Possessed Lackey
Possessed Lackey is a 5 Mana Cost Rare Warlock Minion card from the Kobolds & Catacombs set!
Card Text
Deathrattle: Recruit a Demon.
Flavor Text
If you don't keep up with your payments, it'll be a repossessed lackey.
- Type
- Minion
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Kobolds & Catacombs
- Class
- Warlock
- Cost
- 5
- Attack
- 2
- Health
- 2
- Minion Type
- Mechanics
- Deathrattle, Recruit
- Artist
- Garrett Hanna
- Collectible
- Yes
29 Comments
elliot
eh
KingArrudar
Don't go down voting it, it's good for pulling doomguards.
Roberto
During your opponent's turn btw......
nah, it's too random and too much tempo loss. your opponent will just ignore it or kill it when he can manage the recruited minion too...
Matt
You can just trade it in the next turn usually. Probably works best if you set it up so it pulls the new 9 mana demon on turn 6 every time.
CD001
... but it costs the SAME as a Doomguard making it essentially 5 mana to avoid the discard 2 cards mechanic ... and that's only IF it pulls a Doomguard. If you run this in is a Demon focussed deck, then the more demons you have the more random the pull from the recruitment - the lower your odds of getting Doomguard.
If your opponent kills this, then whatever is recruited is dropped on the board on their turn - giving them the opportunity to react, which they wouldn't have if YOU played Doomguard.
This is also in the class where the Recruit mechanic is the least important - as the hero power draws cards. Put it this way, at 5 mana, would you rather play this 2/2 - or Despicable Dreadlord, or Doomguard?
About the time I could think of using this would be in a meme-y Taunt-focussed Warlock with Voidlord.
yoooooo
shit card
Puma de Espuma
Well this is fucking awesome to recruit felhounds/doomguards and then resummon with bloodreaver.
BluX
DESTRUCTION WARLOCK BABEE!!!
Goompro
If only it was Battlecry...
crapcrack
Compared to the other OP cards that warlock has got this seems too slow and bad. 2/5
pindead
I'm done...
Gud
I’d rather play Voidcaller instead of this crap
Mrthejazz
Requires build around and not sure effect is worth it. You'd have to make sure there were no low cost demons in your deck to get full value.
I can see a deck with this, voidlords, doomguards, the warlock weapon, Rin, nzoth and Guldan maybe gorgonzola and barnes. Most of them have deathrattle except doomguards so could be big value there, giving time to stall game and kill opponent deck.
Then you could fill rest of deck with something else, but what exactly? Handlock cards? I love combo cards like this but it's hard to see this working well, even with the cheated value minions.
milwaukee
This is a highroll card. It could draw AND play 3/15 demon or a 6/6 demon or a 3/9 demon with taunt. Also, this has synergy with the new 4 mana warlock card catacylsm AND synergy with 3mana sacrifice card.
Never underestimate a non-common class card. It can win games on its own rarely.
Me
So, it seems that after announcing the most i sane 1-drop ever (kobold librarian) blizzard has decided to make the rest of the warlock cards absolute garbage... skull of the manari, ang this card. To make it work, you would need to play no voigwalkers, no kobold libearians, and even then, the reward isnt so great
1/5
Me
Oh librarian isnt a demon... my bad. This is still a horrible card tho
UkuleleLover
I think it’s going to be like skelemancer in a way, but it has potential
Rinmathews
Just run a deck where the only demons are Big demons. 5 Mana 2/2 Deathrattle: draw and play a doomguard, 3/8 with taunt, or 6/6.
rob
Exactly, i can only think this is getting hate because of the scepticism over whether that deck works but you can even play the new 2/1 because it isnt a demon and there are a ton of powerful demons with downsides, you could even try dicolok without the 1/3, just have cards like cataclysm and big demons.
cypher
Pitlord might finally see some play if big warlock becomes a thing.
danny
turn 9: this and hellfire summon 9 mana taunt?? :D not really op...
Big Warlock?? XD
AidanAeon
OMGA LUL
R-Dub
Your opponent will probably just punch you in the face more, ignoring this card, and force you to trade with it to get the rattle to go off. I think it will see some experimentation but probably get tossed in favor of more control options/board clears/better minions. Cool design though!
Atioras
Can someone explain why you would run Recruit cards? The mechanic seems more for arena than it is for ranked.
Most recruit minions have very low stats, and the death rattle ones are almost counterintuitive.
You pay so much mana, for a low stat minion, that only works when the card targets are still in your deck.
I get that the battlecry ones are great (as it essentially a spell saying (Play an X- from your deck, and summon an Y/Z minion.)
And the deathrattles work great in an Barnes/Big deck, but the he hey seem lackluster for me.
Deathrattles ate so slow, most good deathrattles, the opponent makes it so that the deathrattles is negligible, or in their favor. Like having board clear/removal for minions that summon, or ignores entirely making the minions useless for that turn, and dealing with the minor threats after.
Paying 5 mana, for a 2/2.
If I were the opponenr, I'd just hold a removal, or play a huge threat.
Options for the opponent, Trade and summon big creature (and hope there is no removal), play their own threat (leaves my threat on the board), Deal with my threat, likely not having enough mana to make another threat.
Arguably you could say they trade and play Siphon Soul, but it just seems slow to me.
Sure you can pull out another big minion, but wouldn't it be better to just curve a regular minion?
I'm not hating the card, nor am I a pro, but to me Recruit seems pretty slow for deathrattles.
Dude
This + Voidlord = OP
Sadly, you have to put 2 terrible cards in your deck to pull of this combo :(
Mithrandir
Wow! That would be OP to pull off. There are other demons aswell that would be good. For example Doomguard and other Big discard/ self damaging demons.
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LEL "two terrible cards"
MrMeme
LUL, everyone was so wrong about this card
aaron
yes they/we were. like so far off.
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