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Barnes

Barnes

Barnes is a 5 Mana Cost Legendary Neutral Minion card from the One Night in Karazhan set!

Card Text

Battlecry: Summon a 1/1 copy of a random minion in your deck.

Flavor Text

He used to play every part, until Moroes confiscated his Orb of Deception.

Type
Minion
Rarity
Legendary
Set
One Night in Karazhan
Class
Neutral
Cost
5
Attack
3
Health
4
Minion Type
Mechanics
Battlecry, Summon
Artist
Garrett Hanna
Collectible
Yes
Rating
4.1/5 (1139 votes)

Card Review & Interactions

Changelog

  • August 26, 2019 - The card was nerfed. Its cost was upped from 4 to 5 mana.

18 Comments

  1. Cyberdave86

    In a Deathrattle's deck pretty good

  2. j33@gmail.com

    May be pretty good in deathrate decks. The Tirion weapon or silvanas, or ragnaros or a free Ysera spell, in hunter with Highmare etc. In worst case is a total 4/5 for 4. Even if you hit something usefull only 50% of the time it can be good enough to see play. Hunters play Elek, that with less than 33% of times in some decks

  3. 444Tails

    Good for Malygos rouge and deathreattle decks.

  4. DontfeedtheEmu

    Auto include in N'Zoth Paladin for sure. Sometimes is will be a doomsayer when you don't want one, but even then the opponent will prolly want to kill it more then you anyway. N'Zoth Priest seems good too. Rogue sees ok too.

  5. imaloony

    I'm on the fence about this one. Sometimes it's insane, sometimes it's a Razorfen. The problem as some have pointed out is that a lot of decks play Doomsayer now, and that's a horrible pull from this thing, and if you run Doomsayer you probably don't want to risk running this.

  6. Pug

    Just thought of this, but have you guys seen the Murloc N'Zoth control pally that some people have been playing? Barnes and The Curator both fit so well. Barnes can pull an extra Warleader, Bluegill, Loot Hoarder, Sylvanas, Tirion, or Cairne. That's sick! Can also pull a 1/1 N'Zoth, Kodo, or Pyro, but still!

  7. Tugalol

    1/1 copy of Tirion please and thank you.

    1. Sober667

      add bran on turn 3 and got 2

  8. Safari

    What if a battlecry minion is summoned? will his/her power be triggered?

    1. Evident

      I doubt it, Battlecry must come from the hand.

      1. Safari

        Oh... too bad.
        Thanks for the clarification. I just found this definition for Battlecry power:
        "The Battlecry ability triggers when the card is played normally from your hand. It does NOT trigger if a different effect puts it into play from your hand or deck."

  9. Luke

    This card is just too random to be all that useful and it is not very powerful

    1. Pepperfreez

      Unless you make a mostly death rattle deck then it's pretty good. RNG makes the game tbh.

  10. chris

    it'll be good in NZoth and Reno decks... but this card is just going to encourage everyone to start running Silence again. and that effect is TERRIBLE for the game.

  11. Roberto

    I have a question on Barnes. tha card says that he summons a random minion IN UR DECK. Does it mean that he cannot summon minions that I have already drawn during the game?
    Depending on what I’ve drawn it might enhance or lower the chances to get a specific card (e.g. Savannah Highmane). So if u decide to keep him in ur starting hand, u might control a bit the odds through Mullingan.
    PS: I really want to put that card in my midrange hunter toghether with Kindly Granmother

  12. Penoyer79

    this guy is going to really test your deck-building skills. i think people are underestimating the difficulty level. its going to take an extremely defined deck to pull this off...consistently

  13. 720BLAZE

    Ultimate powercreep card

  14. DanTheMan

    So I need dust for thalnos, I mostly run fast paced decks and this guy is just lying on the shelf. I already ran the death rattle quest in the past and not planning to run anything like that any time soon. So, what you recon. Can I dust this guy? Thanx

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