Consider a typical start of game and compare BF and Gambit, assuming we played a solid 2-drop like
Masked Bandit or
Layarian Knight or
Feasterling ...
T3 Warrior: Play BF and summon nothing else. All tempo lost for that turn. Hope our ally can kill something on the board, but it's gonna struggle. Even with
Feasterling, the best we can hope is do 3 damage but if opponent played a 4HP or 5HP then we are screwed.
vs
T3 Hunter: If we have an ally out, then attack with that and play Gambit to kill an ally and draw 2 cards. If we had
Feasterling, we can kill a 5HP ally, so only
Caged Savage would live. Most people don't run Vermin as their main 2-drop so any 2-attack ally + Gambit will do.
T4 Warrior: Take 1 damage and draw 1 card. Spend the 4cc how you like. If we still have an ally around (which we wouldn't if facing a Hunter with Gambit as above) attack with it, I guess.
vs
T4 Hunter: Use our ally that survived thanks to killing off previous one and play Gambit again to kill another ally and draw 2 more cards.
So at this point, the Gambit user has managed to kill off two allies and draw 4 cards so far, but did summon 1 extra from hand. The BF user has drawn 1 extra card (compared to not having BF). The Gambit user has seen 3 more cards from their deck than the BF user and has +2 cards in hand compared to them and also wiped the BF board.
If we consider the heroes that might be in action, then
Banebow can have done 2 ability damage across two targets by T4 even if he went first.
Baduruu can bring out a 7cc weapon on T4 going second.
Bookmarks