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Bronze Gatekeeper

Bronze Gatekeeper

Bronze Gatekeeper is a 3 Mana Cost Common Neutral Minion card from the Placeholder set!

Card Text

Magnetic
Taunt

Flavor Text

"You have my shield! And the rest of me too."

Type
Minion
Rarity
Common
Set
Placeholder
Class
Neutral
Cost
3
Attack
2
Health
5
Minion Type
Mech
Mechanics
Magnetic, Taunt
Artist
Ursula Dorada
Collectible
Yes
Rating
3.4/5 (673 votes)

Card Review & Interactions

Another Silverback Patriarch powercreep... Honestly, this would be terrible if not for the Magnetic thing, but with Magnetic, it actually might make some sense to run it. Playing 3 mana 1/5 Taunt isn't good, but adding +1/5 and Taunt to an existing minion can be really solid. Even playing it on Upgradeable Framebot creates a 2/10 Taunt on Turn 3, something that Aggro decks definitely don't want to see.

Not the most exciting cards, but I could see it being played in slower Mech decks, like Mech Control Warrior. If Mech Paladins end up playing their Egg, it might also be another way to activate it. We have so many low attack / high health Mechs that we might be back to slower board battles! Overall, okay card.

Card rating: 6/10

8 Comments

  1. Jed

    Pack fillerino

    1.5/5

  2. Soup And Salad

    Bronze Gatekeeper is a nice card to play on curve with Upgradable Framebot since there aren't too many aggressive decks that can deal with a turn three 2/10 with taunt. Such a play would obviously only be useful against aggro though and perhaps midrange strategies.
    This sort of design should have been obvious given magnetic as a mechanic and if the format speed up enough, it'll see play. Hardly a Tar Creeper, but it could be something similar for Mech Decks if they only choose to play one or the other.

    1. Shadow Fairy

      Beryllium Nullifier (3/8 mech - can't be targeted by spells or hero powers) will increase greatly in value if this gets dumped on it.
      It's a 10 mana 4/13 taunt that is a pain to get rid of

      1. Soup And Salad

        The issues with such an idea would be that it's slow, doesn't affect the board instantly, and it only seventeen stats for ten mana. It's sticky and would require minions be rammed into it. However, Soggoth the Siltherer would basically be the same thing, and that never saw serious play.

    2. Michael Judajev

      Actually they can, many odd paladins and odd rogues run 1-2 copies of Void Ripper and they could become even more important now. ;)

      1. Soup And Salad

        That's only one particular card. If they're only running one copy, they're going second, and they just know you're going to play Upgradable Framebot into Bronze Gatekeeper so they hard mulligan to it, they'll only see it about twenty-five percent of the time if I remember the math for Keleseth correctly.

        Most of the time, it will work you in your favor.

  3. MelaMalone

    Yet again I feel sorry for Silverback.

  4. Michael Judajev

    Actually they can, many odd paladins and odd rogues run 1-2 copies of Void Ripper and they could become even more important now. ;)

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