New Priest & Warlock Minion - Brittlebone Destroyer

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A new Rare Warlock/Priest Minion, Brittlebone Destroyer, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    A new Rare Warlock/Priest Minion, Brittlebone Destroyer, has been revealed!

    Brittlebone Destroyer Card Image

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    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Just wow...

    Priest have too many ways to heal your Hero with lifesteal, Hero power, spells and Minions.

    Exactly the dame with warlock to selfdamage.

     

    Really good card.

     

     

     

    By The Holy Light!

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  • Elfensilver's Avatar
    595 663 Posts Joined 03/14/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Assassinate+1mana, on a 3/3 stick, while being able to kill elusive minions. Seems good! Especially for warlocks, who often uses their hero power.

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  • Meteorite12's Avatar
    670 696 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    So basically just destroy a minion on a stick, because there’s hardly ever gonna be any times when you can’t damage/heal your own hero by turn 6

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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  • Dermostatic's Avatar
    Eldritch Horror 535 228 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    If this doesn't become a staple in both Priest and Warlock decks then I don't know what to say. Simple yet powerful; the fact that the effect is targeted takes this card to the next level.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    For Warlock it's basically [Hearthstone Card (Kel'idan the Breaker) Not Found] except you also draw a card (and you don't get the occasional boardwipe, but w/e). Kel'idan is good enough to  see play in Questlock despite his secondary effect rarely activating....so being able to run two more is huge. It's essentially Siphon Soul, but instead of healing for 3 you get a minion...which is usually better.

    If Warlock gets more ways to damage themselves for cheap this will be a staple for the class...probably even in Zoo.

     

    Priest is a bit harder to justify....Granted, once you take damage there are multiple ways to use this efficiently (Renew for instance), but if we're being honest Priest doesn't really need that much removal anyways. I guess we'll see how consistent it is. Control or combo decks can easily play around it by just not damaging Priest so I don't see it being as much of an auto include.

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  • Jdeg9142's Avatar
    Funnel Cakes 325 44 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Or just neferset thrasher as well!

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Seems good, stronger in warlock than in priest since you can't always activate it in priest but in warlock the worst case it's playable at 6 mana.

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Playable instantly in warlock, a little less in priest. It does cover priest's problem with elusive minions and 4 attackers.

    Zoo will love this, and there's always more health changing cards down the line so this can only get better

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  • JFK's Avatar
    Curious Pair 1070 621 Posts Joined 07/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Cool, simple, great! Very nice card for both classes, even more so in warlock.

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  • PLANETCRUNCH's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 820 1248 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    it's a good control card, terrible for tempo tho, since you need to either spend mana to change your health OR have an effect like that set up the turn prior, in which case your opponent will spend THEIR turn removing THAT card.

    Not particularly exciting but it's solid, I'm sure it'll see play.

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  • RandomGuy's Avatar
    430 614 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Pretty good. It'll be interesting to see where this finds homes. 6 mana to destroy a minion is nothing new, but with added modular aspect of the card, you may find it in more tempo based archetypes.

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  • Grumpy000's Avatar
    1880 1159 Posts Joined 06/06/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    quite powerful and easy to activate

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  • FieselFitz's Avatar
    Prince Charming 1105 1355 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Very good for Zoo-ish decks and could also work in some sort of Minion Based Buff Priest!

    Very strong!

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  • aposteljoe's Avatar
    COMMENT_COUNT_600_HS 1170 644 Posts Joined 06/18/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    First of all I like the design so much: it is so simple, but fits both classes perfectly.

    The effect is also pretty strong:

    • Hardremoval - check
    • leaves a body - check
    • unconditional - no
    • is the condition easy to fulfill? - check
    • plays around counterspell and "elusive" - check
    • cost ok? - yes

    This card will receive a lot of hate.

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  • DreadKill's Avatar
    Duskrider 220 28 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago
    Quote From aposteljoe

    First of all I like the design so much: it is so simple, but fits both classes perfectly.

    The effect is also pretty strong:

    • Hardremoval - check
    • leaves a body - check
    • unconditional - no
    • is the condition easy to fulfill? - check
    • plays around counterspell and "elusive" - check
    • cost ok? - yes

    This card will receive a lot of hate.

    Pretty much, I rated it 5 stars right away, because of what you explained.

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  • MrRhapsody's Avatar
    Child of the Night 800 135 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    First card that came to my mind is Vilespine Slayer. This is very similar, but can use your hero power to trigger the condition and it is cheaper. Easy 5 stars.

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  • economicaooc's Avatar
    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Big fan of this card, even if it ends up not being good.

    Very nice to have removal + a body at a reasonable cost, but this might not see play because it isn't great against aggro, and is too slow for aggro decks.

    If a strong midrange deck emerges in either class, ¿maybe dragon priest?, expect this to see play.

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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  • RavenSunHS's Avatar
    Refreshment Vendor 880 1487 Posts Joined 03/27/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Strong card.

    Lazy design. Which is exactly what I hoped NOT to see in bi-class cards.

    Also, this is just a dull skeletal spellcaster. 

    Where are my spooky ghosts?!?

    -5
  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    I don't like this card at all. It makes Radiance too OP.

    Just kidding! I really like this card. Flavor-wise, it is perfect for warlock/priest. And balance wise I think it is powerful enough to see play, but not really OP. Combined with the Hero Power it is a 6 mana 3/3 kill something, which isn't bad. But if you have something on the field that can trigger the ability without spending mana then you get a 4 mana 3/3 kill something, which is really powerful. 5/5 stars.

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    MY thoughts exactly

     

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  • Emptyness's Avatar
    Supporter 520 525 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Nice one. The stats are not impressive at all, but I guess this one can be considered a tech card against those untargetable dragons like the 6 mana wyrm with divine shield and rush. Or against a priest prime.

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  • GoliathTheDwarf's Avatar
    980 667 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Wow! This is very open-ended. Dosn't matter if you took damage or healed, you get to destroy a minion. This one looks fun and very versatile. 

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  • BloodMefist's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 850 804 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Super duper easy to activate in both classes for little to no investment.  Warlock likes hero powering anyway and priest has more than enough tools outside of their hero power to use this.  It also pushes both tempo and control in both classes, which I am a huge fan of.

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  • Demonxz95's Avatar
    Senior Writer 2255 2706 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    For both classes, the requirement can easily be fulfilled with your Hero Power.

    Strong removal option for both classes. This will be good, no doubt about it.

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  • Xarkkal's Avatar
    Servant of Illidan 910 1321 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Damn good card, like all bi-class cards. I really worry most of the nerfs are going to be to biclass cards. They all seem really high on power level. 

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  • kaladin's Avatar
    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Effect is obviously nuts, effect is a lot easier to activate in Warlock naturally, since Lifetap is unpreventable and you can play around it in Priest by simply not going face (like in the days of playing against the Quest), but still, 5-star card all around.

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Generally a 6 mana 3/3: "destroy a minion". This seems strong on paper, but it's quite.. different depending on the class.

    For priest it's honestly at its weakest. I feel like Aeon Reaver Is WAY better, as it has +1/+1 compared to Brittlebone Destroyer. Sure Aeon Reaver is worse at dealing with taunted minions, but it has dragon synergy. Also for destroying big minions, priest already has Shadow Word: Death, Shadow Word: Pain and Forbidden Words. Brittlebone Destroyer Seems honestly really weak/bad as a priest minion. The only reason i think it exists is so that priest has a card like Aeon Reaver after GA rotates. The only thing the card NEEDS in order to be decent/good is a cheap self-damage (dual-class)card. like maybe a 0 mana card, or 1 mana at most.

    For Warlock it's a WAY DIFFERENT story. For warlock it's basicly Keli'dan the Breaker from last expansion, but without the VERY situational board wipe effect. And you can use 2 copys of Brittlebone Destroyer... man Keli'dan the Breaker got powercreeped already... AND IT'S JUST THE NEXT EXPANSION! Also warlock has a lot of (cheap) self-damage cards like Flame Imp, which makes it come out faster than turn 6. This will certainly see play in zoolock, so they can get through big early game taunts. This card will probably make it so Soulbound Ashtongue also gets used in zoolock, just so that they can (hopefully) use Brittlebone Destroyer on turn 4. 

    Basicly: Bad/outclassed in most priest decks, extremely powerfull in warlock/(self-damage)zoolock. So uh, why is this a dual class card again? Seems like mainly warlock flavor to me.

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  • Guenh's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 725 633 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    In a warlock deck can be an easy add if you need a removal. Can synergize well with other cards that inflict self dammage or use the same mechanics. In the worst scenario is a Siphon Soul with a draw effect and minion instead the 3 heal.

    In a priest deck this card is
    slightly worse. Sure, you can heal yourself with heropower or some other card to activate Brittlebone Destroyer but the Warlock hero power is stronger. Apart from this Priest have more removal from which we can choose

     

     

     

     

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  • allthehype's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 630 739 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Pretty awesome for a rare, easy requirement for both classes since your HP is enough.

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago
    Quote From Meteorite12

    So basically just destroy a minion on a stick, because there’s hardly ever gonna be any times when you can’t damage/heal your own hero by turn 6

    It wears well its name , Brittlebone Destroyer ^^

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

    Nice card, clean removal, easily activatable, good stats. All around solid I'm sure they'll get more ways to change their hp over the course of the XP so I can see this being played alot.

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

    Super solid strong card, like most of the bi-class cards. 

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

    Very very good. Easy to activate, good for both classes.

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

    Doesn't seem like it's worth running over Keli'dan the Breaker or Time Rip, but Vilespine Slayer saw play and this is around the same power level.

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

    Effect is strong, but maybe not that interesting. Some people play to win, so this card will be used.

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  • linkinboy0's Avatar
    Headmaster 1235 513 Posts Joined 07/07/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Excellent. This "change health" is a good way to solve the duality

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  • Lemushki's Avatar
    Squirtle 1120 1063 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    REALLY POWERFULL

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  • slychd's Avatar
    Sparklepony 1175 484 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    People are going to hate this card in both warlock and priest.

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

    Love the design, but not sure if its good enough for Priest.

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  • MatwanBR's Avatar
    200 34 Posts Joined 07/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Nice control tech

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  • Fisguinho's Avatar
    The Raven 1190 411 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Really nice effect. easy to complete the  requirement

    All hail the banshee queen.

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  • Janusi's Avatar
    Face Collector 595 225 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Not sure Priest can make it work, but Warlock certainly can with Soul Fragments.

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

    Turn 6 minion removal, but I hope you had something solid on Turn 5 to back this weak 3/3 up.

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  • Safiron's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 620 156 Posts Joined 07/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Great card.

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  • ChocolateChipCooke's Avatar
    Unicorn Reveler 1160 337 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Seems very strong to me!

    Maybe we'll all be shocked by how slow it ends up being, but single target minion removal via battlecry is generally strong.

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  • Zebulun's Avatar
    255 85 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    This card, with some others from this set, might finally give enough power to create a wild Even Priest deck lists. 

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

    One of the best in the set by far, good with priest and warlock, cheap removal and leaves a body. I don't know, this card is just nuts.

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  • SavageDrago's Avatar
    300 150 Posts Joined 05/07/2020
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Siphon Soul that leaves a body behind. Seems reasonable.

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  • Samzy's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 370 191 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Very powerful effect for the cost and easy for both classes to trigger with 0/1 cost cards.

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  • OldenGolden's Avatar
    Snow-Covered 690 131 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    This is going to be a favorite for me, I can sense it, especially in the late game. Tap-BOOM to literally anything standing in your path is going to feel really good. . . even the anticipation of it, savoring those moments, knowing that soon, soon your opponent is going to drop some big dumb thing in your path to block you, threaten you, trying to force concession. . . Tap-BOOM. 

    Realistically, this is a nice tool, but not a meta-breaker - someone earlier mentioned Siphon Soul and that's pretty legit. You'll be able to remove the Elusive guys as well with the Brittlebone Destroyer, which is niche nice (your days of ruling the meta are over Soggoth the Slitherer!), but both Warlock and Priest can generally handle threat removal. This is just a fun way to do it.

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

    Very nice design and good simple wording to show how each class can manipulate their health during their turns. Oh wait, I'm just reiterating with they said in the card overview: https://outof.cards/hearthstone/1660-our-thoughts-on-hearthstones-scholomance-academy-priestwarlock-dual-class-cards

    xD Lets just mention it some more. Good job Blizzard!

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  • Alfi's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 1790 1375 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    6 mana 3/3 destroy a minion in worst case

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  • FaytFFX's Avatar
    410 191 Posts Joined 12/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    It's a good card, it will definitely see play.

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  • SilverWolf's Avatar
    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Excellent and cheap hard minion removal

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

    Priest already has a lot of efficient removal, but Warlock would love this card. Synergizes extremely well with the Soul Fragment package and Raise Dead. The only efficient single target removal Warlock has right now is Dark Skies, so a Warlock that runs either 0 mana activator would love more hard removal. It's also not bad in a pinch if you just Life Tap and remove a minion, basically Keli'dan the Breaker that draws a card (and deal 2 damage to your hero). Overall, more of a Warlock card than a Priest card and an amazing Warlock card at that.

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

    I think this will be a decent addition to Even Lock in Wild as it gives them a fairly easy to activate single target removal.

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    My (other) favourite card of the set. The health change mechanic is so inspired and I don't care if it ends up being garbage, it's my garbage.

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

    6 mana to play a 3/3 and destroy a minion is decent, but nothing insane. Doubt it'll see play in Warlock, perhaps it will in Priest though.

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  • Trollmus's Avatar
    90 3 Posts Joined 07/31/2020
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    It can easily be 4 or 5 mana 3/3 destroy a minion because of how many health buffs warlock as gotten with souls.

    Or even raise dead at 0 mana.

     

    Demon can heal you if you draw it turn 4 or 5, which means this card will cost 4 or 5 mana to destroy a minion = insane

    Soul Fragments you can draw on turn 4 or 5, which is the same thing, 4 cost destroy a minion = insane

     

     

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