Hearthstone

Ravishing said:

Yes, there will be some strong turns once in a while, but like I said, no comeback mechanic, no late game. It's more mid-range. Copying a Tiger and having 3 5/5s on board isn't much different than dropping 2 Things from Below for free plus something else.

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It sounds like you are judging endgame as something like N'zoth that turns the board completely around. A deck doesn't necessarily need something like that to be viable. Dropping 2 free Things from below for free plus something else also requires 3 cards from hand. Whereas dropping Warden gives you two creatures onboard for the price of one, potentially huge value for 6 mana. So yes, I would say that is pretty good endgame for a Tempo deck.

The card in many ways is similar to faceless summoner, which is already pretty decent in tempo decks. As long as you pretty much have any beast in play, its at least as good as that with potentially much higher upside.


I'm not going to say firmly that of course beast druid is going to be a tier 1 deck, but beast druid without warden is already quite viable. I think Warden is at least a good card, so I think the deck will be better. Given my main problem when playing beast druid in the last week has been finishing the game out after a strong beginning, it seems like this card will be useful to help finish out games.

Twilight Sparkle said:

Beast druid is just going to be an inferior version of zoo. You won't have the draw power of lifetap or the explosive finishing power of PO/Soulfire. Your entire gameplan revolves around getting an explosive early game advantage and hoping to ride it to victory.

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Yes, that is the issue with beast druid, but Warden seems to be a pretty strong card into pushing that advantage to the end.

The warlock hero power though, really hard to compete with that and the efficiency of the 1 mana for 4 damage cards.

rofl just had a shaman get buccaneer from maelstrom portal, so instead of playing barnes on curve, i was forced to pain/hero power because he was going into turn 5 without overload and it was instant game over if he'd had doomhammer in hand.

Almost certainly going to lose now because of the lost tempo. Hooray for dumb fucking RNG cards!

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Lost of course. I was right though, he had the doomhammer in hand when I pained the buccaneer.

Fuck maelstrom portal, card should not have been printed with how strong shaman already was.

We will see. For it to be good value though, you only have to hit any other beast in your deck outside of raven (and hitting raven isn't that bad). If it hits anything better than that, it gets silly. That doesn't sound inconsistent to me.

I'd rather see cards like this than more "Call Of the Wild" type crap in one card which by itself swings the game completely.

It'll be interesting to see how beast druid pans out. As it is now it seems like the druid just runs out of steam, but warden will certainly help that.

After thinking about it, I think I misplayed against that buccaneer. I should have just dropped barnes on curve and hoped he either didn't have doomhammer or I would draw into harrison. Perfect example of playing to not lose instead of playing to win.

Sutekh

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I don't think he plays Hearthstone and I think he knows how to spell his own name.

Heroic chess is by far the worst heroic boss they've ever done.

My two closest runs the first one got derailed after a great start when my queen was buried in my bottom two fucking cards. This most recent run I fucking crushed him, then lost to that stupid fucking hero power before I could finish him.

AngryGerbil said:

Sutekh

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Twilight Sparkle said:

I don't think he plays Hearthstone and I think he knows how to spell his own name.

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Curator seems preeettty good in anyfin paladin.