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    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    The card draw and discount lends itself well to a Zoolock playstyle, but I don't know if Free Admission is good enough. I'm concerned about the consistency of drawing exactly two demons with this, as you'd want to run non-demon minions as well as spells in a Zoolock. Also, Voracious Reader has made any 3 mana draw 2 feel inefficient in aggro decks. Overall, I just think the bonus effect is inconsistent and the base effect isn't good enough for aggression in Hearthstone today.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    When compared to Shadowbomber, this looks way worse, not to mention that health matters a lot in aggressive mirror matches. Aggressive decks are already designed to deal enough damage to control decks, so I don't see why they'd need to run Knife Vendor, which very easy becomes a liability.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    This legit seems like a worse version of King Mukla, which basically gets you the same amount of stats into play as Banana Vendor plus two bananas for two mana cheaper. Wandmaker and Mukla both serve as better tools for add cheap spells to hand and opponent hand disruption respectively than what Banana Vendor can do.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    This requires a lot of cards to be played to be meaningful removal, but Prize Plunderer just pales in comparison to cards like Coerce that require less mana and fewer cards.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    A mini Coldlight Oracle, but the fact that it draws one fewer card is a huge detriment to the power of Prize Vendor as you can't as consistently mill your opponent. Novice Engineer fits the bill better if you want cheap card draw.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    It's a worse Evolve and Devolve at the cost of bundling both effects into one card. The issue is, I don't think there are any situations where you want to evolve your board and devolve your opponent's board at the same time, and there are already more efficient evolve and devolve cards in standard with Boggspine Knuckles and Devolving Missiles. I just don't see this card being particularly powerful in any scenario.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    Really bad body and the tokens are only good if you have E.T.C., God of Metal. There are just better rush cards and better ping cards that Warrior has access to.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    Naturally pairs with Foxy Fraud for a 2 mana 3/2 draw 2 play. Rogue loves drawing efficiently, and Swindle will allow the class to continue to do so.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    Not only is this basically a free 3/2 minion, it also activates the combo card you discount. If I know anything about Rogue, they like free tempo and cheap powerful effects, both of which Foxy Fraud provides.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    Aggressive natured cards don't lend themselves well to the corrupt mechanic, which is slow in nature. I'd say that applies to Darkmoon Statue, where a 4/5 minion on turn 5 isn't an appealing play, and I'm not even sure the passive effect is that powerful nowadays.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    I feel like this is all of what DH doesn't need right now. One damage AoE isn't that impactful in Hearthstone nowadays and the weapon competes in the somewhat crowded 3-cost slot for DH. I'd run Marrowslicer instead as it offers more relevant damage having more attack not tied to an AoE and fills in the 4-cost slot that is currently lacking in DH.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    The nature of the ability lends itself to Aggro DH, but that deck wants to play its 3 cost cards on turn 3 and there are better options to do that. Manafeeder Panthara comes to mind if you want to draw a card on turn 3 and push a little bit of chip damage in.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    The issue with Acrobatics is that it sort of works against itself. The nature of the ability lends itself to aggressive strategies as having a low cost deck allows for the bonus effect to occur more often. However, aggressive DH decks want to play cards on curve, meaning Acrobatics is a bad on-curve play and competes with Skull of Gul'dan for mid-to-late game draw. I think Aggro DH already has efficient card draw with Voracious Reader and Skull that they don't need to include this.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    I have two main issues with Insatiable Felhound. First, no competitive DH archetype is currently playing and/or looking for taunt minions to play and I don't think any new DH archetypes are going to be created this expansion. Second, if you play this corrupted on turn 5, it's basically Fen Creeper with lifesteal. At that point, why not just play Ashtongue Battlelord instead? It's a more consistent draw and doesn't demand another card for its full effect unlike Felhound.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    As I've said with other corrupt cards, stat benefits with corrupt cards fall off quick in terms of relevance if you can't play it corrupted as early as possible. This is the same case for Fairground Fool, as I think you'd rather have a card like Convincing Infiltrator for a taunt on turn 5 instead as Infiltrator doesn't demand another card to be played, and is a more consistent top deck.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    Probably the best Elemental target for N'Zoth, God of the Deep, but the rest of Big Druid is lacking in the current meta. Perhaps, with Lunar Eclipse, Big Druid will be better against aggressive decks. But even then, Guardian Druid is the frontrunner of the class and I don't see how Big Druid gets better than Guardian Druid.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    While this is a powerful effect akin to a stronger Dark Iron Dwarf, I see a couple of limitations for Man'ari Mosher. First, Zoolock isn't in a great spot in the meta right now and I'm not sure that the cards the archetype is getting this expansion help it much. Second, there isn't a standout turn 2 demon for Mosher to be the follow up for, and I'm including Midway Maniac. Overall, while I think Mosher is powerful, I think it lacks the meta context for it to see significant competitive play.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    This is basically the taunt version of Druid of the Swarm, which did see play in Token Druid back in the day. The main advantage the Druid has over Midway Maniac is that Druid as a class had buffs to better take advantage of the stat line. However, Warlock is getting Man'ari Mosher, which curves out well with Maniac. I think Maniac is the best 2 cost demon for mosher, but does that in of itself constitute a great play? I'd say no, as after you play the Mosher you're still left with a 1 attack minion that did nothing else but provide stats and is going to take terrible trades.

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    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    Power creep on Scarlet Crusader, but I think the 3 rush damage isn't going to be as effective by the time turn 5 rolls around. This only gets worse as the game goes on as it doesn't have rush at a base, which makes for a terrible top deck. I'd just run Fleethoof Pearltusk if I wasn't already if I wanted corrupt cards from Y'Shaarj, the Defiler.

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    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    Compared to Tasty Flyfish this looks miserable. Why would any competitive deck run this card?

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