New Priest Spell - Shadowform

It is to be noted that in the official card library it still lists Mind Shatter as a related token so I wonder if they just removed it fro mthe text but it still works the same. Would be a shame if that functionality was removed, really don't see a point to it otherwise. :/

It is confirmed that they removed Mind Shatter...it was not necessary to bring Shadowform from HoF if they were going to eliminate the most cool part of it. It just does not make sense to reduce its cost but eliminate the Mind Shatter part. I was so excited about Shadowform returning but this felt so bad. 

This card remains too slow. The one mana discount barely matters when the issue with the card is drawing it early enough. You are pretty much forced to run two copies of this if you want to draw it with any consistency. There was a point in doing it before because you could upgrade the Hero Power a second time to 3 damage. They removed that though. This means that the second copy is a dead card in your deck and a terrible draw after changing the Hero Power. Now you have to choose between a better chance of drawing it time to deal direct damage to your opponent and hopefully win before they kill you or ignore the second copy and run the risk of drawing it too late or not at all. Out of all direct damage options they had to bring back the absolute worst possible option. Total garbage.

I always wanted to be able to play this card, but there was never a lot of support for it.  Then when the deathknight came along, it made this card completely worthless as not only did it do the same job, but it reset every time you played a card.  I would like to see things come into play that will enhance your shadow damage specifically, not just spell damage... or at the least if you play two in your deck, when you cast the second one it amplifies the damage you deal with it. 

I have not seen as many cards to support this, I think this will be seen more randomly generated.

This can only be good if it gets some support cards - i sincerely hope that we will see some Shadow Priest Support this expansion because i always liked the concept for Shadow Priest.

I'm really interested in the way there going to revisit shadow priest, looking forward to it. BUT i see that Mind Shatter is gone from the text, so that might make Shadowform a lot worse. I hope it still gives you Mind Shatter, otherwise running a second copy of Shadowform will feel kinda bad.

Yup, its been confirmed that mind shatter is no longer a possibility. So the question goes; why the hell would you want to run a dead card in your deck? For the sake of consistency? Let's be honest here, this is priest we're talking about. Drawing cards is hard enough, but after the first mind spike upgrade Shadowform simply bricks your draw. I supposed team5 simply chicken out on the concept of a 3 damage for 2 mana hp at last minute.

So the pertinent question would be whether 2 damage for 2 mana every turn is good enough for a class that traditionally play defensively? The answer is yes. Being able to consistently remove minions from board without taking damage is no joke. But one card rarely makes a whole deck. And its particularly true with this card. Expect team5 to do something to massively support this card. Otherwise, I can't see why they'd even bring it back then subsequently removed mind shatter, perhaps the coolest part of the card.