If we we had more ways to damage the enemy Nexus and big units to attack with, sure. But as it is, we don't really want to attack much and our biggest unit (Grandfather Rumul) has only 4 health, so not many guys we'll be swinging in with to deal a lot of damage. We can't trigger Plunder reliably (only five cards deal direct nexus damage), we have little use for the rally, meaning we're just playing him for the heal 3 to our other units, which doesn't seem very good to me. However, if I were to play him, I would cut Grandfather Rumul and Astral Protection for 2x Citrus Courier and 2x Make it Rain.
While normally I would agree, I think that we already have five different units that can damage themselves: Boxtopus, Fortune Croaker, Monkey Idol, Tahm Kench and Jack, the Winner. It's at critical mass, but you can easily replace one of those with Broadbacked Protector. I just think the effects those other cards offer (Challenger, card draw, pings and extra bodies, removal, or nexus damage) are better than healing your own Nexus. Especially since we already have healing options available that can heal our Nexus in our deck.
If we we had more ways to damage the enemy Nexus and big units to attack with, sure. But as it is, we don't really want to attack much and our biggest unit (Grandfather Rumul) has only 4 health, so not many guys we'll be swinging in with to deal a lot of damage. We can't trigger Plunder reliably (only five cards deal direct nexus damage), we have little use for the rally, meaning we're just playing him for the heal 3 to our other units, which doesn't seem very good to me. However, if I were to play him, I would cut Grandfather Rumul and Astral Protection for 2x Citrus Courier and 2x Make it Rain.
While normally I would agree, I think that we already have five different units that can damage themselves: Boxtopus, Fortune Croaker, Monkey Idol, Tahm Kench and Jack, the Winner. It's at critical mass, but you can easily replace one of those with Broadbacked Protector. I just think the effects those other cards offer (Challenger, card draw, pings and extra bodies, removal, or nexus damage) are better than healing your own Nexus. Especially since we already have healing options available that can heal our Nexus in our deck.