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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hearthstone’s Giants are a unique group of cards. They aren’t an official minion type, but they are connected by several key features. First, they all have "Giant" in their name (or some variant o෴f it), along with an 8/8 statline. Their most unique feature, though, is a high mana cost that drops by one each time you meet a certain condition.
How effective these cards are will depend on the amount of support surrounding them. If they can consistently get to a low enough cost to make an impact early, they will be strong, even overpowered. On the other hand, if the proper support isn’t available, they will never see play. Here’s which of the Giants are worth considering in Hearthstone's various formats.
10 ꦚ Arcane Giant
Getting Arcane Giant to zero mana is actually pretty easy; it turns out there are many decks that play a lot of spells. However, absurd as iওt sounds, in modern Hearthstone there are more powerful things to do after playing a bunch of cards, especially if you play all of them in the same turn.
🥂Sinstone Graveyard, for example, can be used to summon far bigger minions than an 8/8. Arcane Giant is still strong in theory, but in practice it has been outclassed by better options.
9 ൲ Naga Giant
The Naga Giant might have the easiest condition to meet of the cards on this list. ⛄No matter what deck you’re playing, you can’t get away with not spending mana (assuming you’re actually trying to win).
That said, it is hard to accelerate how much mana you spend, since most decks will be limited by the amount of mana available to you eacꦫh turn. As a result, Naga Giant has seen the most play in Druid, a class that is notorious for its ability to break Hearthstone’s normally r🦋igid mana system.
8 Snowfury G♌iant
Snowfury Giant allows you to turn a🌼 significant disadvantage into a potential gain. Cards with high Overload costs have rarely seen play in Hearthstone, since it takes an exceptionally overpowered effect to make losing your next turn worth it.
However, getting an 8/8 for zero mana along with that effec💝t makes the deal look a lot better. That is especially true of board clears, since killing your opponent’s minions and playing a massive one of your own is a huge board swing. As a result, every Overload card released has the potentiaꩲl to push Snowfury Giant into a position of prominence.
7 Stitched Giant ♌
Stitcheไd Giant is the latest entry into the Giant club. It’s among the lowest-costed Giants ever printed, and spending Corpses is something Death Knights want to do anyway. In theory, Stitched Giant feels like i🐲t should be a viable option.
Unfortunately, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Death Knight as a class was underpowered on release, and the Unholy Rune variant was (and remains) its worst aspect. Stitched Giant isn’t a bad card, but if Unholy Death Knights don’t get more support, either in the form of buffs or new, powerful cards, it’s not going to have a significant i🍒mpact on the meta.
6 💟Flesh Giant 🌱
Flesh Giant makes this list less because of where it is now, and more because of what it once was. It is one of just two Giants to be nerfed, and the only one to have been nerfed twice. When it was released, the level of health manipulation available to Priests and Warlocks made the Flesh Giant too stroꦛng at eight mana. The Hearthstone balance team tried pushing it to nine mana, and it turned out that was still too strong.
The change to ten mana appears to have done the trick, but who knows; if an expansion comes along 🥂that introduces powerful new health manipulation cards, Flesh Giant could see a resurgence even at its current cost.
5 𝓰 🌊 Molten Giant
Molten Giant gains power by letting you🃏r opponent beat you up for a while until you can swing the situation in your favo🐓r. You are essentially sacrificing health for a power play later in the game. It’s a risky proposition, but you get a big reward at the end of it.
Nowadays, there are decks that can kill you from high health totals without needing to worry about your Molten Giants, even if you give them Taunt. However, that hasn't stopped Molten Giant from maintaining a steady presence in formats in which it's playable.
4 𒅌 Mountain Giant 🧜
Throughout Hearthstone&rsq🙈uo;s history, Mountain Giant has almost exclusively seen play in Warlock, thanks primarily to the Life Tap Hero Power. Hoarding cards in your hand while Life Tapping allows you to sacrifice early tempo for a big swing around turn four or five.
Unfortunately, this strategy can be too slow against many modern decks. Not doing anything except using your Hero Power for the first several turns will often get you killed. Even so, like Molten Giant, Mountain Giant does still see play in various Warlock decks in Wild, so it’s not completely unviable.
3 Tiꦡmebound Giant
If you only play Hearthstone intermittently, or if you don’t pay attention to the Arena format, you might not know Timebound Giant exists. T⛎he card is exclusive to that format, where it has made two appearances during the Taverns of Time events. During its brief time in the game, Timebound Giant left a significant impact. In Warlock in particular, which will Life Tap many times over the course of an Arena game, Timebound Gian🦋t will reduce in cost quickly during normal play. Additionally, when combined with other Taverns of Time cards, many of which involve drawing cards, it can be easy to play Timebound Giant for free in any class.
In Standard or Wild, this would be a powerful effect, but many decks in those formats have tools to deal with what is basically just a stat dump. In Arena, where🐷 your opponents have removal less consistently, Timebound Giant will often win the game when played. The card isn’t currently in the game, but if you enjoy playing Ar🅰ena, it’s definitely worth keeping an eye out for it if/when it makes a return.
2 Sea Giant
The Sea Giant is one of the few Giants that appears in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:aggro decks, as the condition that makes it cheaper is proactive, rather than reactive. Instead of taking damage, hoarding cards, or playi꧋ng spells, all of which are either board-neutral or actively hurt your board position, the Sea Giant g🌊ets cheaper by getting minions on the board.
Playing minions is already something you want to do in many aggressive archetypes, especially those looking to overwhelm opponents with a swarm of minions. By adding Sea Giant to such decks, you can create a wide board while simultaneous🐬ly creating a big threat for your opponen🎃t to deal with, forcing them to deal with danger from multiple different angles.
1 ✤ Gigantotem 🔴
Gigantotem might be a controversial inclusion on this list. It really stretches the definition of “Giant” we previously established, since the word Giant is on⛦ly partly in its name. However, it is one of the few Giant-adjacent cards that sees regular play in any format, so it would feel wrong to not include it.
The card hasn't made any impact on the meta 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:in Standard, but in Wild, where Even Shaman still exists, it has been a staple. Thanks to Genn Greymane, the deck lets you summon Totems every turn for🌺 just one mana, which will reduce the cost of Gigantotem quickly, especially when combined with other Totem-summoning cards.