Underrated and now a true “gamebreaker” – the Dirty Rat from Hearthstone enables truly nasty plays.
The expansion “Gadgetzan Streets” has been live for a few days now, and players have slowly but surely gotten used to the new cards from Hearthstone. However, some cards are more powerful than previously thought.
An exemplary example is the neutral minion Dirty Rat, which brings impressive stats of 2/6 to the board for just 2 mana. It also has the battlecry that forces the opponent to put a random minion from their hand onto the board immediately.
Most Hearthstone experts, i.e., the big streamers and winners of numerous tournaments, rated the Dirty Rat poorly. One or two out of five possible points and only valuable in truly rare situations.
As has often been the case, the pros were significantly mistaken, because the Dirty Rat enables a whole new kind of play. Your opponent has played a Doomcaller and you can’t play any minions because they would die in the next turn? Just play a Dirty Rat and throw in another opponent’s minion – if you’re lucky, the “big guys” get hit.
That this can end both well and poorly is shown in this video from Hearthstone SparkTV. Take the 10 minutes to watch it, it’s worth it!
Cortyn says: I must confess that I initially rated the card very poorly myself, but after having Furorion taken from my hand a few times, my opinion changed. Ultimately, the card has quite a high RNG factor. However, if you know the current meta, you can often guess which cards the opponent still has available. “Taking away” was actually a mechanic that one didn’t want in Hearthstone – now the whole fun of these tactics is revealed.
