Too bad that until you play Gul’dan, this will be a 5 mana 4/4 “your Hero Power deals 4 damage instead of 2… to yourself” 😀

But it does a lot in Aggro matchups too. Have you played against Dude Paladin or even Murloc Paladin? Games often last until Turn 10, or even beyond if you don’t get a good N’Zoth/Gul’dan.

Yes, it would be bad against e.g. Pirate Warrior, which goes all in, but some Aggro decks have refills for days. Paladins, Zoo Warlocks, Token Shamans (not EXACTLY Aggro, but you get my point) – those decks can still flood the board in the mid/late game.

Of course, you don’t replace Defile or Hellfire with it, as those cards are crucial to not die early. But having more premium AoE is not bad at all for the deck.

I know his backstory and I still don’t think that he fits Warlock. Undead don’t have anything to do with Warlock. Warlock is not a Necromancer.

He works like Defile. “If any minions die, repeat this Battlecry” is a part of a Battlecry. Basically, his WHOLE card text triggers again, so it will proc again and again as long as he kills something.

If it worked like you think, then Defile would also stop after the 2nd cast.

1 mana 1/1 would be too strong with Hyena. Unless they would get rid of Beast tag too.

We used a placeholder name, because there was no official translation for the card yet (the card was revealed in Chinese), not because it REALLY has “placeholder” in its name name 🙂

Yeah, it looks ridiculous. The biggest issue I have with printing this now is that Warlock was looking good going into Year of the Raven anyway – it’s not losing that much with the rotation. And now this. If the class gets another broken card, it might be Tier 0.

We’ll have to see how it plays out first. As for the nerf, though, it’s hard to say. Cube was really powerful and they haven’t touched it (e.g. Defile is still there, and I think that Defile might be even better than this card to be honest, especially since you can put 2 copies into your deck).

Thank you!

It’s still way too early to judge. They usually want to showcase the new mechanics first, and only then show the more powerful cards. Some of the most broken cards ever were revealed during the last card dump at Facebook…

http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/the-enrage-keyword-is-being-removed-from-hearthstone/

Frogs are Beasts, not Murlocs 🙂

Having all Tribes is not a part of the card’s effect – it just has all the Tribes (see “All” at the bottom). And just like you can’t silence any other tribe, silencing this one will be pointless too.

Sure, that sounds good, but do you realize how hard would it be to pull off? That’s a 4 cards set-up AND you need to have Uther already in play AND rest of the combo in your hand.

Oh, and I assume you’re talking about Wild – Beardo will be gone from Standard.

Not exactly, but close. We might see one or two more Odd/Even cards (probably even, because we’ve seen more Odds), but probably not more. At least not now, from what the devs said. We might get more synergy in the upcoming expansions, obviously.

This build takes more proactive approach with Fire Flies and Tar Creepers. Given that those AoEs are rather weak against Aggro anyway (FoK is just 1 damage for 3 mana, Flurry is expensive and hard to get working in fast matchups, because you need a buffed weapon first), this approach might work even better than having those AoEs.

Paladin matchup is terrible for this deck either way, you have to mentally prepare for the fact that you will lose it ~80% of the time.

The quest is going to be disabled for the course of the event.

Hard to say whether disabled means “you won’t be able to obtain it” or “you won’t be able to finish it”, but to be honest, I’d just finish it before the event to be safe.

Next level tactics.

It doesn’t really make sense, though. Quest turns all your minions into 5/5. If you have a deck focused on the late game, then turning your late game minions into 5/5’s wouldn’t be an advantage..

You also don’t consider the fact that running a Quest is a huge disadvantage – you start each game with one card less. That’s why you NEED to plan your entire strategy around the quest. If you don’t, there is no point putting yourself in that kind of significant disadvantage in the first place.

3 mana Echo cards are just bad in Quest Rogue, no matter how you look at it. 1 mana surely would be broken. 2 mana – probably good, but not broken.

You’re right, the card is incredibly powerful with Rotface IF he survives a turn. But the same can be said about tons of other cards. Such high priority targets just don’t survive a turn – and if they do, you’re usually so much ahead that you win the game anyway.

So while the synergy is amazing, I don’t think it really adds much to the card, as it will be relevant in what, 1 in 50 games?

Well yeah, to be fair, Defile is one of the strongest (if not THE strongest) board clears in the entire game, it’s hard to compete with that.