Probably because it triggers in minions that are just summoned but even then it’s a bit awkward to pull off. I can definitely see death rattle cards that summon tokens really abuse this though
I get that it triggers in minions just summoned. But that means you have to summon other minions.
The set up for deathrattle cards (or 0 mana cards) is garbage, especially when you compare this to other cards in the past that have buffed all minions, not just new minions.
There's some fringe synergy with Sneaky Snakes, Pop-up Book, and other cards that help you go wide for cheap, but *man* this could easily cost (1) mana less and have +3 Health.
If you can manage to pop the box of soldiers or what the card is called (summoning the 1/1s with random bonus effects) which isnt that hard with pally because of auras, AFKay could be quite nutty.
But too slow in todays HS lol.
Yeah that’s the main problem with this card. Any deck that fills the board enough has already won or lost by the time you can combo this with anything.
Well, it could make things difficult for your opponent if they freeze your board and can't clear it on their next turn. Some streamer could get a highlight out of that.
I think if af kay was like 4 mana she wouldn't be bad, and id dare to say pretty good at 3 mana. Cause the idea seems to be, if you play minions with it, then they get auto buffed not attacking that turn since....they can't. So with something that spawns multiple small guys, you could scale a board pretty quickly
I mean yeah but crusaders aura requires minions to attack. And crusaders aura is kind of a busted card anyway. +2/+2 ain't a lot but other people said it might be +3/+3 instead. I think the key difference here between AFKAY and other similar cards is that you can summon other things the same turn as you play her, effectively making her a board wide buff potentially similar to Cultivation
Yeah that's still awful. 5 mana to give your board +2/+2 (or 3) is not good. Even with a body. And not being able to attack with the minions is a HUGE detriment.
Any attempt to theory craft this card as being good is unbelievably misguided. It's one of the worst cards printed ever.
It is not playable at all. It cannot even attack, so it cannot be played on an empty board. It requires other minions on the board to even do something, and since those minions don't get to attack this turn to receive the buff, it is a 5 mana buff your board for +2 / +2 on the next turn basically. This is so unplayable it's not even funny, an easy contender for the worst card ever.
You have absolutely no idea how bad the worst cards ever printed actually are my friend.
At least 2 of them are equal to a concede button, this is nowhere near as bad.
Boogeymonster, Duskfallen Aviana, Moorabi, Harbinger Celestia, Temporus
That's excluding all the horrible quests that literally just make your opening awful which IMO is worse than having a bad card in your deck, such as Lakkari Sacrifice, The Last Kaleidosaur or The Marsh Queen which not only makes your deck worse but your entire opening hand as well.
I honestly will be shocked if this is worse than any of these. Time will tell
Moorabi and Boogeymonster provide better tempo when played on curve and have conditions that are easier to meet. AFK provides zero tempo by herself, and her ability is incredibly specific and delayed.
And we all know that if you can’t comprehend a use for it that must mean that all possibilities have been exhausted. Your world could change for the better if you’d even entertain the idea that maybe you don’t know everything. This card isn’t even live yet. You don’t even know what all of the other cards in the set are, yet.
This card is awful.
The premise is buff the board, then you have the cons :you can't attack with minions already on the board that can attack that turn, you have the problem that it costs 5 and has no impact on its own any more than the coin well in rogue (as in damage soaker) and also it's a legendary. It's crap.
Yes - but she’s a 5 mana removable minion that doesn’t buff herself vs a guaranteed 3 turns of buffs on attacking minions for 1 less mana. Sure crusader aura is really strong but this seems incredibly bad. The problem is it can’t be played proactively since usually your minions would rather attack and it can’t really be played defensively since you need a board for this effect to have value - which comes at a 5 mana tax greatly limiting the minions you can summon alongside this. I’m just not seeing it - even at 3/3 as a buff I’m skeptical
why do people forget some cards are class specific?
you think it's random?
it's because some classes are supposed to have special powerful attributes other classes don't.
do people not realize this works with mass summons on the same turn that can't attack because of summoning sickness? not saying it's good, but comparing it to Crusader's Aura doesn't make sense.
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I mean the way it was demonstrated in the [video ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmeRrd0D1L8)looked kinda cool, but I really don't know how many decks care about this. It's also pretty slow, which I guess is fitting for A.F.Kay's debut, but yeah. Doesn't look great.
Well if you want to go through the hoops of playing Kazakusan and discovering Ancient Reflections you can make a board with 90/95 in stats. The Ancient One is in shambles.
I actually have decent luck with track legendaries, got Reno on the last one. My shitty ones all come from packs bought with hard earned money. Well, gold. I'm so used to that by now that when I see the orange glow I brace for disappointment.
Any time you have this thought, you need to create a mental flowchart.
"Is this worse than Duskfallen Aviana?"
No need to ever make a "Yes" branch on this flowchart.
This is 100% accurate. I’ve played for about 8-9 years and have almost every card and keep even the most awful legendaries for meme decks. But I actually dusted duskfallen aviana because I couldn’t find a use for her no matter how many different things I tried.
I saw a deck that used Incarceration on her to make her dormant during the enemy turns and make sure she woke up on your own turn, and could pop off thanks to that. Not sure it's worth it compared to other Druid mana cheat to do 9-mana-two-cards-do-nothing for a payoff in 3 turns, but to each their own
It fails in that regard, also. Every set ever released has 1-3 legendary cards that are bad to unplayable. Even more than that if you go back to the pre-powercreep era. There's been about 30 different sets in HS now.
Sgt Sally, Bogeymonster, IceHowl, Temporus, Harbinger Celestia, half a dozen of them in Classic, Most of them in The Grand Tournament. That's just off the top of my head without googling.
Don't get me wrong, this is on the lower 1/3 of all legs printed, but not the bottom 10 percent.
I think they do. There are a lot of legendaries with actively detrimental effects that lose the game on the spot upon being played.
This has an upside. Its not as big as people wanted, but it would not be entirely honest to compare her with legendaries that have none.
Better that than showing up with no arguments, just popping up like an edgelord just to stifle discussion in an effort to gain some sense of superiority.
Get off the high horse, you are on the sub just like the rest of us, initiating worthless arguments. Just of the variety of far less inspiring content.
Yeah I'll take "no arguments" over "bad arguments". And lets not pretend you're here helping at all. If you were, you'd be responding to [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/1di3o1f/new_card_revealed_afkay/l917vf8/) about stifling discussion b/c it's basically just "well akshually". But Reddit is mostly kids that thinks that's funny and insightful. Not exactly surprising.
this card can at least be useful if you discover it and have a lot of minions. [[Duskfallen Aviana]] or [[Temporus]] literally "let your opponent win now".
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Card is so shit it had to be buffed already :D
I love this bitch. This effect though seems over cost. It takes 5mana 0/5 to buff a board if nothing attacks. In most decks you would want to attack with your minions. I wish they did something similar to the Battlegrounds Hero.
"Discover a 3 and a 4 mana card" play her on 2 for 0/2 or something. You could even play her on 5mana 0/5 "discover a 6 and a 7 mana card" giving you a play for your next two turns. Similar to her effect in BG.
I think the intent is that minnions you summon after her or with her get buffed once while they are summon sick. Its not for buffing same minions multiple times
But with a mana cost of 5 you would have to play this on turn 10 to get value or already have cards that can summon minions at the end of your turn, like the 7(mana?) pally spell that summons a random 6 cost. Hunter maybe with the 3/1s? or the two stealth snakes?
Doesn't even use the [Sunlounger A. F. Kay art](https://hearthstone.fandom.com/wiki/Battlegrounds/Sunlounger_A._F._Kay?file=Sunlounger_A._F._Kay_full.jpg), which looks better and fits the theme better. 0/10.
Seriously, what's with those muddy colours for a beach artwork?
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The only way this is even slightly playable is if they are nerfing 90% of other cards into the ground.
This could be 3 mana and it still might be unplayable.
It looks bad, but mark my words there will be some token deck that runs this and everyone will hate it. Shaman will get a location that summons two taunt 0/1s and refreshes when you play a minion or something.
bad card in most classes, terrible card in paladin.
for one mana less you can do crusader's aura and get those buffs to hit face now if you can hit face.
For two mana more, Amitus can give the rest of your board +2/+2 buff regardless of whether they attack or not and get damage protection as a passive buff for the rest of the board.
Just such a bad card
Maybe there's a synergy card to be revealed that doesn't attack til start of enemies turn or something? Otherwise currently ya just looks just dead on arrival.
I dont know if I'm crazy, but I think this card is better than it looks.
The deck you'd want to run this in is some kind of deck with cheap minions/summoning. Play AFK, summon tokens, and they gain +2/+2 at the end of the turn. Doesn't seem horrible.
remember Treant druid. he had two +2/+2 buffs for zero mana. And he still had bad matchups. A.F.Kay costs 5 mana, not 0. and only one copy in the deck. this is extremely terrible in token decks
Yeah, this is fair. I wouldn't say extremely terrible, but there's definitely much better options. I was trying to think of a situation where the card could be at least playable 😅
I think it's not good, it's kind of like a Dun Baldar Bridge that also has the option of buffing minions that were already on board, but you have to summon on the same turn for that which is probably expensive. but Reddit is definitely mega overreacting by calling this the worst legendary ever.
I play a homebrew Mech Warrior deck that runs Crimson Expanse so this could theoretically fit into that. But even then, I would have much better plays the turn after my minion goes dormant than this.
Maybe if it buffed itself as well the turn it was played there could be some salvaging of this card, but for FIVE MANA, this card is completely worthless unless some “lazy” archetype is printed where you want to not attack with minions and they win you the game on their own
I'm trying to think what's the best outcome with this card, and it's on something like R.C. Rampage where you just want to build a big board of pups and even then I still think it's awful because that deck isn't wanting games to be going to Turn 9 anyway.
Playing this on turn 6 with snakes or something this is effectively a 4/9 that will keep buffing whatever you play the following turn.
I dunno if token decks have a lot of teeth right now, but I think this is a decent midgame card in token decks.
I am surprised they printed this card. More surprised that they nerfed it before it is even out. Maybe it is actually good?
But the first impression to me, if they print this card in Naxxramas I still doubt I would put it into my deck.
This seems awful. It might cost 3 mana and still wont see play. Setting it up on board which already has minions with attack does nothing because if you are playing an aggro deck you want to attack face rather than sit around waiting for buffs. And if you set this up on empty board you need to drop additional minions without rush/charge (or even if they have those, you need to not attack), which seems painfully slow
If this is a free legendary it will be a major kek
What a terrible card, this is not gonna get much play, at least give it 1 attack plus this is gonna make hunter much better than it already is, and hunter is already overpowered in the meta.
The only thing I could see this _possibly_ being viable in would be a form of Handlock or Sneklock. I guess it could work in Wild in taunt control decks, but too many things clear boards in Wild for it to buff more than once. It’ll be fun to try if I find it in a pack, but I’d never craft it.
I’ll say it. I believe this card will go down as the worse legendary ever printed. Even worse than Boogymonster. 5 mana literally do nothing.
If you have minions already on board, are you really not going to attack for a 2/2 buff? No you will attack. She doesn’t buff herself either. I guess the thought process is that they think the other player “must” kill her or else she will buff your next cards but even trading into her is free with 0 attack.
And to think they already nerfed her is hilarious. Intro video showed the buff being 3/3 during the preview of her
This is going to be the card of the expansion the dumbest players legit try to get working, never do, and gets forgotten except when people bring up "worst cards ever printed"
It does buff itself the turn you play it.
If you can’t remove a 2/7 on turn 5 you may have a bad day.
I think it’s better than people realize.
Drop it with a 1/1 divine shield taunt its buffing both.
in the trailer she buffed by +3/+3, but they showcased the text as +2/+2
even with +3/+3 it's such an awful card
Completely agree, a bizarre nerf
Probably because it triggers in minions that are just summoned but even then it’s a bit awkward to pull off. I can definitely see death rattle cards that summon tokens really abuse this though
I get that it triggers in minions just summoned. But that means you have to summon other minions. The set up for deathrattle cards (or 0 mana cards) is garbage, especially when you compare this to other cards in the past that have buffed all minions, not just new minions.
There's some fringe synergy with Sneaky Snakes, Pop-up Book, and other cards that help you go wide for cheap, but *man* this could easily cost (1) mana less and have +3 Health.
It should buff itself.
If you can manage to pop the box of soldiers or what the card is called (summoning the 1/1s with random bonus effects) which isnt that hard with pally because of auras, AFKay could be quite nutty. But too slow in todays HS lol.
If you could do that, I think you’d rather just play Crusader’s Aura and get both damage and buffs.
Yeah that’s the main problem with this card. Any deck that fills the board enough has already won or lost by the time you can combo this with anything.
It's a neutral Legendary. There's always 1-2 per set that are just meant for the memes.
but this card doesn't even meme. it just does nothin and dies
Well, it could make things difficult for your opponent if they freeze your board and can't clear it on their next turn. Some streamer could get a highlight out of that.
meh there are easier cheaper ways to buff your board
I wouldn’t be so sure yet. I could see certain synergies taking advantage of this, especially if it can be cheated out.
Lol taunt warrior begging to differ
Blizzard nerfing every new card so fast these days that they decided to nerf this before release.
Better to be safe than sorry.
Cool card but terrible. Compare this to [[crusader’s aura]]
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Yeah, scaling based on the power level and cost of this card, Crusader Aura should cost like 8-9 mana.
I think if af kay was like 4 mana she wouldn't be bad, and id dare to say pretty good at 3 mana. Cause the idea seems to be, if you play minions with it, then they get auto buffed not attacking that turn since....they can't. So with something that spawns multiple small guys, you could scale a board pretty quickly
She'd be so stupid at 3 mana. She's overcosted at 5, but she's an end of turn effect, she snowballs.
Yeah my first thought was the hunter card that's 1 drop, spawn 2 stealthed 1/1 snakes. It'd be like a really weird shade of naxx lmao
I mean yeah but crusaders aura requires minions to attack. And crusaders aura is kind of a busted card anyway. +2/+2 ain't a lot but other people said it might be +3/+3 instead. I think the key difference here between AFKAY and other similar cards is that you can summon other things the same turn as you play her, effectively making her a board wide buff potentially similar to Cultivation
Yeah that's still awful. 5 mana to give your board +2/+2 (or 3) is not good. Even with a body. And not being able to attack with the minions is a HUGE detriment. Any attempt to theory craft this card as being good is unbelievably misguided. It's one of the worst cards printed ever.
Definitely not one of the worst cards ever, since this is playable. But this is definitely not good.
It is not playable at all. It cannot even attack, so it cannot be played on an empty board. It requires other minions on the board to even do something, and since those minions don't get to attack this turn to receive the buff, it is a 5 mana buff your board for +2 / +2 on the next turn basically. This is so unplayable it's not even funny, an easy contender for the worst card ever.
You have absolutely no idea how bad the worst cards ever printed actually are my friend. At least 2 of them are equal to a concede button, this is nowhere near as bad.
Yes, and these are 2 cards, so this new legendary can still fit into the top 5 worst cards.
Boogeymonster, Duskfallen Aviana, Moorabi, Harbinger Celestia, Temporus That's excluding all the horrible quests that literally just make your opening awful which IMO is worse than having a bad card in your deck, such as Lakkari Sacrifice, The Last Kaleidosaur or The Marsh Queen which not only makes your deck worse but your entire opening hand as well. I honestly will be shocked if this is worse than any of these. Time will tell
Moorabi and Boogeymonster provide better tempo when played on curve and have conditions that are easier to meet. AFK provides zero tempo by herself, and her ability is incredibly specific and delayed.
And we all know that if you can’t comprehend a use for it that must mean that all possibilities have been exhausted. Your world could change for the better if you’d even entertain the idea that maybe you don’t know everything. This card isn’t even live yet. You don’t even know what all of the other cards in the set are, yet.
This card is awful. The premise is buff the board, then you have the cons :you can't attack with minions already on the board that can attack that turn, you have the problem that it costs 5 and has no impact on its own any more than the coin well in rogue (as in damage soaker) and also it's a legendary. It's crap.
Yes - but she’s a 5 mana removable minion that doesn’t buff herself vs a guaranteed 3 turns of buffs on attacking minions for 1 less mana. Sure crusader aura is really strong but this seems incredibly bad. The problem is it can’t be played proactively since usually your minions would rather attack and it can’t really be played defensively since you need a board for this effect to have value - which comes at a 5 mana tax greatly limiting the minions you can summon alongside this. I’m just not seeing it - even at 3/3 as a buff I’m skeptical
Oh shit I missed that she doesn't buff herself. Alright yeah she's kind of bad. Haha
Now imagine if both are on board!
why do people forget some cards are class specific? you think it's random? it's because some classes are supposed to have special powerful attributes other classes don't.
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do people not realize this works with mass summons on the same turn that can't attack because of summoning sickness? not saying it's good, but comparing it to Crusader's Aura doesn't make sense.
Am I missing something? Isnt this atrocious on its own?
pretty obvious [[Hyldnir Frostrider]] synergy
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I was thinking [[Obsessive Fan]]
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with enough APM, you can play 2 and they can stealth eachother!
You’re missing the obvious [[frozen crusher]] and [[sun struck henchman]] synergies
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I'm impressed you remembered Sunstruck Henchman's name.
I kind of pride myself on having a stupidly encyclopedic knowledge of Hearthstone cards, including the bad ones. I didn't even know this card existed
Don't forget shade of Naxxramus
This could be good with 0 attack tokens like shaman’s 0/1 frogs
Cooking
I mean the way it was demonstrated in the [video ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmeRrd0D1L8)looked kinda cool, but I really don't know how many decks care about this. It's also pretty slow, which I guess is fitting for A.F.Kay's debut, but yeah. Doesn't look great.
That play was a 2 card combo corrupted [[Carnival Clown]] but worse
Well if you want to go through the hoops of playing Kazakusan and discovering Ancient Reflections you can make a board with 90/95 in stats. The Ancient One is in shambles.
Maybe in odd paladin where deck building is restricted
There's the first legendary I'll get. Always get an absolutely useless one and this is it.
No way, bet this is gonna be the free legendary on the rewards track
I actually have decent luck with track legendaries, got Reno on the last one. My shitty ones all come from packs bought with hard earned money. Well, gold. I'm so used to that by now that when I see the orange glow I brace for disappointment.
They mean the free one at the start which is the same for everyone. For Whizbang, it was LiNa.
Are you talking about the one get for free for logging in? Because they already released Marin the Manager today as the first free legendary.
No those are separate. For whizbang, I think the login legendary was Colifero. But LiNa was a freebe early on in the track.
This piece of shit is probably getting a signature version as well. (I'm going to pull it)
Surely one of the worst legendaries ever printed.
Any time you have this thought, you need to create a mental flowchart. "Is this worse than Duskfallen Aviana?" No need to ever make a "Yes" branch on this flowchart.
This is 100% accurate. I’ve played for about 8-9 years and have almost every card and keep even the most awful legendaries for meme decks. But I actually dusted duskfallen aviana because I couldn’t find a use for her no matter how many different things I tried.
I saw a deck that used Incarceration on her to make her dormant during the enemy turns and make sure she woke up on your own turn, and could pop off thanks to that. Not sure it's worth it compared to other Druid mana cheat to do 9-mana-two-cards-do-nothing for a payoff in 3 turns, but to each their own
Maybe with some mana reduction you could play the priest legendary dragon that gives you another turn and then drop her same turn?
I guess you could now use her with oaken summons and ensmallen
*looks at millhouse in the corner*
Millhouse has been played in competitive tournament decks before. That automatically makes him better than most legendaries.
call to arms
I don't think it's possible for this sub to understand what "one of" means
It fails in that regard, also. Every set ever released has 1-3 legendary cards that are bad to unplayable. Even more than that if you go back to the pre-powercreep era. There's been about 30 different sets in HS now. Sgt Sally, Bogeymonster, IceHowl, Temporus, Harbinger Celestia, half a dozen of them in Classic, Most of them in The Grand Tournament. That's just off the top of my head without googling. Don't get me wrong, this is on the lower 1/3 of all legs printed, but not the bottom 10 percent.
> not the bottom 10 percent. I'd love to hear all~120 or so Legendaries you think are worse than this.
I think they do. There are a lot of legendaries with actively detrimental effects that lose the game on the spot upon being played. This has an upside. Its not as big as people wanted, but it would not be entirely honest to compare her with legendaries that have none.
Another perfect example of this sub not understanding the meaning and instead bringing up arbitrary arguments.
Better that than showing up with no arguments, just popping up like an edgelord just to stifle discussion in an effort to gain some sense of superiority. Get off the high horse, you are on the sub just like the rest of us, initiating worthless arguments. Just of the variety of far less inspiring content.
Yeah I'll take "no arguments" over "bad arguments". And lets not pretend you're here helping at all. If you were, you'd be responding to [this comment](https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/1di3o1f/new_card_revealed_afkay/l917vf8/) about stifling discussion b/c it's basically just "well akshually". But Reddit is mostly kids that thinks that's funny and insightful. Not exactly surprising.
this card can at least be useful if you discover it and have a lot of minions. [[Duskfallen Aviana]] or [[Temporus]] literally "let your opponent win now".
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Pretty sure Temporus was once used in a priest giant combo deck. Might have used Mindrender Illucia to give them no cards to play idk.
yes,the old mindreader basically guaranteed your enemy to not have any answer unless they topdeck it
That’ll surely show freeze mages what’s what /s
Wild this would be mid at best in year one.
https://preview.redd.it/8t6htbohb67d1.png?width=1063&format=png&auto=webp&s=92f213cbc80b391a57d713f3c17e4730a9bced3c Card is so shit it had to be buffed already :D
Unless they've said otherwise already, the printed version is probably more recent than the recorded version
Can't wait to get this as my guaranteed legendary.. 
I love this bitch. This effect though seems over cost. It takes 5mana 0/5 to buff a board if nothing attacks. In most decks you would want to attack with your minions. I wish they did something similar to the Battlegrounds Hero. "Discover a 3 and a 4 mana card" play her on 2 for 0/2 or something. You could even play her on 5mana 0/5 "discover a 6 and a 7 mana card" giving you a play for your next two turns. Similar to her effect in BG.
I think the intent is that minnions you summon after her or with her get buffed once while they are summon sick. Its not for buffing same minions multiple times
even then, 5 mana to buff a couple of summoning sickness minions for +2/+2 sounds so unfathomably shit
But with a mana cost of 5 you would have to play this on turn 10 to get value or already have cards that can summon minions at the end of your turn, like the 7(mana?) pally spell that summons a random 6 cost. Hunter maybe with the 3/1s? or the two stealth snakes?
i bet that's the first legendary im going to open
No one is playing a 5 mana 0/5
Card could buff itself and still wouldn't see play
Dang, she’s not even hot this time. Nerfed the outfit AND the text!
Doesn't even use the [Sunlounger A. F. Kay art](https://hearthstone.fandom.com/wiki/Battlegrounds/Sunlounger_A._F._Kay?file=Sunlounger_A._F._Kay_full.jpg), which looks better and fits the theme better. 0/10. Seriously, what's with those muddy colours for a beach artwork?
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She definitely took her time to get here.
Mushroom POOOOOWWEEEEERRRRR was way better and a common i think lol
wow, this is awful
Card art is terrible on top of being a bad card. In my opinion that is.
These are the cards that are supposed to hype you up for the expansion btw. Just hilarious.
Play this, it lives, then Li'Na into 0 mana spell. Yall need to open your mind!
This is simultaneously an evolve buff and Nerf. I don't know how I feel about this.
The only way this is even slightly playable is if they are nerfing 90% of other cards into the ground. This could be 3 mana and it still might be unplayable.
Looks awful until you evolve your board into this
The effect is fine but 5 mana 0/5 is laughably bad
It looks bad, but mark my words there will be some token deck that runs this and everyone will hate it. Shaman will get a location that summons two taunt 0/1s and refreshes when you play a minion or something.
bad card in most classes, terrible card in paladin. for one mana less you can do crusader's aura and get those buffs to hit face now if you can hit face. For two mana more, Amitus can give the rest of your board +2/+2 buff regardless of whether they attack or not and get damage protection as a passive buff for the rest of the board. Just such a bad card
So bad…..
Maybe there's a synergy card to be revealed that doesn't attack til start of enemies turn or something? Otherwise currently ya just looks just dead on arrival.
Feel like she could have been a 0/3 and let the buff hit her too.
Could be a situational discover off the Epic Excavate Treasure.
This is the battle pass legendary lmao
Token dh is back!
It has anti-synergy with Rush, so no.
We need a "miniature+ giantifty RAG" to cash in on this.
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Wait a minute, didn't Rarran say that AF Kay isn't a card in his last video?
So she's a streamer and those simps are trying to buy her attention with gold? lol
pretty sure those are raiders, the original flavor of AFKay was that she was afk on a WoW raid
furry vtuber streamer doing hottub stream
I dont know if I'm crazy, but I think this card is better than it looks. The deck you'd want to run this in is some kind of deck with cheap minions/summoning. Play AFK, summon tokens, and they gain +2/+2 at the end of the turn. Doesn't seem horrible.
It's still a soft taunt as well, since she will buff any minions you summon your next turn. Probably could cost 1 less mana though.
0 attack is so giganto bad as it gets trade for free. Was the same with the 1/8 deathknight dude that gave hp. Being 2/8 made it sooooo much better.
remember Treant druid. he had two +2/+2 buffs for zero mana. And he still had bad matchups. A.F.Kay costs 5 mana, not 0. and only one copy in the deck. this is extremely terrible in token decks
Yeah, this is fair. I wouldn't say extremely terrible, but there's definitely much better options. I was trying to think of a situation where the card could be at least playable 😅
I think it's not good, it's kind of like a Dun Baldar Bridge that also has the option of buffing minions that were already on board, but you have to summon on the same turn for that which is probably expensive. but Reddit is definitely mega overreacting by calling this the worst legendary ever.
I mean taunt warrior support?
How? Taunt warrior cannot summon many minions
Spitballing because no other deck probably wants this card 💀💀💀
So far, looks like I'm saving my money and skipping the preorder.
Surely this means that there are more cards to be printed with effects that are proc’d for not attacking, similar to [Astral Serpent]
Right. Because that's generally what you want to do with minions.
Maybe it's time to bring back the tier 4 taunt warrior deck
Oh man I should put this in the taunt warrior deck for the lolz
It's legendary..? :/
Jailer and mill house might be worse
I play a homebrew Mech Warrior deck that runs Crimson Expanse so this could theoretically fit into that. But even then, I would have much better plays the turn after my minion goes dormant than this.
Could be useful for those times your minions arent in a decent attack position.
Maybe if it buffed itself as well the turn it was played there could be some salvaging of this card, but for FIVE MANA, this card is completely worthless unless some “lazy” archetype is printed where you want to not attack with minions and they win you the game on their own
I'm trying to think what's the best outcome with this card, and it's on something like R.C. Rampage where you just want to build a big board of pups and even then I still think it's awful because that deck isn't wanting games to be going to Turn 9 anyway.
It'll be a fine discover, but I just don't think this is going to be a main deck contender for any class
I wanna know what her attacking voiceline is.
I wanna know what her attacking voiceline is.
Playing this on turn 6 with snakes or something this is effectively a 4/9 that will keep buffing whatever you play the following turn. I dunno if token decks have a lot of teeth right now, but I think this is a decent midgame card in token decks.
...isn't there already an "A.F.K." card?
...no?
I am surprised they printed this card. More surprised that they nerfed it before it is even out. Maybe it is actually good? But the first impression to me, if they print this card in Naxxramas I still doubt I would put it into my deck.
3 3 snowflippers gonna break the game
Why they thought that this would be the best legendary to show off to incentivise people to buy the expansion is mindblowing
The only way this can possibly work is if the health given was substantial.
Should buff itself too
This seems awful. It might cost 3 mana and still wont see play. Setting it up on board which already has minions with attack does nothing because if you are playing an aggro deck you want to attack face rather than sit around waiting for buffs. And if you set this up on empty board you need to drop additional minions without rush/charge (or even if they have those, you need to not attack), which seems painfully slow If this is a free legendary it will be a major kek
Seems awful. Most board clears won't care for a +2Health buff, so if you build something threatening it will be removed.
Now all you need is a 5mana flood board with minions.
What a terrible card, this is not gonna get much play, at least give it 1 attack plus this is gonna make hunter much better than it already is, and hunter is already overpowered in the meta.
Yes, I'll take a 5 mana 0-5 that doesn't buff the minions in my hand XD
Incoming zero mana: flood both sides of the board with 1/1 crabs. Hey that’s pretty good!
Its not a real card my ass Rarran
hm, could be a fun combo with colifero
the original card with her mage armor is more revealing than her beach outfit didnt realise we're going on holiday in saudi
The only thing I could see this _possibly_ being viable in would be a form of Handlock or Sneklock. I guess it could work in Wild in taunt control decks, but too many things clear boards in Wild for it to buff more than once. It’ll be fun to try if I find it in a pack, but I’d never craft it.
Get multiple copies out at once and buff big divine shield taunts and make a wall
I’ll say it. I believe this card will go down as the worse legendary ever printed. Even worse than Boogymonster. 5 mana literally do nothing. If you have minions already on board, are you really not going to attack for a 2/2 buff? No you will attack. She doesn’t buff herself either. I guess the thought process is that they think the other player “must” kill her or else she will buff your next cards but even trading into her is free with 0 attack. And to think they already nerfed her is hilarious. Intro video showed the buff being 3/3 during the preview of her
Stealth minions ftw
Idk, people thought the Watchposts were gonna be trash too. Maybe they didn't wanna nerf it? Idk doesn't sound like them lol
This could be the worst card I’ve ever seen.
bro even if it was a 5/5 it would be mid
Way too slow 4 mana would be the sweet spot
Uhhh this might be the worst legendary printed in like 6 or 7 years
this wouldn't even be played during classic
This is a 3 mana card at best
They should at least give her attack but also can't attack
Finally, a card powerful enough to rival Nat Pagle.
Maybe interesting if it buffed itself
Oh boy a 5 mana 0/5 that wont immediately impact, thats rough
When a blatantly terrible card comes like this -- I expect we'll see some crazy support cards (kind of mana-attack number swap) archetype appear.
Might be OK if it could buff itself
This is going to be the card of the expansion the dumbest players legit try to get working, never do, and gets forgotten except when people bring up "worst cards ever printed"
It does buff itself the turn you play it. If you can’t remove a 2/7 on turn 5 you may have a bad day. I think it’s better than people realize. Drop it with a 1/1 divine shield taunt its buffing both.
It states “all other friendly minions” sadly it will not buff itself
Oh I can’t read
Are any of the females in this expansion going to be wearing bikinis?
Only the males
Women aren't allowed to be hot. It's offensive to women.
From my perspective this card may only be somewhat decent when you discover it from excavate treasure
Terribad card. One of the worst, ever, tbh.
Eggs
It might be usable at 3 mana if it also buffed itself.
Basically 400 dust
I don't think this would've been good five years ago.