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Test Subject

Test Subject

Test Subject is a 1 Mana Cost Rare Priest Minion card from the Boomsday Project set!

Card Text

Deathrattle: Shuffle any
spells you cast on this
minion into your deck.

Flavor Text

“Now I feel... REALLY icky.”

Type
Minion
Rarity
Rare
Set
Boomsday Project
Class
Priest
Cost
1
Attack
0
Health
2
Minion Type
Mechanics
Deathrattle
Artist
Ian Ameling
Collectible
Yes
Rating
2.9/5 (580 votes)

Card Review & Interactions

It looks like Silence will be more and more desirable this expansion, with effects like that. Test Subject is pretty bad at the beginning, but he can get out of control really quickly. Despite being a 1-drop, you can't really look at him as one. Most of the time, you want to throw him on the board with some small buff first - e.g. Power Word: Shield. Now if your opponent answers it, you still get another shield to cycle, so it's not that bad. If he Silences it, that's also not bad in the kind of deck you're playing. But if he sticks onto the board, you can start throwing extra buffs - Divine Spirit, Inner Fire and such. You probably won't kill your opponent right away, but you should put a massive target on the board and if it gets killed, repeat.

So that's the kind of deck it might fit into. Other than that, maybe Quest Priest, but I don't think it runs enough buffs to justify this guy.

The card is pretty powerful in vacuum, but the problem is that the meta MIGHT be full of Silence cards, rendering it rather weak. It's the Primalfin Champion problem - when it works, it's really good, but then it gets Silenced/Transformed and suddenly it's bad for you.

Interesting option in Inner Fire Priest, probably not much anywhere else.

Card rating: 6/10

11 Comments

  1. Jed

    Card is ok, I just don’t think buff priest will work

    1/5

  2. Fareh

    This COULD be major if inner priest can become a thing again... It´s basically an insurance card, if something goes wrong, just get the cards to combo again on another minion...

    5/5 to inner priest, 0/5 to any other thing

    1. Grenga23

      inner priest didnt need insurance, when it cast its cards, it was killing you that turn

  3. ItalianOgre

    Just bad.

  4. chef3000@gmx.de

    You can play this 1 mana 1/2 (do nothing) + 3 Mana (overcost) give a friendly Minion +2/2 and you will get a 2/4 (do nothing) for only 4 Mana.

    OP

    1. Alex

      Umm excuse me it is then a 4 mana 2/4 Deathrattle draw a + 2/2 buff that draws a card.

      Or if you use elixir it becomes 2/4 (life steal, summon 1/1 etc) for the cost of one card which isn't bad.

  5. Lulu

    Radiant+Radiant+Summon a 1 Health copy of a minion*2+Summon a 5/5 copy+Coin+Deathrattle cost 3 less and die+This+Holy Water, this, holy water...

  6. SuperNinja

    With a Radiant Elemental on board go Test Subject + Power Word Shield + Topsy Turvy = infinite 1 mana draw a card

    1. SuperNinja

      Or how about Dragon Soul, Radiant Elemental and Test Subject + Power Word Shield + Binding Heal + Topsy Turvy. 1 mana 5/5 and draw a card? Yes please.

  7. bob

    same as Primalfin champion??

  8. CD001

    Vivid Nightmare - the copy *also* has the buffs applied effectively giving you an extra copy of every buff spell cast when they die (Topsy Turvy / Void Ripper) - it's kinda disheartening to see your opponent's hand suddenly fill out massively with buff spells when you know there's an Inner Fire coming.

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