Unpowered Steambot
Unpowered Steambot is a 4 Mana Cost Common Neutral Minion Mech card from the The Witchwood set!
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Taunt
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Overpowered Steambot got nerfed.Unpowered Steambot Card Review
Generally, Taunt minions benefit from a low attack / high health stat distribution, but there is also a tipping point. If you go below a certain attack threshold, the Taunt’s main function – blocking damage WHILE TRADING into your opponent’s minions – will vanish. Yes, it will block damage, but it won’t do anything besides it. That’s why Mogu'shan Warden, even though it has 7 health and a Taunt for 4, is one of the worst cards in the entire game. This one looks similar. At 0 attack, and yes, I repeat, 0 attack, if you just drop it on Turn 4, it will soak some damage and die. It’s like gaining 9 Armor or something. Definitely far from perfect.
On stream, it was played in a Lady in White deck, but don’t fool yourself, it won’t work. Lady in White deck will NOT function if you build whole deck around that one card – you need to play cards that are good enough even without Lady in White, and get upgraded by her. This is not good enough without her. If you draw it before Lady in White, it’s a dead card.
Even a Combo Priest (Divine Spirit + Inner Fire) wouldn’t like to play it. Unlike other Taunts, which might stick because your opponent doesn’t want to throw their whole board into it, this will always get as much damage as possible depending on your opponent’s board. So if he has 5 damage on the board, it will be a 0/4 going into your turn. While it MIGHT sometimes work, I didn’t really see Priests running Mogu’Shan or Oasis Snapjaw just because those cards had lots of health.
Shieldbearer, which has even better stats for its mana cost, sees zero play. So I don’t believe that this will see any play too.
Card rating: 1/10
Robo from chrono trigger
I love the artwork and there isn’t a better minion to use the Divine Spirit-Inner Fire Combo for the price, The absolute lack of attack on this card does make it difficult to play as anything more than a wall, but at least there’s some decent deck building experiments that might be able to be done with it.
Granted, Witchwood Grisly will usually be better.
It’s A Bastion ripoff.
I think the concept of a dying, ancient, or nearly still robot in the woods existed before Bastion.
Also, this would be an homage, not a rip-off.
Ripoff? Blizzard owns Bastion…
Another one of these “stop and think about it” cards. Right now I doubt it does anything, but this is a card I actually wouldn’t be shocked to show up in some kind of future strategy.
Worse Version of Public Defender, for the sake of being Taunting Dummy’s Bigger Brother.
Did they change it caaaauuuuse this is a mech.
Lady in White.
That is all.
I mean, sure, but it’s not gonna be a 9/9 if you draw it before LiW is played. Really meme-y but unrealistic that anyone will put this card even in a LiW deck, or draft into Arena.
somebody called divine sprit + innerfire combo .. it doesnt matter this minion damaged. priest already got 2 mana restore 6 healt. support combo priest card.. not only lady-in-white support
That is clearly a mech blizzard. Stop trying to lie to me.
Blizzard, why? WHYYYY??? WHY do you print 0-attack Taunts??? Public Defender, Shieldbearer… do any of those see play? Wax Elemental at least saw some play because it had Divine Shield, but these kind of cards are HORRIBLE. 1/5 stars.
This goes in a Lady In White Deck, just depends on whether that will be a viable archetype or not. ALSO WHY THE HELL IS IT NOT A MECH?
#NotAMech