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This card works very well with poisons!
I'm not sure.
Fairly certain Self-Sharpening Sword and Assassin's Blade is just better
SSS costs the same and have 2 more durability and is more reliable because it doesn't need poisons to deal 10 damage over 4 turns. With poisons SSS starts to deal obscene damage whereas this card requires poisons to even be relevant at all.
Similarly assassin's blade have the same attack but a whopping 3 durability more for 1 additional mana.
Yes, you can generate more poisons are you go along, and there are a total of 6 you can jam into your deck, but since this card isn't even immune to oozes, is there any reason to build your entire deck around it? Reminds me an awful lot of Spectral Cutlass, which was supposed to be that glue in a burglar deck but never really reaching any heights in standard when it was introduced.
I mean, it ain't no Kingsbane or Cutlass but it does have its appeal. Issue is, the moment a Rogue deck revolving around this weapon becomes popular is the moment it falls apart. If you fill your deck with poisons to take advantage of this weapon and then weapon removal becomes omnipresent to react to this, like third of your deck suddenly consists of garbage. Essentially, the success of this deck hingest almost entirely on it being niche, or rather, on weapons being niche as a whole. As soon as weapons start becoming even the slightest threat, you become collateral damage (one of the reasons Burgle Rogue with Cutlass is pretty much unusable in Wild...Kingsbane and Odd Rogues are rampant to force people into weapon removal and every Reno deck has on-demand weapon removal in Zephrys to boot).
I like how Team 5 is moving away from super-specific card text. It really makes me appreciate the digital format.
This could easily contest self-sharpening sword, on first look at least
And right now that stickyfinger rotates out.
Well...I guess that makes Paralyzing Poison much better
Paralyzing Poison, Deadly Poison, Nitro Boost Poison, Leaching Poison...that's not a lot, but I'm sure Rogue will now get a new "poison" spell card for this weapon.
They already did. Paralytic Poison.
Also, it’s not called a “poison” but I feel like Envenom Weapon should count. Probably doesn’t though.
Lol the one weapon buff that is actually poisonous isn't a poison.
the card to the devs when it realizes its gonna be left out: "Hold up, this whole operation was your idea"