Seems we are getting a new event card (leak)

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not sure if is real they say on the thread it comes from achineses playtest of the next patch
and its an event standard card for the new BG season

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/1h4uuln/new_event_card_leaked_bartender_bob/

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They all seem fair except for the Enemy Minion in your hand BS. Rogue is going to go nuts with that all while filling the opponents hand up.

The last thing you want is Rogue with the ability to remove minions via a Battlecry card they can abuse. Once Rogue plays this and Shadowsteps it, you can’t play another big minion for at least another 3 turns because Shadowstep and Break Dance.

Terrible Battlecry if true.

And if it’s neutral, it’s basically taking the place of Yogg on rotation and Starships can’t be played. And that means massive Druid abuse.

These neutral cards that shore up weaknesses in classes are exactly what causes the issues we continually have.

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At least it doesn’t get any buffs from it right? Because it doesn’t say ‘copy’.

You’re probably right in overall but 3 coins aren’t nothing.

The best argument against what you’re saying,

is “but they can already steal your cards”.

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Rogue can’t really steal your cards efficiently. This makes it extremely efficient. Mark my words, you will see Rogues using this and bouncing it and removing and copying all your big stuff. It’s 1 card they need to add to any current build with Shadowstep and Breakdance to neutralize big minions. The coins are negligible. If you are going to spend the coins playing another big minion or creating a board…guess what happens with that?

This isn’t even taking into account the Freeze Enemy minion option, which shores up Rogue’s weakness to wide boards. Now they can delay turn and turn after turn in devastating fashion.

No one will be using this to discover a 3-cost minion unless this minion costs 1 mana.

Those first 2 options are going to get abused 100% with Rogue doing most of that abuse.

They didn’t even make the 3 options equal in power. It’s crazy how unbalanced the options are.

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I’m not sure I get what you mean. Shadow Word Steal is 5 mana, and this is 6 plus a handicap of 3.

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Shadowstep and Breakdance break the game in combination with badly thought out new card? Don’t say O_O

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The artwork seems off… I’m finding this hard to believe.

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If you don’t see what I mean, you’ll quickly find out in a few weeks.

Effect on a Battlecry Minion is > Effect on a spell in Rogue. You’ll soon find out if it’s not clear to you.

According to the Reddit post, this came directly from the play testing in the new patch.

I really, really hope this is fake. But 90% of the time, these things turn out to be real.

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Yeah I know Shadowstep is a card. I don’t get how it’s much more efficient in this case.

Shadowstep can be used on other cards too so it’s not like it’s wasted otherwise.

You’re probably right, I just don’t see clearly how its 6(+3) cost is easily great.

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Just imagine a 6 mana Yogg. That’s 4 mana again next turn. And the next turn. And then 6 mana again next turn.

This can target Unkilliax, for example. SW:S cannot. That’s 1 small detail as to why this is 10x better than SW:S. But the biggest thing is that this can be played multiple times for more value and SW:S cannot.

We’re also not counting this getting discounted to 1 for Sonya to then double dip.

And then SW:S also doesn’t have functionality to freeze the entire enemy board as an option instead.

The Battlecry and the versatility of this makes SW:S look pathetic.

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What do you mean 6 mana yogg. It doesn’t discount what it steals. It’s a 6+3 handicap+10= 19 mana yogg.

Shadow Word Steal would be 5 + 10 = 15 mana yogg.

Again I’m not sure (just brainstorming here).

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so this makes it a great card a nice counterplay

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Most of the time Yogg is played, it’s the removal of the minion from the opponent’s side that is devastating. The swing of having the big minion is often negligible because they will wipe your board anyway.

You aren’t using Bob to copy the card for the most part as Rogue unless you have some Tess stuff you want to do. You are using Bob as a way to poof the minion, which is a massive weakness in Rogue. No triggered deathrattle. Remove the minion and keep removing a big minion threat over and over.

And again, the freeze enemy board option is also massive. It shores up the other weakness.

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You said the yogg would be 6 and then 4, so you misread the card.

I admit Elusive being targettable by it is pretty good though.

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6 Mana Bob
4 Mana Bob
1 Mana Bob
0 Mana Bob

Are all very real things that can happen.

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I didnt really read much into this but judging by the art this looks fake as hell.

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I have never wanted you to be more right about something than you are about this. I hope it’s fake.

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It probably is real though. You know that Blizzard has an NDA where anyone working on the staff isn’t allowed to talk about or post content before its official release, but some inside source has been doing it for quite some time now on a fairly regular basis. There have been like 4 or 5 of these leaks in the past couple years, and every one of them turned out to be legit. You’d really think they’d get on that and look into finding out whose doing it.

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Supposedly, the BG play test that is active on China servers had this as a reward for playing BG so that sounds like something that would slip through.

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It still makes their PR look bad to have all these slips through the cracks.