Sadly, a card is a bit more than the sum of its stats. Numerically, this seems awesome, but in reality it doesn't work out particularly well. With the body's stats being split across two minions, a 1/2 and a 1/1, it's really hard to get any real value out of either of the halves in terms of trading. If you want to kill, say, a Sorcerer's Apprentice, a measly two health minion, it's going to take you two turns to do it (meanwhile Mage is merrily milking all the value it can get out of the mana discounts), and if you have another minion on board to receive the first +1/+1 buff, it's highly likely the Mage is either going to Frost Bolt it to death and ping off your remaining 1/1, keeping the Apprentice alive, or just kill the buffed minion with the now 3/1 Apprentice. If you play a minion on 1, then follow it up with this on 2, the 1 drop has to survive another turn for you to get something out of it, because the buff is a deathrattle instead of a Battlecry, and if instead you intend to follow the mummy with a 3 drop and have that receive the buff, you still have to sac the 1/2 into something to get the boost on cue. And a 1/2 isn't going to value trade into anything, so you're likely just throwing the 1/2 away for a +1/+1.
No...just...just no. If you split stats and bodies too many times, what ends up happening is you get value traded into oblivion and receive the absolute minimum amount of value you can.
in total there's 4:5 stats in this card. reborn makes cloning it okay if clone decks ever becomes a thing. Also has some synergy with recurring villain.
Should be decent in some decks, hard to tell if it's competitive yet.
Tracking is a bit of a stretch, yes, but I would still try it as the deck runs another win condition (Deathstalker Rexxar). And for most matchups you really want to find that key card that wins you the game (Reno, Rexxar, combo, Dirty Rat, etc.).
That’s not even that powerfull tbh. It‘s a 28 damage 5 card combo, 6 cards to top the 30. The later one with power word shield requires topsy turvy without mana reduction.
But this effect is broken with small Summoned minions, for instance reborn
Lots of value - spend 2 mana, get 1/2 + a 1/1 and a +1/+1 on death, then another +1/+1 on second death gets you to 4/5 in stats for 2 over time. As long as you can build a decently wide board, this is pretty good, but there have been lots of efforts to make this work and they've largely failed in Priest.
WIll certainly try to make an Angry Chicken deck. Created one before, unbelievable but won first game with it, lost all 20 others I played so I gave it up.
Combined with Zerek's Cloning Gallery and a deck filled with Star Aligner could set off some nice fireworks? Ah no that is a battlecry so will not fly immediately, but with two Aligners in hand and board full of 7 health minions, well...you might be able to get it off.
Hard to imagine a deck that wants Generous Mummy. It's a lot of early tempo, but so is Marsh Drake and its drawback is much easier to deal with for classes that want to capitalize on early tempo. The reborn effect might be a boon to keep the tempo going, but making your opponents cards cost 1 less means enemy AoE is coming in earlier to clean up your board. Where this might be useful is as a tech card for aggro mirrors, where you expect your opponent will play out their hand early and get very little benefit from this, or maybe in some Paladin aggro deck that wants to use Rebuke to mitigate the benefit to your opponent long enough to get a win.
Yeah, there is a lot of cards that can be swapped out. I had the traps package there for some disruption and for the bow, but you can definitely swap them out for more card draw for example. Tho i am not sure you want Tracking, this is a combo deck after all and if you'll have to discard one of your combo pieces, that wouldnt be good. So yeah, not included on purpose
^ Purely value build of Reno Druid. If you like building walls this deck certainly does it. Astral Tiger is an interesting inclusion which allows you to not hit fatique ever and Floop is an amazing second N'Zoth or any other value bomb. Pretty solid theorycraft. New Elise is amazing cards since its a chepaer controlable Malacrass and she certainly enables even more value,heal or clear.
^ I dont know how viable is this compared to Deathrattle shell but it surely does have some neat comboes and burst damage. Aggro might be the biggest concern but the deck should win against Control and Combo pretty consistently. There are couple of finishers available and mana cheating is here as well.
I seem to recall Blizzard saying that they don't like the Inner Fire + Divine Spirit combos because it's not compatible with the class identity, but High Priest Amet obviously makes that very easy with Stonetusk Boar. This may be a harbinger for a hall of fame rotation for one or both of those combo pieces - Blizzard has said that they think it's fine to produce super powerful combos as long as they rotate after a few months (this was in a reflection on the failure of the Highlander/Anduin's tenure in standard), so they may be getting ready to give that combo one last hurrah before "hall of faming" it.
Outside of combos, because High Priest Amet's text reads "summon" rather than "play," he does a lot of cool stuff with reborn effects, etc., and after the almost certain hall of fame rotation of OTK Priest, I expect we'll see him used for some pretty serious value plays.
That's a sweet deck! I love toying with Control Hunter lists, this seems very nice!
I would opt for more draw to find your specific key cards earlier and more consitantely (+ Loot Hoarder and Tracking). Additionaly, I would add Quick Shot as an early removal option.
As you are playing a highlander deck which is pretty inconsintant by nature, I would try to get rid of some situational cards that are only good in specific matchups (- Explosive Trap, Freezing Trap and Acidic Swamp Ooze).
[Theorycraft] King Krush 24 damage Hunter
You know I never noticed that there were no duplicate beasts ha!
Thanks for the info.
Still Untamed Beastmaster into Master's Call has won me many games.
Maybe Subject 9 or another beast from the unrevealed cards would make this a worthwhile addition.
New Priest Minion - Grandmummy
pretty garbage 2-drop, as per usual with Priest.
New Neutral Minion - Generous Mummy
"while this is in play, your opponent has "add the coin to your hand whenever you play a card"
no thanks.
New Neutral Minion - Generous Mummy
Can maybe work in a silent priest? Or any other deck with cheap silence effects.
Uldum Priest Card Reveal - Grandmummy
Sadly, a card is a bit more than the sum of its stats. Numerically, this seems awesome, but in reality it doesn't work out particularly well. With the body's stats being split across two minions, a 1/2 and a 1/1, it's really hard to get any real value out of either of the halves in terms of trading. If you want to kill, say, a Sorcerer's Apprentice, a measly two health minion, it's going to take you two turns to do it (meanwhile Mage is merrily milking all the value it can get out of the mana discounts), and if you have another minion on board to receive the first +1/+1 buff, it's highly likely the Mage is either going to Frost Bolt it to death and ping off your remaining 1/1, keeping the Apprentice alive, or just kill the buffed minion with the now 3/1 Apprentice. If you play a minion on 1, then follow it up with this on 2, the 1 drop has to survive another turn for you to get something out of it, because the buff is a deathrattle instead of a Battlecry, and if instead you intend to follow the mummy with a 3 drop and have that receive the buff, you still have to sac the 1/2 into something to get the boost on cue. And a 1/2 isn't going to value trade into anything, so you're likely just throwing the 1/2 away for a +1/+1.
No...just...just no. If you split stats and bodies too many times, what ends up happening is you get value traded into oblivion and receive the absolute minimum amount of value you can.
Hunter Basics
Didn't know that myself and I usually read the patch notes, Gj.
Uldum Priest Card Reveal - Grandmummy
This would pbly be insane in any class but priest haha
Still a very good card tho, might fit in some new tempo priest with extra arms?
Uldum Priest Card Reveal - Grandmummy
It's historically accurate that some children were mummified.
New Priest Minion - Grandmummy
in total there's 4:5 stats in this card. reborn makes cloning it okay if clone decks ever becomes a thing. Also has some synergy with recurring villain.
Should be decent in some decks, hard to tell if it's competitive yet.
Uldum Priest Card Reveal - Grandmummy
Thanks to Reborn, crazy synergy with Spirit of the Dead
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I guess ur not wrong, we can always try it and see how it performs :)
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Tracking is a bit of a stretch, yes, but I would still try it as the deck runs another win condition (Deathstalker Rexxar). And for most matchups you really want to find that key card that wins you the game (Reno, Rexxar, combo, Dirty Rat, etc.).
Uldum Priest Legendary Reveal - High Priest Amet
That’s not even that powerfull tbh. It‘s a 28 damage 5 card combo, 6 cards to top the 30. The later one with power word shield requires topsy turvy without mana reduction.
But this effect is broken with small Summoned minions, for instance reborn
Uldum Priest Card Reveal - Grandmummy
Lots of value - spend 2 mana, get 1/2 + a 1/1 and a +1/+1 on death, then another +1/+1 on second death gets you to 4/5 in stats for 2 over time. As long as you can build a decently wide board, this is pretty good, but there have been lots of efforts to make this work and they've largely failed in Priest.
Uldum Priest Card Reveal - Grandmummy
It seems that all the minions with Reborn are all mummies. 😅
New Priest Minion - High Priest Amet
WIll certainly try to make an Angry Chicken deck. Created one before, unbelievable but won first game with it, lost all 20 others I played so I gave it up.
Combined with Zerek's Cloning Gallery and a deck filled with Star Aligner could set off some nice fireworks? Ah no that is a battlecry so will not fly immediately, but with two Aligners in hand and board full of 7 health minions, well...you might be able to get it off.
Uldum Card Reveal - Generous Mummy
Hard to imagine a deck that wants Generous Mummy. It's a lot of early tempo, but so is Marsh Drake and its drawback is much easier to deal with for classes that want to capitalize on early tempo. The reborn effect might be a boon to keep the tempo going, but making your opponents cards cost 1 less means enemy AoE is coming in earlier to clean up your board. Where this might be useful is as a tech card for aggro mirrors, where you expect your opponent will play out their hand early and get very little benefit from this, or maybe in some Paladin aggro deck that wants to use Rebuke to mitigate the benefit to your opponent long enough to get a win.
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Yeah, there is a lot of cards that can be swapped out. I had the traps package there for some disruption and for the bow, but you can definitely swap them out for more card draw for example. Tho i am not sure you want Tracking, this is a combo deck after all and if you'll have to discard one of your combo pieces, that wouldnt be good. So yeah, not included on purpose
My theorycrafts on new good Highlander legendaries(purely by my opinion)
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/3390-value-deathrattle-reno-druid
^ Purely value build of Reno Druid. If you like building walls this deck certainly does it. Astral Tiger is an interesting inclusion which allows you to not hit fatique ever and Floop is an amazing second N'Zoth or any other value bomb. Pretty solid theorycraft. New Elise is amazing cards since its a chepaer controlable Malacrass and she certainly enables even more value,heal or clear.
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/3392-reno-and-his-jurrasic-park
^ I dont know how viable is this compared to Deathrattle shell but it surely does have some neat comboes and burst damage. Aggro might be the biggest concern but the deck should win against Control and Combo pretty consistently. There are couple of finishers available and mana cheating is here as well.
Uldum Priest Card Reveal - Grandmummy
Holy shit. I'm a long time, now casual, priest player, tell me, is this real? Turn 2? This is amazing, right?
Uldum Priest Legendary Reveal - High Priest Amet
Interesting card, but as a legendary, it can't carry an archetype on its own.
I mean, a Reborn Priest would still need much more than this + Reborn cards.
On the other hand, it is nice support for an already existing (but weak) Inner Fire Priest.
Uldum Priest Card Reveal - Grandmummy
Soooo cool art and name and ability, i don't know, but maybe she dies and give 1 of her kids like buff someone?:D
Uldum Priest Card Reveal - Grandmummy
Mummified dead children is apparently a great idea for an artwork.
Uldum Priest Legendary Reveal - High Priest Amet
I seem to recall Blizzard saying that they don't like the Inner Fire + Divine Spirit combos because it's not compatible with the class identity, but High Priest Amet obviously makes that very easy with Stonetusk Boar. This may be a harbinger for a hall of fame rotation for one or both of those combo pieces - Blizzard has said that they think it's fine to produce super powerful combos as long as they rotate after a few months (this was in a reflection on the failure of the Highlander/Anduin's tenure in standard), so they may be getting ready to give that combo one last hurrah before "hall of faming" it.
Outside of combos, because High Priest Amet's text reads "summon" rather than "play," he does a lot of cool stuff with reborn effects, etc., and after the almost certain hall of fame rotation of OTK Priest, I expect we'll see him used for some pretty serious value plays.
Brann, Brann and Alexstrasza Walk Into a Bar
That's a sweet deck! I love toying with Control Hunter lists, this seems very nice!
I would opt for more draw to find your specific key cards earlier and more consitantely (+ Loot Hoarder and Tracking). Additionaly, I would add Quick Shot as an early removal option.
As you are playing a highlander deck which is pretty inconsintant by nature, I would try to get rid of some situational cards that are only good in specific matchups (- Explosive Trap, Freezing Trap and Acidic Swamp Ooze).
Just my two cents.