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Expansion Spoiler: War Exorcist (Lyonar)

Plasmastoooorm, Plasmastooorm
Alone in the world after that plasmastorm.

But seriously, we get Lyonar minions that are not stupid statsticks. I definitely like it.

Agree with @whyb0t and @longshot405 on evaluation though.

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Well, that’s depressing. At least this survives Frostburn and Rebuke.

You could say that about dozens of things in this game. If you have removal for a 3/10 provoke, you have removal for a 3/8 provoke.

Yeah, you walk away LOL. But if that’s your point, how do you play around ranged without removal? Or Ironcliffe? Or Shadowdancer? Removal exists

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Removal kills everything; it’s not like this minion is particularly susceptible to removal. It’s a pretty weak argument to claim a card is weak because it dies to removal.

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Say what you want about power level (personally I think this is a sidegrade to Ironcliff guardian that could make Decimate playable), but this card definitely feels “cool” enough to get hyped about.

Things that let me cast Immolate 5 times is what gets my Timmy blood pumping. A great Timmy/Tammy card and a great Johnny/Jenny card in one day.

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Kevin’s magnum opus

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Solid minion with a badass ability to boot? I’m definitely playing A.shaman now (provided I can pull any of these cards)

As already said, it’s not that hard to play around the effect unless you are surrounded by provokers but in that case you are already loosing. Looks like a premium version of ironcliffe but without airdrop.
The fact that we’ll have two legendary minions per faction thou…

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this is so cool but also this is making me cry.

Imagine if Lyonar would get ramp this expansion

This looks OPed at first… and then you remember Vet also has had a OPed Legendary with the same statline and no immediate effect… It doesn’t take long to realise that this card isn’t going to be problematic on the ladder. In the Gauntlet though…

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I don’t agree in the general cases; if a 4-drop and a 9-drop die to the same removal then that is a big strike against the 9-drop. This issue doesn’t apply to the Exorcist though, so I agree there.

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Really like it’s flavour but it’s a bad card.

We all thought that the vet 4 mana 1/5 was strong but the start of your next turn clause ruined it.

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This thing has to jump through an absurd amount of hoops to get value. It has to live and be damaged, or it has to live and another minion has to live and be damaged, and even then it’s just healing unless there’s an enemy that was left in the blast radius for some strange reason. For the same amount of mana a lavaslasher just tears something’s face off for you.

Edit: This would be decent/good/amazing for six or seven mana if the effect came down at end of turn instead of start. It’d be a holy immolation with a two-to-three mana 3/8 thrown in, at the cost of having to have a unit survive a turn first. Three immo and three exorcists, run some high-health units, throw in divine bond and aegis barrier, maybe we’d be looking at something there.

But no, instead we get this.

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This would be downright outrageous if the Holy Immolation procs at the end of turn. Even with 1 Sunriser, that would be 3 face damage and 6 AoE damage, all at the minimum of T4. Now imagine that with multiple other minions at the same time; Makantor would be crying tears of shame.

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Big heal ziran coming!

This card is the def. Of rape

This works kinda like removal, right? :kissing_heart:

P.S If opponent damages War Exorcist but does not kill it then it casts H.I on itself which I think is a very cool idea form a design perspective.

is this card fake??? i know i know if this becomes a thing grovekeeper will shut this down but think about it i know opponent can remove dispel play around it but this might just bring dioltas divine bond back. 4/8 would have been godly. maybe i need to run a couple sanctify (yuck). its a decent legendary almost op 7/10… i need to see a 2 mana 2/6 and 3 mana 3/7 card

Just so you know dioltas is rotating out

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wutt? i thought its just shimzar