I could see how that card works for different situations compared to armorsmith. Early game in particular vs aggro decks. Aggro deck has 2 minions on board, say, captain and patches. Playing armorsmith means the smith dies and you get 2 armor, assuming it doesn't eat hard removal, where you get 0. You play Drywhisker Armorer in the same situation and you get 4 armor, regardless of if they trade or hard remove this minion. Against low attack token/flood decks this is even more effective, and we're likely to see a few of those, especially with paladin, shaman, and warlock.
Armorsmith i'd say is better in combo style decks with the warrior DK and lots of WW effects to build tons of armor at a time.
Reckless flurry and that shield card just seem solid all around. Whether all this makes Warrior competitive again, I have no idea.
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Comparing to Voidcaller, a 4 mana 3/4...
This card has worse stats and costs 1 more but has the benefit of drawing from deck and playing the demon, whereas Voidcaller required you to have a demon in hand.
It's a powerful effect, but 5 mana for a 2/2 is really expensive.
I'm leaning toward it seeing play than not. Warlock demons are high value and drawing them & playing them can often be an issue in a DK deck.
Interesting cards. Really seems like they are trying to bring control warrior back
I see that card kind of like skelemancer, an anti-board clear card. The trouble is you have to build your deck without any low cost demons to really make it consistent enough to be worth it. The other thing is that if you draw this late, or draw your expensive demons before this, it's a dead card. The advantage this has vs skelemancer is that you don't have to taunt it up to get value out of it. If a more midrange demon zoo type deck becomes a thing, then..... maybe?
I'm inclined to agree with Slippery though.
Have we gotten word on if Recruit works like Ysharj or does it call the card's Battlecry? Likeif you recruit the imp would it still face you for 3 damage or does that get ignored? Would Doomguard discard 2 still?