I’ve seen alot of streamers and players complaining about Pen Flinger.
Personally, I find this card pretty cool. I mostly never play it, but I respect that the card alone managed to create different new combos on alot of classes and you can utilize it in different ways. The type of versatile card that can make the game fun.
But it seems that not everyone has the same opinion. What is your opinion about it? Why do you think it’s overpowered or unhealthy?
It’s good card if you now how to play it, it can bi-pass taunt and kill a focus enemy.
it’s more a card spell than a minion that can be spam, and spam in HS can make thing ugly ^^.
it’s completely broken because of the cards that enable it.
It was already super annoying in paladin and OP in rogue right before rotation, now it’s reached new levels of stupid.
That 3/2 rogue minion that draws an extra card every time you play anything - what the flippin heck is this?? Along with octobot making nearly everything in your hand cost 0. What a joke of a broken mess. reaching rope every turn watching Rogue play solitaire with un-preventable damage and un-touchable minions. Absolutely disgusting. The only counter is early towers, big surprise.
125$ for a whole load of nothing. Tower Penflinger Roguestone since the first hour I logged in and absolutely nothing else.
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It is a good card and can be borderline broken in decks with cheap or reduced cost spells. That is why it is so popular in Rogue and Paladin. However, the new Watchposts work as a counter to it. Summoning a 2/2 every time Pen Flinger is played and then buffing them +1/+1 for every spell played to pull him back is a huge deterrent.
That’s because rogue overall has way too much draw today, pen flinger is just an addition.
With or without pen flinger, rogue would still be problematic because of the insane amount of draw. So is pen flinger really the problem there?
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tbh i have much better success on “miracle rogue” WITHOUT penflinger rather than with him in the deck.
pen spam is kinda too slow vs a lot of things i’ve faced, and the extra draw from the combo of Contact+pen is uneccessary.
Pen+librams… that’s another story 
This is true. I have actually had Penflingers destroyed due to the extra draw.
Yeah isn’t just a “Pen Flinger” problem, but a more general one like you said.
This why i said above "that what we can spam in HS can be Ugly (OP or whatever word for it) be it free spell / draw / removal or Whatever else. This is a huge problem in HS, (we can’t counter it.
Like Tick, if you don’t have “discover card” you lose juste everything (because you can’t make card out of nothing^^ HS doesn’t have a real counter for it.
Actually the watchpost can ‘softcounter’ by make it’s cost higher so make it harder to corrupt/play.
I hate it. I just get really sick of seeing it over and over and over in a game. I don’t even face them that often, but when I do the match just becomes so tedious and not fun.
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Honnestly I never understand why that card is not “deal 1 damage to MINION”. I was expecting that kinda nerf but never happen.
Yes because now you deal damage at the same time you draw an insane amount of card. So you can simply cut out some draw card from previous build and end up drawing a bunch of card while clearing the board or dealing face damage and enabling any card combo. It do it all for 1 mana.
Because you only nerf broken cards.
While it’s damage is persistent via multiple activations and can get to high amounts in the long run 1 mana for 1 damage still the equivalent of pyroblast that is a very low mana to damage ratio.
Sure it annoy a lot but that is everything about it.
Even if you play 10 0 mana spells in a turn it still no more damage than a bad damage card.
Thats not the problem. You dont needs to draw 10 card in a turn, actually thats a bad thing. You could just draw 3-4 card and still play what you plan to do this turn anyway and … still have that guy in hand to repeat later on, deal face damage etc.
The problem is not a one turn drop all 0 mana spell its how the synergy is amazing everywhere and never ending. Try raza priest in wild and see how playing that guy deal 3 face damae every cast and talk to me after that how not broken it is.
The more they print card the more that card can be problematic. It should hit minion only to slow it dow without breaking it.
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Is it a good card?
Hey loser…
its good with questing adventurer and knife juggler
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I hate playing against players that play with Pen Flinger in slow motion because they’re taking the time to add up the numbers. It can make turns take a very long time and consistently. And who doesn’t get tired of hearing “Hey, loser!” a gazillion times.
Except you’re not slowing it down by making it not hit face.
You’re saying:
Know what?
Only control should have the right to play actually good cards.
Pen flinger is good because you can recycle it but it will never be really meta defining in the end of the day because you’re just using a bad card that also requires synergy multiple times.
You not build decks around pen flinger. It just happens to enter in decks who run cheap spell naturally.
If pen flinger was really broken it would be the opposite.
The card not excels in anything other than annoy people and push around to 5 to 8 damage in decks were it is “good”.
Broken cards win games alone.
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Stop whining about the bad phrase you get when playing this card, there are other bad cards with other bad phrases and this has been happening for years, and it’s nothing new!
It’s a legitimate complaint to make. No one wants their game to be annoying, which it becomes for some players when they’re hearing the same lame voice line repeatedly.
It was arguably one of the defining cards of Worlds last year. Probably one of the better cards ever printed. It will be broken for ages to come.