I’m not sure this is going to be any good. The easiest comparison I see from this card is to the boomship. The boomship costed 1 more and didn’t come with a 5/5, but it had immediate board presence with rush and also had no restrictions on the cards it would summon. Sure, hunter can cheat out multiple king krushes with all of its beast copying, but reliably drawing both king krush and this is going to be very inconsistent considering that hunter doesn’t have stitched tracker anymore and is also losing masters call in the wild rotation. admittedly this card is good in wild but most people are rating it with mainly standard in consideration. I just think it won’t work given that warrior was much better at control and surviving late and the boomship still wasn’t great. I give this a 2/5; it will see experimentation early but will eventually fade out once people realize this card isn’t that good

This card isn’t as bad as it looks; in an aggro deck on turn 5 against a midrange or control deck that has no minions on board, this thing is going to be really difficult to remove. It can’t be ignored because 7 damage is a lot to deal with, but it can’t be killed with just 1 removal or AOE because it will just respawn. I think this card has potential to see play in a hyper-aggro minion based deck. Maybe zoo priest? I’m not sure exactly what class is going to have the hyper-aggro deck, but I’m sure this will fit in somewhere as a strong semi win condition. I’m surprised this card is getting bashed in the ratings so hard. I would give it a 3/5 as something used in a potential tier 3 deck of zoo priest or warlock

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But this isn’t a card that has to be run in a control deck. Also, Stonehill defender is one of the strongest cards in the game and has been for a long time. Comparing this card to one of the strongest cards isn’t really fair. The lackeys offer strong battlecries, and this card generates a large amount of value. let’s compare this card to the hunter 5-mana 3/5 that draws 2 one drops (forgot the name). This costs 2 less than the hunter card and draws better 1 drops. The only downsides are the -2 attack and the fact that it has to be comboed, which is very easy to do. Speaking of combos, the lackeys are very useful for triggering combos as they only cost 1 mana, and have useful effects. I could very well see this played in a miracle rogue deck which also runs heistbaron togwaggle, or even a value rogue, as this generates a lot of value. Also, stonehill defender gets you 1 card instead of 2