Zerek, Master Cloner
Zerek, Master Cloner is a 6 Mana Cost Legendary Priest Minion card from the Boomsday Project set!
Card Text
Deathrattle: If you've cast any spells on this minion, resummon it.
Flavor Text
His original name was Aerek. Then the first clone was Berek. They went evil around Merek.
- Type
- Minion
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Set
- Boomsday Project
- Class
- Priest
- Cost
- 6
- Attack
- 5
- Health
- 5
- Minion Type
- Mechanics
- Deathrattle, Summon
- Artist
- James Ryman
- Collectible
- Yes
- Rating
- 3.7/5 (1566 votes)
Card Review & Interactions
Interesting mechanic, but I think that it might be on the weaker side. On the one hand, the potential is massive. Being able to revive it over and over again is incredibly powerful, basically better than any other Deathrattle card. But there's a catch - it's very hard to make it work.
First of all, it's useless by itself. 6 mana 5/5 with no effect whatsoever. Only after you cast a spell on it, it "activates" itself. So it's not really a 6 mana play, but at least a 7 mana play. Another issue is that Priest doesn't have enough cheap buffs to cast on him. Power Word: Shield is one, but what after that? Divine Spirit is not really an option, because you don't run this in Combo Priest. Binding Heal is okay, but only after it's already on the board and takes some damage. Unidentified Elixir is the only other flexible buff that you can run, and it's not the best card ever, plus the combo is 9 mana. Maybe Vivid Nightmare too, especially if you run deck with lots of Deathrattles. Maybe if you combine Vivid Nightmare AND Binding Heal, it can be nice. For 10 mana you end up with two 5/5 bodies that both come back on Deathrattle. Not the best play ever, but pretty good.
It's weak to Silence, but that's not a big issue in a Deathrattle Priest - most of the cards you play are weak to Silence, and this one doesn't get completely countered like Lynessa Sunsorrow. The problem is that right now it's pretty hard to activate. You don't really want to keep your Shields just for this guy, and there aren't other great cards you can use to activate it. And ideally, you want to activate him more than once to make him worth it - otherwise you'd just run Cairne Bloodhoof and don't bother with casting extra spells on it.
Realistically, in order for this to be playable, you really need another cheap way to buff it. If a good 1-2 mana buff spell gets printed, then this card has some solid potential. If not, I don't see it working right now.
Card rating: 4/10 right now, or 7/10 if another good, cheap buff spell gets revealed
106 Comments
kaiguy12
In a silence heavy world, not sure how good this is.
Misha49ish
Silence heavy world? You mean the 1-2 spellbreakers some decks have?
kaiguy12
There always seems to be a silence at the worst times, ya know?
DukeStarswisher
Silence is always a bad argument. Silence will always be a thing and players should have a sense of how many there are in a deck and bait them appropriately.
KLGamet
You forgett polymorph and hex which are common in mage and shaman. Also there are many ways to remove a minion without triggering its deathrattle.
DukeStarswisher
I actually don't forget either of those cards because they are a staple of both of those classes. It still makes a bad argument. There are lots of cards that make good targets for silence effect cards and dismissing this card because of said effects is naive.
KLGamet
This card wants to outvalue your opponent. A minion which can resummon itself is good against control decks. Sadly, most control decks got good removel. Against aggro, this card is to bad simply because it's effect has no impact on the board.
It can be a good card because it's a "unlimited" 5/5 minion. But you will need to cast a spell on it which costs mana. Playing it on turn 6 isn't good without coin + spell.
I don't think it will see play.
DukeStarswisher
@LKGamet I don't think it will see play either until there are more single target spell options for priest.
But that wasn't what I was arguing. So many cards that see play right now can be ruined with silence. Saying "but silence" is bad card value insight.
Aha
Of course. Because of it the silence heavy Meta, Warlocks and Priests do not run Twilight Drake, Rogues do run Edwin. Hunters don’t run ANY deathrattles ...
guitarboy2111
Basically a better version of sherazim... pretty nice!
Skyscale
Worse than it looks. Horrible tempo play. It's only decent vs control decks without silence/polymorph/hex and they're not many. Besides, atm priests don't use many buffs or spells that this card could benefit from
Wow
They told me the same thing about Stalagg and Feugen and they are still great in my quest priest.
Very few people use hex and polymorph these days, even the silence, and nobody hold it inhand with the idea of "Maybe he will play this card in late", they waste it on taunts/another card.
Also this card copied or resurrected can be very strong.
warpten
5mana 4/7 >>> 6mana 5/5
GameDJJD
It's like Cairne Bloodhoof. And Cairne was played a lot.
With +1 Attack it's even better.
Yes ofc you need a Spell for it, but already 1 Power Word: Shield makes it worth it.
Jonnymeerkat
WAS is a pretty important distinction to make. Cairne is classic and thus is still available to be played, yet isn’t anymore. This card will have to be able to be consistently resurrected twice to be better than Cairne, and even then may not be good enough to see consistent play.
warpten
It's like cairne
except worse
and nobody plays cairne
Misha49ish
Silence heavy world? You mean the 1-2 spellbreakers some decks have?
SHANE MULLINS
Does the deathrattle count if you summon it with Shadow Essence or resurrect it with twilights call? Cause if so it seems good
GameDJJD
It's always a Deathrattle minion that died, doesn't matter if it was resummoned with it's own effect or not.
GameDJJD
Or do you mean the Ressurrect Card as trigger for the Deathrattle? Because it's not a Spell you cast on that minion. You have to target that minion with a spell for that .
DukeStarswisher
If the card texts means you need to have it as a target of a spell, then priest isn't going to use this right away. There are only so many single target spells priest have access to in standard at the moment.
But I imagine it would be useful given the right spells in the future.
Hubriz
It might work in a list similar to the current combo priest lists, as they only have a fixed number of minions to cast their combo on, and they sometimes struggle to Stick a Minion on board to win the game with.
Other Priest Decks don't use any buff spells other than Power Word shield. The thing is, you only have two Power Word Shields Max in your deck (plus maybe Shadow Visions Copies, but PWS isn't really the top priority when casting shadow visions).
Wikator
I hope that nobody will use it. It must be really annoying to play against it.
Swayer
I knew it would be a deathrattle, but was hopping for a better effect. Maybe like the rouges go dorment minion, because then you could play it with the other not so good legendary priest weapon xD
nickname23
The card is too slow for what it does. Also, why is this a legendary? Seems bad. 1.5/5
DukeStarswisher
It's a legendary because the theme this expansion is one legendary spell and the heads of the departments of boom labs. If you're asking about why it's effect makes it legendary, than you need to understand that:
rarity =/= card value
nickname23
Yeah, I understand that, but some boy may be a bit dissappointed by a legendary for one of his 3 favourite classes ;)
DukeStarswisher
Yeah Priest is my fav too. I am also a little disappointed. But my main want for Priest is an odd aoe spell.
I think this card could work in the distant future with more additions but as it stands.... meh.
nickname23
I personally don't think this card will ever work but I highly agree with you on AoE spells for priest. Psychic is nuts in Combo-decks, sure, but other than that?
GlosuuLang
So, if you cast a spell on this, it becomes a better Cairne Bloodhoof, with the possibility of insane value if you resummon it a third time. Otherwise it's horrible. By the time you drop this, you've probably already used at least one Power Word: Shield, probably the two if you drew them early game. So... are you going to Divine Spirit this after dropping it? Unidentified Elixir it? It's not that Priest has a myriad of buff spells like Paladin has... This also gets horribly countered by silence and transform effects (part of the reason why Cairne sees no play nowadays). I expect this to see play if the synergistic Deathrattle Priest deck gets into the meta, or if you can somehow cheat it out (with the Experimenter maybe?). But otherwise... meh. It's still "only" a 5/5, in a class that is normally fighting behind in the board... 2/5 stars, it does have potential for shenanigans, but it doesn't seem powerful right now.
Lucasato
Bluff not buff
I like this kind of card,is a minion that need something to you get a usefull effect,but it dont mean you must to use it just for the effect,you can just lie to your opponent you can trigger it
The first thing i see about that is a silence fake target,like it
6 mana 5/5
battlecry:make your opponent cast a silence card from his hand
But well,anyway 1 power word shield os enough too
Killy
Why would they silence it if you play it just out without a buff? They just kill it and laugh about your 6 mana 5/5 you played.
Lucasato
Ops,sorry for the mistake
I said they spend a silence card in the pessimist situation,when your opponent spend only a spellbreaker
In th
Lucas
In The optimist situation,your opponent just spend a hex on it,and youre able to summon your 7,8,9 cost minion
MrPoison
I was expecting like a mini N'zoth 6-8 mana cost Battlecry "Summon 2 3/3 copies of deathrattle minions that died this game", cairne is better than this because priest is like, have no buff cards. Giving it Taunt would have been great. this card have no use in this aggro meta.
Amethonys
What aggro meta? The meta is like all combo besides odd rogue and happy zoo....
MrPoison
yeah and at rank 5, 8 of 10 games are odd rogue burn mages, happy warlocks, and beast hunters. the other 2 are hadronox druid and cubelock. i cant remember the last time i fought a warrior and some priest in a while.
Cyclick
That would be because Warrior and Priest aren't viable in high ladder. You haven't played them because they don't exist.
Smellberg
Awesome artwork. Shame that it's so slow and vulnerable.
Wow
The right deck can profit out of it. In wild priest has alot of single-target spells.
Lucasato
Bluff not buff
I like this kind of card,is a minion that need something to you get a usefull effect,but you can use it just as a threat
Your opponent will spend his turn and the card that would kill some big minion
OlafBiggles
I really hope this combos with lady in white, who casts inner fire on every minion in the deck... However, I doubt it will work this way.
Jason Fleischer
If "you've" cast. Its like Yogg who casts spells himself
OlafBiggles
Thanks for clarifying. Shame it won't work. This card seems pretty poor in this expansion, but still 4 card reveals for priest, so it could be salvaged. 2/5.
XinChao
u need to cast a spell. A SPELL!!!
OlafBiggles
lady in white casts the spell. But that in itself probably stops it working.
GenieGlasses
Vivid nightmares works well with this card?
Lolindir
I was wondering about that does it copy before or after zerek counts as being cast on.
sek
This is a very good control card.
We have to see the other class cards, but i would bet it will become a very strong minion.
Looks not that scary, but could be good threat. 4.5 stars.
Omnitarian
A more situational Cairne Bloodhoof. I suspect Priest will have better things to do than try to make this work, but then again he’s due for some nice new buff spells (sorry, Mysterious Elixir) so maybe there will be support.
minti
well considering the vanilla equation to balance cards; mana x 1/1 for each mana cost + 0/1 for the max stat s for kind of each mana. So Understated. Comes waaaaaay too late with 0 iniciative to be competitive. I don;t even want to compare it to Sylvanas. Where class cards should be kind of better than the neutrals. On top of its low stats and high mana you need to cast a SPELL to even have a deathrattle. so a silenc eon this would counter 2 cards not one.
AMAZING CARD OVERAL ITS THE BEST GARGBAGE PRIEST HAS EVER HAD. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK PRIEST IS THE NUMBER ONE DONOR FOR DUST TO CRAFT YOUR WARLOCK OR WHATEVER CARDS.
minti
Ok sylvanas is kind of hall of fame now. But you know Carion is stil lhere. How is this suposed to compete with him. We know he got retired couse of the meta and stuff. But seriously 4/5 stat line deathrattle gain a 4/5 i don;t think this legendary will be even close to that power level. casting vivid nightmare on it still makes you dead by turn 5 so you are talking about a turn 9 combo.
minti
Will priest see play after this expansion. I see palading get another copy of equality. like their 2 card combo board clear wasn;t the strongest ever :D .
MockRock
It wasn't. 2 cards to deal with wide boards hurts. A lot.
1194Ching
Too unreliable. Awesome board clears are Psychic Scream, Psychic Scream, and Psychic Scream.
grenga23
we are now at 1 out of 8 of last priest legends are playable. Shadow reaper Anduin.... this set zerek and his gallery. trash. witchwood... lady and chameleos saw no play cause bad.... kobolds.... temporas and the locket... 2 of the worst legends ever made.... lich kind great for priests then super nerfed
minti
Well shadow reaper anduin is a bit weaker than hagatha so he and thraal are arguing who is weaker for now. So even anduin is not that playable. I did speculate that next year there could b esome dragon priest comeback. Although with the multi colored dragon i was hoping we would get some good drago nexperiments for priest this expansion. But i wouldn't put my hopes that high. Priest legendaryes were always weak. And priest was always operating on the neutral legendaries. So we can stil lget some legendary dragon experiment with random dragon aspect power :D.
sina
hagatha lol.hagatha is worst of all dk.but she is not dk.
hagatha has hand size problem anduind has dmg.anduin was best dk some days how hagatha the trash is better than one of the best dk in game?
Cyclick
How can assume this card will be straight trash, considering Priest will take a control turn as it already has? And I'm pretty sure Anduin isn't playable right now, but the Quest and Velen are.
Lich King wasn't nerfed?
"The worst legends ever made" clearly you know nothing about the game.
Eric
Yeah, look at Millhouse Manastorm and Lorewalker Cho or even Nat Pagle
adc
Does it keep the effects of the spells after re-summoned?
KingKalevi
Why would it?
DavistheSavage
Because then it might be okay- however I doubt it does this, or else it wouldve mentioned it in the card :(
Rookskull
Resummon means its puts another copy of it in play. Itll have the ability but youll need to cast another spell to get a 3rd.
Cyclick
And how is this card bad?
warpten
It's like cairne
except worse
because it's likely you won't have a buff spell in hand
and because you need to cast the spell right away, meaning you can't even drop this on 6
and nobody plays cairne
Tiny108
Agree. I am very disapoint with these Priest's Legendary cards :(
BoooZee
Yeah.. it is better and worse than cairne imo, you can cast a spell on it again and again to resummon it. I still think cairne is a more consistent card but maybe has a place is deathrattle priest.
Noot noot
There’s one major difference: you can resummon it more than once
Gigante1386
Cairne is in standard....
Jonnymeerkat
I love when people say LMAO and then say something wrong. You just make yourself look like a real jackass.
Cairne is classic, and therefore available in standard.
sina
carine is better there are not many spell that priest want to use them on a minion in this meta.its a useless card with this high mana cost.6 mana 5 5 and legendary are u kiding me.5 mana is to much for this card.it should be 4 or 5 not 6
ffs
Jed
I wish this could work, but it can’t with silence the way it is :(
2/5
Soup And Salad
Generally, if the card is a major silence target, its effect is particularly powerful
Soup And Salad
I like the flavor, and there are a good handful of buff cards Priest has to work with, so this minion should be incredibly sticky. I could see it potentially being played in the current format Hearthstone exists in since it is really rather slow, but if the metagame speeds up, this will be a value card that is a bit too slow.
Perhaps something will come along that will make this card more exciting.
Techbuilding
Very good card imo.
DavistheSavage
the problem with this and silence is that this REQUIRES you to play a spell on it, meaning that when they silence it, not only do you lose the deathrattle, but you lose that buff too
neat combo though, when this gets damaged, you can play a shadow word: death on it to return it to full health! :)
sina
just like the 9 mana spell this card is so bad priest always geting worst legedary in every set
.tempuras.dragon weapon.lady in white .now these 2 new are so disaster.they are both very slow and useless.
6 mana 5 5 and so what.i get another 5 5 ?this card is so bad its has no point to win or any problem for my oponent.6 mana sylanas or emperror or many other better 6 drops are there so this card will not be seen play.and we consider that priest has so many resurect cards .
Single shot
WHAT DO U MEAN THIS CARD IS OP IF U GET THIS FROM THE SPELL THEN CAST 1 MANA GIVE 2 PLUS HEALTH U GET A 5/5 ITS INFINATE VALUE
DavistheSavage
I don’t think it is infinite value, because you only have two power word shields in your deck, and maybe two unidentified elixirs, so I’d say it is 4 value at best, but more realistically, the best you can probably get is the two resurrects from the power word: shields.
Even more realistically, this dies the moment it is played and you get 0 resurrects
Helix
Lady in White wasn't the WORST Legendary in the Witchwood (Duskfallen Avaina).
Swayer
Priest need something like a eterna echo (Never vanish) spell "Heal a friendly minion 1 hp" 3 mana. To make this and legendary weapon playable.
Brian
Could be good with radiant elemental spell shenanigans. I don’t agree that it’s a worse cairne honestly. One it’s better stated but it’s effect is infinite which makes it sticky, there are many copy cards in priest, and this with Lyra train could be crazy value.
Nope
It's not infinite. It needs to be reactivated every time it 'dies'.
King Pineapple I
I can't wait to cast Purify on this! :D ;)
Jed
U right
KaihatsuJai
Terrible garbage. Feel bad for anyone who pre-ordered and gets it in gold.
Tuscarora87
Actualy, it's better to get it golden so you can dust it without remorse and craft something better.
Advocaat
The fact that this card is having 4/5 rating by people is the reason why 95% of players never get to legend :D
This card is pure trash, not playable at all in any deck.
Grenga23
This card would of been good, if they added the last line of text, of it keeps the spells you cast on it..... like it still has inner fire when it comes back......then.... then its a legend worthy card!
Helix
Actually, I think 95% of players never get to legend because legend consists of the top ~5%.
Albi
Or simply you dont care about going legend once you go there once.Theres no benefit.
Also if you are above 15 years old you probably dont have more than 1 hour a day to play the game anyway.So good luck needing 200-800 games to reach legend.
Blazing Refrain
People are saying this is bad... But it's a Quest Priests dream. A deathrattle that can, in the right circumstances, infinitely come back? Imagine getting this off of Twilight or copying with Potion or Vivid Nightmare? Just need to cast a spell on it? Any spell? Simple. Get rid of two cards, shove in two Power Word: Shield. Just death it to bring it back if you need to. Holy water it to get a copy in hand and summon another one! Just add some small spells to Quest Priest and you're good. Easy completion, if it wasn't easy already.
Advocaat
Still bad though. I can't imagine quest priest deck with enough good cheap spells in the first place. And the value this card brings is not huge anyway compared to other value generators that are in the game right now.
kustov
imagine your momma's FARTHOLE !!!
Albi
Well Shudderwock doesnt care about wuest priest.
MrPoison
yeah right, infinitely isn't an option, there is a finite number of buff you can have as a priest, and even less that you can play on the right tempo, an even if you wait and try to buff this card over an over, do you really think the enemy will just lay around giving you free tempo? there is a lot of aggro decks in this meta, you will be dead before summon ur 3rd zerek.
Flashlight
Will Vivid Nightmare activate the deathrattle on the copy? Since it is a copy after the spell is cast?
Greg
Good question, I don't think it would activate the copy's deathrattle. The spell is cast on the first minion and the copy is just the outcome. I'm liking the possibility of being able to run the quest with only a few deathrattle minions and Lyra spell rebirth mixed in. These clone cards open up the quest deck to have more variability and more flexibility to tech against the meta.
Marzamat
Thx for adding another bad card to the priest....we needed that!!! Thx also for the good shaman’s cards.....a class that didn’t have enough....
SqueezyBear
Does anyone else think that they copied the art from dr strange and mummified him?
Spooninja
This card is pretty nutty if it gets off once or twice as it already demands attention from silence effects. One thing to remember is that with the new changes to how things are copied, the second one that is created by ‘vivid nightmare’ or ‘power word: replicate’ will also gain the death rattle’s effect of respawning since the new copy did have a spell cast on it.
MtgUngluedPlayer
circle of healing
Sismo
Doesn't target anything, that card wouldn't work.
xTsuna
If you Summon Zerek out of Twilight´s Call trigger his Deathrattle? Because when they have a buff call Shadow they are summon by Twilight´s Call
Decycle
A lot of good cheap priest spells just released like Topsy Turvy which is a zero mana spell that let you switches a minion's attack and health. CloneMaster Zerek might be playable now
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