New Rogue Spell - Shadow of Death

Oh, I can already see how Dane puts this in his Big Rogue deck and uploads a lot youtube videos.

[edit] I don't know how relevant this would be, but it does open some Mogu Cultist possibilities.

Could have OTK potential. Maybe if you can cheat out a Malygos (play it as 1-mana through Jepetto Joybuzz?), cast this card on it, play Myra's Unstable Element, then kill your opponent with cheap spells? Complicated OTK scenarios aside, it's an interesting card design. 

i am not focusing on rouge bu like that card :-)

Rather an odd spell to give Rogue right now considering they have togwaggle's scheme. I suppose this is better when played on large minions with a near-empty deck, but it's not like you can just prep this out on the same turn you played your Malygos, say.

Interesting card, but not terribly powerful.

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 but it's not like you can just prep this out on the same turn you played your Malygos, say.

I think the spell would have cost 5 mana, if Preparation hadn't been nerfed.

I think I sense the coming of a new deathrattle value rouge, this card has insane value (when you draw them) the first cards that come to mind are cards that have immediate board present like Taunt or Rush which are cards you definitely want to use Shadow of Death on. The flexibility of also choosing your opponents minions is really strong as well, let’s say you are vs a Control Shaman and decide that Walking Fountain is looking pretty Juicy, perfect target for Shadow of Death. I think this card will definitely see play, it is possible to use combo applications with this card but I’m more so focusing on the overall value of the card.

Obviously a ton worse than Strider, but also far more interesting.

Some potentially cool tricks with the new legendary and high impact deathrattles.

The problem, same as it ever was, is that Rogue usually does tempo so much better than it does a lot of this neat tricky stuff, and this gets left behind.

Cast it twice(?) on a Desert Obelisk when deck is almost empty, then play Myra's Unstable Element to get combo. Also works for Mogu Cultist. Pretty strong card since it can also target beefy minions of the opponent. 

Won't point OTK + combo posibilities because other guys already said but I wanted to point it out that it can be good with Zilliax. Even if you don't have it, almost all decks have Zilliax in their lists and it can recover your health quite well with Shadow of Death's Shadows. No target restrictions make this card good imo. Very funny and versatile card.

I should note - i don't hate picking this card off of Ethereal Lackey, which is probably where you're going to see it most often.

This card loses you too much tempo, for the same reason academic espionage isn't played this will probably won't be played either too slow and doesn't have a body. 

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This card loses you too much tempo, for the same reason academic espionage isn't played this will probably won't be played either too slow and doesn't have a body. 

It's a bit fringe, but AE + Prep + Tak Nozwhisker is a great way to get fuel for Spectral Cutlass.  These kind of cards aren't high tempo (of course a 4-mana card that doesn't put stats on the board is low tempo, why are we trying to evaluate it based on its speed?), they're high value.   

You could run this with Myras and Leeroy, go Leeroy Shadowstep, Myras to draw your deck, then Leeroy + this to have 18 burst for zero mana on the next turn. 

This card is insane.  It doesn't have the body of the spider so it's not quite as good tempo rogue but the ceiling and flexibility is so much higher because you can use it on bigger minions that give more utility.  Shark rogue already plays the long game pretty well, and this can make that deck even stronger there.

Also tons of weird combo possibilities.  

My question is, when you shuffle a minion that has been buffed, does the shuffled one keeps the buff or is it just the vanilla version of the shuffled minion?

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My question is, when you shuffle a minion that has been buffed, does the shuffled one keeps the buff or ist just the vanilla version of the shuffled minion?

The copy effect copies the original version as always. It works just like the other cards that copies a card into your hand or shuffling into your deck.

If anybody thinks I'm wrong, tell me. But I'm sure it works that way.