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Since when could Gnolls use Shadow magic? 😶‍🌫️

Now ofc you would want to discard this card instead of playing it, much like Hand of Gul'dan. This card will see play if discolock lives again in Standard.

As for wild... well that's another story...

Kooooooooooorl!! :)

We finally got our Walking Dead reference!

Flavor text is on point too

Blizz: pushing DiscoLock once again
Me: "Ah shit, here we go again"

Thanks dapperdog for the input!

In hindsight, them already having played Scale was probably a good hint. And Theotar got in my hand some turns later, otherwise that would have been the better play. But yeah, XL Shaman is not the deck for me and I dislike encountering Ramp Druid no matter what deck I play myself...

Well, here's the discolock we all wished for, right back from the dead.

There's certainly a deck somewhere here, because there's discard effects, there's payoff, and there's the crucial draw factor. But it remains to be seen if this is straight up better than implock, because that deck can draw and pressure whereas discolock can whiff and whiff hard. Im not even sure if discolock can even out tempo or outdamage curse implock.

Of course there's two legendaries left uncovered, so we can assume that somehow discolock will work, because obviously team5 wouldn't just design shit like this without at least testing it out wink* wink*

Whatever it is, here's to hoping that Tome Tampering will remain unplayable in standard.

Insert the “here we go again” meme 

Depends on how long they've held on to the their left most card, and how zealous they are with their board generators like Scale of Onyxia. In my own experience playing against and with druid I always notice that the moment they start overplaying their board you can rightly suspect that they have Sire Denathrius in hand.

If I had theotar when they have two cards in hand I would absolutely play it immediately before popping the composting minions because it would at least give me info on how to proceed. But if its down to mutanus + bolner then its entirely based on how long those cards were in hand. If I had no info I might just go for broke, because ramp druid is impossible to outvalue in the late game anyway.

But honestly though, you got unlucky because there's no absolute method for shaman to guess what's in their hand. And had you went in with mutanus without success, and with no parrots, youre just dead at that point. XL shaman is not the best deck to play on ladder because its really 50-50 into alot of things, and a lot can go wrong.

Missing theotar is pure luck. Because of the 4 months so far Ive never had a day where my most important card didn't get sniped when that card is played.

actaully any deck is good. Just remove the less useful card and replace with our friend

I did a decisive misplay against Ramp Druid (as XL Shaman) and was wondering how y'all would think in the same situation.

Turn 7, both have a few smaller minions on board. They have 4 minions with Composting played on them and two cards in hand. I'm able to play Bolner + Mutanus and my main goal is to snipe their Denathrius. I suspect that they have at least one spell in hand so they should draw some more to make use of Mutanus. I go on to clear all their minions (this is where I feel stupid now) so they should get some more minions in hand and I consume their Brann and Sylvanas. Later, with 5-6 cards in their hand, I play Theotar and miss Big D once again. A turn or to after that their Sire kills me from full health with a 50+ dmg battlecry.

Since I possibly couldn't know wether Denathrius was one of their two cards in their hand on t7 I can't really say where it went wrong besides bad luck. How would you guys think adn decide the play in the same situation?

PS: Can't wait to see both Denathrius and Theotar kicked out of meta/standard format.

Seal of Champions cries in the corner :D  I mean, if you're an aggro/midrange deck, you'll gladly trade 3 of your own health for 3 health on a minion, so it will definately be worth a try in my Midrange pally deck :)

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I feel this card would only really work if all your minions had rush or if they survived last turn and you can run them into a big minion on your opponent's side. Lots of ifs if I'm being honest 😅

I'm hoping Shaman get more support for this Deathrattle archetype and these are not the only synergistic cards for the set. If so, this archetype won't take off. 

The only way I see is using 2x Schooling to get 6 Piranha Swarmer, allowing to combo the cards at t9 as a finnisher. But looks akward.

Competing against Genshin Impact's base players (especially Chinese players)? I don't think any of these nominated games stand a chance.

Me personally, the longer the game has been around, logically, they should be more polished and known to the masses, also the bigger chance they get to win against a few months age of Marvel Snap.

And again, personally, to see Diablo Immortal to be nominated as Best Mobile Game is a taint to the platform. Diablo was supposed to be Best PC Game, but those days are over. 

It's definitely a sticky minion but I wouldn't play this guy against a priest in wild. Imagine a Potion of Madness on this 😱

Will be more annoying to remove in arena so highly unlikely it'll see play in constructed. 

I feel this card would only really work if all your minions had rush or if they survived last turn and you can run them into a big minion on your opponent's side. Lots of ifs if I'm being honest 😅

I'm hoping Shaman get more support for this Deathrattle archetype and these are not the only synergistic cards for the set. If so, this archetype won't take off. 

Well this epic will and can only be played in one archetype. The undead minion tribe won't benefit Shaman that much outside this expansion and I'll keep coming back to The Scourge which I'm assuming will summon random undead from any class right? Ofc one of the worst undead to summon ofc and it'll be useless to most other classes if randomly generated.

Will only see play if this Deathrattle Shaman is viable. 

If Snap wins the award, that will look very good for Second dinner as their first game

It is possible to make a new token based deck with Clownfish and Gorloc Ravager to tutor and discount Rotgill to 1 mana. Then just add some sticky minions, hope your opponent doesn't clear your board each turn and bam!

How viable this will be depends on how strong every other class will be, especially DK. I don't think this archetype will be toxic or OP though, my guess, it'll be a tier 2-3 archetype at best. 

The cost to have blue colored cards = -5 damage from each minion and Deathrattle. 

Guess it's a fair price for merging a 2 card combo into 1