New Neutral Minion - Barrens Stablehand

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A new Epic Neutral Minion, Barrens Stablehand, 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 Neutral Minion, Barrens Stablehand, has been revealed!

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  • RavenSunHS's Avatar
    Refreshment Vendor 880 1487 Posts Joined 03/27/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Not a bad card, but nobody would ever use it in a Constructed deck.

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  • Watermelon86's Avatar
    Magma Rager 475 207 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Oh yeah, these Forum Signatures are a thing.

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

    Nope.

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  • FrostyFeet's Avatar
    Senior Writer Derpcorn 2170 1449 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    There's some highroll potential in this one, not sure if I like that.

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

    There's some highroll potential in this one, not sure if I like that.

    I mean, if you want to pay 7 mana to take a very slim chance to high roll a King Krush or something, I think I'm probably okay with that. Seems fair enough. But it's a good point.

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

    Terrible card. Stats worth 4 mana, so u need at least 3 mana beast to make it worthy (preferable 4 or more mana). For now u have 65 beasts in standard - 23 are 1-2 mana, 11 3 mana and over 3 mana u still have shitty cards like Hireek, Halazzi or Gral. Chances to get something good are below 50%. Compare this to  Exotic Mountseller or Ram Wrangler.

    What's the most powerful card in Hearthstone?

    A credit card.

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  • kaladin's Avatar
    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Probably a reluctant pick in Arena but not really something you'd want in standard.  For 7-mana, you want more than simply a bunch of stats.  

    worst community ever

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  • turn1manawrm's Avatar
    35 9 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    This card is offensively bad for an epi

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  • AliRadicali's Avatar
    465 713 Posts Joined 06/06/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From RandomGuy
    Quote From FrostyFeet

    There's some highroll potential in this one, not sure if I like that.

    I mean, if you want to pay 7 mana to take a very slim chance to high roll a King Krush or something, I think I'm probably okay with that. Seems fair enough. But it's a good point.

    I'd rather have a solid reliable card than a terribly statted one that has a 1/50 of winning the game or w/e. Trying to balance around absurd highrolls is generally bad design, IMO.

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  • Vimorath's Avatar
    Bulbasaur 110 20 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    1/5 Not good at all, could end up with a 1/1 beast or something similar

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    So bad it's not even worth the Epic card status. Even when considering the high roll potencial it has.

    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)
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  • Meteorite12's Avatar
    670 696 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From RandomGuy
    Quote From FrostyFeet

    There's some highroll potential in this one, not sure if I like that.

    I mean, if you want to pay 7 mana to take a very slim chance to high roll a King Krush or something, I think I'm probably okay with that. Seems fair enough. But it's a good point.

    With Ram Wrangler I remember there were a lot of times I’d get a high roll from it, with around vanilla stats being the usual result. Don’t think there’s nearly enough bigger beasts for the effect to be worth it anymore though

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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  • Kovachut's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 675 756 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From FrostyFeet

    There's some highroll potential in this one, not sure if I like that.

    And the chances of this lowrolling are even greater. Imagine summoning a 1- or a 2-cost beast; the risk is not worth the inclusion.

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  • VladOKey's Avatar
    150 10 Posts Joined 06/06/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago
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  • EndlessTides's Avatar
    Funnel Cakes 365 232 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From turn1manawrm

    This card is offensively bad for an epi

    A lot of Epics are trash. Biteweed, Forbidden Ancient, Glacial Mysteries (one of the very worst cards in the game), there's more. Just because it's an Epic doesn't make it good.. 

    Cocked, locked and ready to rock... 

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  • Gobas's Avatar
    Cocoa Commander 445 125 Posts Joined 06/08/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Right now (Rise of Shadows release) there are 64 beasts in standard.


    Average cost of Beast minion is 4.
    Average attack and health of Beast minion is 3/3.
    This means in average this is something like 7 mana 7/7 in two bodies. Looking that way is quite meh. In arena is quite ok.
    But average is not telling us that much

    31/64 Beasts have attack lower than 3. (0-2). So half of the time you will have no more than 2 attack.
    44/64 Beasts have attack 3 or lower. So almost 70% of time you will have meh or worse result.
    37/64 Beasts have health 3 or lower. Again more than half of the time (58%) you will have mediocre or worse result.

    Ok so maybe not stats but some utility.

    Taunt
    Only 6/64 of Beasts have Taunt. So that's lousy 9%.
    And from those Taunts only Witchwood Grizzly and Amani War Bear are good.

    Rush
    Its little better, as 11/64 (17%) of Beasts have Rush.
    But again most of them are have lousy stats, only 4 are Good (Shirvallah, the Tiger, Oondasta, Akali, the Rhino, Amani War Bear) and Vilebrood Skitterer can be counted as ok one.

    Charge
    Only 3 of all 64 Beasts (3/64 5%) have Charge. One of those is awesome (King Krush), one good but only if you have other Beasts, alone is just ok (Tundra Rhino) and one is joke (Stonetusk Boar).

    Deathrattle
    Its not affecting board right away but at least it's some value. But only 5/64 of Beasts have Deathrattle. And even worse those are not good deathrattles. While Savannah Highmane is good one and Shimmerfly is ok (but low stats) rest are not doing much or even worse are good for your opponent (The Beast, but at least it have big stats)

    Overall.
    Chance to roll something at least 5/5 (or higher) is low 12/64 (19%). Chance to have something decent being 1/5 is bad. And chance to high-roll into powerful 4 (Savannah Highmane, King Krush, Shirvallah, the Tiger, Oondasta) is even worse (4/64, 6%).

    Right now sadly this minion is damn bad. In Arena it becomes quite ok something like 7 mana 6/6 in two bodies with low chance of high-roll and then being outstanding.

     

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    this card is probably one of my favorite hearthstone arts. that steed is adorable!

    but other than that there is not much I like about the card. there are too many beast that would be horrible pulls at 7 mana. and even when you get a good beast, at 7+ mana, just putting raw stats is often not good enough.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Decent arena card.. That's it. 

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  • FrostyFeet's Avatar
    Senior Writer Derpcorn 2170 1449 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From Kovachut
    Quote From FrostyFeet

    There's some highroll potential in this one, not sure if I like that.

    And the chances of this lowrolling are even greater. Imagine summoning a 1- or a 2-cost beast; the risk is not worth the inclusion.

    I know which of these extremes my opponent will get when playing this though...

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  • Thonson's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1740 1713 Posts Joined 03/24/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From EndlessTides
    Quote From turn1manawrm

    This card is offensively bad for an epi

    A lot of Epics are trash. Biteweed, Forbidden Ancient, Glacial Mysteries (one of the very worst cards in the game), there's more. Just because it's an Epic doesn't make it good.. 

    Thanks for reminding me Glacial Mysteries exists!  I need to go through my collection and DE any copies I have!  That's 100 dust per copy I'm just sitting on

    Quick!  Someone give me something clever to write here.

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  • Agon's Avatar
    30 20 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Pack filler

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  • Thez's Avatar
    195 73 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    One random Beast? Nope. Waaaayyy to likely to be really terrible. Terrible to the point that getting King Krush from it would be worthy of putting on YouTube. Might've been a little better if it was 'Discover a Beast'. Even then though, 7 mana 4/4....yeesh.

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  • Thomback's Avatar
    185 61 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Of course I'll play it with Shudderwock and Mutate !

    "I'm not scared, you're scared!" - A random talking Chicken

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  • FieselFitz's Avatar
    Prince Charming 1105 1355 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    maybe good for arena but for constructed not so much ...

    Challenge me ... when you're ready to duel a god!

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  • Neoguli's Avatar
    Duskrider 880 596 Posts Joined 06/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    The card itsefl is really bad, because you'll likely get a mediocre Beast, which I don't really think you would like for 7 Mana. The highroll potential is there, but I bet you do not wanna pray for getting a big Beast.

    ...but the card might be a fringe card to include in Shudderwock if you value getting slightly more board presence.

    "Truth is in the shadows, waiting to be revealed by the light. But light only disperses the shadow." - Me

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  • nmego's Avatar
    80 17 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    I was thinking something with Jepetto or potential battlecry combos in the future. the card is terrible but there should be a way to make use of it.

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  • EndlessTides's Avatar
    Funnel Cakes 365 232 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    On the subject of the card itself, no one played Ram Wrangler and that was a slightly better version of this. True, it wasn't Neutral but if you really need random Beasts in your life then Exotic Mountseller is a waaaay better choice. Cheaper to craft too.. 

    Cocked, locked and ready to rock... 

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