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Goblin Sapper=More Mill Rogue love. 

If the voters are anything like me they're more interested in seeing more of the class cards than additional neutral ones. I really want to know what's coming for Shaman and Mage (other than the couple shown already) as those are my primary 2 classes. Also Hunter and Warlock as they're my tier 2.

Quote from: browarod on November 14, 2014, 04:23:45 PM

If the voters are anything like me they're more interested in seeing more of the class cards than additional neutral ones. I really want to know what's coming for Shaman and Mage (other than the couple shown already) as those are my primary 2 classes. Also Hunter and Warlock as they're my tier 2.

That's all well and good but the pirate goblin was a rogue class card.

Ah, I didn't actually look at the options then so I was unaware, lol. In that case I have no idea why they didn't pick the pirate goblin one. Unless maybe they wanted to see a Warrior card since we've already seen a Rogue one.

Why do people keep voting against Brode's votes?  Yes another lackluster card, though I'd say this one is pretty much unplayable.

Just load your deck up with tons of 7+ mana legendaries. slap that down on turn 4, GG.

So you'd probably win one game out of 10 with that deck, totally worth it.

Honestly, these cards are just a lot of fun, which is, in my opinion, what Hearthstone is about. There's definitely the competitive circuit with the ladder and such, but oh my word, these are just going to be fun to mess around with. I'm all about gimmick decks and cards.

I just don't know what to think about Muster for Battle. I feel like it's OP, but at the same time I feel like Paladin needs cards like this to be more of a competitive class. I think it's gonna be insane in arena for sure.

Honesty I really don't see how you could think this is OP.

Just going by the vanilla test, you are getting 3/3 worth of stats for 3 mana, and a 1/4 weapon.  Light's justice (which is what you are getting here) is a terrible weapon, and its only saving grace really is when you get it out on turn 1.  Turn 4 is for truesilvers, which are going to destroy this weapon anyway, and in most matchups, a 1 damage weapon isn't going to be doing much for you at that point in the game.  And 3 1/1s is worse than 1 3/3 as 1/1s are more easily dispatched of just by a hero power.  If this was a druid card, it would be great, because they have mass buffs in mark of the wild and savage roar, but Paladin doesn't really have a way to take advantage of having multiple small minions out, except for equality, but with equality I find I generally have more ways to activate equality, than number of equalities themselves.  Now, you might say, "but hunter uses snake trap, and that's effectively the same thing."  Except its really not.  The snakes are beasts, which is something that shouldn't be glossed over in evaluating a card.  Also, snake trap costs 1 less than muster for battle (and often 3 less than muster for battle because of mad scientist), adds a charge to eaglehorn bow, and forces the opponent to think before they attack because it could be a different trap.  In addition, hunter cares an awful lot more about face damage than Paladin does (keep in mind that most paladins come in with the game plan of outlasting you), so that 3 damage to face of just sending the snakes at the face is more valuable to the hunter than it would be to the paladin.

The only deck where I could see this really being used is the aggro paladin, but imo that deck's just not very good in the first place.

Throw it together with a Blessing of Kings, and you've suddenly got a 5/5 on the board.

But I can already do that with 1 less mana.  I may not get 2 additional 1/1s, but those aren't as useful, and I could just Hero Power then use Blessing without much of a difference.

The only thing this could be useful with to me is Knife Juggler or Sword of Justice, since it is essentially three uses of your power for half the mana and could be useful there, but it kills Sword and isn't that great of a difference.  I'm just not seeing much value with this.

Mech-Bear-Cat- beats the vanilla test with a decent ability, but its 6 mana which tends to be a bad mana cost to have on a card.  Monster in arena at the very least.
Cobalt Guardian- Trash. A card that flunks the vanilla test with a frankly terrible stat distribution AND requires to be combo'd with another card to do anything.  What garbage, paladin needs class cards that are actually good, not more of this.
Toshley- Fine in arena, but that 6 mana cost drags him down too much for constructed.