That was my first thought when it was explained.

Hold your horses there buckaroo. turn 1 is always important for aggro decks and this turn 1 is essentially do nothing. I can imagine midrange at most but priest will never go full aggro. its hp will never support it.

to be fair, warlocks hp is about drawing cards so it does synergize with the quest. But this is a whole other level…

We have yet to see how this will function in the meta but priests already heal themselves a ton in any game. This doesn’t require you to construct a particular deck and turn 1 priest is usually passed if you don’t have cleric in hand.

The question is, why would you not run this in any priest deck? +3/+3 for two mana and heal 3 is absolutely insane.

People with half a brain can already play around aggro :-p

meh he’s fine. Rating cards bad doesn’t make you good or insightful. Trolls will troll.

This will be the card that puts secret tech back into the meta. This will completely disrupt any type of aggro meta that doesn’t have a tech against it.

literally the only way for aggro to “play around it” is to add secret tech. 3 damage destroys all aggro boards.

Even without a buff this is still 18 stats for 8 mana. 3/6 taunt for 4 mana is great and playing two of them is better. I know this will see play, if not in constructed, then in Boom’s mech discover pool.

I’m glad priest gets such a powerful card for 1 mana!!

Sure they don’t stack but if the reborn is triggered, could one reborn the new minion?

Psst you forgot a rating on plague of flames! 🙂

Yes it is traditionally the least wanted, but it more often than not still builds your board state in a tempo deck. It is still an offensive play and not a defensive one, so my statement is still true.

I actually do not think this is a zoo card. As amazing as the effect is, you play it with the hopes of utilizing lackeys later into the game. A 5 mana 4/4 with no immediate board impact is a terrible tempo play (unless you already have some lackeys on the board). However, I could easily eat my shoe by saying this…

With the new lackey revealed, I actually think this would be slotted in a control/midrange warlock deck.

Come at me if I’m wrong but being the only defensive lackey now, it could actually HURT the lackey mechanic for every deck who currently uses lackeys. For aggro/tempo decks, +2 and taunt is not as good as the others.

That being said, this allows the lackey mechanic to be utilized in other archetype variants. One I believe being control warlock with their new legendary.

Zoo doesn’t have board control if they don’t have a board dude. If zoo truly cared about removing 8/8s they would run single target removal demon bolt.

And no is saying zoo can never change. We are just saying this card will not be in that change.

So I’m confused as to why this is rated so highly right now. What would run this? Zoo would not run because they cherish their board state way too much. Control wouldn’t run this because it doesn’t have enough minions on board for it to counter any aggro board…

The ONLY deck I could see playing this is that meme big warlock in wild. Summoning imps and sacrificing them would be a great board clear.

But maybe this card is what puts rafaams scheme into the meta somewhere? Together its a four mana board clear.

Zoo will never play this. reset or not.

Its toxic enough for me to auto concede against any other opponent just so I don’t have to play it anymore.

nobody:

Team 5: Control warrior buff!