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Copy effects are suddenly more relevant... if this sees play at all that is...

Quote From BlueBanana

I just wanted to check whether this is completely useless or I'm missing something. Could work with Shaman Spellstones but 1) it's not even enough damage for an OTK and 2) it requires Thaurissan. Resurrect Priest maybe? Meat Wagon? It seems interesting though if any new cards give it support outside combo decks.

In most cases like the shaman Spellstone combo you mentioned, I think you're just better off using Ragnaros the Firelord.

Meat Wagon or Lady in White are the only reasons I feel like the card is worth experimenting with.

2 Juicy Psychmelons where there are no 9 or 10 cost cards in the deck and only one 8 cost card?

Quote From Painkiller1724

In wild there will sure be many meme decks with this card. Many classes can copy and/or cheat this minion. I would also mention Druid. Aviana, Floop, Gloop Sprayer, etc.

If you're already doing an Aviana combo just use Ragnaros the Firelord.

Seems like I made the only standard theorycraft deck featuring this card yet. I even wrote a guide.

Untapped Obelisks

Wild · Quest Druid · by Koalabeere · 7 years, 1 month ago

• 1 Crystal Power x 2
• 1 Untapped Potential x 1
• 2 Dreamway Guardians x 2
• 2 Wrath x 2
• 3 BEEEES!!! x 2
• 3 Ferocious Howl x 2
• 3 Swipe x 2
• 4 Juicy Psychmelon x 2
• 5 Desert Obelisk x 2
• 5 Faceless Manipulator x 2
• 5 Nourish x 2
• 5 Starfall x 2
• 6 Hidden Oasis x 2
• 7 Dreampetal Florist x 2
• 7 Gloop Sprayer x 2
• 8 Jepetto Joybuzz x 1

7,600 Dust 1,694 2 Copy Deck Code

In wild there will sure be many meme decks with this card. Many classes can copy and/or cheat this minion. I would also mention Druid. Aviana, Floop, Gloop Sprayer, etc.

Quote From Watermelon86

Trying to think of ways to abuse this card with loads of copy effects my best idea was to use it with Carnivorous Cube and Deathrattle triggers like Play Dead in Hunter.  Stitched Tracker is also a great card for finding combo pieces and Ursatron can be used as a Meat Wagon tutor.

 

Obelisk Hunter

A Deathrattle Hunter Deck created by Watermelon86. Last updated 2 minutes ago

• Play Dead 2
• Shimmerfly 1
• Explorer's Hat 2
• Feign Death 1
• Freezing Trap 1
• Mad Scientist 2
• Wandering Monster 2
• Drakkari Enchanter 2
• Stitched Tracker 2
• Terrorscale Stalker 1
• Ursatron 2
• Meat Wagon 2
• Necromechanic 2
• Spiritsinger Umbra 1
• Carnivorous Cube 2
• Desert Obelisk 2
• Deathstalker Rexxar 1
• Emperor Thaurissan 1
• Sylvanas Windrunner 1

 

Maybe some kind of Priest deck with Lady in White could be an option as well.  Priest does have access to some pretty cheap cloning effects like Mirage Caller and Vivid Nightmare and Lady in White can make the Obelisk a 5/5 so it's not entirely useless on its own.

Drakkari + 3 Obelisks is a neat 30 damage. I'm suddenly a lot more interested in this card. Nice one

Quest Mage can pull of anything.. this is just another small task for Jaina

If there are enough good hunter cards to make a decent Highlander deck in Standard, chances are there will be a more dominant hunter archetype that does the same but performs better in every aspect. And I don't see a Highlander Hunter filling a specific niche of an archetype that couldn't be made better by just running a normal deck. There is nothing unique that this deck could do, except for Brann. And for it to be better than its 2-off variant you would need to draw as good as its counterpart early and midgame (which is made harder because of the Highlander nature of the deck) AND draw Brann till turn 7. It just doesn't seem very consistent.

Wild is obviously something else, it's just a good upgrade for an already decent deck.

If this were Hearthpwn I would vote 'playable' for Standard and 'very good' for Wild.

Trying to think of ways to abuse this card with loads of copy effects my best idea was to use it with Carnivorous Cube and Deathrattle triggers like Play Dead in Hunter.  Stitched Tracker is also a great card for finding combo pieces and Ursatron can be used as a Meat Wagon tutor.

Obelisk Hunter

Wild · Deathrattle Hunter · by Watermelon86 · 7 years, 1 month ago

• 1 Explorer's Hat x 2
• 1 Play Dead x 2
• 1 Shimmerfly x 1
• 2 Feign Death x 1
• 2 Freezing Trap x 1
• 2 Mad Scientist x 2
• 2 Terrorscale Stalker x 1
• 2 Wandering Monster x 2
• 3 Drakkari Enchanter x 2
• 3 Stitched Tracker x 2
• 3 Ursatron x 2
• 4 Meat Wagon x 2
• 4 Necromechanic x 2
• 5 Carnivorous Cube x 2
• 5 Desert Obelisk x 2
• 5 Emperor Thaurissan x 1
• 5 Spiritsinger Umbra x 1
• 6 Deathstalker Rexxar x 1
• 6 Sylvanas Windrunner x 1

11,760 Dust 1,238 0 Copy Deck Code

Maybe some kind of Priest deck with Lady in White could be an option as well.  Priest does have access to some pretty cheap cloning effects like Mirage Caller and Vivid Nightmare and Lady in White can make the Obelisk a 5/5 so it's not entirely useless on its own.

coolest card of the set

The 5-drop summon pool just got nuked!  Most if not all of the 0-attack minions in the game are meme level.  I hope we get some 0-attack synergy cards to make them all a little easier to work with.  It could even be in Quest form.  Does anyone else find it a little suspicious that structures are starting to find their way into the game now.  Blackhowl Gunspire was in Witchwood for example.  Could we finally be getting the 'Structure' Tag in an upcoming expansion that so many people have done in card creations?

I like the design of the card. It is meant to be used as a puzzle to somehow make it playable. 
Don't get me wrong.  This is as bad as the Holomancer.  I just wish that this card was common or rare so it would be easier to experiment with.  Making it rare would only make people salty if they can get it (when they would get something that is playable and useful). Of course, we only seen a small portion of the set.  There might be something that could make this better (or something much worse than this card).  

Would be so cool if someone can pull it off. I like the idea. Finally something different. 

Looks like the kind of card a boss would have multiple copies of in his deck/or summon as a hero power in PvE :)

In a set which has no-duplicate theme in it, this card made me thing only one thing, In-game duplicate system.

Someone already claimed that a card which clears duplicates in the deck can only make Highlander decks viable.

This card makes me thing that we might get cards like Mimic Pod. Un'goro is already one of the throwbacks of this set so it might be maybe?

Well.. this card sucks.

Wow this is...an atrocious card at every level. Like holy shit is this bad. I understand, it's a meme card. But it even sucks at being a meme. You want to go for an OTK with this? Sure, go ahead. Somehow copy this 4 times against an opponent that's not at his keyboard, you deal 30 to face and win the game. The downside? This hits random enemies, does nothing until you have 3 of them (lol what? at least give it attack), and there is a card of the exact same cost that happens to do this card's job much better. It's called Leeroy Jenkins. If you wanna jump through hoops to copy this pile of crap, you might as well jump through hoops copying a minion that actually does something. And that something is deal 6 damage to face (which means it requires one less copy to kill someone) and functions standalone as well.

As for Wild...lol no. If you want to kill people with something like this, there's a little card called Ragnaros that, once again, does this card's job way better. Go play OTK Aviana Rag Druid (the combo is Aviana, Innervate, Kun, Rag, Cube Rag, Faceless Cube, Deathwing), or one of the million possible Aviana Kun combos that finish the game with way fewer requirements. This blows in every way imaginable. And considering that Arena drafts are now decided by factors other than rarity, the fact they had the balls to make this Epic for no good reason makes it even worse. If it were a throwaway common, eh, whatever, pack filler. But enjoy opening these in your Epic slots if you're free to play.

TLDR: What a fail of a card.

I will try this in a quest rogue deck in wild, with 1/1 copy'ing + Conceal, it might be a meme-y TTK deck. :P

Ofc if i got them from packs, I don't think I will craft these. That's so meme-y even for me.

But Isn't this a card like Star Aligner and Naga Sea Witch which all think the card is garbage but breaks something in the game.

I'm sure some people will try to accomplish some broken stuff with this. Even I got my ideas.

 (dated: 7/21/19 last current revealed card is Desert Obelisk )

Ok So I was looking at all the cards currently in the Standard Rotation as of date above to try and make this Desert Obelisk somewhat viable (if you wanna call it that.)

Out of 9 classes, 4 of which I found that could manipulate Desert Obelisk) on the field where there can be more than 3 or more by the end of turn and Note I am only going to talk about Standard rotation NOT WILD!!

Warlock: Warlock is the First class I saw a good amount of potential in terms of trying to make this meme of a card work!, On first thought a one turn scenario that is possible is Drawing out your deck and using Dollmaster Dorian and 2x Plot Twist while Desert Obelisk is in your hand for a total of 9 mana to get four 1/1 Desert Obelisk ) on the field for a total of 20 random damage. There is also the possibility of using Augmented Elekk with 2x Plot Twist to make more copies of Desert Obelisk to increase the Dollmaster Dorian Combo mentioned earlier, but that is very Convoluted situation and Clunky to pull off and started thinking of the other classes

Druid: Druid has a few Copy Manipulations in Standard thats possible to do, The easiest Combo I theorized is using Dreampetal Florist to reduce a copy of Gloop Sprayer to make him cost Zero, Then on turn 10 you could play 2x Desert Obelisk and the Zero cost Gloop Sprayer for a total of 4 copies of Desert Obelisk  It is also Plausible to use Jepetto Joybuzz to Draw either Gloop Sprayer or Desert Obelisk  to make that Combo Too!.

Rouge: Rouge has some very interesting ways to make this combo possible but the the one that I Theorized is using 1x of Togwaggle's Scheme (has to be in your hand for at least 6 turns!) on Desert Obelisk, The very Next turn (with the Assumption that you have no other minions in your deck and no other minions on the Field) Play Dollmaster Dorian into Myra's Unstable Element making 6 1/1 copies of Desert Obelisk on the field for total of 30 random damage towards the enemy.

Priest: Priest is the least likeliest way to get to the combo to work but I will explain it never the less. Priest has the most types of Duplication with cards like Power Word: Replicate, and Unsleeping Soul (which by the way I believe with Unsleeping Soul if there were 2 silenced copies of Desert Obelisk only 1 would trigger I believe)  they also have access to Zerek's Cloning Gallery and Spirit of the Dead. The way I would guess to make it work in this class would be to Manipulate Desert Obelisk costing 1 mana with Spirit of the Dead on the same field. You can get more copies in your deck that could with cards like Power Word: Replicate and Faceless Manipulator. Assuming you have 6+ copies of Desert Obelisk that cost 1 in your deck you could play Bwonsamdi, the Dead to fill your hand with 1 cost Desert Obelisk and the Next turn you would play all of them.

Now You could probablby utilize another combo in another class that I didn't list here but  It's Just that out of the 9 classes these were the 4 that I thought could Possibly be the Most Viable in terms of Combo potential for Desert Obelisk in the Standard Rotation. The card looks like more a Meme than a combo Option but You never Know what might happen in the Next few months!

6 of these are 30 damage.

Not sure how you can get that many on board, nor how you can clear all enemy minions so the 30 damage goes face, but I have a feeling Open the Waygate and Molten Reflection might have something to do with it.

Well that sucks lol. 

Here's the combo that comes to mind 2xSummoning Portal 2xDesert Obelisk 2xFaceless Manipulator. 10 mana, 20 damage.