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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    guys, please.  i don't hate the hunter class objectively.  please dont reference things from other irrelevant threads.  please don't turn this into a hearthpwn thread.  I'm trying to be a better person over here.  lets discuss the card. some of us will be wrong, some of us will be right.  its okay to speculate and have an opinion.  it's not okay to turn this into a pissing match and bait each other into fight. can we please keep it civil and on topic?

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    here we go again...........

     

    can we please please please not turn this into hearthpwn?

     

    edit: surely you have done something besides hero power on 2 as a Rogue.  Surely you have built a deck to include a bunch of good early game such that you rarely hero power on 2.  surely if a 1/2 dagger on 2 is good, coining a 4/2 dagger is also good if not better. 

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    ^ because AFAIK, you never "play" a spell, it's always considered as "cast" when it goes into play from hand, unlike minions which can be "played" and/or "summoned."

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    Would you play a 2-mana 1/2 weapon (with deathrattle: add a 2-mana 1/2 weapon to your hand)?

    If you were forced into getting perfect curve every game, then sure, you don't want both a 3-mana and 4-mana weapon.  

    I am prepared to be 100% wrong on this, I don't care.  

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    ""entirely different mana cost"

    3 mana + combo vs 4 mana"

    I literally have no idea what point you're trying to make here.  

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    3 mana != 4 mana, I don't know what you're trying to point out.  coin, backstab, prep, shadowstep, go nuts.  You don't have to play this on T4 with a 1-cost card. 

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    We will certainly see then!

    Agree to disagree for the time being. 

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago
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    Totally fine card in a world where Waggle Pick doesn't exist. But Waggle Pick exists.

    Why not both? 

    Unless they added a new rule that says you can only run 2 weapons per deck?

     "Cute" snark aside, I think you could maybe play 1 copy of this with the two picks to flesh out Raiding Party. But you're 100% playing 2x Pick first.

    I just dislike the close minded approach to evaluating cards, "SI:7 exists, so every other 3-drop forever is unplayable," "Waggle Pick exists, so you are banned from playing another weapon."  Why not both?  do you remember old Pirate Warrior?  You were definitely running 4 weapons in that deck and going face.  This weapon doesn't even compete in the same mana slot, and Rogue has other cards that have synergy with weapons. 

    This from the guy who literally posted this yesterday?

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    Decent card but probably overrated.  

    Remember, this is "add 3 random cards to your hand."  When have those been super strong?  You want to draw cards you actually and specifically put into your deck, not random cards.  

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    Also, keep in mind what other 3-drops this competes with and ask yourself how the hell this would fit into a Hunter deck (not listing the unplayed 3-drops):

     

    You're oversimplifying for the sake of making your case, I get it. 

    In a class with a ton of playable, good, and already played 3-drops, yes - another good 3-drop has a tough time making it into a deck.

    In a class with currently one weapon that is at an entirely different mana cost, yes - you can totally play both.  Not a big deal. 

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    DAAAAMN.

    8-mana "Cast Flamestrike and summon a 5/5."

    I hope control mage gets more support!

     

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago
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    Totally fine card in a world where Waggle Pick doesn't exist. But Waggle Pick exists.

    Why not both? 

    Unless they added a new rule that says you can only run 2 weapons per deck?

     "Cute" snark aside, I think you could maybe play 1 copy of this with the two picks to flesh out Raiding Party. But you're 100% playing 2x Pick first.

    I just dislike the close minded approach to evaluating cards, "SI:7 exists, so every other 3-drop forever is unplayable," "Waggle Pick exists, so you are banned from playing another weapon."  Why not both?  do you remember old Pirate Warrior?  You were definitely running 4 weapons in that deck and going face.  This weapon doesn't even compete in the same mana slot, and Rogue has other cards that have synergy with weapons. 

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago
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    2) Are you really going to play a 2-mana for more value?

    1. EVIL Cable Rat
    2. Rogue can run out of steam in the late-mid and early-late game.
    3. Add more Edwins to your hand or buff the existing Edwin in your hand when you have Whirlkick Master and another combo card in your hand?  Yes please!
    4. The stats are less of a detriment to this being playable than "T2 Rogue = dagger up" is. 
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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago
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    Remember Lyra the Sunshard?

    This is that except cheaper and you can run two of them.

    Exactly.  There will be a thread calling for this to be nerfed after some lucky Rogue drops this on 10-mana and goes Cold Blood, Cold Blood, Evisc, Defias, Coin, Edwin, having only started with two of those cards in hand.

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    Tip the Scales

     

    in favor of your opponent.  This is an 8-mana "Hope you didn't draw your good Murlocs already."

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago
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    Totally fine card in a world where Waggle Pick doesn't exist. But Waggle Pick exists.

    Why not both? 

    Unless they added a new rule that says you can only run 2 weapons per deck?

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    Probably a lot stronger in Wild with Totem Golem, but I could see someone using this to set up a T5 Bloodlust. 

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    good lord.

    conditional fireball on a stick with really strong curve with existing cards.  this will see play. 

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    This card is crazy good.  

    Meanwhile, Priest is stuck with Holy Nova for a 2-dmg aoe.  

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    I am about this card.  :)

     

    There will be 13 combo cards in Standard, very few of them are totally unplayable.  I suspect this will see play, a lot. .

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    8-mana?  

     

    This won't be tipping anything.   I'd rather drop a Tirion.

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    365 396 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 5 years, 5 months ago

    I am really getting tired of murlocs.  

    If you aren't prepared to deal with Murloc Shaman on ladder, start preparing now.