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I can see both being played in a Big Hunter deck that uses a lot of spells and weapons in the early game and then loads of heavy hitters in the mid to late game.
Hourray for Wonchi's reveals!
I've missed the Wonchi Animations! Loved these before.
My number one rule when it comes to rating a card is to always see the potential first and then the limitations. Maxima Blastenheimer has the potential to be really insane with cards like Plagued Protodrake which deals 8 damage and summons a 7-drop. But building a deck around it seems quite rough since you pretty much need to have no low-cost minions which is kinda possible with cards like Carrion Studies Animal Companion and Desert Spear but there needs to be more support.
I just love the names of these cards. Man, they're fun to say.
Eh, they both seem unplayable. Rather underwhelming first reveal.
We should be able to rate the new cards for the new Duels format too as all the new expansion cards will be available for use in that mode.
FINALLY a reason to use my Oblivitron I refused to dust, waiting just for this meme Tonk!
I dusted mine few weeks ago :'( loved the brief period where it was playable in deathrattle Hunter
So nice to see new cards for Hunter that are not hyper agro
Quite. Verily, Face Hunter will soon be a thing of the past...
Tonk? Are we looking at a typo here, or what?
Anyway, card looks fun but not competitive outside of some crazy combo build ... which I will absolutely attempt.
Same with Maxima, though these 2 do pair well.
Tonks are not typos, but legitimate small remote-controlled tanks that are part of one of the minigames in the Darkmoon Fair in World of Warcraft.
Ok, got it. Never actually played WoW. Thanks for explaining.
Tonks* for explaining
Darkmoon Tonk looks strong. If the video is to be believed, then the missiles can hit the same enemy more than once, so if there isn't any minions on board, your opponent is looking at taking 8 damage from the deathrattle alone.
But that's where I have problems with this card. It only looks strong, like Maxima Blastenheimer, but at present there's little reason to want to run both cards, even in highlander hunter. There needs to be very strong mech synergies as well as some cards that can keep hunter actually alive to abuse both at its fullest potential. There's some obvious deathrattle synergies with stuff like [Hearthstone Card (carrions studies) Not Found], Nine Lives and Oblivitron but from my own experience with deathrattle hunter, they need better tools to stay alive as well as mount a stronger end game. This one solves only the latter (which you can argue for just about any late game card like the old gods), but not the very much more important former.
Blastenheimen is an all or nothing card, she's basically going to end the game right there or deal a mere 2 damage, since I cannot yet picture a hunter playing this card unironically and also not playing the usual suspects like Phase Stalker, or the bevy of 1 drops, or even Dragonbane for the matter. Maybe there's more support incoming for a minion-lite hunter, so blastenheimer will more often get the right minions out for that cost. But more likely its on her to prove herself more worthy than say, Dinotamer Brann, who guarantees 8 damage plus an 8/8 1 turn later.
Everything seems strong until Demon Hunter hits you with 15 dmg to the face turn 7
I'm thinking more or less the same thing. Hunter has a long and (not so) proud history of having really strong cards for big minion or combo decks that make no impact on the meta whatsoever. The only time I remember it really working out was with Kathrena Winterwisp, but that had the advantage that you could still run cheap non-beast minions.
That said, spell hunter can definitely work if the class has enough good minion-summoning spells to fill in the early game, so big hunter can work, but it is an uphill struggle. So learning from the past: I'll predict neither card sees much play, but I won't write them off completely.
Meanwhile, in Wild, those 2 might enable a Big Deathrattle Hunter that runs an early spell package to summon minions, and uses this to end the game.
10/10 thank you, Wronchi! Best acquisition Blizzard ever made.