Ivus the Forest Lord

Ally
Alliance
Cost: 14
Attack: 10
Health: 10

You pay 1 less to play Ivus for each non-token Alliance ally in your party.
Each opposing ability, ally, and equipment can't ready during its controller's ready step.

And we’ve reached the last two, and maybe the most interesting cards of the set.

First time I looked at this card, I thought that it will not see any play at all, and I still think this.
The change that you have 4 or more allies out( this amount is necessary to make him interesting)  isn’t big, and even if you do you probably have some advantage.

The effect of this card is very nice , since readying is very important in this game.

Sealed: 5/5
Constructed: 2/5
Casual: 4/5
Raid:1/5

See you on the Battlefield
Warchief Thrall

Ivus the Forest Lord

Cost 14

Ally - Ancient

You may pay 1 less for each non-token alliance ally in your party.

Each opposing ability ally and equipment may not ready during your opponents ready step.

10/10

Yup that’s no typo he costs 14 and he is a 10/10… I remember looking at this monster of an ally and going wow that’s cool they have done a wonderful job of incorporating parts of the Warcraft original games into this set and they work flawlessly. The big problem I have with this is they didn’t go about it quite in the same way I would have guessed they would…

For those of us who remember the Warcraft games and they were a blast the elves had the aid of the ancients and they were your buildings…  Now I would have loved to have seen them involved in quests or maybe scaled back a bit and used as playable allies… But nope we get a lumbering monster of an ally.

I want to say you can play this and he will win you games but really honestly I wish I was writing a report on Rexxar. If you get enough allies in play to drop him for like 8 you already have 6 allies in play and should be in control of the game…  He is too easy to vanquish and unless your playing some strange zero offense stall control deck your not going to have a need for him. His game text is a moot point because he usually won’t see play… 

Sealed (2): If you see turn 14 or have a ton of allies in play you shouldn’t need this behemoth.

Constructed (1): I would be shocked and awed if someone ever played this in constructed format and I would shake his has if he played it against me for that in itself would be a grand thing to see.

Casual (2): This is where he should see the most play along with all his other too expensive for constructed epic brethren.

Onyxia (3): He might serve a purpose in this format just for his game text, keeping all of Onyxia’s little annoying abilities tapped and having the big guy to hit with would be cool but I would find a way to make him untargetable or else your going to find him dead quickly.