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I'm gonna evaluate it low, but it has potential.

Obviously you run a small spell deck with Apprentice and as much draw as you can reasonably muster (perhaps the return of Elemental Allies?).

The real problem is what do you do with said spellpower at the end of the day? If you play this with Apprentice you have at best 3-mana left...and Mage only has 2 damaging spells that fit into that slot: Fireball and Frostbolt.

So even if a dedicated combo deck would work, the most you can do would be: This + 2x Apprentice using 4 cheap spells (with double Frostbolt in hand) and then using Mana Cyclone to get some more for let's say approximately +5-6 spell damage on average (in a 10-card combo) which doesn't kill anything.

At 5-mana it's also difficult to combo with boardclears so that fallss through as well (Arcane Explosion already had that kind of support and still saw no play at all).

So at the end of the day this is a win condition for a really weak and RNG dependant deck. Mage doesn't even have enough draw to make it work.

Solid 4 mana taunt with a random version of Cabal Shadow Priest's effect that you can trigger immediately if you have spare mana, or trigger later if your taunt survives. I expect to see a lot of this in Control Priest, if not now then certainly after Convincing Infiltrator rotates.

not so impressed

Not gonna lie, it looks pretty useless to me. The effect will benefit you very rarely. A lot of the time this card will be just 3 mana 2\4.

not so impressed

Jeez another broken card for Odd DH...

Very cool card! Cabal Shadow Priest has always been a cool card that's hard to slot into a deck - Cabal Acolyte seems like it will fit much more naturally into a control Priest deck.

with other classes can be very strong. Hunters and DH doesn't benefit too much to be immune ...

with other classes can be very strong. Hunters and DH doesn't benefit too much to be immune ...

I was expecting the DH/Hunter legendary to be an SMOrc card, but I guess their combined forces of face-hitting mastery were way too overpowered.

Looks really scary, too expensive in my opinion to be that big of a problem though. Plenty of options to kill things by turn 5 too, so it usually wouldn’t stick

Why hello there. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there will eventually be a crazy otk with this in wild that doesn't even require the quest.

Even if not used for an otk, this card has so much health that it should often survive a turn. Seems crazy good in little spell mage, at least on paper. 

I know I’m usually pretty bad at judging cards, but this should be a good card at the very least, right? It’s a cheap card that allows you to guarantee board control if you have the initiative, which you’ll often have as both of these classes (and can even save your hero some health from attacking stuff). I’m trying to think of any way it might be too situational, but it’s not like either class usually has that much trouble getting minions on the board to begin with

that's...just good in a lot of scenarios.

All you need for this to pay off is have something on board or Rush minions in hand (and something you want to trade into). The statline is good enough by itself so all you need is use it for one minion and you got your value.

Funnily enough I think it might be better for Hunter than DH just because DH doesn't have a lot of Rush minions (and they don't trade as often with minions anyways). Still probably a staple for any tempo deck, but at least not another game breaking legendary.

Not entirely sure how to use this in Hunter at the moment, but it'll have a place in Highlander for sure.

EDIT: I also failed to realize this works with hero attacks as well. Might find its way into a lot more decks then. Dragon Hunter can safely trade with Stormhammer, and DH in general gets to do more trades

With a dedicated deck will be insane ...

With a dedicated deck will be insane ...

Seems really really strong to me, any trade you could make, you do it for free, great with rush keyword as well and weapons.. 5/5

I would be very upset if the spell damage does not stack with more spells.

That'll be like a proverbial tomato pasted on my face as I downgrade my instant 5 stars rating to 0.

I already dislike Stormhammer, combined with Ace Hunter Kreen the card has the potential to be a stronger one

Seems not too great. It’s a cheaper Shadow Priest, that also requires you to spend mana to activate it (meaning it costs basically as much, if not more than, Shadow Priest, while not even being targeted).

While the added redundancy is nice, that doesn’t matter too much when you’re adding redundancy of a card that isn’t that great anymore to begin with

I wondered what a demon Hunter Hunter would look like.

It's a Demon Hunter with a bow

I don't know what I was expecting

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Boneweb Egg even more disco support

Technically that's not "a card that discards a card". It's a card which "has an upside when discarded"...