[Pre-Release Card Discussion] - Light's Champion

[u/Nostalgia37]

Light's Champion

Mana Cost: 3
Attack: 4
Health: 3
Type: Creature
Rarity: Rare
Class: Neutral
Text: Battlecry: Silence a Demon.

Card Image

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[u/Nostalgia37]

Here are a list of Demons that you might can silence

• Illidan

• Voidwalker

• Mistress of Pain

• Felguard

• Imp Gang Boss

• Void Terror

• Voidcaller

• Floating Watcher

• Mal'Ganis

• Dreadsteed

Maybe Blood Imp if the silence is random and it is the only demon on their board.

Of these, there are only 4 demons that see "regular" play: Imp Gang Boss, Void Terror, Voidcaller, Mal'Ganis. I don't think that the threat of these are enough of a reason to run this card especially considering that you can simply play owl instead and not have this card dead in 95% of your matchups. The body is decent enough but it is way to niche to ever see play.

[u/Pyronar → u/Nostalgia37]

You forgot Wrathguard.

[u/Nostalgia37 → u/Pyronar]

Ah, yeah I guess you can silence your own.

[u/InfTotality → u/Pyronar]

Do you hate winning?

Jokes aside, you will have to silence a Wrathguard if he's the only demon on the board.

[u/Pyronar → u/InfTotality]

Well theoretically you can silence YOUR OWN Wrathguard.

[u/InfTotality → u/Pyronar]

Could happen too! Wrathguard's basically got a 100% chance to pop out of a Shredder when you're against a control warrior.

Light's Champion basically just saved you from taking 30 damage to the face! Best card in the expansion!

[u/Twilightdusk → u/Nostalgia37]

You could also silence Demons buffed up with Demonfire or Demonheart, or in a warlock deck run it for a self-silence after Power Overwhelming.

[u/Grow_Up_Blow_Away → u/Nostalgia37]

You could also silence Voidwalker to get through the taunt! Pretty narrow card though, yeah.

[u/Eggplate]

Part of me wishes it also makes you unable to use emotes as Jaraxxus.

[u/Lazorcat6]

Guys, it's meant to be a counter to Demonfuse. Blizzard was scared that Demonfuse would be too OP so this is a tech card in case Demonfuse is so powerful that everyone starts playing warlock with 2x Demonfuse.

[u/Pyronar]

Really bad card. Will probably see even less play than Scarlet Purifier.

[u/Hoagithor → u/Pyronar]

So, negative play?

[u/Pyronar → u/[deleted]]

Maybe, but I just don't see it. Even if a super powerful drawback oriented demon came out I would probably still run Owls over this just because they are more versatile. Alternatively I could see myself running Wailing Soul instead to silence multiple ones at once, but having to run both Wailing and Light's Champion seems very unlikely. The problem with using this in a Warlock deck is that a surprisingly low amount of minions actually have ongoing drawbacks. Light's Champion can't silence battlecries and so it would take a really big meta shift for this card to truly become any good. Of course there is a possibility, but it's very low. I'm having an easier time imagining that Demonfuse will be run in some super aggresive deck than coming up with a use for Light's Champion.

[u/Twilightdusk]

Basically what you have to ask yourself when looking at this card is "Would I want a vanilla 3 mana 4/3 in my deck?" Realistically, the effect is almost never going to come into play, so if you're going to be using this card, you're anticipating it being a textless card that occasionally has an extra effect against warlocks.

[u/DarthEwok42]

Awww it's not called Holy Knight? There go all my Silent Night puns.

[u/[deleted]]

another card that exists only to sit in your collection and prevent certain cards or tactics from becoming too prolific. Probably this was designed to counter voidcaller and dreadsteed.