If it’s not 3 mana and starts in hand similar to a quest then this is useless unplayable crap.
If there’s a tutor and/or a way to cheat it out slightly earlier, its pretty strong tbh. Imagine curving this out into fleshshaper, turn 6 18/28 taunt. Asking an aggro deck to kill through entire heroes’ worth of health pool or give up any board-based damage could be strong.
The big issue is that it only buffs your deck and not hand.
How many times have we said this over the past year?
Seems pretty weak and slow. Should at least hit hand. Probably wouldn’t be op if it also hit board, too.
This does not go in a deck that generates armor. This is purely for minion heavy handbuff style decks with Olgra, or Trenchstalker or whatever.
You don’t play that deck just for the BRnR into Lor’themar into trenchstalker OTK. You play it as like a regular midrange handbuff warrior deck that has this card which just powers up your whole deck. Then use finley or whatever new draw Warrior gets to pull a bunch of buffed minions then win the game with them.
So a bloodlust that hits your hand and deck too? Permanently?
I don’t think so. The card could maybe have some sort of finale effect that draws cards, maybe been 4 mana.
I predict this card will be good in control warrior, in particular, a Jailor variant.
Note, people have been playing with control warrior variants with Jailor with mixed success at legend. Player named “Construct” which I faced several times last month or was it the month before, was running a version of Jailor warrior that was actually really good for the meta (note this was T100 legend at the time.)
This card would do quite well in Jailor decks in general, as Jailor makes removal that much harder (only a few spells work, mostly priest spells.)
If you hit a perfect curve and play this the average attack boost is less than bloodlust (+1, +2, +,3, +4, mean=+2.5). The fact that it hits deck is largely irrelevant for an aggro deck. The handbuff befits the legendary status. I think a deck like enrage warrior would rather just have bloodlust.
This is probably meant as a finisher for something more control-late game focused, and it would be way more useable for that if it hit board, or at least hand. Other option is warrior gets some way to pull minions from deck and you’ll want to grab charge minions.