Sludge Slurper
Shaman Card, Rare, Murloc
1 Mana 2/1
Battlecry: Add a Lackey to your hand.
Overload: (1)
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Neat. Overload is generally terrible, but it can be pretty powerful if youāre running Lickem.
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Pretty basic murloc, but Iām not sure itās better than Tidehunter.
How sad is that.
Do we know what any of the lackeys do yet?
All of them, at least for this expansion. Theyāre all 1 mana 1/1 with a battlecry:
Discover a spell
Evolve a minion
Summon random 2-drop
Deal 2 damage
Give a minion +1 attack and Rush
I guess it makes for a decent opener, this guy on 1 and lackey on 2 counting overload. If you get the random 2-drop or the damage thatās a good start. The other three are awful for an aggro murloc deck.
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Solid cardā¦ would fit in any Shaman and Hagatha deck.
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Thatās a decent Overload card. Shamans have Likkim, which needs decent Overload cards to kickstart a face deck. I see possible synergy here.
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Decent card, but doesnāt really interest me much.
Lemme see some Elementals, dangit!!
Ok, just had an idea, and that it might be a component for an aggressive token shaman building off of Thunderhead. That could be good enough. Two bodies for two mana with an overload for the trigger could be exactly what that deck looks for.
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I was like āāurgh, a 2 mana 2/1āā.
But then I thought, the overload isnāt that bad if you play it turn one, because you can always play the lackey right after on turn 2. a random 2 drop would be the best outcome in this scenario, as would be an evolve, but 2 damage and a spell can be pretty good too. so you have 40% for a great scenario, 40% for a fair scenario and 20% for a bad scenario.
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Absolutely.
The card is good enough, on itās own, to be played without any synergy and be a very respectable set up for tempo.
With ANY synergy at all youāve broadly expanded the power level of a deck (and this particular deck is actually very good and just needed a little sauce more to make it spicy)
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very good card. Overload shaman got a lot of support now.
While weāre in crazy thinking mode: Mur-wock. Murlocs and Shudderwock. The Swamp Deck. One glaring problem I see is that Iād want to run Hagatha but her battlecry on Shudderwock would roast the murlocs heād create. I guess you could plan to Shudder first, then Hagatha, but thatās pretty fragile.
Still thereās lots of fun things Iām envisioning:
- Shudderwock summoning a bunch of murlocs and buffing their health (though he probably would do the health buff first 80% of the time just to trigger me)
- Echo murloc + Hagatha
- Zentimo + Rockbiter/Windfury a bunch of cheap murlocs
- The Storm Bringer + cheap murlocs
I know already itād be a styrofoam tier deck, but the theme sounds hilarious.
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ā¦somewhat a reasonable Overload card. For once.
The neutral option is 2 mana for a 1/1, gain Lackey. The Priest one is a 2 mana 2/2, but has the Lackey generation on its Deathrattle.
This guyā¦ is a 1(1) cost. Has one less stat point than the Priest version, but trades it for the ability to have the Lackey on a Battlecry instead. The 1(1) cost makes the card useable on 1, which is relevant as Shaman lacks 1 drop plays to help early, and can curve into the Lackey itself, which could be okay depending which Lackey it is.
I donāt believe it. A card that benefits from its overload, rather than being crushed by it. What a breath of fresh air compared to Rain of Toads. Of course, this will depend almost entirely on how strong the lackeys themselves are, but if most have about the worth of a 2 mana minion, this suddenly becomes a fair card.
Great card. Will see play. Fuel for Aggro Shaman or it can fight for early tempo.
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Did it need Overload?
Firefly was a 1/2 generated a 1/2 for FREE, no condition, no overload, no deal 1 damage to your heroā¦
This is a 1 mana 2/1 giving a 1/1, whatā¦ because the Lackey has abilities? (guess so)
Iām just so OVER loadā¦
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Gotta think that if they print enough synergies to make Overload a net benefit when properly leveraged, this card becomes really solid.
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Trogg no stupid!
Iām not an aggro player so I wonāt comment on the potential for Shaman aggro with this card but for Midrange or Control this is ālight on fireā without a ton of support.
./shrug second Shaman card I have seen and I am not thrilled about wither at the moment.
Oh, I get it, especially the Likkum weapon. And ultimately I like classes to have a flavor but this one is so borderline IMHO. I guess the power of the Lackey justifies the penalty. Iāll be OK, Iām reaching for a Snickersā¦
I mean honestly, Iām lowkey disappointed by the card myself as well. Thematically Iām no fan of Murlocs and would MUCH rather see an Elemental with Overload synergy, but this card definitely seems to have a place.
That place just likely isnāt in any deck I plan to play.
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