Spiteful Summoner
Spiteful Summoner is a 6 Mana Cost Epic Neutral Minion card from the Kobolds and Catacombs set!
Card Text
Battlecry: Reveal a spell from your deck. Summon a random minion with the same Cost.
Flavor Text
Sometimes she'll summon a Doomsayer. Out of spite.Spiteful Summoner Card Review
Before defaulting to Mage when we think of expensive spells, the most obvious thing at the moment is the Druid class and their Ultimate Infestations and Spreading Plagues. At 6 mana, this doesn’t need to hit something gigantic for you to get your money’s worth, but that’s not always the most important aspect of a card. Much like Faceless Summoner, you are looking to make a tempo play by getting a bunch of stats on the board. But what holds true for Mage decks running Frostbolt also holds true for Druids playing Wild Growth, etc. In fact, it’s true for just about any class – cheap spells are some of the best cards in Hearthstone that you can be playing and you would need a very serious reason not to (Prince Keleseth jumps to mind, though it can be argued even he is not that restrictive). Even if you end up skewing the odds enough, is the payoff really worth it? Faceless Summoner did not see almost any play and this card won’t be too different, even though making it neutral opens up a lot of potential. There are simply better things you can be doing for 6 mana, especially in some of the more obvious classes that this fits into, such as Druid, Mage, Priest and Warlock.
Card Review by Chimbarozo
If it were “draw a spell from your deck” it woulda been a nice match up with ‘the darkness’
run this in kele zoo with copies of bane of doom.
turn 6: 6 mana 5/5 pull a 6/8 doomguard from your deck?
It doesn’t recruit a minion. It will summon a random minion with the same cost as your spell, therefore, not summoning a doomguard every time, as that would be completely broken
So you’ll need to reveal something that’s worth about 3 mana for this to be worth it. To be fair, it might not be that tough to build around that, though in certain classes it’ll hurt to try and not put those nice cheap spells in (Wrath, Frostbolt, Equality, Sap, etc). Still, with those spells you likely want to draw those good cheap spells early and will probably mulligan for them, so it’s unlikely they’ll be in your deck when you play this card. This can be awful late game though when you have no cards left in your deck. The bad news, though, is that Faceless Summoner, despite having all that value, didn’t see much play. I’m optimistic about this card with its potentially greater value and… well, I just kind of like it, so I’m going to be a bit more generous in the rating. Though it is noteworthy that pretty much all value in Standard pales in comparison to Raza Priest and Jade Druid.
In Arena, this is a super wild card. In certain decks this card will be absolutely nuts, and in others it will be beyond terrible. Spells are a lot less common in arena though, so that will hold this card back there.
Standard: 3/5
Arena: Honestly, it could range anywhere from 1 to 5 depending on your deck. Tends to the lower half of the spectrum though.
This card is soo op. Its always 4/4 worst scenerio its only 5/5 (still playable) best 12/12. Every deck has some spells and this card value is insane. Most of the times its gone be 7/8 even warlock 4/4 plus shifting neither make this card more insane. Downsize are quite small and potential to get a huge minion is insane.
Wauw, this could be used in some interesting decks!
Maybe a zoo with 0 spells but two dooms? Then it would be amazing but drawing the dooms would be so bad, maybe not competitive but can be fun. Cards that allow to build decks around are always nice no matter if they are good or not
Great in Mage since alot of the spells costs 3 or more and i think that u need atleast a 3-drop 4 this 2 be good.
A 3 drop won’t do: Mage already has a 5/5 for 6 which summons a random 3 drop
I know that lul, but a 3-drop is minimum 4 this to be playable. It’s not that much worse just -1-1.
But it’s likely to be more than a 3 drop
It’s probably good in mage arena. But is it worth a deck slot in constructed in this meta? Not sure, we’ll see.
Behold, Kobolds and Catacombs, the set of the zoo and lousy weapons for all!
I’m just joking around, it seems like this will be a cool set and spiteful summoner may be fun in some kind of Warlock zoo or something ( Or priest zoo, I really wasnt joking about the zoo part)
I am actually a little worried about these “Legendary” weapons, they generally seem around epic rated to me, but maybe druid could see some use as a cheaper but less practical Kun the forgotten king.
Maybe not priest actually, you would probably not get your free from Amber, more likely a potion of madness.
But Warlock has potential!
Just don’t include soul fire and your average spell should be at around four mana, almost guaranteeing value!
Maybe not priest actually, you would probably not get your free from Amber, more likely a potion of madness.
But Warlock has potential!
Just don’t include soul fire and your average spell should be at around four mana, almost guaranteeing value!
could be good with some paladin decks. depending on the meta
good card… u.i. needed a buff
pretty good especially in warlock since you have Twisting Nether and Siphon Soul to go along with Medivh
I really want to create a control warlock deck with Rin and this card for the memes
Gorge your hatred. Embrace your rage!
OP in Big Druid
Well……no.
Big druid has a lot of cheap spells: Earthen Scales, Wild Growth, Jade Blossom……which make this card meh.
Midrange Paladin might enjoy this, with only Spikeridge Steed and 1 copy of Lay on Hands maybe….
Only Class I can see this being good in is a hunter that only runs call of the wild, in which case it is completely busted.
I think having two kill commands and animal companions is better but i guess getting a three drop is average value and the highroll potential is good enough to justify running these six spells. Also you mulligan for animal companion in such decks so youll have drawn it before this card increasing the chance of getting a nine-drop
also paladin that only runs spikeridge. Otherwise classes are too reliant on cheap spells.
Nice addition to Medivh decks.
This card is so good in Spiteful Priest!