The Harvester of Envy
The Harvester of Envy is a 3 Mana Cost Legendary Priest Minion card from the Murder at Castle Nathria set!
Card Text
After you play a card copied from the opponent, steal the original.
Flavor Text
"Ah, permission shmermission! You can borrow anything you want, anytime, as long as if you give it back before it's missed. Everyone knows that! Right?"- Mana Cost: 3
- Attack: 4
- Health: 3
- Crafting Cost: 1600 / 3200 (Golden)
- Arcane Dust Gained: 400 / 1600 (Golden)
- Rarity: Legendary
- Class: Priest
- Card Type: Minion
- Set: Murder at Castle Nathria
- Mechanics: Add to Hand
Imagine playing this card with the Old Benedictus lol
This is a cool card, but it’s not very good. It’s slow, weirdly statted for a value minion, and kind of clunky costed. Like imagine stealing a strong 6-8 drop from your opponent. You’ll realistically need to play this & the card you steal in the same turn, meaning you need to be at 9-10 mana IF you can even play it to begin with.
If you YOLO this out hoping it sticks, I guess it could work, but your opponent is honestly more likely to play the card you stole before you can play it yourself.
This is a 1 star legendary.
Seems super bad. Getting cards from your opponent’s deck is already bad (always has been) and stealing a bunch of them from your opponent by dropping them when you didn’t even want to just because you have this card feels like a bad play. Stealing cards from your opponent is worse than people might think: people just don’t care that much about the cards they don’t have in hand, unless it’s a combo piece of sorts, and many of them are expensive and not good to play unless you have the whole combo set up. Overall, feels like a fun meme card.
I waited for so long to see a card like this in Priest! If feel it should cost a bit more and have a “rest of the game” effect or some kind of protection instead of being a low cost minion. The way it is now, one can hope to do turn 10 plays to actually manage to steal a couple of cards that haven’t been already played at that stage of the game. I hope thief priest gets more gifts in this set
This card is a meme.
There is no good support for this card, the caravan or the 1/1 psychic are too bad.
So this card will get a support in this expansion. But overall even you steal a card, you have to pay a lot for this effect, which is often irrelevant and situational.
Maybe there is an OTK meta til rotation 2024, than this card will see play. But now just a too slow and situational card.
2/5
To be realistic, this card is just not gonna cut it. You can maybe play 1 card besides this lad and stealing 1 card is definitely not worth it. It will be fun to see the highlights where priest does manage to just steal a whole bunch of cards, but that won’t make it good.
2/5
I don’t see this being often enough to be impactful, nor it living long enough to even have the chance to be. If a whole slew of very powerful copy effects are in this set then sure, but even with a reasonable support package I just can’t see copy Priest being viable enough for this to see more than niche play. I reckon it will be a 2/5 card but similar with many of the other cards we’ve seen where the build around was shown first I don’t know what else we’ll see for this set so I’ve given it a 3/5.
Not to mention that you have to draw this Legendary in the 1st place. 🙂
Classic “going to be overrated until people play with it and realize how hard it is to make work”.
That’s a very disruptive card, not a fan.
Hate to play against things like this, but it sounds fun to play 😀