Spreadsheet: Slow Champions
Category: Re-establishing, One-Sided, Multi-Targets Small (S-Tier)
Internal Category Tier: S-Tier
Tier 5
Love getting this card in Dark Draft. In today’s meta, the Re-establishing, One-Sided, Multi-Targets Small category is my most valued category (at least at the start of the draft before other considerations start to potentially outweigh it). I would draft this card just as highly even if it didn’t have blitz because that 3 damage clear to only opponent’s champions on a 10/9 body is enormous. Frequently in Dark Draft, due to the strength and popularity of mass 0-cost cards, boards will slowly and incidentally fill up with a bunch of small champions, especially if neither player gets far enough behind that they feel forced into a board clear. Anguish Demon’s tribute hitting that 3 damage breakpoint clears the way for your attackers (including this because blitz), and it lessens the potential retaliatory attack on your opponent’s turn. Frequently this will remove multiple cards worth of value for your opponent and result in you getting damage through, with no alignment requirements.
However, the lack of evasion, the lack of direct damage, the lack of a repeatable clear, and the inability to hit bigger 0-cost cards like demon tokens destroys most of its constructed potential. When against a constructed token deck, even if you clear out all of their tokens, they can frequently get a new one into play to block this card the turn you play it and then get more tokens to swarm over it afterwards. Further, most successful constructed token decks are either demon token decks (tokens to big) or human token decks (too explosive with few to no openings to play this to clear, unless Surprise Attack). That being said, as an inherent blitz, big champion Lash, Rage, and Army of the Apocalypse makes this card a lot more interesting, but it would only be a tech card at best in those situations, and I just think it gets pushed out by so many other card choices and deck archetypes in the meta. I’ve tried including this card in multiple decks, but I’ve ended up cutting it in all of them.