New Shaman Spell - Molten Blast

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A new Rare Shaman Spell, Molten Blast, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    A new Rare Shaman Spell, Molten Blast, has been revealed!

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    decent, but what do you do with those elementals. I don't think spell damage shaman will care about tokens.

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    It was awful.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    we had a 2/1 mech that dealt 2 damage before, so as a baseline it's not great needs the spell damage to work.

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Wouldn't better wording have been "Deal 2 damage. Summon a 1/1 Elemental for each damage dealt"? As it is now it is a bit weird. 

    Anyway, as I have mentioned before, I fully support any card that makes Spell Damage more useful. At it's base the card isn't nearly good enough to run, but if you get 3 damage and three 1/1s then it is about as good as Serpentshrine Portal. With Spell Damage +2, it is pretty powerful. I only worry though that most of the time you won't have room on the board for all of the elementals. 

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  • BloodMefist's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 850 804 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Curves well with the new spell damage weapon they're getting and compare favorably with Imp-losion, but I'm not sure if this is a card you include in your deck.  It does deal with aggressive minion boards fairly well at least.

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  • economicaooc's Avatar
    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Intended to be used with spell damage, which might be realised in odd shaman, where you can consistently generate wrath of air totems.

    However, I'm not sure if this is actually that strong even when it is empowered.

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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  • Demonxz95's Avatar
    Senior Writer 2255 2708 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    This is a concept I've seen so many times on fan-made cards, so it's cool to see it finally in the game.

    At it's base form, it's... okay. Not horrible, but it's not that great either. This card lives and dies by how often you can get Spell Damage and this spell off with one of those minions on the board. In Shaman, there's always the chance you get Wrath of Air Totem from your Hero Power, although that's a bit of an RNG gamble, though it does make it slightly better.

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Would have prefer a more funny name like Imp-losion

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Spell damage shaman will certainly love this, but its basically then Imp-losion without Darkshire Councilman.

    That it can hit face is perhaps its saving grace, or otherwise its just a weaker Lightning Bolt. Since shaman also has access to Bloodlust and Storm's Wrath, getting the 1/1 minions may not all be useless.

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  • FieselFitz's Avatar
    Prince Charming 1105 1355 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Could see play in Burn Shaman Decks - otherwise not to sure!

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Really strong with spell damage. If you have enough spell damage, this can fill the entire board. Strong in some kind of aggro spell-damage list. Also don't underestimate these tokens, because the last thing you want is to play against a board of tokens buffed by Bloodlust. Solid card.

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  • Vandaren's Avatar
    620 636 Posts Joined 06/05/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    An alright tempo, but this must be made in collaboration with all the spell damage synergy. So i guess this see play..

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  • Emptyness's Avatar
    Supporter 520 525 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Some spell dmg shaman with bloodlust in his deck might be interested in this one. Otherwise, elemental synergies are long gone for standard shaman. Gone, but not forgotten. 

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2285 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    My thought exactly. Weird wording, although I guess we can all tell what it means, especially since there is so much spell damage this expansion. Decent card I suppose.

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  • PLANETCRUNCH's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 820 1248 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    In the set Goblins vs Gnomes, Warlock received the spell Imp-losion, which players will make immediate comparison to this card.

    However, whereas Imp-losion is 4 mana, this is 3, making it a spell that can be cast by Trick Totem, or even be discounted by Farsight and the new Primordial Studies. It's also a consistent 2 damage instead of 2-4, and consistent damage allows for better planning when it comes to single target removal. Both are also empowered by spell damage, which will increase the amount of tokens this summons.

    While the spell sounds weaker than it's counterpart, consider the tools that Shaman has in their arsenal to make this spell stronger -

    They've received the new weapon Rune Dagger that gives +1 spell damage when they attack, Trick Totem that can cast this spell (hopefully not against it), Boggspine Knuckles AND Bogstruck clacker that can evolve the tokens, as well as the ever popular Mogu Fleshshaper that gets discounted the more minions are on the field. If Vashj Prime happens to draw this spell it'll be absolutely discounted.

    I think this card, while it requires some work can see play in constructed, especially since Team 5 wants to keep pushing Spell Shaman so much

     

     

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  • JFK's Avatar
    Curious Pair 1070 621 Posts Joined 07/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Kinda weird. Would SD shaman use tokens as well? One aims at spell burst (no pun intended), the other at minion burst.
    Without spell damage, it's pretty underwhelming. Not necessarily bad in a token shaman, but totems seem to be the future of the archtype, not elementals.

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  • Guenh's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 725 633 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Imp-losion with less RNG. With just a +1 spell powe can be 3 damage and 3/3, and shaman have the spell power totem. Can be good in the right deck imho

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  • Koetti's Avatar
    1095 863 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Not good. Serpentshrine Portal is just way better and it doesn't need a Set Up.

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  • linkinboy0's Avatar
    Headmaster 1235 513 Posts Joined 07/07/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Baaaaaad, terribly bad

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  • Lemushki's Avatar
    Squirtle 1120 1063 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    As I said on the shaman weapon. If spelldamage sees play this will be there

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  • Valord's Avatar
    465 281 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Having this with the totem and weapon is pretty good synergy.

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  • Valord's Avatar
    465 281 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Having this with the HP totem and weapon is pretty good synergy wise.

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  • Janusi's Avatar
    Face Collector 595 225 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    A fairer, but also more consistent Implosion.

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  • Fisguinho's Avatar
    The Raven 1190 411 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Costs too much for what it does

    All hail the banshee queen.

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  • Erodos's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Very good when combined with Rune Dagger especially, spell damage shaman is really coming together.

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  • ChocolateChipCooke's Avatar
    Unicorn Reveler 1160 337 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    This is a neat idea, but I'm not sure a board full of 1/1's is going to make this good enough (even in a spell damage package)...

    Serpentshrine Portal just seems better in almost every situation to me.

    This card doesn't have overload, but 3 mana for 2 damage and two 1/1's doesn't seem strong enough at baseline value when a card like Serpentshrine Portal is already in standard.

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  • Safiron's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 620 156 Posts Joined 07/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Better than [Hearthstone Card (Serpentshrine Portal) Not Found]. We might see some play.

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago
    Quote From KANSAS

    Wouldn't better wording have been "Deal 2 damage. Summon a 1/1 Elemental for each damage dealt"? (...)

    Yes, it would have been 10 time better and clearer - Indeed

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  • SavageDrago's Avatar
    300 150 Posts Joined 05/07/2020
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    More evolve shenaningans. Sure, why not? Better then when Shaman had no identity at all.

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  • Samzy's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 370 191 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Great in spell damage decks. Hopefully this is beneficial enough to see play.

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  • theo333's Avatar
    Outlandish Rager 975 889 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Mass Aggro elemental spell damage build. Doesn't seem that useful if it requires that many factors.

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Token support for shaman... I hate It.

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  • Meteorite12's Avatar
    670 696 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    If spell damage becomes a relevant thing in shaman this should be really good. Imp-losion was a really good card at 4 mana, and this is a much more reliable version of that for cheaper.

    I’m pretty sure the only reason why Imp-losion never sees any play anymore is basically because the Death Knight will always be too good to not run

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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  • Alfi's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 1790 1375 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Spell damage spell!

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  • SilverWolf's Avatar
    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Well at least it's a synergy with Lady Vashj, although it's a terrible wording on this card

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  • FaytFFX's Avatar
    410 191 Posts Joined 12/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Elemental Shaman?

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  • slychd's Avatar
    Sparklepony 1175 484 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    I don't see the point of this card yet. Maybe in a future expansion it's purpose will be revealed.

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  • Thonson's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1740 1737 Posts Joined 03/24/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    How good this is depends on how good a Spell Damage Shaman is.  I previously said I think Spell Damage Shaman would work better in Wild with Crackle being an additional burn option, and I maintain that opinion.  And in Wild, would you run this?  Probably not.  I'm sure there are much better options.

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  • Sparkinarius's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    A good follow up to Rune Dagger, but after turn 3 the stats and the damage start to drop off quickly in terms of relevance. I just don't think you'll enough consistent spell damage beyond Rune Dagger for this to matter post turn 3.

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2225 2544 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Obviously meant to be paired with spell damage due to the wording on the card. Doubt it will see play outside of the spell damage shaman deck ppl will try.

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  • GoliathTheDwarf's Avatar
    980 667 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    This looks really fun to play with spell damage and an interesting way to convert it into swarm mechanics. 

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1570 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Not an amazing card, but it can work if there's a way to buff the elementals afterwards.

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Imp-losion but it's Spell Damage based. I like the idea, don't know if Shaman loves it though since they can't do much with the Elementals afterwards.

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