New Neutral Minion - Zul'Drak Ritualist

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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 Neutral Minion, Zul'Drak Ritualist, has been revealed!

    Zul'Drak Ritualist Card Image

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  • Meneldor's Avatar
    Child of Galakrond 375 204 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Geez what a terrible card. So at best you're giving your opponent 3 1/1s making this 4 mana 3/6 taunt... At best... 

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  • Yusuke's Avatar
    295 187 Posts Joined 06/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Could it be MCTech BFF? Giving Opp 3 minions and stealing his strongest one in controll match ups, where people tend to play only 1 or 2 minions? XD Its not unusual that MCtech steals the best minion on the field...

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

    What a well designed anti rez priest card! The days of big priest were kinda over and cards like this solidify it. 

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

    Good card to keep your face safe from aggro decks and messing up with ressurection pools.

    Three 1 cost minions wouldn't usually be a big threat when used it.

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

    Yeah, good tech to disturb the opponents resurrect pool... Other ways its just not worth to run.

    Never netdeck, craft Whizbang instead!

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  • Aoyi's Avatar
    Snow-Covered 90 13 Posts Joined 06/05/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I'd probably want to combo it with MCtech, but that means not using a 4 drop taunt until late game. It could be good against rez priest, but you can't count on that matchup. Overall, not something I'm likely to put in my deck unless the meta has a lot of rez priest.

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

    I'm not a fan of this card, too much rng... not only it can screw you giving your opponent good 1 drops but the fact that we have another good early drop with high health and taunt it's not cool when the card will pop up as a random 4 drop on the board. 

    Nice tech versus resurrect priest if it will be a thing.

    Maybe good in a control deck that has a low damage low cost enemy only AoE? 

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    If you can trade some of the summoned tokens is really worth play.

     

    By the way, is an upgrade to Desert Hare evolve pool.

    By The Holy Light!

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

    Don't like it.  pretty bad as an early taunt because rng could break you bad.

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

    Even long after res/big priest will be gone from wild, I’ll still be teaching this card. Just to fuck over the last guy running that kind of deck :

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

    People keep mentioning big Priest counters but we already have Flight Master and Mad Summoner which saw no play. I don't think this card is any better and it will probably not see play.

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  • Koetti's Avatar
    1095 863 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I'm happy they keep printing weird tech cards like this.

    Ressurect is just such a BS mechanic.

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  • bro's Avatar
    110 42 Posts Joined 10/20/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    oaken summons is calling... taunt druid returns?

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

    If you can avoid the battlecry, or buff the hell out of it, Zul'Drak Ritualist is insane. It's also good as a counter to Priest resurrection strategies. Not sure it has a home in standard, though.

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

    I'm surprised so many people don't think this card is good anti-Res tech.The body is much better than Flight Master and it summons 3 minions instead of 1 so a much better chance of diluting the Res pool. It's also a lot cheaper than Mad Summoner. Given that all the summons are 1-drops, any board clear that does 2 or more dmg is likely to wipe out the lot, so it's a quick play for maybe 6/7 mana in total that will almost certainly leave you with a good body afterwards - especially in Priest mirrors given that health line is a prime target for Divine Spirit + Inner Fire afterwards.

    Will this be meta-defining? No. But I expect we'll see it played probably at/slightly below the frequency we saw other deck-specific tech cards like Skulking Geist

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  • kramerofboandls's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 550 244 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I think, that could backfire way to hard. 

    Are there poisonous 1 drops at the moment? 

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

    Finally a solid neutral(!) tech card against resurrection strategies. What's nice is that this can be pretty easily played alongside a small AoE to immediately clear the spawned minions.

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

    Great with oaken summons in wild, potentially better than Hecklebot. It's also a better tech card for big priest than, for example, Flight Master, since it's a good-statted taunt minion as well so it's not bad on its own. I don't believe there are any 1-drops to worry about, but still I'm not sure if there is any good reason to play this in standard.

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

    tech card, not so impressive

    but maybe it will see play, depend on the new meta

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

    Am I missing something here or is this just filler?

    Like sure, Anti Rez tech and maybe Oaken Summons shenanigans, but that's about it.

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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

    I wouldn’t say it’s just filler, just rather situational. I’d personally think of filler as more yeti stuff.

    If their board is full or you have a board clear it could be decent enough, don’t think there’s too many 1 drops that could screw you over (really only that poisonous one in wild)

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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

    That card is so bad... But if you get it from evolve... that's the only warm situation I can think about it now

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  • Leetlejuice's Avatar
    125 17 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    This will be a disappointing pack rare :

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  • FuRenz's Avatar
    Vampire 340 142 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I think this is one of the worse cards printed until now(this expansion). Maybe a tech card vs ressurect as pointed, but still, not worth it. In standard at least, doesn't seem any good. 

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  • MenacingBagel's Avatar
    Zombie Chow 815 723 Posts Joined 09/24/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Solid card nice stats but I feel like this is going to get worse as the revels go. Still, anti big priest is always nice but fuel for token and aggro isn't as much so. 

    Self proclaimed good at battlegrounds

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

    What a well designed anti rez priest card! The days of big priest were kinda over and cards like this solidify it. 

    Every expansion a new "anti big priest tech card" is printed, people praise it to the heavens, and finally 1-2 weaks later we all realize that playing 1 card that is terrrible vs all other classes is not worth it, so we leave the fancy new tech card in the dust.

    This will be the same, but worse, since our evolve/bloodlust/savage roar/knifejugler/wathever oponents will love the free minions.

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  • sicknantos's Avatar
    Rexxar 470 231 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Rez priest thanks you for the turn 4 Psychopomp activator

    Rage quitting: the best way to ensure your opponent knows they beat a giant baby.

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

    I calculated the average attack value of a 1-cost minions in standard and I got 1.06060606061 (we'll just say 1.06 for simplicity sake).

    This means that most of the time this will end up being a 4 mana 3/6 or 3/5 taunt. If most of the time this minion will end up with a very similar stat/cost distributions as Sen'jin Shieldmasta then why not just play Sen'jin Shieldmasta? It is just not worth the risk of letting your opponent get 3 extra bodies on the field. 

    The only way this card can ever be good is if your opponent already has a full board (in which case you wouldn't want a slightly beefy taunt, but rather a board clear) or if you really need a good way to counter big priest (which you don't right now, and even if you did a better idea would be to play cards like Hex, Devolve, and Plague of Murlocs).

    All in all I just don't think this card will ever be worth it. There is just far too much risk involved, maybe once every twenty times you play this you will roll Swamp Dragon Egg, Blood Imp, and Spirit of the Raptor but there is just no way whatsoever that this card will be played in any sort of competitive deck (or a non-competitive deck for that matter).

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • Wendeee's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 490 248 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Can we change this to summon 1drop and 2drop, so it can summon Doomsayer?:)

    Only worth running as a big priest obliterator, or via Oaken Summons

    I do what I must, when I must. Know this well.

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

    I'm not a big fan of summoning stuff for my opponent, but 3 1-Drops have the potential to clog up a board and mess with the rez pool as well, so it isn't completely terrible, or at least not all everything about this card is bad.

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

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

    This being some sort of anti-rez tech or MC Tech combo card is a joke. Cards like this are rarely good unless its very fringe, and this one isn't winning any awards. Random 1 drops might generally be bad, but there will also be cases where this feels your opponent some awesome stuff. Yes, there are the 1 cost Spirits that have 0 attack and likely won't be good for your opponent at all, there are a bunch of middling things, but there are some pretty highroll things and you can easily blow yourself out against a lot of decks. Its true this makes Evolve better, but I don't think that card will still be around once this set comes out.

    To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of the women.

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  • shaveyou's Avatar
    415 198 Posts Joined 06/08/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    The only way this sees constructed play is if decks that rely on certain rez effects become dominant. Apart from the obvious priest, this has (albeit) limited potential to disrupt/limit N'Zoth, Gul'dan, Witching Hour, Kangor's Endless Army etc.

    I can't imagine this happening, and there's more reliable techs against most single cards, but it's worth noting.

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

    Evolve will rotate out early December

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

    No you miss the point. It's not that the card is good but the fact that it's there is good. It keeps rez priest in check. You don't need to actually play the card to let it have impact. Whenever Rez priest could becomes a problem, it won't. And that archetype is not fun to play against so it's nice it exists.

    Also: evolve will be out when this comes avaliable in standard and in Wild evolve isn't over powered.

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

    I think its a good tech card against ressurrect .. but I don't know, the 1 drops can be really annoying and really help the opponent ..

    I'm sorry for my bad english :)

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

    This card isn't that bad, it can always be combo'd with an AoE, or your board with Acolyte of Pain or such. And 9 health Taunt is hard to push through when played early.

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

    Could see play in Gonk Druid, but other than that, it’s too risky to put out.  Like others said, Combo priest would benefit from this card.  I’m curious to see if Taunt Warrior can utilize this somehow as well.

    2 stars.

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

    Hell Yeah, a great card for Oaken Summons.

    ...other than that, it's a pack filler lol.

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

    I think it is just great! Taunt warrior will be a thing again?

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

    And I was thinking they wanted to HoF or rework MCT...

    “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ― George Bernard Shaw

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

    I doubt it will be played much, but it will be nice to evolve a 3- drop into one.

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

    Gravelsnout Knight - Hungry Ettin - Muck Hunter - Hungry Dragon

    These cards that summon small minions for your opponent while you get an overstated minion have never worked out all too well except for maybe Cornered Sentry. The only difference that I see with this card is the fact that it summons 3 minions.

    You could try to use it with Mind Control Tech to try to steal a specific minion (with a small succes rate...) and other minions that benefit from your opponent having lots of minions like Mogu Fleshshaper and Sea Giant.

    Or you can use this to counter resurrection priest. if resurrection priest becomes a top meta deck, this card could end up being a nice tech card.

    More dragons? Yes please!

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  • Lemushki's Avatar
    Squirtle 1120 1052 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    I have been keeping an eye on this card the whole day... I am still not sure how it will go... I think I will have to try it in game and see myself. Good for big priest but not sure about other decks

    Lemushki - The one and only since the 2006 rebranding.

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

    A cute little anti-rez tech but just feels like a bigger uncontrollable Cornered Sentry.

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

    horrible card..if it was 1/1s like then sure..but random 1 cost CAN slap you real hard in the face.

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

    Looks pretty bad to me, like that 1 mana 2/3 who gives a 1 drop to the opponent which never seen play. So this card probably won't see either 

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

    A res-hate card that is not terrible against other decks. Toss in some aoe like sandstorm elemental or maelstrom portal and it mitigates some of the downside as well.

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

    Hello Woecleaver deck delay card!

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

    It's definitely a good card agains any resurrection mechanics, so the question here is will we see many resurrection decks on ladder? It's a very situational tech card, which can only be played in a specific meta IMO. Zul'Drak Ritualist may be good agains aggro if there is a way to kill atleast 1 or better 2 of summoned 1 drops.

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  • bigcums's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 215 93 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    This is worth 4 stars just because it crushes resurect priest in wild 

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  • Nere's Avatar
    120 67 Posts Joined 07/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    This card is just a big middle-finger to priest, but sure, a tech card like this is nice to have

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  • Marega's Avatar
    620 872 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Reno and even warlock says hi. good trigger for defile if needed, and AMAZING card vs rez big priest which reno and even warlock decks in wild kinda struggle with. i know big priest aint thing anymore but trust me they are still around.

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

    Rather uninteresting card that likely will not see play.

    In a similar vein to Hecklebot however it does not offer the same combo disruption capabilities. In wild this could be used to dilute the resurrection pool for Priest. Has some synergy with cards like Mind Control Tech or Drywhisker Armorer, but outside of that will likely end up being detrimental to play this card against most decks.

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

    I like it, it's a kind of filler pack that could be included in some decks like resurrect priest or against some decks like resurrect priest :D

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

    To be a filler, this is not so bad.

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

    Pretty cool card, i think it's gonna see alot of play in revive priest.

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

    Not the best value, if you think about a 3/9 - (1/1 + 1/1 + 1/1) you get a 1/6 value for 4 mana... And still this is the best encome.

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

    weird case where pack filler could actually see play. strong in ANd against res priest?

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

    I like this in taunt warrior, can be buffed and can be used with brawl.

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

    For sure it's a counter for "Res Priest", enable some combo (Defile, Unleash the Hound for exemple) and can be a nice evolve from 3 mana drops

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

    So much tech cards in this expansion I can't decide it is good or not.

    We must build a Mega Disrupt-Counter deck.

    Unpopular Opinion Incarnate

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

    dont put it in your deck but good to evolve into

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

    Ruins Ressurect Priest which is really exciting

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

    Won't see play except in those greedy renolocks and fatigue warriors. I doubt we will need a card like this to counter Resurrect Priest in DoD, but you never know.

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

    Compared to Hecklebot this card is strictly worse, since the Hecklebot can also act as a combo disruption tool. This card will not see alost of play, maybe in Control Warrior.

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

    Accounting for the three 1-cost minions it summons, this is probably closer to a 4 mana 3/6 or 3/5 in terms of stats. Probably too weak to use as a straight-up taunt and too risky to use as a defensive tool against aggro or token decks. Looks to be a very niche tech card for Priest’s resurrection effects.

    Jaina is best waifu. Always.

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

    Probably not a good idea to gift your opponent a wide board, except when facing ressurect priest of course.

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

    Yea this card is pretty garbo tier, very fringe applications.

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  • Ethardoth's Avatar
    Harpy Lieutenant 435 389 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 11 months ago

    Nothing special here, no value playing this. Bad even in arena, I imagine those minions will have at minimum 4 attack sum, so this would be a worse senjin if you dont aoe immediately.

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

    At first sight it doesn't seem that it'll see any play. Maybe to dilute the resurrect pool for Priest. 

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

    Only good against resurrect priests. I doubt this will be even a good arena pick.

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

    Nice counter to ress priest, otherwise too dangerous to play and not such a good deal. 

    Fun and interactive game.

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

    I can see this pulling out some weird things, like the Depth Charge one that does 5 to every minion.

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

    Might be a better or worse cornered sentry.

    Depends on the outcome.

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