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This should help put an end to those games that go on forever because neither of you can kill the other and then both of you are in fatigue. I can't wait.

A very dangerous aggro card, particularly if you have rush tokens like pirahnas or rams.

And that 5 health is good enough to see that it'll survive most of the time.

DK might want to experiment with this card because its grants you one extra corpse for each minion you play.

Arena card, and even then an unreliable one.

Even after the manathirst its fairly unspectacular. 4 mana deal 6 damage to a minion is about as standard as it gets nowadays, and your opponent would likely be playing something bigger at those turns.

A neutral freeze effect, but that's meaningless because freeze effects are only ever good in dedicated decks, so this is in fact a card for either shaman, mage or DK, but weaker than the options available for those classes.

So if you are playing this card, it'll be presumably because its a cheap silence. But since silences are tech choices and this only gains that effect on turn 6, its unreliable. Besides, Royal Librarian and starfish fills that void perfectly.

I guess its shit then.

Soul Seeker is 100% better than this card.

Why'd this one need exist again?

Supports questlock but let's be real here you'll never play this just for that reason because warlock has far better ways for self damage. Hell, you can even play bs stuff just to ping your own face if youre so desperate, not to mention that this damages at the end of the turn, so you can't even play tammy the same turn you get her.

But as an aggro card this is solid. Its hard to remember that a 4/5 body is in fact a real threatening card in the early turns and at turn 3 its nearly guaranteed to do at least 4 damage to face before its eventual removal. That 2 damage to your face is insignificant when youre the one pressing.

You can never write off stuff like these because its practically a better Scalerider, or Gyreworm and both saw play in their times. 3 damage is neat though, being the bare minimum of good removal damage these days.

If there's a dragon deck this card would be in it, because its just a decent team player. Not a Duskbreaker or Alexstrasza, but like most of us common folk this card would do most of the work and get the least of the recognition.

Its the kind of card that might be useful because it may suit the meta and you need to protect something. The problem is that AoE these days aren't all that rare and this card does nothing against that.

Another bigger problem is redundancy. Why'd anyone play this over Blademaster Okani is beyond me. Even okani himself is rarely an auto pick in decks, let alone this one.

Worthless filler card in constructed.

I just dont understand what they're trying to accomplish with manathirst. Surely the whole point is to choose between playing a card now for a smaller effect or waiting for a larger effect. Cards like this is just unplayable without the manathirst so there's just no choice is there?

Put it in another way you're paying 3 mana to play a turn five 2+3 drop. If this is good enough then fine, but even aggro decks would stay clear of this one. The 10 manathirst might as well never exists, because most games dont even last all that long to begin with. Even control decks can't afford a brick in their hand for 10 turns.

Baffling design. It feels so purposeful that the 'can't target face' effect is a battlecry, almost like team5 wants us to either rez it or wring it out of our hand for an OTK.

Either that, or they've blatantly brought Il'gynoth back one way or another.

Or a third possibility. Devs got drunk one day before design deadline and this card is just this shit.

Downvoting doesn't make you right. You people dickride blizzard so hard.

Rank spells did it 1st.

Crystal Broker this card might see play in late game decks. 3 summon an 8/8 is great value.

or in Demon Hunter this card would be a great target to shuffle into your deck.

Hawkstrider good, the rest are arena cards.

Keep in mind that Brrrloc could Freeze face; this cannot. That could be important down the line to rein in the Death Knight and their solid weapons. As such, that little distinction tells me this is not good enough.

From a logic point of view - it should 

I also think they did the Neutrals before the remaining classes to maximize the theory-crafting for Death Knights. So by tomorrow's end we'll know every card available to them, which is nice.

More cards like Treachery needed

Wouldn't be a Battlecry if only while alive

It's not bad, we're just disappointed :)

I, for one, will lay my body and soul before the altar of Rager Christ the Redeemer.

I think this is a great card. Freeze is already a solid effect, but Silence is valuable and hard to come by this easily for some classes - for 2-mana, with an upside? Hell yeah. My only gripe is that you can't lay the Freeze and the Silence on different minions.

Question - does Manathirst count as a Battlecry? For instance, could Shaman double Crystal Broker's effect?

Yeah, the simple fact is that it's a great standalone card but doesn't synergize enough with others to warrant inclusion.

This epic does have potential in token decks, especially seeing how sticky it is. The high health is exactly what you need to take advantage of this effect. Token druid or Aggro DH might use this. Even DH can benefit coz the tokens become extra corpses.