New Demon Hunter Minion - Pit Commander

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A new Epic Demon Hunter Minion, Pit Commander, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    A new Epic Demon Hunter Minion, Pit Commander, has been revealed!

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


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  • Skorpionex's Avatar
    Headless Horseman 1445 426 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Do you remember Possessed Lackey?  Say "Hello" to his older brother. DH has some nice big demons, so it will be used for sure.

    What's the most powerful card in Hearthstone?

    A credit card.

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  • allthehype's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 630 739 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    This is disgusting. Even if you only run two of these and no other demons, the first you play will probably summon the other and make a really strong turn. Unless you're unlucky and have both in hand, you get total 14/18 stats with taunt for 9 mana.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Boring. Why are we printing Warlock cards for other classes?

    Sure, combined with the guy that reduces your demons cost by 2 it will definitely see play in some form, but it's already indicative of what the archetype will be allowed to do:

    Cheat out some big demons and that'S about it. They're not gonna repeat the Cubelock fiasco so we're never getting something that would really justify running this in a dedicated deck. At best it'S gonna make people run Black Knight or BGH again

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • RandomGuy's Avatar
    430 614 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    I'm not sold on control DH yet. It'll be a thing at some point, but I don't think right away.

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  • Emptyness's Avatar
    Supporter 520 525 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    This one has taunt even without the keyword.

    “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

    EU Legend: S52 (ZooHeal Lock); S76 (Highlander Hunter);

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Indeed, the snowball potential is real ; that's a must kill
    can't wait to try it out!

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

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  • Koetti's Avatar
    1095 863 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Oh hey, look its Recruit „SUMMON A MINION FROM YOUR DECK". 

    ... At least it sounds better than „Repeatable this Turn". 

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  • Haffax733's Avatar
    Devoted Outlander 1035 297 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    This card has a similar effect as Dragonhatcher, which only saw little play in control druid, but DH doesn't have enough cards to build a control deck right now. 9 mana is also way to expensive for aggro decks, which usually want to close out games around turn 6-8.

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  • troY's Avatar
    Funnel Cakes 250 271 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    I think this can work, by running a small high-cost Demon engine, with an early game of non-Demons. Card looks pretty strong though, also decent to get in Warlock as a "random" Demon.

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2285 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    He's very similar to Y'Shaarj, Rage Unbound, and he saw plenty of play. This should be good. I like that DH is getting multiple archetypes.

    "Be excellent to each other." -Bill and Ted

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    With no Voidlord for dhunter, and the fact that there are few useful demons in the list means this will often just be a 7/9 taunt for 9 that summons itself. Not too bad, but not terribly good neither.

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Seems good if there are a bunch of big demons.

    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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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2225 2544 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Because of Priestess of Fury this card will see play in control DH decks, which Kripp has already proven to be a very viable deck.

    Also Warlock can very easily get this card with Shadow Council even if that spell is a meme

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    This card looks really really strong we had a card that was a 2/4 with no taunt no tribial, same cost and it was played in ramp druid.

    Btw *recruit*

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  • Xarkkal's Avatar
    Servant of Illidan 910 1321 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    I get the feeling that this is going to be too slow for DH

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  • liontail's Avatar
    Draconically Dedicated 210 277 Posts Joined 09/04/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    A bit costly and have a slow clunky feel to this card. Imagine getting 2 of this and the "big demons" you plan to summon with this on turn 1-5..you'll prob auto concede.

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  • StormKnightSera's Avatar
    Senior Writer Serra Angel 1720 2915 Posts Joined 02/09/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    This card needs help, in-that it needs more enticing targets to pull from one's deck to justify playing it. The ones we have might not be enough. However, we have plenty of time to introduce new Demons into the mix so I'm hopeful.

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  • Erodos's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    If a Big Demon DH deck will exist, it's because of this guy. However, I think the existence of such a deck is dubious, so I don't think we'll see this guy much. Demon Hunters simply have too many good tempo tools to make a slow control deck with.

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    We already have Fel Summoner and that other guy who reduces the cost of your next demon by 2, I see no reason why there shouldn't be a "big demon" Demon Hunter deck featuring this card. Though it will be very hard to be able to play this guy without some form of cheating.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • Elfensilver's Avatar
    595 663 Posts Joined 03/14/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    One card to make a deck work.

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  • economicaooc's Avatar
    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Very expensive, very big piles of stats tend to make poor control finishers. Maybe this can be accelerated out with Raging Felscreamer, but this, and by extension the 'big demon' concept, still seems like a worse finisher than some kind of spell spam with demon hunter's large set of zero cost cards. This will almost certainly get better as more support is printed.

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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  • Guenh's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 725 633 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Good stat and really strong effect...but the real problem are the other demon. This card need a deck with a decent numer of big demon and not the small one and maybe DH can't afford right now

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  • Thonson's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1740 1737 Posts Joined 03/24/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Targeted [Hearthstone Card (Y'ssharj) Not Found].  I like it.  Could make for interesting deck building, especially in Wild with Bloodreaver Gul'dan being a thing!  Get those big demons out, baby!

    Oh wait... Darkest Hour is already a thing.  So maybe this is bad.   lol

    Nevermind!  It's DH card.  Spending all day, every day at home with a 4 month old during this pandemic is obviously driving me crazy.

    Quick!  Someone give me something clever to write here.

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  • Almaniarra's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1000 1509 Posts Joined 03/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago
    Quote From Thonson

    Targeted Y'ssharj.  I like it.  Could make for interesting deck building, especially in Wild with Bloodreaver Gul'dan being a thing!  Get those big demons out, baby!

    Oh wait... Darkest Hour is already a thing.  So maybe this is bad.   lol

    There is a fact that this is a Demon Hunter demon.

    You can't summon this with Warlock unless it says "random demon" and all of the cards you said mentions minions from your deck.

    Unpopular Opinion Incarnate

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  • Thonson's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1740 1737 Posts Joined 03/24/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago
    Quote From Almaniarra
    Quote From Thonson

    Targeted Y'ssharj.  I like it.  Could make for interesting deck building, especially in Wild with Bloodreaver Gul'dan being a thing!  Get those big demons out, baby!

    Oh wait... Darkest Hour is already a thing.  So maybe this is bad.   lol

    There is a fact that this is a Demon Hunter demon.

    You can't summon this with Warlock unless it says "random demon" and all of the cards you said mentions minions from your deck.

    Oh damn!  Must still be getting used to the idea that big demons like this can exist outside of Warlock!  But, it would be a sweet Warlock card.  :

    Quick!  Someone give me something clever to write here.

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  • Nairamus's Avatar
    185 21 Posts Joined 09/04/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Very strong in the Arena. In wild there are much better options for 9 mana. In standard this will only be strong, if the deck is loaded with highcost demons, wich would crash the curve.

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  • Vandaren's Avatar
    620 636 Posts Joined 06/05/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    I don't know if there will be big demons in the expansion to come, but looking at now i'm not sure big DH is strong enough. It's certainly fun, though.

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  • PLANETCRUNCH's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 820 1248 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    It's a strong minion, and DH's have stronger demons with no downsides as opposed to Warlocks.

    It's only downsides are 

    1. RNG summon - you'll have to build around this guy to get the most out of his effect. which means you won't use the early cheap aggressive demons 

    2. mana cost - I'm not sure DH's will want to wait till turn 10 to win the game, so why have such a late game minion? 

     

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  • Car's Avatar
    185 226 Posts Joined 03/31/2020
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    This card is iffy. It all depends with it’s interactions with other demons. 9 man 7/9 with taunt is OK. If it gets another powerful demon then it is really good

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  • dedidedi's Avatar
    125 60 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    really expensive..

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  • Intersectional-sofa's Avatar
    90 12 Posts Joined 03/14/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    i don't understand, why would a demon hunter have so many demons?

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  • Meteorite12's Avatar
    670 696 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    They’ve gotten a few big minions that this could work with (and it can summon itself) so it seems pretty strong

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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  • Sparkinarius's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    There are a handful of big demons that are really good to cheat out along with a 7/9 taunt all for 9 mana. Big minion cheating has historically been powerful and the defensive body add up to a game winning build around that slower archetypes like highlander DH will want to utilize.

    For glory, honor, and gold!

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1570 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    A very good enabler for a big Demon deck archetype.

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Not amazing as it is a slow turn 9 play by itself, but has real snowball potencial.

    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)
    Wins per class (2/6/22): DH-197; Druid-996Hunter-91«60; Mage-1056; Paladin-1126; Priest-746; Rogue-961; Shaman-1095; Warlock-871; Warrior-906

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  • johnyDI's Avatar
    Island 210 172 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Don't believe this will be good this expansion, demons available are either too weak, or have effects that you want to procc your turn, like rush or 6 damage to all enemies.

    However, this does allow for a future build in the next expansions should any good demon arrive. It's a sleeper card waiting for the right help, just like Grumble in shaman last year.

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  • Orrien's Avatar
    410 72 Posts Joined 03/15/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    I like this, feels like a cool value card.  Playable only if demon demon hunter is a viable deck, which doesn't really seems to be the case unfortunately .

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  • Vino's Avatar
    Champion of Runeterra 705 231 Posts Joined 06/09/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Unfortunately "big" demon hunter seems to be mediocore. Maybe in future expansions, when we get more big demons we will see that card played.

    I never apologize… I’m sorry but that’s the way I am.

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