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I feel like a lot of these questions could be answered with a "Why would it?"

Does anyone know if the beast pool of Deathstalker Rexxar still gets updated every expansion? I believe they mentioned they would stop doing so.

Nearly forgot that this card actually existed. Which is amazing considering that its likely one of the best 2 tempo 2 drop available, with only small downsides based on rng.

Kinda shows how far we've gone from regular curvestone.

I hope after rotation it keeps getting effects based on new boards instead of "Battlecry: Add a random -Insert Expansion's Name- card to your hand", like they said. But i guess who cares about wild :(

The take I'm seeing again and again here is that as powerful as Najak Hexxen is in the abstract, he's automatically bad because taking full advantage of him requires playing bad cards like Youthful Brewmaster or Focused Will. This seems like an incredibly bad take.

For one, this reads a lot like the community falling into the Purify trap again. Synergy matters, and with enough support for self-silence or something of that nature then you might see a card like Focused Will rise in value and flip the script on the cost of supporting Najak to his fullest.

But more to the point, he can stall your opponent considerably even without extra support. If you drop him on turn 4 and steal your opponent's biggest minion, they now have to kill off Najak to get their minion back with summoning sickness. So at worst he's effectively a "4 mana 1/4 Taunt. Battlecry: freeze an enemy minion." with a ton of upside if your opponent fails to address him. Played on curve that could easily mean you've just stopped three minions (a couple of 2-Attack minions and whatever you stole) from going face. Seems pretty strong. Toss in the fact that you get pick up extra copies from Raise Dead and Call of the Grave, and can easily generate Focused Will from other good Priest cards and I think you'll be seeing this disrupting a lot of games.

i don't know if this is broken, but if see play wether with Focused Will or another way to deny the deathrattle i will be so pissed whenever i see it,

edit; and it isnt that bad, think it this way, against aggro, denies damage at least for 1 turn and is has "taunt" if your opponent wants its minion back, if you take rush minions you can just  trade those in and get a 2 for 1, against slower decks you most of the time will have enough mana to deny the deathrattle

Arena: Maiev Shadowsong is better in most cases as the 1/4 body of Najak Hexxen isn't much of a threat and can easily be dealt with. Best use case for this is to steal a taunt minion so your Najak Hexxen is protected behind it or a deathrattle minion you can kill off yourself in the same turn.

Constructed: In constructed where you can synergize with Najak Hexxen much more easily this becomes much stronger. Silence or bounce him back to your hand and your opponent can say goodbye to his minion.

Oh man so many interactions to test on this one. We will get some funny bugs for sure.

• If you bounce Najak then play him again, does the first stolen minion go back too? (meaning, does the stolen minion get a "mark" and Najak deathrattle is "returned marked minion")
• Can you double deathrattle Najak to make the stolen minion ping pong back to you?
• Can you double battlecry to have the minion come to you when Najak dies?
• Does silencing the stolen minion get rid of the deathrattle return?
• What happens if the enemy steals Najak and he dies on the enemy side?
• Can the stolen minion be returned to hand and sent back to the opponent's hand? (Hysteria did similar stuff with Sylvanas a few times)
• If we steal Felsteel Executioner minion version first then bounce him, corrupt him, equip him, then Najak dies, does the enemy get the weapon version from us?

Does "eating" trigger Deathrattle or Reborn? Or will it be like the or The Amazing Reno's effect?

4 mana mind control is beyond broken.

Quote From aposteljoe

1. Play Cera'thine Fleetrunner to transform a minion in your hand into Najak Hexxen

2. Play Najak Hexxen + Shadowstep

3. R1 Legend

It's easier to play priest and some bounce/silence effects like Focused Will, Silence or Youthful Brewmaster.

Even with this, the card looks weak.

At first view, 4 mana Mind Control seems good. However, this is way too easy to remove, and as such is only really helpful if you manage to snag a big taunt or rush minion which you can immediately trade away. Of course you can Focused Will it, but Priest and 2 card combo's that kinda suck on their own never go well. Lastly, it interferes with Amulet of Undying for slower priest strategies. So all in all, it has some small potential but I'm really not feeling it.

On the standpoint of power, this is near the pinaccle

But in terms of practical use in standard/wild. Probably not that great. Or rather to say that its good, but don't expect this to be a meta breaker.

Still, its 4 mana Mind Control. Do we need subtitles here? Against certain decks, this card can single handedly win you the game. Not to mention getting this back from Raise Dead, which should be illegal all things considered.

I swear Ive seen this in like a few community creations already.

But the card is obviously good. Its effectively a 4 mana Mind Control, and Raise Dead being so handy you'll be seeing this minion very often assuming that priest makes a comeback.

It does has its problems. For one thing, while priest has plenty of silence effects, very few of it actually allow you to silence your own minion, and there's nearly little reason to ever believe this card will survive till next turn. Also, let's not forget that standard is unlike arena where big minions tend to be everything. And even if you pull it off, its still 2 cards, which means its either inconsistent, or you're somehow building your deck filled cards like Youthful Brewmaster or Focused Will, which isn't exactly a card priest typically plays in their deck.

Still, mind controlling a minion for 4 mana shouldn't be dismissed. If you dont have a combo, just grab a rush minion and pretend its a better Shadow Madness

Card looks pretty bad/mediocre to me...idk what are you guys talking about.

Brewmaster? Silence? Yeah i definitely want to put those in my deck

PS: it's not as bad as Moat Lurker though

1. Play Cera'thine Fleetrunner to transform a minion in your hand into Najak Hexxen

2. Play Najak Hexxen + Shadowstep

3. R1 Legend

It will give summoning sickness. Every mind control effect does.  

My take on this card is if priest is good, and if Battleground Battlemaster is still how Warlock wins games, then this will see play.

If you combine him with Youthful Brewmaster he's a 6-mana Mind Control. How the fuck is that bad?

4-mana [Hearthstone Card (Mind Contro) Not Found]l, what the actual fuck.

And yes, I am going to run Brewmaster to abuse this, who the fuck wouldn't?

God, this is bonkers. Team 5 has been pushing huge minions, a lot of which have taunt. As long as Battleground Battlemaster is meta, I cannot see a reason why this would not see play. Other than Priest being bad...

Silence set is coming ! Probably 3 of them will be added in the new set to make it viable !

I mean, it no longer exists when it dies so why would it?

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Probably not. Also, it might be the time for priest to finally use those trashy self-silence spells.

No it's not. If you have to use bad cards to make a card good, then the card is bad. 

Najak falls into the same niche as "Nameless One" and "Serena Bloodfeather". Both cards don't see much play. 

Probably not. Also, it might be the time for priest to finally use those trashy self-silence spells.