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Card of the Day April 12, 2017 Artifact Hunter

CONGRATULATIONS @alplod! You guessed correctly! Today’s Card of the day is the one and only artifact hunter! Coming in at 4 mana, it’s 3/3 body and ability to pull any artifact from your deck ensures it’s limited use in artifact decks (and even then it isn’t really used that often!)

Here’re your questions:
1.) How does this card fare when compared to the other ways of drawing artifacts? (they have to specifically deal with artifacts)
2.) How should CP go about changing/buffing this card?
3.) Why would this be an epic card?

  1. It’s basically a worse Grincher that costs 1 mana more. Rl bad

  2. Reduce the cost, or increase stats.

  3. So you can disenchant this straight into an infinitely better Grincher.

I have my doubts about Grincher, and the icreasing number of artifacts that may not fit the artifact I need make me feel even less like running it.
Hunter will almost always pick something you really want, while Grincher may as well pick Sunstone or the new ice glove Vanar thing.

Sure, but if RNGesus loves you, you can get a two mana Arclyte, or a Free Spectral Blade.

Hunter is probably better in specific Artifact synergy/otk decks, but Grincher allows you to get an artifact, that costs less, AND doesn’t bloat your deck if artifacts aren’t your wincon.

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  1. There is only one neutral alternative to artifact drawing between neutral cards - Grincher, and it is has one obvious disadvantage - the artifact is random, and lots of advantages - stats, artifact cost reduction, and also fun.

Thus, I may run Grincher instead of atifact hunter in Sajj decks, where literally any artifact can be useful due to aurora tears, however in bangle Hai I need more consistency to draw both bangle and cyclone mask in time instead of some random stuff.

What I would like to say, both cards have their uses, but both are used in specific decks and not too good even there. I would like to see more ways of drawing artifacts, both in faction and neutral.

  1. I would love him to reduce the cost of artifact, say, by 2 mana. I can even approve the huge nerf to its stats in this case, cause nobody uses it for its body anyway.

Another approach may be giving him OG: equip random artifact from your deck, and nerfing his stats accordingly. This OG also has its obvious advantages and one fatal flaw - it’s possible you will not need this specific artifact, which he equips. Say, you already have vet blast artifact and he gives you another one. However, this is probably also a way to go.

3)Of course it’s epic! Most niche cards are either epic or legendary. Commons and rares are…more widespread and straightforward to use, I think.

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  1. Well as already stated grincher pretty much outclasses this little guy. Not only does Grinch have a better body, but he discounts the artifact too! Of course Artifact hunter has the advantage of being more predictable but that’s pretty much all he’s got over good ol’ Grinch.

  2. I have no idea, perhaps give the artifact a discount like Grinch does.

  3. So that you will pick this in the gauntlet over Echoing shriek or Dream gazer.

Didn’t you see the thread made by @raqyee?

Dreamgazer’s da bomb!

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Not in gauntlet. Not even in most decks

  1. I actually like this guy a lot, I just wish he had better stats. The thing about Artifact Hunter is that he can draw you something specific, anytime 4+ mana. This effect is very rare in Duelyst. The problem with Grincher is that it is RANDOM, which is a big deal. However, it can be worth it for the reduced cost.
  2. I believe that artifact hunter is just too slow, the poor body and the fact you can’t play your artifact on curve with it is a big deal. The meta has become so fast that getting card advantage from this guy is too slow, even though the effect is “immediate”. I believe it could be better if it was 4 mana 2/3 “Draw an artifact from your deck. If it costs 2 or less, equip it.” My second idea is just to buff him to a 4/3.
  3. The only reason this guy is epic is because of the specific effect. You can combo it to guaranteed pull an artifact from your deck, which could be strong.
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Thats the added bonus he said

Also, he is a 3/5 in the picture. Why dont you take the pictures from Bagoum? Quality and updated.

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Artifact Hunter has a really, really nice effect all things considered. I got one copy of Grimwar and one copy of Hunter in a Gauntlet run, which got me my first 12 win run :slight_smile:

Its ability to draw an Artifact is great when you’ve got just a wincon like Grimwar or Azalea, but not when you’ve got multiple Artifacts in the deck. For this card to be any good in actual, dedicated Artifact decks, you’d need to pump up the stats to something that can body block for your General.

And yeah, this card and Grincher should probably switch rarities (considering the complexity of effect).

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Sorry about the mistaken info (I guess I owe @yerboijosh an apology huh, sorry about that man, I thought that the follow up sentence was another change option).

Bagoumms been acting up for me and all I can get from it is: /images/GIFs/Artifact Hunter/Artifact Hunter_breathing.png

I’m confused as to why this is happening

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Just use the art kit, it has perfect pics of every card in the game.

I don’t wish to download it since it takes up a LOT of space (my laptop can only hold so much you know?)

I see. How do you do it? I just went to bagoum, search artifact hunter, then click in the image and save, worked just fine

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http://www.bagoum.com/images/cards/Neutral/ArtifactHunter.png

I usually go to the custom card creator. It’s about time I ditch that for the database huh?

It worked!

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Lol thats what the database is for. Its known that the card creator should only be used for meme purposes

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Still…that just means that I can’t make them sweet custom card memes…:cry:

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Oh damn you’re right. I feel sorry for you.

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I guess using hunter in a strong limited artifact deck is better then grincher for obvious reasons.
But the body itself doesn’t build to last( near flashback).
Hunter solely mission is to fish for artifacts when you they didn’t appear in your opening hand.

Grincher will be more for the body the artifact is only a small draw option or a board pressure assuming that you got a good artifact, otherwise again you can replace it for another card