New Rogue Legendary: Pirate Admiral Hooktusk

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And that’s why I said that it’s extremely conditional.

Yes, in those conditions it can actually be good. Even very good!

But it’s not like those will happen every game.

Playing an 8/8/8 with 0 or minimal tempo as a rogue is suicidical.

Again, the closest example I have is kazakusan.

There’s a reason why there’s no “kazakusan rogue” even if rogue has the draw to have him on hand and enabled by t8.

(the reason being that you need a strong control core to play such cards. Like warrior or priest. Or have ways to cheat them early, like druid)

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102

we know

itll be fun to watch ! :rofl:

103

The more I see, the more its hard for me to believe this is a real expansion.
I’m certain that I am done leveling. I’m just gonna collect gold and call it day.
I think the entire product has jumped the shark.
I have never cared less about playing.

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But extremely conditional would imply that mind controlling your opponent’s highest attack minion is only rarely/inconsistently useful, and I don’t think that’s the case.

Kazakusan Rogue isn’t a thing because… why? You’d have to cut ALL your minions, Rogue doesn’t have ramp or class dragons… there’s just no incentive to run that deck in general. This is more like the big pay off for a tempo deck that’s been running midrange pirates all game.

I don’t know what that necessary looks like entirely, because I imagine there’s still more pirates to reveal, but as a top end pay off I think it makes sense.

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This card will at best see some light play if Pirate Rogue is good. This is not even close to the second coming of Tikatus unless there’s some WACKY syngery we haven’t seen yet. You’re probably overreacting.

106

I honestly cannot wrap my head around the fact that players are discussing the new cards as though any of them are balanced or fair.
This card is busted in a pile of busted.

107

From the ones revealed so far, the boat doesn’t actually inspire me with confidence.

The 3 drop is maybe OK, but that actually looks stronger in a non pirate deck to tutor out smite/vc.

The 5 drop is meta reliant, but could see play. But again, no need for it to be in a “pirate deck”.

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It really isn’t. It’s very easy to deal with in most decks.

109

uh huh. Creepstone is gonna be really fun for someone.

110

The amount of hate posts we are going to see with this card is already traumatizing me.

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You wont see them from me. i’m getting mine done before the expansion and in that way i can say: “I told ya so.”

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112

Exsqueeze me, but I like to play kaza rogue some, soooo humph, all it is is miracle rogue with kaza In the deck, you have drawn through your deck by 9 or 10

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So control decks are dead once again? Basically Tickatus on steroids.

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It’s been a day where’s the nerf Hooktusk spam?

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Poor guy can’t make it down on the board! Haven’t seen him once today :frowning:

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And… it wasn’t.

T w e n t y

117

Hooktusk is a “she”…
I actually opened her in my 90 packs, but miss a few legendaries for even the Blizzard-proposed decklist.

Darn

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Control is dead because all the aggro, Hooktusk is nowhere to be seen, I played 20 games with Pirate Rogue with Hooktusk and used it maybe in 2 games, the rest were lost/won simply on tempo before turn 8.

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Whoopsie! The more you know!