Spreadsheet: 0-Cost Cards
Category: Establishing Draw &&& (A-Tier)
Internal Category Tier: D-Tier
Spreadsheet: 0-Cost Cards
Category: Establishing Draw (A-Tier)
Internal Category Tier: D-Tier
Tier 3
Sage’s Raging T-Rex? No.
I do not like this card in limited for the same reason I don’t particularly like the non-Velden Loyalty-X’s in limited, except to a greater extreme. In order for this card to be actively strong as opposed to below average, it needs to draw 2. The only ways to guarantee that is for your deck to currently be 100% Sage or play this in deck 2 (when you know your next draw will be a recycled Sage card). Neither of those are practical restraints for inclusion. (If you draw both this and a Sage card in your opening hand, you could mulligan them in order to set yourself up, but that relies on you drawing Garbage Golem at the start of your turn and wanting to spend your gold on it, that turn.) Further, as an establishing card, it wants to be played as early as possible in a game. So the question becomes, at what Sage threshold are you willing to take the risk of it only drawing one card? 85% Sage – 51/60 or 26/30?
For constructed, even if you do get your deck to a Sage threshold you are comfortable with, 9/9 just isn’t big enough especially in Wild’s meta. Inherently losing in combat to Raging T-Rex, Scarros, Kong, and tieing Brachiosaurus just isn’t strong enough. It also gets removed by 9 damage effects Drain Essence/Hurricane. All of that being said, it is a potential “draw 2 and” champion you can get off of Mist Guide Herald, and that sentence alone is enough for it to be seriously worth considering.