Spreadsheet: 0-Cost Cards
Category: Other (A-Tier)
Internal Category Tier: A-Tier
Spreadsheet: 0-Cost Cards
Category: Small Removal (A-Tier)
Internal Category Tier: B-Tier
Spreadsheet: 0-Cost Cards
Category: Burn (B-Tier)
Internal Category Tier: C-Tier
Tier 2
Only have three 0-costs slots and you can’t decide if you want Vanishing or Hasty Retreat? Why not both? This. This is both. More importantly though, breaks Muse/Thought Plucker.
I honestly don’t have much more to say about this card. If you want to be able to return a champion to hand for 0 or deal 2 damage, take this card. The fact that it doesn’t have card draw on it does make it a bit harder to fit into decks as opposed to Hasty/Vanishing, but if you already have solid card draw, the versatility of this card is much greater than either. Further, you can finish people off with this card.
The discard a card from your hand drawback can also be exploited with cards like Soul Hunter, Noble Martyr, etc., and, if you wanted to, you could even play this on your opponent’s turn when there are no champion in play just to discard a card from your hand.
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Okay fine you all know I can’t leave any interesting card like this with so little analysis. The main decks that would want a 0-cost card that can return champions to hand are exceedingly quick decks like Aggro-Burn/Blitz-Kark and/or tempo based decks like my Untargetables deck revolving around Sea Titan/Kong and gold-punishers. Essentially, decks that don’t care about giving your opponent the possibility of gaining additional gold value, either because you want to end the game before they can reasonably spend another gold to replay the card, and/or because you can destroy them if they spend their gold first on a turn. This card is great at removing: an ambush potential-blocker during an attack, an off-turn gold-punisher like Angel of the Gate, or an on-turn gold-punisher like Draka (all without needing to spend a gold).
This card can even return one of your own champions to hand to replay, like Brand Rebel Fighter, possibly even after it has blocked something (either before damage if Brand would break or after if Brand would do the breaking). Tricks like this enables Disappearing Act to help blunt attacks by Untargetable champions that it normally couldn’t. Similar to Spore Beast, it is also great for removing one big defense champion after it solo blocks your breakthrough champion, to push through all that sweet damage.
