LastPriest has revealed two new Castle Nathria Warrior cards - Suspicious Pirate & Imbued Axe! We initially called the cards Fluffy Pirate and Fluffy Weapon.
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dumb question, can a weapon be infused after it is equiped or does it have to be in hand?
Infuse only trigger in hand. The way it works is that the new card replaces the old, the same way corrupt works. Hence why bouncing an infused/corrupt minion, it will remain that way.
The pirate is bad. Like all other such cards, it gives a copy to the opponent if they guess correctly, but this one is far more dangerous than the rest because weapons have initiative, in that your opponent can play and swing them immediately. The only good side to this coin is the fact that its very likely substantially harder to guess than the others because weapons don't tend to vary much in terms of quality, and even a deliberate bad pick will likely still be good enough to do the job.
As for the fluffiest weapon capable of splitting your head, yet unnamed, its alright. Not a world beater by any stretch, but once infused and equipped your opponent has to then play around this thing until they viper it. And being able to grant your board a +2+2 can easily be game winning. I can see there being a deck for it, but I wouldn't be too surprised if its inconsistent output forces it off.
Considering you would probably play the Pirate in an aggro deck, giving your opponent a weapon might not be such a bad thing, if they spend mana playing it and then get face dmg from killing something, they r basically just helping you kill them.
Its hard to say. In tempo matchups if youre spending 3 mana to do nothing while I'm equipping a weapon doing damage for probably 2 turns at least, technically youre playing from behind, since I can clear and develop a board on my own the next turn.
Traditionally cards that give your opponent stuff have never been viable in constructed. So Im not that optimistic about this card's chances. Even if your opponent guesses wrong, is there any reason to play this over Stormwind Freebooter?
Well, the reason is you do get a weapon yourself, giving you more face dmg or reach. Depends if you would need it, but it can be an option.
Given the effect, I think it's Sussy Pirate, and not a fluffy one.
Turns out you were very accurate :D
I hope Warrior gets a summon a copy of a damaged friendly minion, card. That will really help the damaged archetype return of egg warrior maybe.