btw do we know that it will always cost 5 mana? cause according to the cards text its just a 5/5 copy of a legendary, so i would assume it would be like an 9 mana alex with 5/5 in stats?
regarding ur question, I have no idea. reason why is because its very good if u get it with 8/8 taunt on turn 6, its supposed to be efficient vs aggro, however vs aggro decks we starting putting our cards on the board faster so that we contest it while we search for our defiles. so in that scenario you're spending 6 mana for like a 4/4 taunt and a 2/2.
Pretty amazing expansion, some great cards and great flavor. I especially like what has been said about catering to the audience, it is so very true. I always tried to tell that to ppl who made way too complicated designs for competitions. Your ideas might be great, but you have to know your audience if you want your cards to be well received.
I agree. I gave it a 4-star rating upon reveal and cannot wait to see the craziness that comes from it.
If it doesn't see much play during this expansion, when the card pool gets restricted next April post-rotation, it could open it up for more consistent plays.
Full disclosure: this one is especially difficult to win with. But I can almost guarantee each game played summons more Sergeant Sallys than your opponent will have ever seen in the 3 years she has been in the game, so I guess that is something.
As ever though, the main purpose of these decks is to tell a story so do hop on over to the deck description if you are interested.
- at this point the opponent is forced to remove it (soft taunt), because of the risk of facing a 12/8 on next turn, turn-4.
Not to mention Dire Frenzy or similar efficient cloners. Or, as others said, the bare fact that a 3-3/4 Beast is still a nice play.
This card may not be OP, it might be just a Beast deck stuff, but this is by far NOT a meme.
It's like, if a card has OTK potential, then it is only valued in OTK terms, and the rest is overlooked...
This card has no direct downside, not even Tempo loss.
Cause Nightmare Amalgam is played in hunter decks just for the stats.. a 6/4 for 4(cause you are floating mana) is nothing spectacular this card is bad and I will have every epic I open this expansion be this card.
1) Amalgam is no meme card indeed.
2) Raven has a better upside than Amalgam in Hunter (so far).
My point was exactly this: this Raven is not the meme everyone thinks it is.
This kinda of cards are good in decks that are a bunch of healing and removals to win the aggro matchups (in those matchups you play it as a 2/3) and use this card to generate some value versus slower decks, to convert cards that don't do nothing against those opponents in threats (similar to first Elise).
The problem is that decks that want to win games with value alone are in a bad spot right now. The other non-aggro decks at some points start to do broken things to close the game, generating random legendaries isn't good enough.
The problem is that we don't have a sideboard in this game, so running this just to win on a small percentage (sometime you'll not draw this in the matchups where you want it; or you still lose even after you played it) of a small percentage of games (you play this card only because is good versus highlander decks) isn't worth it in my opinion.
In turnament settings card like this are good to exist.
It will be run in all of the decks that are highlander, probably in quest druid too.
The card is obviously amazing, i personally don't like the fact that has too much variance, sometimes gives you 2 faerie dragon and sometimes the nuts...imagine getting screwed because your opponent gets the new maly with her and discover a 1 mana polymorph that prevent you from winning, or when she will be generated by her.
So the power if the card is 5 star, no doubts, but personally i'm not happy about it, especially because we'll see a lot of it being a good card.
I do share your opinion that Bandersmosh might become a very powerful T5 play, mainly because you dont lose any tempo with a 5/5 on T5 and if you're lucky, you can cheat out a powerful battlecry early, or one that you shouldnt have access to.
That being said, we do not claim our review is the one and only truth :) We share our opinions with the community and hope to spark a discussion, which it would seem worked with Bandersmosh already, so win win :)
You run this card in an aggressive/tempo deck that run at least 6-7 pirates, it creats a huge value alone without losing too much tempo. In wild it will see play right away, in standard maybe it will not see play now (maybe strong pirates will be revealed) but if more good pirates are printed in the next expansions i can see this card with a pirate package replacing the Galakrond package in an aggro/tempo warrior deck (just because the invoke cards are bad to run in the deck).
The warlock legendary dragon was an important piece to see if dragonlock will be a thing, sadly this is not the case.
The card has a soft taunt, too bad that if the opponent can kill you he'll kill you even if that means that you are making a full board of huge dragons while he hits your face for lethal damage.
Out of Cards Reviews - Descent of Dragons Reveal Season #5
btw do we know that it will always cost 5 mana? cause according to the cards text its just a 5/5 copy of a legendary, so i would assume it would be like an 9 mana alex with 5/5 in stats?
Tempo Evenlock
Thanks, i appreciate it.
regarding ur question, I have no idea. reason why is because its very good if u get it with 8/8 taunt on turn 6, its supposed to be efficient vs aggro, however vs aggro decks we starting putting our cards on the board faster so that we contest it while we search for our defiles. so in that scenario you're spending 6 mana for like a 4/4 taunt and a 2/2.
needs testing like all new cards of course
You've Been Gnomed
Nice deck :) But would you not want a tutor for Wax (Necrium Apothecary) that gets its DR into play for even cheaper?
New Rogue Minion - Stowaway
I'm gonna draw ALL THE N'ZOTHS!
[Game] Card Treasure Hunt (The Resurrection Attempt)
Yup. I thought it would be to easy, Your next DestroyerR
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Pretty amazing expansion, some great cards and great flavor. I especially like what has been said about catering to the audience, it is so very true. I always tried to tell that to ppl who made way too complicated designs for competitions. Your ideas might be great, but you have to know your audience if you want your cards to be well received.
Out of Cards Reviews - Descent of Dragons Reveal Season #5
Fair enough ;-)
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I agree. I gave it a 4-star rating upon reveal and cannot wait to see the craziness that comes from it.
If it doesn't see much play during this expansion, when the card pool gets restricted next April post-rotation, it could open it up for more consistent plays.
Stowaway
This one is actually pretty nice with Academic Espionage which is still in standard
Galakrond, the Unbreakable
one more reason to use charge in warrior
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Hungry Crab
New Shaman Minion - Bandersmosh
Funny card, I like it. But I'm sceptical if it's playable
New Rogue Minion - Stowaway
For pogos, may be good or some academic espionage decks. Otherwise pretty bad card :/
The Banana Saga part 5: madness awaits
Hi all,
With the weekend lull in card reveals it is time to unveil part 5 of my Banana Saga series of decks:
Wild · Unknown Priest · by AngryShuckie · 6 years, 9 months ago
Full disclosure: this one is especially difficult to win with. But I can almost guarantee each game played summons more Sergeant Sallys than your opponent will have ever seen in the 3 years she has been in the game, so I guess that is something.
As ever though, the main purpose of these decks is to tell a story so do hop on over to the deck description if you are interested.
New Neutral Minion - Dread Raven
1) Amalgam is no meme card indeed.
2) Raven has a better upside than Amalgam in Hunter (so far).
My point was exactly this: this Raven is not the meme everyone thinks it is.
New Warlock Minion - Zzeraku the Warped
Another must have golden legendary for me. This expansion is going to break the bank. Not good so close to Christmas lol.
New Neutral Minion - Kobold Stickyfinger
this is a tech card, the problem is that it feels really bad to run it if your opponents doesn't run any weapon.
Maybe if in the future pirate warrior will be a thing and they start to run this to have an edge in the mirror? Would be funny to see that
New Neutral Minion - Dread Raven
will not see play in costructed, like the other spider tanks that don't have good effects. In arena is a 3/4 for 3 mana, so good.
New Neutral Minion - Transmogrifier
This kinda of cards are good in decks that are a bunch of healing and removals to win the aggro matchups (in those matchups you play it as a 2/3) and use this card to generate some value versus slower decks, to convert cards that don't do nothing against those opponents in threats (similar to first Elise).
The problem is that decks that want to win games with value alone are in a bad spot right now. The other non-aggro decks at some points start to do broken things to close the game, generating random legendaries isn't good enough.
New Neutral Minion - Bad Luck Albatross
Is always nice to have tech cards.
The problem is that we don't have a sideboard in this game, so running this just to win on a small percentage (sometime you'll not draw this in the matchups where you want it; or you still lose even after you played it) of a small percentage of games (you play this card only because is good versus highlander decks) isn't worth it in my opinion.
In turnament settings card like this are good to exist.
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I'm not complaining, I'm just participating
New Neutral Minion - Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
I voted this card 5 stars.
It will be run in all of the decks that are highlander, probably in quest druid too.
The card is obviously amazing, i personally don't like the fact that has too much variance, sometimes gives you 2 faerie dragon and sometimes the nuts...imagine getting screwed because your opponent gets the new maly with her and discover a 1 mana polymorph that prevent you from winning, or when she will be generated by her.
So the power if the card is 5 star, no doubts, but personally i'm not happy about it, especially because we'll see a lot of it being a good card.
Out of Cards Reviews - Descent of Dragons Reveal Season #5
I do share your opinion that Bandersmosh might become a very powerful T5 play, mainly because you dont lose any tempo with a 5/5 on T5 and if you're lucky, you can cheat out a powerful battlecry early, or one that you shouldnt have access to.
That being said, we do not claim our review is the one and only truth :) We share our opinions with the community and hope to spark a discussion, which it would seem worked with Bandersmosh already, so win win :)
New Warrior Weapon - Ancharrr
I think this card is super strong.
You run this card in an aggressive/tempo deck that run at least 6-7 pirates, it creats a huge value alone without losing too much tempo. In wild it will see play right away, in standard maybe it will not see play now (maybe strong pirates will be revealed) but if more good pirates are printed in the next expansions i can see this card with a pirate package replacing the Galakrond package in an aggro/tempo warrior deck (just because the invoke cards are bad to run in the deck).
New Warlock Minion - Zzeraku the Warped
The warlock legendary dragon was an important piece to see if dragonlock will be a thing, sadly this is not the case.
The card has a soft taunt, too bad that if the opponent can kill you he'll kill you even if that means that you are making a full board of huge dragons while he hits your face for lethal damage.