Loose Specimen
Loose Specimen is a 5 Mana Cost Epic Neutral Minion Beast card from the The Boomsday Project set!
Card Text
Battlecry: Deal 6 damage randomly split among other friendly minions.
Flavor Text
You leave Deathstalker Rexxar alone in the lab for TWO minutes…- Mana Cost: 5
- Attack: 6
- Health: 6
- Crafting Cost: 400 / 1600 (Golden)
- Arcane Dust Gained: 100 / 400 (Golden)
- Rarity: Epic
- Class: Neutral
- Card Type: Minion
- Minion Type: Beast
- Set: The Boomsday Project
- Mechanics: Damage Minion
Loose Specimen Card Review
If you drop it on the empty board, it’s a 5 mana 6/6. But would any deck actually want a vanilla 5 mana 6/6? Exactly, I don’t think so.
If you have actual minions on the board, then this absolutely sucks, it’s unplayable.
So in order for this to work, you need minions that actually benefit from getting damaged. For example, if you have Acolyte of Pain on the board, then this might make sense. Or, I don’t know, Warrior minions such as Armorsmith or Frothing Berserker, but assuming that you have enough other minions so they won’t likely die. Maybe you can use it to activate Blackhowl Gunspire? But the thing is, the card usually dies right after it’s played, because if you play it, your opponent knows that you have lots of ways to activate it.
Maybe use it in Egg/Bomb deck to sort of activate the Deathrattles while putting a big body on the board?
It might not be AS bad as it first seems, but it still doesn’t seem good. You would need a really specific deck that wants to damage/kill own minions for it to be good, but even then the 5 mana cost makes it hard to combo with stuff immediately.
Card rating: 4/10
My Emeriss Hunter deck would work, Emeriss would make this 12/12, the beast tag means it works with tundra rhino, and with a 4/10 TR and Emeriss on the board, 5 damage wpuld barely make a dent.
I think it will be good with Grim Patron
Good for Hunter deck with Gobelin Bombs
Its weak on its own but has applications if the self harming warrior deck ever takes off. Also just about good when played with an acolyte of pain
Anyone who has the warrior legend from witchwood will be happy to try this out, if you happen to have the gunspire out alone it’s 18 dmg, not bad I guess
You can do cool things if you have a “when this minion takes damage…” card out. Or, obviously, if your board is empty this is stronger than vanilla. But not as strong as it oughtta be. Even a 7/6 would have made this compelling.
Combo with acolyte of pain, eternium rover (specially with something magnetized). This is obv. a combo card, can’t see why it gets soo low ranking 4/5
Me to, it is so good with the new warrior card (6mana 2/5) or acolyte or any other cards.This is a specific card and is very good.
4/5
For those of us who like to kill ourselves in style.
it says minions, if u wipe the board before playing this its just a 5 mana 6/6
So it is a strong beast (6/6) but it is not better than highmane. 2/5
It’s good in a hunter deck considering the new hunter legendary and other cards that drop 0/2 goblin bombs.
Why is this Epic? Who’s going to be happy to pull an Epic and see this? Next.
Arena card. Trade you other minions play a 5 mana 6/6
2/5
Potentially another deathrattle activator, but it seems a little slow and maybe not worth a deck slot.