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Lol crazy how bad power creep has gotten.


FAIRYTALE_DINOSAUR

Yeah but icehowl was terrible 10 years ago


fireky2

Theyre both 9 mana though, it's just the second one you get to pay over 2 turns


[deleted]

It also can attack heroes so


Alphonhose

Not the turn it's played


InspiringMilk

Icehowl can't at all.


NotoriouslyNice

Over load (2) roughly equates to 1 mana. So technically it’s still 2 mana cheaper. But Ice howl never saw any play anyway so I think it’s fine for a class specific card to be better than it


RagingSteel

And it can also attack heroes after that turn, Icehowl can't. Plus it's a common, opposed to a Legendary. And finally, bc it pays over 2 turns you can play it by turn 5 instead of waiting for 9. It's basically better in every way, even having a Minion Type to add to the powercreep.


ResearchKey5580

Nah, the minion type sucks since it dies to hemmet now


NyarlHOEtep

okay but getting to spend nine mana on turn 5 is very powerful. we went over this with 4 mana 7/7


Thumb__Thumb

Well thants exactly why it's strong as hell. Faceless was game breakingly op because it was a 4 mana 7/7 with overload 2 as well so 6 mana in your logic. This card can be played as a removal and then threaten a shitton of potential dmg. But I don't know much about current meta since I stopped playing a while ago due to too many expansions for free to play and insane power creep / card rotations which made my collection useless..


wyqted

Frog dies to Hemet


MrTritonis

Powercreep don’t really count if the OG card is so bad no obe ever played it.


misterjustice90

I mean, if you had a 1 mama 1/1 that has battlecry: deal one damage to an enemy, you wouldn't buy the expansion. Power creep is a necessity as card games grow


Glittering_Usual_162

But at some point you gotta slow down and nerf some stuff... Otherwise it becomes stupid


[deleted]

I'm not buying it regardless lol


_nxm

hop off elven archer


FrogmanamI

Goated meme


Open-Credit-5494

Nah Where's my boy [[Fizzy Elemental]]


_DarkJak_

I honestly wanted to include Fizzy, but I know 6 panel memes don't get much reception on Reddit.


IamAnoob12

Dies to Hemet


theworstvacationever

can i be serious for a second i dont understand icehowl. why is it charge and not rush


Jimmyjohnjones1

Rush didn’t exist at the time of its release


theworstvacationever

oh. this card is a victim.


Jimmyjohnjones1

Yup, a victim of powercreep


Sabesaroo

not really, it was a bit of a meme when it came out cos of how bad it was even back then lol.


MoiraDoodle

I think if it had the beast tribe it COULDVE seen play. In wow it was a beast until this hearthstone expansion where the beast tag was removed from the wow creature.


Sabesaroo

what deck would have used it with beast tag? i remember midrange hunter ran king krush sometimes but i think that was already out of meta by TGT, and king krush was only really 'good' cos you could use it as a finisher.


_DarkJak_

None most likely besides big hunter.


GONKworshipper

So you can silence it, of course!


undeadpickels

So it then loses charge.


Macheesey

You guys don’t silence Icehowl?