Looks like a dead card to me…
Why is this NINE mana? Why is it only a 5/4???
I often feel like Blizzard has two different design teams, one that makes cards that cost 4 or less and one that makes ones that cost 5 or more, and the latter team has ZERO clue how to properly cost something.
How often is this going to be actually better than Twisting Nether?
In some crazy universe there’s a deck that puts 6 copies of 5/7 Augmented Porcupines into the deck and this somehow ‘goes off’
Compare to Malicia.
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This card looks horrible. I saw the effect and expected something like 7 mana. Heck, I dont even know if this would be played at 6 mana. Too inconsistent, required an enemy board to be able to use its affect, and required essentially no low cost minions. Maybe hunter getting a big package this expansion to use with the new alliance card, but I’m not seeing it.
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Im by no means a big Hunter player but this card looks beyond bad to me no matter what.
It reminds me of this:
It also never saw play, now this new one is about beasts(that work way better with Hunter) and 1 less mana but it still looks terrible to me.
Maybe a Hunter expert sees something i dont.
Maybe because King Krush and Tarantula are in Standard? Ingman’s 5/4 body is largely irrelevant, it’s the minions that count.
But 9 Mana? Yeah, that Wing Commander won’t take off… 
Emeriss did see play, though mostly in the meme department.
Not the first time hunter legendary that’s very out there.
In theory if you only run rhino then shuffle a bunch in (with +3/+3), then let them have a board of small health dudes, then you play this.
The other way to play is go with deathrattle beasts so even if you don’t kill something, you get a deathrattle. Most DR beasts are weak at trading though… except for maybe highmane (lol bring back highmane?)
One thing to note is that if you gonna run this and presumably big beasts, you may want to run stormpike so at least it becomes a 6 drop. As a 6 drop it could be a pretty big high roll.
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there are some good beasts to pull out, and it always pull at least 1 even if there’s no board opposing the hunter.
in many cases it is a 9 mana one sided board clear that also builds you a board.
it is ok, good even… if the meta will allow t9 plays.
we’ll see how it goes, we have less than a handful of cards revealed, so it is indeed too soon to judge power levels imo.
looks like more deathrattle support, who knows - maybe if things actually do slow down it can become very powerfull indeed.
Another nerf to evolve shaman. Disgusting.
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It looks like a card that might have been designed at a lower cost, had someone pull out like maybe 20 damage of rush rhinos on maybe like a 7 mana designed, maybe realized unfun and deliberately made dead or a filler card.
At best mana aside it could have been a wipe a board, build a board effect at 7-9 mana which can certainly be a powerful effect ( old kaza potions to wipe board + rez or summon your own used to be very good in the day when 12-14 vanilla mana for 5-10 mana was a steal)
But yeah 9 mana card looks like it’s intentionally designed to be dead after testing. Looks like it might had someone find out printing a bunch of duped rush rhinos and dying to maybe a 7-9 mana version was unfun or just people were tired of hunter. I don’t think this card is meant to see any play outside of one dude who’s gonna highroll the perfect complete bs arena hail mary and recover a lost board with it.
The only mode it has a chance in is a arena meme next to f tier cards in the other 2 buckets and the perfect ysera level highroll to summon like 5x 7/14 ultrasaurs and make someone rage quit their face through the computer.
I think we can ignore this one as filler legendary for the budget hunter class that already uses Kodo mankirk and that rifle and a bunch of epics for that 5000 dust cost already. The draw a 1 mana secret every turn for 3 turns card looks pretty good for 2 mana, and the 3 mana 5/4 stealth with secret looks good.
It’s always a bummer to see a filler legend, but lots of mandatory legends vs commons isn’t always a good thing for a class in dust practice. Raza priest once needed to run scrap tons of legends to even get playable 3 and 4 drops in wild and it could go 10-18k dust really easily. Still they could make a niche card for some deck at least, but this looks deliberately dead after playtesting to me. Might have been oppressive in testing at 7-9 maybe, but there’s few doubts this card at 9 mana is dead with current power levels is intended to be dead i n Hunter. The commons and rares look decently nuts though.
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Meanwhile, Kathrena Winterwisp.
It seems fine to me.
I think the team that makes cheap minions is the clueless one and should balance them more properly 
I play hunter, expecially big beast hunter: this can be a better katrina (not really since it’s vulnerable to AoE, but close enough).
Don’t forget we have a 0 mana card that says “your minions attack an enemy”: if you summon king krush, you can go face, use that spell so king krush trades a minion, summon another minion with charge and go face-
Just because I play hunter and I like it, it doesn’t mean it will be good: I mean, I thought leoroxx was going to be OP and this is definetly worst than leoroxx
Maybe with the right support and with actually strong big beasts (not a 5 mana spider or a rat) it could work.
My prediction is that this card will be buffed: they buffed archwitch willow, no way this card doesn’t get buffed to 8 mana as well (unless there is some crazy combo we haven’t seen yet)
Every card in the new Xpac won’t see play.
This card is trash.
Untill they release the new Beasts that will synergize with this perfectly,. then you will cry for nerfs.
so far it seems to me that they want this expansion to be control focused, but i don’t know how do they want to achieve this while the quests exist.
a wild prediction; i think they are going to hall of fame the quests
Krush won’t happen, Blizzard doesn’t want to make Krush happen. Buff him to 8 mana in Classic, though; I for one would welcome that change.
if the chinese leak of xirella hero is correct, then control will be absurd
lol yeah i saw that but i don’t believe it probably fake, but if it’s the truth it will nice for priest to get something to play with.
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Yeah I was optimistic at first but someone pointed out the xyrella leak had a the icon face photoshopped onto existing art that already existed matching all the shoulders and robes but a completely different character for the original heas.
Unless the art was a official photoshop ( I doubt) there seems a fairly decent chance the china card is a photoshopped potential fake. Fun, and thematic, but the photoshopping is sus.
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Thank god it was fake, it would have been a resident sleeper meta of control priest mirrors 
(Can we get something in between turn 6 OTK and turn 45 tie?)
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