Swinetusk Shank
Swinetusk Shank is a 3 Mana Cost Epic Rogue Weapon card from the Forged in the Barrens set!
Card Text
After you play a Poison, gain +1 Durability.
Flavor Text
Comes with a rack of ribs!- Mana Cost: 3
- Attack: 2
- Durability: 2
- Crafting Cost: 400 / 1600 (Golden)
- Arcane Dust Gained: 100 / 400 (Golden)
- Rarity: Epic
- Class: Rogue
- Card Type: Weapon
- Set: Forged in the Barrens
- Mechanics: Buff Weapon
Cards Relating to Swinetusk Shank
| Deadly Poison Type: Spell - Cost: 1 Give your weapon +2 Attack. |
| Leeching Poison Type: Spell - Cost: 1 Give your weapon Lifesteal this turn. |
| Nitroboost Poison Type: Spell - Cost: 2 Give a minion +2 Attack. Corrupt: And your weapon. |
| Paralytic Poison Type: Spell - Cost: 1 Give your weapon +1 Attack and "Your hero is Immune while attacking." |
| Silverleaf Poison Type: Spell - Cost: 1 Give your weapon "After your hero attacks, draw a card." |
Self-sharpening sword >>> this
3 stars, kinda weak.
Even new Assasins blade >>> this.
With deadly poison this is 4/3, with deadly poison assasins blade is 4/5
Decentttt weapon, I guess? The question is why in the world would you play this over self-sharpening sword, which can pump out 10 damage total on its own, while this can only pump out 4 damage.
In addition, despite the poison synergy swinetusk has, self-sharpening sword actually has even better synergy with weapon buffs.
If you played a Deadly Poison on swinetusk, it’d turn into a 4/3 that could pump out 12 damage total. But if you played deadly poison on self-sharpening sword, it’d turn into a 3/4 that increments in damage, pumping out 18 damage in total.
So honestly, if they don’t nerf self-sharpening sword this card will never see play.
The answer for your question is very simple, there is a world when Rogue doens’t care as much as just point everything to the opponent’s face and the Durability (specially with immunity) is more valuable than + attack.
Looks like the upcoming meta is a lot more focused on the board interaction and the current Rogue deck we know is very bad at this, they want to interact with your face only. So keep that in mind, there is high potential for this weapon believe you or not.
Well, self sharpening sword starts out with 4 durability while this starts out with 2 durability, so you’d need to drop two full poisons onto swinetusk for it to match self sharpening sword in durability.
Can this be a replacement for self-sharpening dagger in aggro rogue? I don’t think so, but still a decent weapon
This is where I get ‘confused’..
Why not just add potion as a spell type. I know it doesn’t really fit into the wow lore with spell schools, but the game could easily be cleaned up. Poisons, potions, librams etc. etc.
Essentially because “poisons” and “librams” would be far too narrow to bother with, both in terms of the number of synergies and the number of cards. Additionally, such cards already fall into the established spell schools anyway.
Update: It says here it’s saying Poisons, like Deadly Poison and such.
Yeeeah, I don’t know exactly, though Paralytic Poison is going to be very interesting. I actually think you can use both this and Self-Sharping Sword.
Poor Assassin’s Blade. Okay, never mind, 5 stars then.
I think this is a Poison in general? Maybe with both as a Poison minion or Posious weapon?
If so then I can see this being used for a Secret Rouge Idea. 4 Stars, yeah sure, but Rouge isn’t really made for Attacking Minions with her own face, so… There’s only so much ROuge can do with this blade, especially since she isn’t known for Taunts.
After you play a poison?
What does that even mean
Seems it’s cards that actually have poisons in their names and give your weapon a stat.
Although they could have add a trait as they did with nature and holy