Interesting debuff effect.
And it’s another big Demon for Demon Hunter.
What the effect does: It reduces the attack and health of enemy minions by 1, and each point that they lose goes onto Ancient Void Hound as a buff. If the enemy minions reach 0 health, they die.
There’s a gameplay video of the effect on the reveal page (the page is in Chinese):
Does this mean if your opponent has 3 2/2 minions, at the end of your turn, they become 1/1 and this becomes 13/13, or 11/11?
Yes. And it becomes a 13/13.
It does… what now?
Well, that’s certainly a more interesting version of Gruul…
Gets big, makes your opponents smaller, weirdly encourages NOT clearing your opponent’s board though.
It could be as much as a 17/17 the turn it is played.
I feel like its effect is too slow and awkward for most games (usually you don’t want to play a 9 drop into a large enemy board).
Looking forward for lock galakrond to summon it though…
I’m wondering if this makes Cycle of Hatred look better, since it will push minions closer to the 3 health mark, while partially healing itself at the end of each turn it survives.
Definitely flashy. The fact that it can be cheated out is a bit spooky. Also super strong evolve outcome.
Chunky boy! I really like this. Even if it’s bad. It makes me want to try and make a singleton big DH.
It’s funny the effects that once qualified a legendary now exist as rares and epics.
I must say I am impressed with how creative the Dev team has been this expansion, some of the most unique cards I have ever seen and this is among them. It’s a touch slow and vulnerable to removal, but it presents a huge threat. I especially like this card’s potential in arena.
I can’t say if it will see competitive play, maybe in a slower meta, but I’ll be experimenting with it in my big DH deck (which is admittedly pretty memey).
If you discounted this with Raging Felscreamer, at 10 mana you could play Shardshatter Mystic to do 3 damage to all minions (assuming you have soul shards in your deck), than follow up with this guy for essentially a Flamestrike that produces a 3/2 and a 10/10+ minion.
Fel summoner and pit commander approve of this card
Seems like they are definitely trying to make control demon hunter be a thing. This is pretty decent as it has immediate effect on the board, and even if it doesn’t kill enemy minions, it at least reduces the damage they do.
Upgraded gruul. Srly this is good , one of the main drawback of big minion is being swarmed with taunt and token and not being able to deal with it. This card doesn’t only deals with token, its feeds on them.
On top of that, the art, is really nice.
I’m starting to feel like Demon Hunter’s identity is “Anything In Hearthstone.”
Wardrum approves of this.
I actually want Big Demon Hunter to become a real deck, and this looks like it’ll help out with that. It’s not often that they print expensive minions that impact the board when played, so hopefully it’s effect will make it playable.
This is a pretty Legendary effect to put on an Epic tho.
I’m getting vibes from Blood of the Ancient One or Mogu cultist, and maybe Big Bad Archmage. Basically big epics that have interesting effects that would rival legendaries.
Might be practical. Might just be a meme.
Pretty bold to wish for something like that. Demon Hunter is pretty powerful as it is, do you really want them cheating minions out too?
Don’t you just love how they get Dusk Breaker for cheaper as well? Maybe next expansion is the good Priest expansion.
6mana(off skull) 10/10 that will only get bigger unless dealt with spells.
Team5 released broken DH class
Ok ok sorry we’ll fix it
Nerfs DH to oblivion
Releases Solomancy expansion
Haha jokes on you players!!!
I’d prefer playing against a deck centered around big minions rather than being smashed in the face by Aggro every time I’m matched up against DH. And Big DH is an archetype I would want to play.
Plus if Big DH somehow gets too good, I can always go back to the endless removal in Priest to counter it.