Smolderthorn Lancer
Smolderthorn Lancer is a 3 Mana Cost Epic Warrior Minion card from the Rastakhan's Rumble set!
Card Text
Battlecry: If you're holding a Dragon, destroy a damaged enemy minion.
Flavor Text
Here comes “The Smolder.”- Mana Cost: 3
- Attack: 3
- Health: 2
- Crafting Cost: 400 / 1600 (Golden)
- Arcane Dust Gained: 100 / 400 (Golden)
- Rarity: Epic
- Class: Warrior
- Card Type: Minion
- Set: Rastakhan's Rumble
- Mechanics: Battlecry, Destroy Minion, Holding Dragon
Smolderthorn Lancer Additional Information
Smolderthorn Lancer Card Review
Dragon Warrior is back on the menu? Sounds cool to be honest, because Dragon Warrior (both the Midrange and the Control variants) used to be some of my favorite decks.
Assuming Dragon Warrior works, this card is quite good. It’s an Execute stapled onto a 3/2 body for 3 mana. Cheap cards that combine an okay, small body with a solid spell have usually seen at least some play (let’s say Ravaging Ghoul). This would definitely see play, especially in Odd Warrior, which naturally can’t run Execute.
Now, the problem is, that Warriors don’t really play Dragons, and it’s the only Dragon synergy card in Warrior right now. Technically we have Neutral Scaleworm and Wyrmguard, but they’re just okay.
So yes, if a Dragon Warrior will exist, ESPECIALLY Odd Dragon Warrior, this card will be a staple, it’s just good. But is it worth building a Dragon deck around? Definitely not, it’s not on a Duskbreaker or Drakonid Operative power level.
Which means that it’s a simple story – if Warrior gets more strong Dragon synergies, or just strong Dragon cards that it will want to play (to guarantee being able to use this card consistently), by all means, the card will see play. But if not – it won’t see any play at all.
Card rating: 8/10 in Dragon Warrior, useless outside (but right now I can’t see Dragon Warrior working, it needs more synergies)
In before future sets that make Dragon Warrior for Standard or Wild viable. Who wouldn’t want 4 execute in a deck?
dose wonder if people with start running Faerie Dragon like they use to for dragon tribe again
This is ok.
Which dragons tho? Primordial Drake, Scalebane, Ysera, deathwing and Ebon Dragonsmith are only viable options atm. Id say 2x Primordial and 2x Ebon dragonsmiths will be the most popular setup. However I think you need 5 dragons.
We still need 1 good dragon for warrior in the expansion, lets see.
3/5 atm, might be 4/5 depending on future cards.
seems useless, too much conditions and bad stats. this is not good.
Smolderthorn Lancer is good, but no so good it’ll make Dragon Warrior all by itself. When the deck comes around either in Standard or Wild, this will be a key card in it.
If anything, I’m not particularly thrilled by the design. I hope more complex dragon synergy cards like this in the future aren’t going to be an understated minion and the useful effect of a spell stabled onto each other. It’s really my only gripe with the card.
So basically a 1 mana 3/2 + execute…. PRETTY GOOOOODDDD
1 mana?…
He means it’s the equivalent of playing Execute on something (2 mana) and playing a 1-mana 3/2 (total 3 mana spent)
Odd Dragon Warrior with the Oakheart Package?
Odd. Dragon. Warrior.
YES! YES YES YES, show me more!
Return of dragon synergy? Yes please!
Auto include in dragon warrior???
Um hi hey uh blizzard….
So uh
With what dragons
(2 Cathedral Gargoyles)/5
Um hi hey uh jed…
So uh
Literally wait for the rest of the set before judging synergy
All I’m saying is they usually release synergy cards at the same time (ex. The priest loa and totem) so I think my reasoning is valid.
Also cathedral gargoyle
Yes, however, the description for the warrior class this expansion is that it will have more dragon synergies and possibly full of them so it won’t be released all at once.
Well for being “full of them” we’ve seen 3 cards and know 2 more of them wont be dragons (the spirit and loa will be untagged and beast respectively). That leaves 5 slots with probably at least another spell or 2 and we need at least 2 dragons and 2 “dragons matter” cards. Space is running thin so I am having doubts unless they release cards on the power level of Operative and Duskbreaker that count as both AND are broken.