I predict a Hunter common:

1, Joy of the Hunt
Ability - Survival
Destroy all opposing allies who have or share the lowest cost among opposing allies

GG Ghouls

I think Army of the Dead is a perfect reason for people to stop complaining about Hunter getting the shaft. One card gives instant weight to the DK class. A similar card could jumpstart Hunter any set now.

Chimera Shot actually gives me hope for the Hunter class. All of the Stings refer to ranged weapons, this might be the set where Hunter gets a good ranged weapon.

747828:

I'll eat my words if I'm proven wrong, but I really feel like this is bound to be the case.

I say put something more on the line. Perhaps eating a hat at a DMF.

Anyway, I sort of agree. Normally these effect incentivize you to not play allies, so they won't be caught up in it. This however, doesn't punish you and in some cases rewards you. On the other hand, how often are there several allies out in limited?

747828:

I think you're missing something big, and I ask you to envision how you play against this card. As you said before, when playing against a board sweeper like Invoke the Nether, the right play is to just lay one big threat at a time, and force your opponent to eventually waste the board sweeper as a 1-for-1.
However, the only reason that strategy works is because your opponent cannot lay his own slew of allies, because he will lose them to his own board sweeper if he has to play it, and he won't have as many threats following his board sweeper when he does play it. However, Army of the Dead solves both of those problems. The DK player can commit as many allies to the board as he wants, and it creates a lose/lose situation for you. Either (a) you play your own allies out to counter his dominating board presence, which allows him to Army of the Dead and make a massive number of 3/3's and win the game, or (b) you don't play out more allies, and he just wins via his dominating board presence.

So, I guess my point is, that there's no good way to play around the card. Your strategy of "play 1 good threat at a time" just doesn't work against Army of the Dead.

At least when it's Scourgewar only, you need to assume they have this card. Heck, I'd be tempeted almost force DK if it got my opponent worried about AotD. As the newer sets come out, the chances of this card appearing decrease, even though, playing against a DK should still be done with caution.

The block could also be filled with lots of "when this ally is destroyed or leaves play" effects that would make it dangerous(or advantageous) for the DK player to play Army of the Dead.  And who knows if Invincible will appear on cards in this set?

Let's just hope that there is enough decent weapons and abilities in the set for the classes that want to go ally light.

When I first heard about this card at worlds, I thought it killed all allies, and then gave you a 3/3 for each OPPOSING ally destroyed that way.

I thought that was a great card.

I think its the fact that it also gives you a 3/3 for each of your OWN allies that makes it completely ridiculous.  You could flood the board with 2/1s, and use this card to upgrade them to 3/3s even.