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The card is okay but not incredible. 4/2 in the 3 slot isn't great, there's already plenty of minions with that stat line that never see play. (Jungle Panther even has Stealth, and is a beast, and isn't played!)
+1/+1 on minions in hand hasn't proven to be very powerful as we've seen already with The Mistcaller which also has poor stats for it's mana slot.
This being limited to Deathrattle minions will suck for Standard decks, might see play in Wild.
Doing a card search, there's only 22 known deathrattle cards in Standard for Hunter, with maybe a few more yet to be released.
Notably:
Tentacle of N'zoth
Leper Gnome
Loot Hoarder
Huge Toad
Thalnos
Spawn of N'zoth
Harvest Golem
Twilight Summoner
Polluted Hoarder
Infested Tauren
Sylvanas
Highmane
Cairne
Chillmaw
Deathwing, Dragonlord
MAYBE there's some super secret N'zoth deck that will make it for Hunter, but I doubt it. I like N'Zoth but for him to be worth you want the Deathrattle minions to be huge, you don't want tiny shit minions reviving and Forlorn Stalker doesn't work as well with big minions, you want him on flood cards to get +1/+1 to lots of tiny shits for maximum value.
So yea, not seeing Forlorn Stalker being very good. I do think Hunter will have decent Deathrattle decks, but that's because of Infest which won't work with Forlorn Stalker.
Edit: 22 Deathrattlers
+1/+1 on minions in hand hasn't proven to be very powerful as we've seen already with The Mistcaller which also has poor stats for it's mana slot.
This being limited to Deathrattle minions will suck for Standard decks, might see play in Wild.
Doing a card search, there's only 22 known deathrattle cards in Standard for Hunter, with maybe a few more yet to be released.
Notably:
Tentacle of N'zoth
Leper Gnome
Loot Hoarder
Huge Toad
Thalnos
Spawn of N'zoth
Harvest Golem
Twilight Summoner
Polluted Hoarder
Infested Tauren
Sylvanas
Highmane
Cairne
Chillmaw
Deathwing, Dragonlord
MAYBE there's some super secret N'zoth deck that will make it for Hunter, but I doubt it. I like N'Zoth but for him to be worth you want the Deathrattle minions to be huge, you don't want tiny shit minions reviving and Forlorn Stalker doesn't work as well with big minions, you want him on flood cards to get +1/+1 to lots of tiny shits for maximum value.
So yea, not seeing Forlorn Stalker being very good. I do think Hunter will have decent Deathrattle decks, but that's because of Infest which won't work with Forlorn Stalker.
Edit: 22 Deathrattlers
Gavinmad
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Borzak
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Bought 1 pack with my gold from doing the daily mission. Got Ragnaros, not sure how to play that tho. On a legendary roll tho, 2 in back to back packs. 3 legendaries in a total of 12ish packs opened. Guessing this won't stay like that from here out.
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Famm
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I like the effect, but its the same body as Flamewaker for one more mana and an arguably worse effect...they are so afraid of power creep now. I guess I shouldn't judge it by the Flamewaker metric since that card turned out to be half broken. Seems like Water Elemental is overall better.
Brand
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There is a reason I'm playing mage atm...If I want to have any hope of a gold mage, I think now is the time to rack up some wins...There are a lot of core Mage cards going away and I'm not seeing solid replacements, yet.
Mures
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Yeah, I think part of it is you keep it in hand to save for a target you MUST polymorph. If it was consistently just missing lethal because I had it in hand with no minion I would have replaced it with a 2nd torch, but that is almost never the case so its nice to have the versatility when needed.
Gavinmad
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Well the main problem is that mage secrets generally fucking suck when you can't cheat them out with scientist. Tempo Mage may still be viable, since they can win games without scientist. Freeze mage is losing a lot of ground against rush decks who deal a lot of damage before your board clears can come online, but they should be fine against slower midrange decks because with Naxx and GvG rotating out, when you pop off a board clear, the board will actually be clear. Value/Reno mage is completely dead since it's losing duplicate and echo on top of scientist.
Flamewaker is not leaving. Tempo mage is losing shredder and scientist. That's it.