New Warlock Spell - The Dark Portal

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A new Rare Warlock Spell, The Dark Portal, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    A new Rare Warlock Spell, The Dark Portal, has been revealed!

    The Dark Portal Card Image

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


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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    The elusive new Handlock support now that Giant got yeeted. I don't really see this being a thing. If you want to play it immediately the discount is negligable, so it makes most sense to play this as a set up for future turns, in which case I have to ask why we don't just play the minion striaght up.

    Maybe there's some weird combo involving select minions and Plot Twist for consistency, but I have no idea what that would be (if you say Malygos I'll punch you in the face)

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • Emptyness's Avatar
    Supporter 520 525 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Damn, I am not exactly sure why, but some of the cards in this expansion are just garbage straight away. 

    Some sort of Handlock without Giants and with the dude legendary that makes your handsize bigger? I am not conviced yet.

    “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ― George Bernard Shaw

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    ... Malygos...

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  • Koetti's Avatar
    1095 863 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Besides the obvious Combo cough*Malygos*cough , there aren't that many Targets for this, at least in Standard. Maybe you just play a t5 Abyssal Summoner or get a cheap Zzeraku the Warped

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Mountain Giant had to rotate for this?

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

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  • Haffax733's Avatar
    Devoted Outlander 1035 297 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Great addition to Handlock. Could also be used as tutor in a spell-heavy deck, e.g., to find Malygos.

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  • troY's Avatar
    Funnel Cakes 250 271 Posts Joined 11/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    I still foresee Galakrond Control Warrior to be a thing, and this could help

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    A Win-more card, but it seems too weak if you ask me. Warlock has plenty of draw and it already has the Quest to reduce card cost. 

    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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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    This card is just bad saw some gameplay, I am not impressed.

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  • liontail's Avatar
    Draconically Dedicated 210 277 Posts Joined 09/04/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    insane handlock card. handsdown this will allow handlock to be even more deadlier considering getting discounted cards while cycling deck.

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  • Guenh's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 725 633 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    This is an handlock card and to combo with something like Malygos...but for me in standard Handlock will be weak because of last Hall of Fame

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  • Erodos's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Might see play in some kind of handlock deck, but those decks have been gutted with the premature death of our good friend Mountain Giant. Maybe in Even Warlock in wild?

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  • Elfensilver's Avatar
    595 663 Posts Joined 03/14/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Fourth turn most hand-synergies may come into play, so this may help you start bigger.

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  • Xarkkal's Avatar
    Servant of Illidan 910 1321 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Major combo potential. Interesting addition. 

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  • RavenSunHS's Avatar
    Refreshment Vendor 880 1487 Posts Joined 03/27/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago
    Quote From Erodos

    Might see play in some kind of handlock deck, but those decks have been gutted with the premature death of our good friend Mountain Giant. Maybe in Even Warlock in wild?

    Exactly where I want to try the card.

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  • StormKnightSera's Avatar
    Senior Writer Serra Angel 1720 2915 Posts Joined 02/09/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    It's...okay, I guess. Tutoring a minion isn't the worst thing. I just don't see it being run in a deck I care about, so...yeah. *shrugs*

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  • PLANETCRUNCH's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 820 1248 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    This card seems real slow for Warlock, handlock especially

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  • economicaooc's Avatar
    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Discounting combo pieces is something warlock typically does semi often - mecha'thun and any of the many thaurissan combos come to mind - but this seems unreliable in a class where your combo pieces are often weird and discounts need to go on your final win cards rather than your discount-ers. Unreliable, expensive and probably not combo-able.

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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  • Almaniarra's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1000 1509 Posts Joined 03/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Might work in Plot Twist warlock if you can open a slot for this but the real question is, do you really want to open a slot for this ?

    Unpopular Opinion Incarnate

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  • Vandaren's Avatar
    620 636 Posts Joined 06/05/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Big Warlock? Or another combo enabler. Will see some experimentation, and surely find a home.

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    A nice card for handlocks. This could be the Demon cheating tool warlocks have been missing since Possessed Lackey got nerfed. I am glad Mountain Giant got sent to the Hall of Fame so that we can have cool cards like this.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • Meteorite12's Avatar
    670 696 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Doesn’t look that great really, it’s not that hard to get the effect off, but the effect doesn’t really help much (since you spent so much on the card draw in the first place)

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1570 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Easy to trigger its effect in control Warlock, so it may be a very strong card in the right deck.

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2285 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Malygos would be a great draw from this, as some folks said, but I don't think you want to build your deck around that. Too inconsistent. And this from a guy who tried to Jepetto his Malygos for Druid combo decks until I cried.

    "Be excellent to each other." -Bill and Ted

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  • RavenSunHS's Avatar
    Refreshment Vendor 880 1487 Posts Joined 03/27/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Considering (1) spent for sheer draw, you spend (3) to discount (5), the neat mana cheat is (2), which is not bad at all.

    You basically waste some Tempo to gain it back with interests later, or even in the same turn (which is the basic philosophy of Hand-decks).

    And I think that is the best usage of this card, not really for Combo purposes.

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