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    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    6 mana Pyroblast in the right scenario. However there are cons to this card. First of all if your opponent has a bunch of minions on board it isn't that great. It's not great as a Reno the Relicologist kinda board clear, considering hitting a 1/1 minion would waste same damage. The best role it can have i.m.o. is clearing the board, even if it can waste damage on a 1/1, and then going for the OTK combo the turn after. But it does require you to actually have corpses saved up, which might be troublesome for a pure Frost DK.

    But is this worth running 3 frost runes? That is the biggest question, and i'm not certain. It seems decent, but the 2 other rune types might really contest that 3th rune slot.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Seems very slow, but for some kind of frost DK OTK deck it might have a chance. Additionally it COPIES the frost spells, which means any frost spells that are discounted get their discounts copied as well, which can lead to a ton of mana cheating.

    The only real problem for this card is the fact that it might be better to run a blood or unholy rune instead of the 3th frost rune. My guess is that we will need to experiment with this card first before we can really judge how good it is.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Very good.. for a rager. I dont think this sees any play though, not even in arena.

    Actually, considering Priest might get *ugh + deep sigh*.... ress priest back this might see play, as long as the ress priest stuff is cheap enough to be used aggresively.

    That being said, i love the fact it just says "Battlecry: Die." lol

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Amazing weapon. Freezing and stalling untill the combo turn is what frost DK seems to really like, and this helps a lot with it. It seems also very good alongside a unholy rune so Frost DK gets some more corpses.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Well hello Flamewaker but WAY better due to being cheaper AND in Frost DK which is all about combo-y strategies, drawing cards and mana cheating a little bit. This is probably on of the biggest reasons why you play Frost-DK.

    Honestly why did they have to make a powercrept Flamewaker when the original is already a super strong card? They really want DK to be strong in both standard and wild.

    (Im assuming to 2 random enemies can hit the same target twice, if it cant then nvm its not better than Flamewaker.)

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    2 mana deal 3 has always been good, and this almost always kills a minion so you get the discover. This seems like a Tooth of Nefarian but better, and that card already sees a lot of play. Oh and getting a frost rune card is good, considering your already playing Frost DK for a reason.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Interesting minion. This seems good in frost DK, but in frost DK every revealed spell so far is a frost spell. And a lot of the Frost DK cards so far have frost spell synergy. So while it says "draw a frost spell" it actually just a "draw a spell" card. So the spell school tutor here isnt really worth much, especially considering the fact that with all the frost-spell synergy you might not even want to run a unholy/blood rune spell considering those aren't frost spells. (Do you really want to wiff with Overseer Frigidara?)

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Hmm im not convinced about this card. It's a HUGE pay-off that can instantly win the game as long as you got plenty of corpses, which should be easy considering you have to play ONLY unholy runes. But that's THE big downside of this card. You can't rune ANY Frost or Blood runes. So no frost rune for draw spells and other good cards, no Blood rune for cards like Patchwerk or Obliterate which might be nice for removing big minions.

    Honestly the more amazing 1 rune cost DK cards i see, the worse the 3-rune cost cards look. I feel like we need to see some more INSANE 3 rune cost cards before i would ever even think about running 3 runes of the same type.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Okay so first of all, this gets tutored by Runeforging and gets lowered to only 2 mana, making this a 2 mana 2/3 that can mana cheat a bit. It seems like a really good weapon, it helps you contro lthe board by killing enemy minions and even without Runeforging discount, it still is technically a 0 mana 2/3 weapon as long as you discount a spell with each hit. This card seems really good for this combo-y Frost DK style of play.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Well here is a 5 star card. Honestly i'm still surprised this only costs 1 Blood rune, as i would have expected this to be 2 blood runes at the very least. I feel like this being only 1 blood rune might tempt player to run a blood rune > Frost rune depending on your Unholy DK deck, and frost rune decks might choose to pick a Blood rune for this > Unholy rune for corpses. 

    Honestly as far as i can see i'm really looking forward to DKs. The Rune makes picking between your last rune quite difficult and thus makes deckbuilding very interesting. I just hope we get some more good 1 cost blood rune cards, otherwise i feel like 1 frost rune is still better than running 1 blood rune in most non 2x blood rune decks.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Either it's Broken OP or it's trash. So i'll just call it a tech-card against healing and call it a day.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Now this is a good card. 5 mana 7/5 worth of stats, the skeletons have the Volatile Skeleton deathrattle, and for 5 mana you get 3 minions on board which end up with you getting 3 corpses once they die. On top of that it's a undead minion so you get undead synergy. This seems like a very good card to slot into a unholy/frost DK combo. The 1 rune required frost cards seems very good for the Unholy and Blood DK decks, which is fun to see.

    Honestly i hope 2x frost rune required cards are good as well, otherwise running a 2+ frost rune deck seems pretty bad when you can just get the good 1 cost frost rune cards + some unholy/blood rune stuff instead.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Ah Remorseless Winter, the spell The Lich King casts when low health. And the Hero-power he gets after the Frostmourne/souls phase in the Knight of the Frozen Throne adventure The Lich King boss fight. (The hero power that deals 1 more dmg each turn)

    And honestly, it seems pretty good. It's Consecration but better in every way. This seems like a good reason for 2x Blood rune DKs to run a frost rune.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    This seems like a 1 mana cheaper Swipe with 1 less damage, but it freezes. This seems good to me honestly. Swipe has historically been decent, so the only reason i can see this NOT getting played is if this card is too fair and DK can do more broken things instead. Which knowing how DH launched might be the case.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Ermh, im not sure about this card. Sure if you run frost DK you have a lot of frost spells, and the frost DK legendary (Overseer Frigidara) has frost synergy. But i thought Frost DK was more combo-y. My guess is that they probably expect Unholy DK to run a frost rune for a lot of the Frost DK draw cards, so they made this to help those decks i guess?

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Alright, so this is a 5 star card. 1 mana 2/2 weapon is very good, and the effect makes it so you dont lose FACE dmg when swinging at minions. So this guarantees that you deal 4 damage to your opponents FACE either way.

    Also reminder that if you play Runeforging + get the mana cheat from using a corpse, you can TUTOR Bone Breaker out of your deck AND play it the same turn. Insane card and combo. Honestly i feel like Bone Breaker could be a potential nerf target already.

    The only potentially bad thing about this card is that it requires you to run a frost rune, which isn't bad at all. Frost has lots of draw, which a lot of decks enjoy. On top of that you could just slot this into a blood/frost DK deck considering its a great weapon for removing enemy minions. This is a very good and flexible card. And it helps the combo-y frost DK decks by lowering your opponents HP while you stall for your combo.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Rating this 5/5 stars, just because it lets me play Casino in every class. Also its very inconsistant right now, which is how random generation cards SHOULD be. And in next expansion releases you might randomly get DK spells that require Corpses, which means there will be even more bad cards to hit. (Unless those wont be in the pool) I really like this spell.

    However after rotation, this might become a menace by becoming Deck of Lunacy version 2.... Random generation + smaller card pools is very scary.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    As long as there are good undead minions, or some other good synergy this will be a very strong card.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Emeriss for 3 less mana, but doesnt handbuff? This seems awfull on first glance, and remains pretty bad when you think about it. The best case scenario for this card is when you play this after it gets discounted by a card like Vanndar Stormpike. Or if you ramp to it with Druid, but i dont see the synergy for this card in druid. But hey playing some kind of BIG deck might be fun, so at least he has that going. And obviously Mark will make some kind of OTK deck using this card, so that will be a fun video to look forward to.

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    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Doesnt seem that good, but at least its usable for classes that lack AOE cards. but even then, for 1 more mana you can use Neutral-Defile instead.