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7M Spell
Summon two Beasts that cost (5) or less from your deck. Give them Rush.
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Well might be useable with that new Rush Windfury legendary for mega board control.
Also good for thinning the deck if you’re running some big beasts as well.
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Thats no beast unfurtunatly
But the card is trong wth the rush if you run only a few beasts on your deck.
maybe a mix deck with beast and dragons? Looks stronger for Hunter then for druid atm
Not bad for the mana cost. Pay 7 to potentially get x2 5 mana beasts to gain a bit of board control back.
Some Spellburst potential as well if a minion on the board has it and you haven’t used it yet.
I’m not too thrilled with it, but I guess I just find it a little boring. The effect is strong enough for the price, so it’s not exactly a weak play. With that said I don’t see it fitting into any of the current hunter decks.
It’s worth noting that there have only been a total of 5 Hunter cards revealed so far if we include the Hunter/Druid and Hunter/Demon Hunter cards.
There is probably at least one or two Beasts in the unrevealed Hunter & Hunter/X cards.
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Guardian Animals looks interesting for Deck Building.
Druid already has Deck Buffing cards and Hunter now has the Dual Class Legendary.
Will either Class have enough Beasts?
Will Beast Shuffling be a thing again? Like Dire Frenzy
I always hated Deck Buffing when it was a 1/30 card like Prince Keleseth, Pocket Galaxy, or Frizz Kindleroost. I hope there will be 3-5/30 cards that can Deck Buff so it will be less Highrolly and Inconsistent.
4/5 Star Power card, in Druid
4/5 Star power card, in Hunter
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Getting the tiger twice is really good,clear or 10 damage to face next turn if you have the initiative and opponent no clear for stealth with 5hp.
The others are ok-ish but nothing special. You cant run 2 tigers and nothing else with this card unfortunatly,you would need at least 6 beasts totall to make it a bit reliable and skip all the low cost beasts.
Does hunter still have "give beast +3+3 shuffle 3 into deck? In that case it could work. We like to add the 2/5 charger your beast have charge as well for 5 mana off course.
I dont know,maybe. If there is enough to build it then it looks kinda strong.
We know how strong recruiting from your deck can be, Call to Arms was a staple in Paladin decks least up until it got nerfed. Yeah this obviously comes out much later than that card did, however minions coming out with rush is an upside. Of course this also means you are not going to be able to include low mana Beasts in your deck, because pulling a 1 or 2 mana card would be devastating. Also I like the potential synergy here with Shan’do Wildclaw.
Overall, interesting card which I’m going to experiment with, hopefully we get some more midrange Beasts to play with and potentially more ways to buff Beasts in deck.
I disagree. I view the card as a Druid card. Druid ramp allows this card to be used to buffer (time delay, not stats buff). It looks like a fail card for Hunter. The only way this card gets played with value is if Hunter gains a cost five, divine shield, deathrattle: [summon something], 8/2 beast.
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How does this work with embiggen? I assume minions remain 5 mana till you draw them and cost only goes up in your hand? Would be pretty good as you summon extra stats without paying the extra mana
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Right. Cost changes don’t take effect in the deck, only in your hand.
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Too expensive to play in current Hunter builds. Generally you’re looking to close out the game around this turn and this is too unreliable as a way to clear a taunt.
I could see sone pocurpine shuffle shenanigans in a beast Hunter build which might be fun.
Good in druid tho, since you can ramp into it to cast early and you don’t have to lean on minions as much.
Druid plays this late game after embiggen and Survival of the fittest (the new 10M add +4/+4 to all your minions everywhere)
I expect to see some more neutral and class beasts that would be worth this effect for hunter. They’re clearly hinting at a return to a beast hunter focus but most of the hunter cards haven’t been revealed yet.
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This. And an unconditional Keleseth for Beasts could make it work.
Sadly, trying to think of where this card will go in Druid or Hunter keeps me coming up empty. A 7 mana spell is a hefty price and no Hunter deck is going to pay that much except maybe a Highlander Hunter. The problem there is that Highlander has a very small, efficient beast package as is. There really are no Druid beasts for 5 mana or less that you’d run this card for. Until we see more beast support, which we might get in the big reveal today, I don’t see this card as very exciting.
Post reveal edit: well-played Blizzard. This card might actually be a little crazy.
As expected, several good 4-5 cost Beasts were showcased for both Hunter and Druid in the reveal stream along with at least one Neutral one.
insane combo when it hits