New Warrior Epic: Bloodsworn Mercenary

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Sounds fun but not sure how it would be pulled off? Jepetto would be extremely unreliable and doing it over 2 turns isn’t going to work.

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That sounds great.

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It’s a better faceless manipulator

44

But you see, I can get on board with that.

I dream of a meta where you aren’t really sure exactly what archetype/deck your opponent is playing nomatter WHAT class they’re using.

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45

This card is amazing.

Shocked that other people aren’t seeing the value.

Wow.

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46

Hard to say if this card going to be meta-viable.

Best case scenario is of course duplicating a Grommash or Akali. In a realistic scenario you probably going to duplicate an Eternium Rover, Militia Commander or even a synergy-less Dyn-o-matic/Devastator.

Worst case it’s a 3/3… that’s an improvement for sure compared to Blood Warrior and Sudden Genesis.

But Kor’kron + Inner-Rage + this not bad I guess. I think it’s playable if Tempo Warrior gets more powerful mid-range minions, like new Warrior Legendary.

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Yes, I was also shocked when people thought Madam Lazul is “incredible powerful” card that gets played in every Priest deck…

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48

Oh this is very much op,very good card. It can be like a 3 mana faceless where you keep the 3/3 body as well. It also can be so much tempo against agro if copy even a 1/1.

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This card is great simply for the stats alone.

3 mana and you generate more stats than 3 mana would. Even if you hit a small body minion like a 2/3 that is a 2/2 from trading you get a 3/3 and a 2/2 on board for 3 mana and that’s low balling.

Hitting a ysera or a big taunt minion will be major stats from a 3 mana play.

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Hey that sounds like arena always.

Also it doesn’t work that way because standard doesn’t have enough cards to support both.

However, Wild does and do have both aggro and control options for all classes.

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You can already run a Faceless Manipulator if you wanted to copy big minions and that isn’t conditional. Your Ysera needs to be alive on your turn and damaged to be able to utilize this new copy effect and by that stage, the 2 mana discount and 3/3 are a bit less impactful.

I feel like this thing is best when it’s copying slightly smaller stuff. Going Town Crier/Eternium Rover into Redband Wasp into Bloodsworn Mercenary is where you really snowball this.

Notably, this would be pretty slick with the new Restless Mummy which has Rush and Reborn. The Reborn version will be damaged to 1 by default enabling the Mercenary.

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52

On turn 3+ getting an extra 2+/2+ isn’t really “wow, so op” any more. Especially not in the current meta’s power-level. Maybe it would been really OP back in Naxx or something… but now, you need to bring more than just extra (mini) value.

Warlock has a 3 mana 3/3 + 5/5 for just sacrificing a Lackey. That’s a wow.

Sure, you can always imagine duplicating Ysera. You can also duplicate a Death Wing or a Gruul and many other unrealistic situations. You can do that with almost any (bad) card.

If you introduce this card today in this meta, I’m sure nothing will change. Tempo Warrior will not reappear for this card. So no, I don’t think it’s an OP card… if Tempo Warrior gets really good again, there might be room for this card… I think you’re just overhyping stuff just like you did with Madame Lazul.

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I would pair this with a sexy rush minion. That was my first thought. I don’t play warrior…at all, ever. So, that’s all I got.

From the standpoint of versing warriors… I did see warriors that damage minions to buff them. However, I don’t know if this set is going to have enough to knock out mechs.

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The difference between this and prior attempts at copying damaged minions is that those were very slow, memey plays that typically only worked in OTK combo decks (Recruit Warrior with Sudden Genesis). This card is a 3 mana 3/3 that creates more value on board. That’s so much stronger than Sudden Genesis, because it doesn’t have to rot in your hand until you have your combo set up. I think Mech Warrior will rule the meta until rotation, but this card is too strong not to find a home at some point in the future. I’ll give it a 4 out of 5.

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55

This card fits in the current warrior decks so well with boom. Warrior is spoiled for choice with boom decks it’s getting silly.

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While 3 mana, with 5 mana stats on a low end might not be op, it’s still amazing value and again that is lowballing it and also not counting for cards with effect like reborn attached.

Copying a big minion is just a dream play, but copying lower cost minions is where it will shine more often.

And Madame Luzul isn’t a fair example, the card is still great, the problem is priest has no viable deck type right now so she doesn’t have a deck to go into because priest is literally the worst class right now.

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Oho, I’ve just gone from “meh” to hyped in one card :open_mouth:

If there’s more enrage support in the set to come too count me in! This is the kind of support we’ve needed for years.

Leeroy, Inner Rage and this, fun times.

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Agree by just copying a 1/2 Acolyte you will get insane value off it while at the same time behing a pretty alright tempo play. Its basiclly a bare minimum 4/4 stats split into two minions for 3 mana which is fine.

I think this card is really strong with alot of potential. When the worst play you can do with something is a 3 mana 3/3 and the best is something crazy like a 3 mana 3/3 that copies a 12/8 Grommash you know the card is good.

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59

Bingo.

The variety is great for such a low cost.

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Maybe an all in bomb deck where you copy elekk.

My dragon warrior, which sponsored my climb to 5 might make use of this, as copying a giant twilight drake isn’t half bad.