto-include in all "dragon priest" even if it's not a battlecry. It's a dragon itself and he can be discounted.

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  • Dongusman's Avatar
    145 84 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    A Chillmaw 2.0, but the absence of taunt renders it a pretty risky play against aggro decks since they can just ignore it and you may not even find a way to kill this guy the turn after.

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  • TheWanderer's Avatar
    Funnel Cakes 200 157 Posts Joined 09/09/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    The fact this is only damage to enemy minions seems quite strong. Duskbreaker was always tricky because of how it damaged your minions too.

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  • randomfan's Avatar
    Elemental 1255 744 Posts Joined 03/17/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I'm not sure on this one. On the surface it seems like a decent effect but I think it has too much health. The decks you want this to be effective against will be swarming type decks. Not many of them will have a single minion capable of sacrificing this against on one turn. You will often have to wait for the second turn after you play it to get the board clear. Playing on curve means your opponent gets turns 5 and 6 or 6 and 7 before worrying about it. That is right around where aggro wants to end the game anyway.

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

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  • KinetiClasH's Avatar
    135 87 Posts Joined 09/05/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    The card is good in  the sense it dosn't affect your board, but a gain, as a deathrattle is not a proactive card and can be dealt with with a myriad of options for the turn it is played, dosn't have taunt so if you are facing a lethal situation the opponent can just go thrugh it. for me is not good enough

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  • Almaniarra's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1000 1509 Posts Joined 03/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Seems better now after Dragonmaw Poacher reveal.

    At least we might drop this against a wide board to make our opponent to decide killing it with minions on the board and lose Dragonmaw Poacher's battlecry or simply waste Dragonmaw Poacher on this.

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  • kaiserkarl's Avatar
    Plains 300 133 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Where is taunt? So for an immediate effect, it's at least a two-cards combo? Meh.

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  • RMK117's Avatar
    180 145 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Good card in deathrattle/ressurect priest, will see play for sure.

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  • b4timert's Avatar
    165 151 Posts Joined 11/05/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    This ain't duskbreaker to slow to counter aggro

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  • xreflex98's Avatar
    Bulbasaur 125 96 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Pretty solid, not as good as Duskbreaker but still solid.

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  • Input's Avatar
    470 259 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I think this serves a different tool than duskbreaker -- this fits more of a tempo style deck I think.

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

    I got scared initially because I thought it was battlecry.  Deathrattle is a lot less spooky, but still scary

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  • Haffax733's Avatar
    Devoted Outlander 1035 297 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    The battlecry is great versus aggro. Compared to Duskbreaker, this card looks a little bit weaker, since turn 5 can be too late to turn a match against aggressive decks.

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  • Doublebuttered's Avatar
    145 140 Posts Joined 12/05/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Not a bad card for sure, but compared to Duskbreaker this seems much much worse.

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  • magikman's Avatar
    285 152 Posts Joined 06/17/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    The fact that this lacks taunt makes it potentially awkward. There will be turns you want to clear a board immediately and cannot because this AoE is attached to a deathrattle. Not to mention that you have to be holding a dragon ON THE TURN it dies which could prove to be a hinderance.

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  • Saf's Avatar
    Derpy Elf 175 74 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Priest can continue building anti-play decks, especially in wil

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  • Nachorc95's Avatar
    235 61 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    So easy for your oponent to do good trades before activing its effect, so easy to play around i dont see it played.

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  • JFK's Avatar
    Curious Pair 1070 621 Posts Joined 07/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    It looks interesting, but that's it. There's some mindgames included if you play it on an empty board to mess with your opponent's head (should I play my minions or not?), but at that point it falls into the meme category. Depends on the meta most likely.

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  • Knalle's Avatar
    Derpy Elf 150 39 Posts Joined 12/05/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Think this is pretty decent card. Even though its a little too slow, its good AOE for priest and very annoying for enemies to deal with mid game. It will do well in dragon priest deck 

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  • leitong's Avatar
    220 147 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Maybe it is  good thing this is a deathrattle card, otherwise would be too strong like Duskbreaker. The effect can be played around, but still very strong, should be auto-included in dragon priest. Coolest artwork of the entire set.

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

    A good card for a Dragon Priest deck. It has good stats and it only damages enemy minions. The downside is that it doesn't have taunt so against aggro decks it can be ignored. Maybe you play it after clearing the board?

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  • Torgal's Avatar
    Draconically Dedicated 1000 293 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Deathrattle and absence of taunt makes this card much less interesting. But effect itself is powerful enough to push opponent to suboptimal trades. In overall still very good control tool.

    Fun and interactive game.

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