New Warrior Spell - Heavy Plate
Submitted 3 years, 5 months ago by
Arthas
A new Common Warrior Spell, Heavy Plate, has been revealed!
Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!
Learn more about United in Stormwind
Head on over to our dedicated guide for United in Stormwind!
Get Cheaper Card Packs
This section contains affiliate links.
If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.
Leave a Comment
You must be signed in to leave a comment. Sign in here.
A new Common Warrior Spell, Heavy Plate, has been revealed!
Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!
Learn more about United in Stormwind
Head on over to our dedicated guide for United in Stormwind!
Get Cheaper Card Packs
This section contains affiliate links.
If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.
Your friendly neighbourhood bot!
Like what I'm doing? Disable ads and unlock cosmetics with Out of Cards Premium!
Certainly playable. Nice armor gain, but if you compare it to Shield Block it kinda feels.. underwelming? considering you need to pay 1 mana to use it's tradable effect. Actually after looking at some other 3 cost armor gain cards, i noticed that Heavy Plate is basicly Ice Barrier that you can trade back into your deck.
But still, i think Control warrior will still use it, because it's armor gain. Also the Silas Darkmoon OTK deck might enjoy it.
In wild... IT'S ODD COSTED. But i'm still not 100% sure if ODD Warrior will use it. It might help getting to the Silas Darkmoon OTK earlier. (For the ODD Warrior decks that run that combo.) I'm interested to see whether it makes the cut, but i'm guessing it doesn't because Shield Block is honestly superior in a lot of ways.
RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.
This card is bad. 3 mana for 8 armor is a lot, and the only redeemable quality is that it can be used to cycle through your deck faster.
Fair card, warrior needs more amor gaining nowadays, so that card should see play for sure in control/combo lists. And, as other guys said, Silas Darkmoon lists will use it.
And I LOVE the art. :)
By The Holy Light!
You are forgetting that any Tradable card basically thins your deck, i mean if you have multiple, it can kinda backfire, but you can throw the other card back as well, being able to just draw a different card from your deck is a massive advantage imho. Depending on how many Tradable cards there will be available, this might be played just for the keyword in most games possibly. And for the armor whenever you actually need it.
~ Have an idea? Found a bug? Let us know! ~
~ Join us on Discord ~
Tradable as a keyword should be thought of as Plan B, as top decking this wouldn't be the absolute worst unless you really needed something on curve. Otherwise, instant Ice Barrier without the need for your opponent to attack to proc. Pretty basic 29th/30th card in your control warrior deck.
Hey, you heard about that Mario guy?
8 health for 3 mana is just about standard for a healing card. But with the option to throw this back for another card is what really makes this card work. At least in control warrior anyway.
Its probably the weakest tradable card yet, but control warrior needs armor and this one provides. With the added option to just throw this back into the deck against other control decks for a card (and still not lose the fatigue war) is really icing on the cake.
Simple, shows off the new mechanic well. Not sure it will see play but has a higher chance thanks to Tradeable.
Casual Dragon Cardgame enthusiast.
Ok i guess .... but nothing more.
Challenge me ... when you're ready to duel a god!
We don't know the Warrior quest line now. If its requirement would be to gain armor this will be judged differently. But right now I don't see it fitting in a deck.
(And on the other hand I think the Warrior QL will be related to the rush keyword.)
If you think about it this is basically a gimped Shield Block. Control Warrior's biggest issue right now is the lack of actual armor gain to efficiently beat aggro decks (which it is way too weak against currently). Meanwhile, against a Control matchup you can just throw it back in the deck to find something better to spend your mana on.
I tried having fun once.
It was awful.
Very funny art. The card itself it's ok, I guess, not very useful on constructed.
In duels it's very different, it will be very useful for bomb warrior, at least it will grant 2 bombs if played on curve.
Good for slower warrior deck. Gret flexibility if you need to fish for another card.
Compared to other healing/armor cards, it's pretty balanced. Ice Barrier but without the secret requirement, Holy Light but +1 cost because armor is better than healing, or Healing Touch only armor instead of healing. The main difference is that you can choose to cycle this instead of gaining the armor, making it much better than any of those cards. The nice thing about tradeable cards is that they don't have to always be good, they can be just OK and you still very playable. They are safe cards to put in your deck since they will never be dead draws.
If for no other reason, control warrior will play this just because they are lacking in armor gain.
Carrion, my wayward grub.
Depending on the environment, this could see scattered play.
Definitely useable in OTK warrior, plus I like the Tradeable ability.
"Be excellent to each other." -Bill and Ted
Definitely looks underwhelming, but I have a feeling this card will soon make a lot more sense with more cards being announced. Some synergies with armor or the new tradeable mechanic can turn this card into a frequent sight on ladder.
Arena > Wild > Standard
Too expensive for the cost, would trade it away all the time.
Support for control warrior, nice! This can be seen as a better Shield Block for 4 mana, coz it still draws you a card, but you only get the armor gain later
TREMBLE before.... the most legendary dragon that ever existed!
Perfect example of how a "weak" card becomes good because Tradeable gives the card amazing flexibility.
Rating cards on coolness factor rather than predicting power because I like screwing up rating averages (and because I suck at predicting real power levels, but we'll ignore that LUL)
Wins per class (2/6/22): DH-197; Druid-996; Hunter-91«60; Mage-1056; Paladin-1126; Priest-746; Rogue-961; Shaman-1095; Warlock-871; Warrior-906
I'm not sure when I would trade instead of play this card, but tradeable makes it extremely flexible, so that's nice.
Unless agrro becomes really common and really aggresive this won't see any play for control warriors.
I like the card, weaker than Shield Block but the key word gives it some flexibility.
You are not forced to keep it in your hand and can use it to fish answers from your deck.
I think this is a perfectly fine card. Just because it isn't busted doesn't mean it shouldn't be played. It should go well with any control leaning deck.
Unfortunately, common sense isn't as common as it should be.
Pretty good, just whack it into a slower deck and trade it if you don't need it.
it's ok
I am envoy from nowhere in nowhere. Nobody and nothing have sent me. And even though it is impossible I exist. ©Trimutius
Oof. Will see play only if there is a really strong armor heavy control Warrior.
2 stars
When the "Play 10 Tradeable Cards" quest will be live, it'll be a natural auto-fill around this ;)
Struggle with Heroic Galakrond's Awakening? I got your back :
Amazing card, Tradeable just is such a strong mechanic. Need a lot of armor? Here you go! Don't need it? Have another card instead!
Seems bad.
Not bad but not fantastic
Rogue DH
Not dr booms schemes levels of bad, but way too slow for me.
Lemushki - The one and only since the 2006 rebranding.
I like this card for Duels combined with Magnetic Mines hero power.
Yup, 8 armor for control warrior. It's a card.
Chumbawumba is the worst band name.
Too expensive for the cost
I am 69 years old and still reach Legend
As you don't draw a card like shield block, this really doesn't seem to good. The 1 mana gain 5 was never very popular if I recall correctly and I don't think tradeble redeems it.
Still, I prefer Shield Block.
Papa Nurgle wants to share his gifts.
Strong defensive tool, and also flexible. If control Warrior becomes competitive, this will surely be in it
I don't see this making the cut. It's a Control card - both drawing and Armor gain are good against different match-ups - but I think I'd rather just play a better card than get the minor flexibility from this.
Welcome to the site!