Lots of Unholy support and Rainbow/corpse spending synergy here for CNE. Spicy things ahead.
OH MAN. Charge is back and they gave Unholy another finisher next to Grave Strength. Probably meta defining. You can activate this with Construct Quarter or even kill it with spells if you’ve got that luxury. Never let this sit and get silenced, though.
Notably does NOT fit into Rainbow deckbuilding. Can probably discover off Amalgam of the Deep.
Fits into Rainbow and spends corpses for CNE. Can either copy Cage Head in the laaaaate game or Foul Eggs for decent presence mid-game. Trigger AND gain the Deathrattle. Scary card.
Fits into Rainbow and can target enemies. Use this on Boneshredder for tempo, Chillfallen Baron for Draw, or Cage Head for more charge finishers.
Spends corpses so it fuels CNE. Use this on whatever deathrattle you want to repeat (Cage Head!) and you can even use with Construct Quarter to pop the Reborn effect and two deathrattles within one turn. Doesn’t need the target to be undead!
VS Syndicate revealed these and they already postulated that you make boneshredder good by making cage head the only deathrattle in the deck. So you can run a single blood rune for survivability or a frost rune for draw alongside the double unholy runes, then play death growl on the cage head and then return it with boneshredder. You can activate it and reborn it with the two locations as well. Seems like the best way to utilize the cards tbh. Makes for an OTK. Starfish does nothing since the effect goes face the turn it gets laid down. You can’t silence charge on your opponents turn. And those are some biiiiiiig piggies.
Yeah, Starfish will for sure be meta if this takes off. Can’t forget that Big Paladin will demand you silence things like Kangor and Annoy o Troupe as well, and potentially wide Treant Druid buffs.
I think Death Growl and Boneshredder will be used more for the tempo of Foul Eggs than anything else. The fact that it instantly triggers is pretty great. It’s also more fuel for CNE which Rainbow would desperately need. If you get a Deathrattle onto Malignant Horror, your opponent can get in trouble really fast.
I think Rainbow will auto-include Mosh Pit just for the Corpse expenditure but it remains to be seen how great the “natural” deathrattles are. It’s not really an early game tool since you need 3 corpses to activate it. But triple Unholy with Plagued Crain can use it very well.
I feel like it would just be easier to OTK without Boneshredder. The 2 cards are dead until you get it and play, and there isnt any way to tutor it out that I can think of.
Just fight for a sticky board using deathrattle minions, and then the moment you get it, Death Growl Death Growl, and trade for 36/36 worth of stats with charge
I think it’s very important that Cage Head is not going to be in Rainbow naturally, it helps to separate it from Death Growl and Boneshredder ideologically. Cage Head will be fantastic in triple Unholy and will make it less reliant on Grave Strength as its only true finisher. I don’t think we should count on Boneshredder copying Cage Head to be relevant. Cage Head is a great, proactive card for Unholy decks, but not necessarily a build-around card.
Meanwhile, triple Unholy is great at constantly having minions on board where you can use Death Growl to get loads of pressure with things like Boneshredder and Cage Head even into the late game.
I doubt that an Unholy deck is going to invest that much into heavy neutral deathrattles, but things like Foul Egg and Infectious Ghoul are noteworthy in conjunction with Death Growl and Boneshredder.
Looks to me it will be unholy on top, that beats all, but tony warrior to beat unholy, thanks to the slow draw. And rogue to beat tony warrior. Shaman doesnt exist due to dk and rogue. Mage is too slow. Warlock too…
Meanwhile, paladin still hasn’t gotten their own “kill you from hand” card or combo, and so far their cards are big, greedy, and healy
Now of course the existing pally cards and pure pally will probably still be a force to be reckoned with, but I bet if paladins stay being good, people will keep crying about them being boring as they don’t kill people from hand and just dump truck stats…
…well, unless they highroll some other class’ win from hand via countess.
…oh wait people will then complain about countess being OP.
Use Countess to get both cage head and druid’s elder nadox to trigger it go go go!
