New Neutral Minion - Rustsworn Initiate

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A new Common Neutral Minion, Rustsworn Initiate, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    A new Common Neutral Minion, Rustsworn Initiate, has been revealed!

    Rustsworn Initiate Card Image

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


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

    This minion is not good, cause spell power is something you want immediatelly and this is delayed..

    3/3 stats for 2 in arena so there's that.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    I mean...it's not awful. It's a better Kobold Geomancer on the basis that it's better stat value for the mana cost, meaning you can play it even without leveraging spelll damage and you still did okay.

    I would use this in Quest Hunter if that deck ran any damaging spells.

    Maybe there's a Warlock deck that runs this alongside of Sac Pact and some damaging spells. Warlock likes Spell damage but they are rarely able to justify running them, so maybe the upside of getting a smol demon helps in some way

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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

    not good. If you want spell damage their are better alternatives and it's delayed, while you want it activated immediatly.

    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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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago
    Quote From DoubleSummon

    This minion is not good, cause spell power is something you want immediatelly and this is delayed..

    3/3 stats for 2 in arena so there's that.

    Edit : my objection was objected before being received - no further questions, your Honor - 3/3 is also what I'm stating

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

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  • Emptyness's Avatar
    Supporter 520 525 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Another filler. We kinda need them, because usually the first exp of the year is the weakest one and now we are getting DH, Prime cards and demons everywhere.

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

    I don‘t think this card will be used somwhere outside the Arena. If you need some spelldamage, you want ist immediatly.

     

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

    meh..1/1 with +1 spell dmag..feels like bliz works so hard on the class specific cards but makes these neutral cards not so useful..might as well categorize them as arena maybe cards

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

    It's a decent arena card, but spell power isn't strong enough for this to see play.

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

    A fiddly card. I would say that this is unlikely to see any play, wide aggro strategies have better cards than this available.

    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

    2 mana for a 3/3 +1 spell damage. Better of Kobold Geomancer but i prefer Ethereal Augmerchant in deck that want some spellpower

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

    Hmm... it's pretty bad... unless...

    OTK deathrattle spell Hunter in Wild?

    I'm going to have to think about this one. 

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

    Looks like a good start for a wild Defile

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

    Too much hassle to see play: you want Spell Damage to be reliably accessible, and this doesn't do that.

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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

    This minion's honestly too weak to see play on it's own, even with the token with spell damage.

     

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

    Hmm interesting effect but very weak play i suppose. Cool flavor, though.

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  • Xerawolf's Avatar
    Derpy Elf 175 37 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Delayed spellpower doesnt sound good. I wouldnt mind creating this from Faceless Lackey

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

    Well, All says something about Spell Damage +1 but there is a fact that it is still a 2/2 that summons a 1/1 with an upside and which has also a tribe.

    This is a fair card, but because Blizzard always powercreep, we all think that this card is not good enough.

    This is a good card for zoo/token type decks imo.

    Unpopular Opinion Incarnate

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  • scm288's Avatar
    235 78 Posts Joined 02/28/2020
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Definitely an arena card. You don't want to run this in constructed, unless you are new to the game and lack Bloodmage Thalnos. That card is strictly better, unless you somehow can game the deathrattle effect to trigger multiple times and create your own cumulative Malygos effect.

    Hooray jank!

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

    If there was some damage spell you really wanted to play turn 3, then maybe it could see play (since it kind of protects the spell damage) but beyond that it’s not too great

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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

    Seems like a rather weak card, honestly.

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

    I don't like it. If you want spell damage, there are better cards. If you just want a sticky 2-drop, there are better cards. And I don't think there is any deck where you would want both.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2285 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Now this is interesting to me. Tokens summoned from deathrattles rarely do anything besides taunt or rush, right? This is something new. Definitely not great, but might be useful. 

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

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