New Warrior Minion - Asvedon, the Grandshield

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A new Legendary Warrior Minion, Asvedon, the Grandshield, has been revealed!

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    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    A new Legendary Warrior Minion, Asvedon, the Grandshield, has been revealed!

    Asvedon, the Grandshield Card Image

    Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!


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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Looks good and can potentially decide games with spells like Deathborne, or Miracle Growth, but its so meta dependent that Im tempted to just call this a tech card.

    Because as much useful it can be, this card can also whiff hard, being stuck in your hand for the longest time because your opponent played around it or there's just plain no useful spells to take advantage of.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    The more I think about it the better this gets. Imagine just straight up copying Wild Growth or Nourish while developing the board.

    It only gets iffy once targetted spells get into the mix, wouldn'T want to fireball your own face.

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • DragonDraena's Avatar
    640 449 Posts Joined 08/10/2021
    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Would work well against most Secrets (except Objection) too. 

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  • Synnr7's Avatar
    Winter Whisperer 1050 648 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Not only does the card look fun but I think this is one of my favorite named cards. Don't remember him from WoW but he sounds like a badass.

    Casual Dragon Cardgame enthusiast. 

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    Salty Dog 1550 2105 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Obviously dependent on the meta running juicy spells, but other than this Asvendon looks pretty dope

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  • borisflagell's Avatar
    115 45 Posts Joined 03/30/2022
    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    In my experience, expecting the opponent to play a spell is a bad bet in Hearthstone; moreso in wild.

    There's some list that simply won't run any.

    There's some list that will cast only one or two, as a finisher, so you will never get to copy it.

    Even if they cast something, warrior is not priest or rogue thief, you can't expect nearly as much synergy out of that spell than your opponent will get.

     

    The dev' probably expects that card to enable clever battles of the mind (probably in conjunction with Disruptive Spellbreaker). But it won't. Hearthstone is not suited for that kind of card. 99% of the time, the best way to deal with Asvedon will be to ignore it.

     

     

    It feels like they had something crazy in mind at first, like "counter your opponent next spell. Add a copy of it to your hand that cost (0)". But relented while testing it.

     

    That card will be better in Standard than in Wild; and it's not a good sign.

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2225 2544 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    I'm sorry but this a 2 star legendary at best. And with warrior being in the dumpster tier since Sunken City, this looks even worse. I doubt there will ever be a meta where you would want to cast the last spell your opponent played. It's like a worse Vanessa VanCleef

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    Relaxed 2195 2055 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    I'm going to assume the targeting is random, which means this won't likely be that useful, but since the last spell would be known, it should be feasible to make the battlecry targetable if the last spell was targetable and set what can be targeted based on the rules of the spell. Unfortunately, this is likely to end up damaging one of your own minions or buffing an enemy.

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    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 1 month ago

    Geez, for only 3 mana you can pick and chose what spell from your opponent's list you also wanted to play, given that it was the last spell they played. This seems pretty flippin' good!

    Struggle with Heroic Galakrond's Awakening? I got your back : 

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years ago

    Wow, this is a really cool Thief Priest legendary! This will be fun to play around with it thief priest!..... Wait what do you mean it's a warrior card? 

    This is a Control warrio card. The problem? Control warrior is dead in a ditch, and it's been dead since Blizz Killed it by over-nerfing it during Sunken City. So i don't see this slotting into a good deck just yet, unless the fire spell package manages to make the deck playable.

    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.

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    Metrognome 1620 1217 Posts Joined 11/10/2019
    Posted 2 years ago

    Would be neat in Thief Priest or Rogue... Maybe even Mage... But Warrior? Huh?!

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    Darkmaster 1570 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 2 years ago

    Super versatile card, although it seems a little out of place in Warrior. Still, I'm sure it'll see at least some play.

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