[Hearthstone] How Good Is Twilight Darkmender? 

0:19 "Expansial" Kripp with his silly krippspeak

I have no Entomb. I have no Death. I have no time for games!

"I all have to do now is not lose" -Krip 2016

Priest gets all the best 5-6 mana cards in the game Meanwhile, that 2 drop spot.....Hope you like playing dragon decks!

Kripp: I have no Entomb Kripp: I have no Death Sylvanas: I have no time for games!

Blizzard doesn't let you heal but they let warriors get an extra 50 armor

Have you ever been in the car and suddenly get hungry+horny at the same time?I have,thats why i always carry 2 dead babies in the trunk

The second reason that armor better than healing is of course Shield Slam. 8 mana: get a 6/6, 10 armor and kill anything with

5:29

so blizzard doesn`t want healing but warriors can have 40+ armor

I've never quite understood why Blizzard has such an issue printing new healing cards (Earthen Ring Farseer from Classic being an example of a heal card done right). I get that they've said they actually *do* want Aggro to stick around as an option, but at this point I think most would agree that the game is so heavily slanted towards Aggro, giving more efficient heals wouldn't kill Aggro, just stop its overwhelming pervasiveness.

I like how Kripp has two legendaries on his free account that I don't have on my main account.

"I have no entomb, I have no death, I have no time for games!"

Darkmender won me a game once, literally, I swear. I was a face warrior up against a priest and I think my opponent forgot he had an Auchenai Shadowpriest on the table and exactly 10 health left, he suicided with the Darkmender

Theres also another factor in play here. This kind of healing is suited to a control game, where you can set huge clears and then this is your follow up. Control decks are light on the minions (in general) and in particular in the early game, but the C´thun buff cards are all minions, and inneficient minions at that (bar the divine shield one, maybe). That kind of gameplay is best suited to midrange strategies so C´thun is a midrange type of deck in general. This card requires a more refined deckbuilding, still centered on C´thun but C´thun not being the primary focus of the deck (like in druid). Imo, C´thun priest should use C´thun as support tool for the general strategy of outlasting the opponent, again drawing the parallel with druid in wich case plan a, b and c is making a huge C´thun

15:04 "I have no entomb, I have no death" "I have no time for games!"

0:00 beginning

I use her in my control deck. Darkmender + Brann is almost as good as a Reno. My deck focuses on healing to buff C'Thun and keep my HP topped off and AoE to control the board/give me things to heal. Though I will agree that it can be a very tough deck to win with but it's a lot of fun when it works. Right now since the meta is very aggro it's been working like crazy.

how good is skipperinno kriperinno

15:09 No entomb, no death, no time for games

i've actually tried some version of c'thun priest (being a priest fanatic) but i've realized that the darkmander usually does not get to heal for 10 but less, although when it does heal for 10 you are usually so behind that those 10 point are nothing if you don't clear. all of this not counting the worst scenario when you can't actually heal because your c'thun has less than 10 attack (in some list may be rare but it can happen). it's almost better to play it for tempo some times, given the fact that c'thun lists can play on curve pretty easily.

I saw this card played earlier today lol. I don't get why you didn't bring up Darkshire Alchemist? 5 mana 4/5 heal for 5 to any character with no requirement. That card is better in my opinion, and it combos with Auchenai Soulpriest.

Wait! Are you from Toronto!? I didn't know I just moved to live in the same place as the likes of Kripparrian. I feel honored.

"Kripp electronics" KRIPPTRONICS! :D

I like his moment when he say "Check out the Kripps and I see you guys tomorrow"

I dont know but when he started to talk about this "30 health issue" I just thought of some perk for certain chars, go with me ok? What about this: Priest starts with 30 but can go above a certain amount Mage can have 11 mana Warrior starts with x (xx) armor hunter x warlock can have 8 minions rogue can add +1 duration on HP weapon (and if the weapon have 2 or more att, lesser it's attack by 1) I dont say it is necessarily balanced but it is kinda interesting, atleast for me.

I feel like priest should get some kind of overheal effect on hero to keep up with armor mechanic. Just make overhealing on hero "absorb armor bubble thing" like discipline priest used to do, and sudenly control priest would slam into meta. This could be kinda op but just thinking out loud here You know...

I think the problem with the card is this: Healing is only really good against aggro on around turn 8-10 preferably after clearing the board. To activate this card by then you need to mulligan for C'Thun buffers. But you would rather mulligan for board clears and other answers to early minons. That makes it awkward. Healing is also good against combos under 30 damage, but as a priest you will be full health against those decks anyway.

@0:40 the best healing in the game is forbidden healing, perhaps healing on a body

I always thought reno would be the best heal card :>

I made it into Rank 5 with a Cthun Priest and I am really happy about it, since that deck isnt top tier. Its awesome how you can heal up 20hp using Brann, and completely rekt your aggro enemy.

If you are watching this video on a Mac laptop, try zooming in on Kripp's face and you will get the feeling that Kripp does not really move that much anymore.

Blizzard needs to make a Priest legendary which increases the maximum health of your hero (by 10 or maybe 20 health). It would help against fatigue massively and pull the priest out of OTK range in most cases. It would also not be OP against aggro as the health boost would not be immediate and due to the high mana cost. On top of this, the card easily fits into the Priest class anyway. This just has to be done!

"Most powerful heal card." Healing Wave, Reno Jackson, Ragnaros Lightlord if it survives, Forbidden Healing.... I know he means body size + heal strength but idunno. Seems subjective. Specifically where Ragnaros is concerned.

They could add in overhealing, and have healing slowly dimish when above 30.

When Emperor Thaurisan goes, there will be a bit less OTK. The mana discounts are what makes some combo decks viable at all.

"Yolo C'thun, I have no entomb, now I'm screwed." I don't know why but Kripp just sounded like a poet.

Yeah heal is less good than armor. But you cant armor up your minions. You can heal them tho. Dont forget it Kripp

that's actually really cool that the doomcaller will put the opponents dead C'thun into your deck if you play his doomcaller.

priest has so many good cards and i dont know which ones should i put in my deck

Armor is more important than Einstein's theory of relativity.

this card has saved me every game as a priest. its one of the most valuable cards in this series for priest.

Can you imagine this card in the Warlock class? Oh, how OP it would be!

I like catching aggro decks offguard with this and brann for a 20 pop heal.

"He yolo C'thuned, I have no entomb... I have no death..." "I have no time for games!"

5:29 skipperino Kripperino

12:15 "Man I don't want to burn a pyro"..... NO PYRO BURNS YOU!

They could just remove the cap on health. start with 30, but you can add more if you are at 30...

this card is auto include in any C'thun priest, but sure, I'll listen to Kripp yap about it for 20 min at 2x speed Kappa

in my mind the paladin heal, the Zero Mana spend all your Mana for doubble heal, is the best heal card in the game. but it's just me

That card has a pretty nice frame if you know what I mean(I'm not talking about the card frame)

I'd be absolutely ecstatic if Blizzard created a *Priest legendary* that allowed you to go over the maximum amount of health (30). Please, if this sparked some ideas for you, then leave details on how you think the card should be designed (mana cost, max amount of health allowed, stats, condition/requirement to be met for effect to take place, etc.).

I think if blizzard want a slower more control deck based game they should just bite the bullet and double the max life and allow decks to have 10 more cards. Because in most of the games on ladder now the games decided before turn 10. The other option would be to have taunt also block spells or do like magic does and let all cards block.

We need variable amounts of hero health like we had in WoW TCG, dealing 30 damage is too easy, preventing it is near impossible and recovering it is too costly making it too hard to deal with stuff and stay alive at the same time.

That was quite some evil you excavated there...

they should put extra heal when its reach over 30 lp so it become the new max life points for the priest.

Is Twin Emps "There will be paaaain" quote a Pinhead reference? Voice even sounds similar.

You dont need cthun in your deck to use the effect but you do need buff cthun cards

Wow I'm here before skipperino kripperino

The card ain't too shabby, compare it to like Guardian of Kings, 7 mana for a 5/6 body and only heals for 6. Granted you don't need the extra requirement to have something and some level, but if you're playing a C'Thun heavy deck boosting it to 10 is simply a matter of playing 2 cards in most cases.

how much of a better card would Twilight Darkmender be if you would aim the heal?

why did kripp get a c'thun when his hasn't died yet? is it because he took the caller from the enemy when it dies so it counts?

I'm a control player, so Priest is my nightmare... This class is getting more and more sick tools to win control matchups. Waiting for the day when Entomb is finally leaving Standard -.-

the problem with heal is that you cannot add health over 30 like armor qnd thats why you don't want to play this card in a control match in turn 5

shouldn't you trade the empreor with the battlecry to avoid it being entombed?

5:30 #beforekripp

i've got a nerf in my sights

"All I have to do is not lose" - Yeah Kripp that's basically the game

Y'know, Kripp, talking about how armour is better than life because 30 life really isn't enough got me to wondering whether you've ever played Star Crusade, a Russian-made sci-fi rip-off of Hearthstone. One of the (initially) VERY few differences between SC and HS was that your deck isn't fixed at 30 cards, instead allowing you to have between 25 and 40 cards in your deck. Big deal, I hear you say, why would you run ANYTHING other than a 25-card deck then? Because your deck is is also your _starting/maximum life total._ Aggro is a lot less prevalent when it can have to chew through up to 40 life rather than 30 (although practically speaking the upper limit for competitive decks is around 35) and running a really tight, condensed aggressive deck can leave you dangerously vulnerable, especially if you use one of the popular passive Modules (customisable hero powers of which each player can equip up to 3) that reduces your life total in exchange. Star Crusade really is fascinating to a Hearthstone player simply as an study of how basically the same game can evolve a completely different meta because of the minor differences between them (for example, while a lot of the starting Modules are directly equivalent to those of Hearthstone heroes e.g Thrash is Fireblast, there's nothing like Life Tap, so zoolock isn't a thing that can exist).

11:12 , you go girl!

Would having the Twilight Darkmender's effect have it heal a target instead of just your hero make it better? You could have some Embrace the Shadows shenanigans.

What if they made healing stack up to 10 above max health in like a water shield type deal? and when you take damage it heals. Might create some broken handlock decks with jaraxxus and perhaps healing wave malygos shaman but meh

Would be nice to get some effect increasing max HP

... isn't Reno the biggest heal card in the game?

Card that has text "Increase your max health" would be good in preist.

With a similar deck I was struggling around rank 10. I switched to a dragon priest and I effortlessly got rank 3 within 2 days. Just shows how weak this deck really is, no matter how cool a 20 heal with darkmender+brann may look

How good is Slogoth the slitherer ? This card is really strange and I cannot say if it 's standard playable.

No, the best heal card in the game is Ancient Shieldbearer. Unlike Darkmender, it can overheal, so it's effect is always relevant, even moreso when you also have Brann, and armor isn't affected by Alexstrasza. Also, since Auchenai is super important for basically every priest deck out there, it can sometimes lead to an awkward situation where you have to trade your Auchenai first before playing Darkmender.

tlstk (that's short for "too long, skipped the kripp"): It's obviously strong enough to be played in every single C'thun priest, but not good enough to make C'thun priest worth playing over other priest decks.

Fun card wish is was a 5/6 instead of 6/5....but still useful

Skipperino? I NEED YOU

He misplayed the Twin Emperor Vek'lor heals right? If he kept one of the spawned minions alive instead, then the entombed minion wouldn't have the effect?

Can you make a "How good is Warcraft, The Beginning"?

frost mage c'thhun is good. really bad against enrage warrior and sometimes warlock

do you guys think buffing the priest hero power to heal for 3 and with justicar to 6 would make priest mor competitive ?

they shhould add over heal

Priest NEED a legendary that can increase their MAX amount of health by 10 or 15(you current health wont change just the max amount)

i have no entomb, I have no death, I have no time for games :D 15:14

is that the iMightyHutch the youtuber at 12:18 ?

i think there must be a card that raises the priest's life total... somewhere around 40 or 45

19:39 disappointment face.

I got 20 health and won from this card+a yesera card on round 10

I think Cthun cards should be in arena.

Priest is a cancer class. Whats worse than having your minions being fucking deleted all the time? Being absolutely being shit on by your own minions. Priest matchups are boring. They rather have no answer or every answer possible. Like what other class can use a 2 mana spell that can delete a 4-5 cost minion permanantely.

In the first game alone the word "C'Thun" was said 19 times

How good/bad is Anomalus???

There needs to be a card that lets healing go over your max health

From my experience, you can't play Darkmender for the healthgain, you are either never that low or you are so far behind that it won't matter.

Skip Kripp: 5:34

They should allow priest to increase their health