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Mossy Horror

Mossy Horror

Mossy Horror is a 6 Mana Cost Epic Neutral Minion card from the Placeholder set!

Card Text

Battlecry: Destroy all other minions with 2 or less Attack.

Flavor Text

The hills have eyes. And teeth. Pretty bad breath, too.

Type
Minion
Rarity
Epic
Set
Placeholder
Class
Neutral
Cost
6
Attack
2
Health
7
Minion Type
Mechanics
Battlecry, Destroy Minion
Artist
Jim Nelson
Collectible
Yes
Rating
3.8/5 (1464 votes)

Card Review & Interactions

This is a neutral Shadow Word: Horror on a stick. For 2 more mana, you get a 2/7 minion, which is actually quite good. For example, Book Wyrm was a 2 mana spell on a stick (Shadow Word: Pain) and you had to pay 4 mana for the 3/6 body. Which wasn’t that bad, to be fair, the card has seen a fair share of play. But this one is even better.

However, there are two problems with this card. Horror was often used on the curve to deal with Aggro boards – this one can’t do the same thing. Aggro Paladin plays Call to Arms and you just can’t wait two more turns to deal with it. Another problem is the lack of Pint-Size Potion. While SW: Horror was often decent even without it, the Pint-Size pushed it into the “great removal” range, as you could deal with anything up to 5 Attack, which is a huge difference.

That said, the fact that it’s neutral and that it can still counter lots of plays in the mid/late game, I think that it can be good. For example, Paladins can still play that Call to Arms past Turn 6. Druid can play Spreading Plague or Living Mana depending on the deck. It could also be good against some Control Warlock boards, with cards like Voidwalker (from Voidlord), Stonehill Defender etc. Can be used to hit those pesky Northshire Clerics and Radiant Elementals against Priest. It’s also great against Shaman, because it destroys all of the Totems, as well as some common minions (e.g. Fire Fly, Hot Spring Guardian).

This card will mostly be a meta call. If lots of board flood type of decks will be played, or cards that summon multiple 0-2 Attack minions will be popular, then this is going to be a great choice. If not, well, the answer is simple. I actually quite like this card, it’s not overpowered, but it can work very well in the right meta.

Oh, and it’s a good candidate to play in the Lady in White deck. The difference between 2/7 and 7/7 is huge. After Lady in White, it will be playable even if it doesn’t hit anything.

Card rating: My guess is 7/10, but it heavily depends on the amount of 2 or less Attack minions in the upcoming meta.

51 Comments

  1. Starstrike11864

    Could be nice counter against pally...

  2. Bladeofsteel

    Ok folks, we now have to make that aldor peacekeeper, humility, kodo, scorp-o-matic deck with this, it just has to happen.

  3. Moltar

    Neutral minion Shadow Word: Horror

  4. Threather

    So its like better Kodo for 1 more mana, insane neutral.

  5. Syrea

    Nice tech vs aggro/token/murloc decks

  6. Dudes4Days

    Between this and Lord Godfrey, it's looking like a much slower meta — with the popular pally decks, Silver Hand and Murloc, basically doomed

    1. doraemon1992

      yeah, all the cards revealed so far has nothing that support current aggro pally, both murloc and dude. in fact, it's trying to bring pally back as midrange buffing like way back before un'goro

  7. CocoAsticot

    Nice try, but Call to Arms still need a nerf...

  8. Nightfall

    while I like the card, one problem I noticed right away, if you're destroying all minions with 2 or less attack (usually with 2 or 3 hp), the minion itself becomes quite useless. 2 attack trades nicely in small minions, but you just killed them so there's nothing to kill. cool effect, but the body doesn't match it's effect

    2/5

    1. Sebarus

      Except if you pair it with Lady In White, then it has a really big body.

  9. ChTaubi

    New shadow word Horror and nice synergy with the lady in white. I like where this is going.

    1. CD001

      SWH was mainly used with Pint-Sized Potion though ... and that's also rotating out.

      This is basically a counter to Dude Paladin but that's about it ... it gives you a chance to clear the weenies just before they drop Tarim.

  10. HS

    good design, good card

  11. Gabkun

    Well, pair this with the priest that casts inner fire on all cards in your deck, and you got a 7/7 body with decent board clear at 6 mana.

  12. gully1824

    People need to stop saying "LADY IN WHITE" for every card that has high health and low attack.

    Can we remember that LIW is legendary, most likely not tutorable, and you cannot run a deck around it fully?!?!?

    By the time you Lady in white in to this, Dude Pally has done lethal (as LIW doesn't have taunt), or buffed them to 3/3s making this irrelevant.

    This is a good card, and will see play as a tech or as a piece of a combo, it is not broken, nor crap. Good cards like this are positive for the game. They encourage deck design and variability. What it shouldn't do is make people blurt out best case scenarios...

  13. doraemon1992

    yeah, all the cards revealed so far has nothing that support current aggro pally, both murloc and dude. in fact, it's trying to bring pally back as midrange buffing like way back before un'goro

  14. Thrombin

    This also counters the 1/3 taunts that spawn off of Void Lord as well as the 1/5 taunts from Spreading Plague.

  15. Playermaxx

    Wtf. Thanks for ruining the only tool druid had against aggro (spreading plague).

    1. Syrea

      Only suicidal aggro decks would play this card, since it's meant to counter them ;)

      1. Playermaxx

        Aggro can easily buff minions over 2 attack. Give it 2 seconds before replying nonsense 😁

        1. DyingHawk

          While anti Aggro tools have been used in Aggro decks in the past, they have been cards like tar teepee which have good bodies, this is an effect that counters your own stuff, even if you are playing a deck that buffs minions this would still kill one or two sometimes making it a terrible when your not countering spreading plague. There is no way an Aggro deck will run a card that literally kills half there board most of the time to counter a single card. And next time don’t be so patronizing 😁

          1. Playermaxx

            Losing 1 or 2 instead of 7 seems like a good deal for aggro. 2<7 there you go, easier now right?

        2. Anton

          I would be rather suprised if an aggro deck "shadow word horrors" themselves, because of one class that looks rather dead the upcoming expansion. But give it 2 seconds before replying nonsense.

    2. CypherC

      What kind of aggro deck would include this, rofl?

  16. Chickenmcneg

    STOP MAKING PRIEST GREAT AGAIN

    1. Syrea

      Priest hardly played shadow word: horror, which is better than this card. If anything, this card is equally useful to all classes

      1. ChrisMorray

        If you really think Shadow word: horror was hardly played you've been playing too little. It was fairly common, especially paired with pint-sized potion and such. Besides that this card is BETTER. It's a Oasis Snapjaw and Shadow word: horror in one, but for 2 mana less.

        1. Xix

          It's allso 2 mana to late against agro ;)

        2. Syrea

          You don't play it for the body but for the removal. As said by Xix, it comes 2 turns later than shadow word horror. And no, i didn't play too little but i simply meant that it never was too relevant. Highlander priest stopped playing it after a few months, big priest was never too prevalent and the current control priest has only been here for the past few weeks...

  17. Vjater

    It's actually an amazing counter to one of the most annoying cards ever printed, spreading plague.

  18. Faceless

    The most powerful neutral card of the set. Staple for classes with no removal.

    1. GlosuuLang

      Voodoo Doll says hi,

      1. DyingHawk

        Voodoo doll may as well be a mage/warrior card, it is bad corruption everywhere else. This is good in any control class.

        1. GlosuuLang

          We'll see which one gets played most. For me this is just a tech card. Voodoo Doll can be fitted almost anywhere.

  19. supershy

    oney is that you?

    1. Enemy

      i thought the same, haha

  20. HS

    it would be better for 5 mana to counter CTA, still good

  21. GlosuuLang

    Looks like a tech card. Very nice to remove Spreading Plague, Voidwalkers from Voidlords and later Call to Arms. I'm still hoping CtA gets nerfed to 5 mana. It's also neutral. So I can see people running one of this for the situational swing. 3.5 out of 5 stars.

    1. CocoAsticot

      I totaly agree!! What the f*** are they waiting for nerf CtA?? This card is totaly oppressiv in standard AND wild.
      It s just winning by playing brainlessly a OP card on the curve...

      1. jim jones

        playing it on curve won't nessesarily help you though. By turn five your opponent will likely have minions with over 2 attack on the board

        1. CocoAsticot

          I was talking of CtA in fact

      2. Anton

        Not really op. Only against aggro. And dont say its brainless to play this, when all aggro cards are a lot more broken. Just talking about tunnel trogg, patches and all other bullshit cards, that won the game just going face. It is a problem, when that strategy is better than controll.
        In my opinion Blizzard should push controll decks, so they are better, because they promote skillful play as there is descision making. Aggro deck then can exist, because controll decks fight, who has the bigger deck, but if they get beaten up by aggro they can tech cards to destroy aggro.

        Would be nice if Blizzard is shifting Hearthstone to a slower meta.

        And to my knowledge, all nerfed cards were mostly aggro cards.

        1. CocoAsticot

          Totaly agree ! I was talking of CtA not mossy Horror. Just read m’y comment

  22. joeydungee

    I would love this guy to see play just because of how dorky he looks

  23. madlucas

    lady in white approved.

  24. Jirwin

    Hands down best art of the set. Its literally straight from monsters inc.

  25. SWEdosaur

    This looks pretty op If You compare this with shadow Word: horror, i mean if You subtract 4 mana (horrors cost) it's a 2 mana 2/7.
    One thing that makes this card worse though is the loss of pint size- potion

    1. owen wilson

      Wow, thats exactly what the review said

  26. FunkyMonk

    wont see play, i'll tell u that

  27. npcfish

    At first glance I thought this new card was Shrek the ogre... It would be hilarious to hear the green-skinned ogre say something like "For the Horde!" though lol

    1. theivasyl

      they will print Shrek the ogre if Senfglass wins world

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