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    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    Burgle rogue card. 5/5 star card because i'm biased, and it will see play because it's a burgle rogue card. Burgle rogue is a popular deck, so this will see a lot of play.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    So the dream for this card, maybe: Turn 2 forge. Turn 3 Mimiron, the Mastermind. Turn 4 forged Lab Constructor? You don't get a gadget due to magnetising not counting as playing a mech, however this can really snowball... If your not dead because you did nothing turn 2.

    But most of the time, this will be a SLOW mech card which might be bad considering mech decks often are aggresive decks. And rogue is NOT that good as a slower class, unless they generate tons of value in a deck like burgle rogue. (Even though those decks have often been aggresive as well.)

    I still think this will be an alright card in mech rogue, simply because doubling a big mech is very good and can snowball out of control. But simply a friendly reminder that because it's a magnetic mech, there are a lot of ways to generate this. So you will occasionally see this show up, even when playing (against) a non-rogue mech deck.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    This seems like the main pay-off for a mech rogue deck. The gadgets seem really good and Mimiron is a 3 mana 2/5 which has been historically Proven to be very hard to remove early, which means it WILL stick around for at least 1 turn when played on curve. This seems really good.

    But then comes the bad thing about the card. Iirc magnetizing a minion does NOT count as playing a minion. So this legendary has anti-synergy with magnetic cards. And magnetic cards are often VERY important in Mech decks. I kinda hope they change this interaction, otherwise Mimiron will often feel kinda bad. Another bad thing about this card is that it's limited to mech rogue, which means it's not flexible. And rogues LOVE flexible cards.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    So we got a TITAN that gives itself buffs... But can't use ANY of them until you use up ALL abilities. This seems so meh.

    As for the abilities: Deal 4 damage ability is pretty good. Draw is nice, but rogue has so many better ways of drawing cards. Making the TITAN untargettable is alright, simply because it's safe and might make the TITAN stick around longer.

    I see a lot of big problems with this card:

    1: The fact that it costs 6 mana. This means it will often compete with Crabatoa for a deck slot and in most rogue decks Crabatoa is going to be better. 

    2: The untargettable option is super SLOW. Rogue often wants to go faster than this.

    3: 2/3 Abilities are only useful as long as you ALREADY have a minion on board. No minion on board? You only get half of the effect. So if you don't have any other minions you MUST pick the untargettable option or else you miss out on value/stats.

    I think this will be one of the, if not the worst TITAN. Which makes sense, after all they can't make a TITAN with OP abilities and stuff because of cards like Shadowstep. But really this? I really expected something a bit more rogueish than this. To me, this really FEELS more like a neutral TITAN than a rogue one.

     

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    Eh, i'm not sure about this card. It does seem like a fun card, and very similar to [Hearthstone Card (Pogo hopper) Not Found] except the effect is always there instead of this being a battlecry. But i'm not sure this kinda deck is fast enough. A lot of copy cards in priests are very slow, and even if the deck gets popular it will just get DESTROYED by control priests due to Whirlpool. I'm not sure this card is good enough, it needs some more support.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    Hmm. This seems nice on paper, because it's another wincon for control priest decks. After all control priests can just survive and slam down bigger and bigger Student of the Stars. But i'm not sure control priests need a "wincon" like this, considering this is garbage in mirror matchups due to plenty of (generated) silence effects.

    Also Aggro priests won't run it due to this being too slow.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    INSANE control tool. If i understand this correctly the -2 attack is PERMANENT, otherwise the text should have said "until your next turn" or something similar to that. -2 permanent attack is HUGE for control decks, turning 3 attack minions into 1 attack minions is great for surviving longer and thus allows you to be greedier with other removal cards. (Or stalling until you can Whirlpool. This will be a staple card in any control priest deck.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    Hmm interesting card. I don't really think this sees play unless the meta is really fast. (Which would be weird, considering they probably want TITANs to be playable, which requires a slower/midrangey meta.) HOWEVER your still gonna see this card get played often, because it WILL get generated a lot by cards like School Teacher.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    On its own: 2 Mana discover and draw a minion from your deck. This is already a Thrive in the Shadows for minions. This is already a 4/5 star card i.m.o. Super solid and priest really needed some more draw.

    Forged version gives you 2 copies, which is really nice. Also the copied card didn't start in your deck, which means Ra-den can ress it. Which might be important for some kind of ress or Astral Automaton deck. But let's be honest, it's going to see play in Control priest decks so they can copy good minions like Aman'Thul and Blackwater Behemoth. (Or Ra-den, The Harvester of Envy or a value generator in thief decks.)

    Also forging a card isn't that bad for priests. In my experience of playing control priest decks, i often just hero power while at full health because i have some mana left over, so spending that to forge something instead is nice.

    Because both are so good, and this card is just so flexible i'm just rating this 5 stars. 

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    Even though it's a restricted pool of cards, a lot of them are quite bad. So i don't think this will be included in the best priest decks. However lets be honest, this is a card designed for a fun focussed thief priest deck so it will see play no matter how bad it is. 

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    Bad, but super fun card. IF this becomes a good card, then it MUST be post-rotation when the card pool is lower. But for now, it's too high variance, and if you have your Ra-den and/or Aman'Thul in hand then it feels really bad to cast this card.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    Hmmm.. So i'm guessing you want to copy something so you can ress it with Ra-den? I'm guessing they want you to copy a Astral Automaton with it? However i'm guessing IF this sees play, that the premium target for this card is Aman'Thul so you get another TITAN and you can then ress Aman'Thul with Ra-den? But you can already do something similar by just casting Power Chord: Synchronize on Aman'Thul instead? I'm not sure this will see play.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    A Thief priest card. I LOVE IT! Thief priest is such a fun archetype, just like burgle rogue! I'm happy Thief priest gets more support, and it already has the TITAN as a support tool, as you can ress any legendary you discovered with the TITAN. Also i guess it also fits in this "pogo" priest deck? Not sure about that deck though. 

    Also if i understand this correctly, this can also ress minion that you summoned with deathrattles? Which means some kinda ress priest in wild could run this?... Oh no.

    The one problem i have with this minion, is the fact it's on a deathrattle. Because of the deathrattle it's super slow, but priest should easely be able to afford playing a 6 mana do nothing so maybe it's not that big of a problem.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    Must-include in every slower priest deck. This generates value, which priest LOVES and the remove 2 minions from the game option is insane. Like this probably works like Life Sentence, which means you can remove 2 of your opponents minions AND they don't trigger deathrattles. On top of that, TITANs are minions, so Aman'Thul can just remove your or your opponents TITAN?

    This is one crazy strong control and value tool.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    This is going to be a pretty hard to remove minion, which really makes this TITAN feel powerful. This is going to see a bunch of play in different paladin archetypes.

    Pure will enjoy using her in order to protect and buff their board. And BIG Paladin might include her in order to make it harder to remove their BIG minions. This is a very flexible Titan!

    Also that draw + potential cost reduction is going to create some weird combo in the future.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    Seems like a really good card.

    Just some good ress targets: (In Pure paladin decks)

    2 attack: Funkfin, Kotori Lightblade, Sanguine Soldier or Sinful Sous Chef.

    3 attack: Stoneheart King... Honestly this slot actually is quite open. Don't really see anything good that pure paladin decks like to run. I guess you can add Astral Serpent, Annoy-o-Troupe or Bronze Explorer as options.... 

    4 attack: Disciple of Amitus, The Leviathan or Jitterbug.

    Overall you can ress some pretty good minions, but the 3 attack slot is pretty underutilized i.m.o. Paladin needs some more good 3 attack minions.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    This seems like an alright minion. Probably the best of the 2 Earthen cards. I feel like we might get another Earthen card in the mini-set so we actually have 3 earthen summoning cards. (That are NOT ress cards) 

    The only problem i have with this card is the fact that it has 4 attack, because it has 4 attack it competes for the Tyr ress-slot. (Competes with the paladin collosal, Jitterbug and in case of BIG Paladin: Lead Dancer) And like the other Earthen card, it's slow.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    I'm not sure about the Earthen package. It seems pretty slow due to only summoning an earthen on a deathrattle. Sure you can ress it, but it still feels quite slow. You REALLY need that rush location in order to actually be reactive on board with Earthens.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    Standard: Must-include in every mech paladin deck. 5 star card.

    Wild: Not sure about it. It seems pretty good, but Mechwarper basically does the same thing except Mechwarper is i.m.o. better because it's a minion and thus has stats.

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    Posted 1 year, 4 months ago

    Hmm i'm not sure about this one. Paladin has plenty of 2 drop mechs, and in terms of handbuffs you already have Grimestreet Outfitter. It might not make the cut in mech paladin.