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You're already going to be dead around turn 5. While you're setting this card up on turn 4, your opponent will be knocking you to 5 health.........
You're heavily overrating this one. Defile was good because it'S 2-mana and because you could change breakpoints with spell damage. Godfrey was good because he's always a flat 2-damage which makes breakpoints more consistent.
This basically requires you to set the board up beforehand because you probably can't rely on your opponent to just line them up for you. Defile was a really bad card whenever you didn't have the means to manipulate the health on board.
Sick in Arena potentially.
Exactly. And even tho there are many aggressive decks at the moment... there is not that many minions with exactly 1 hp anymore. Why 1 hp? Because it starts the defile chain going.
This comes on turn 5, which is simply too late. Against aggro decks you try to remove minions as fast as possible. So when this comes on turn 5... there are no 1 health minions because... you removed them already. And if not, and you just let aggro deck hit you for 4 turns, you probably lose anyway.
At 5 mana there’s a lot less wiggle room to adjust health values to get the perfect defile, but the 3/4 body could well make up for it. Of course, this all depends on Druids not cheating a million mana in a turn and getting minions who are way out of the range of a defile by turn 5
Hm Defile... Well i suppose control needs to come back somehow
This is literally "If Defile was so good, why is there no Defile 2?".
This is just insane as a board clear options. At least it cost 5, or otherwise this would literally be in every deck bar aggro.
Whether you call it Defile, or just smaller Lord Godfrey, the fact remains that players now to play around this tempo swinging option. The five mana cost is the only stumbling block here, but for good cards it might still be acceptable, as long as the meta is conducive to it.
That is actually an insane neutral tool.
Good thing, board is irrelevant these days...
Quest Warrior, Deathrattle DH, Face Hunter, Quest Rogue, Aggro Druid, Libram Paladin, Secret Paladin, Libram and Secret Paladin, Shadow Priest, Zoolock and Elemental Shaman just don't exist then, I suppose?
I didn't expect neutral Defile on a stick.
I was about to write the same...