New Shaman Minion - The Lurker Below

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A new Legendary Shaman Minion, The Lurker Below, 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 Legendary Shaman Minion, The Lurker Below, has been revealed!

    The Lurker Below Card Image

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  • JackJimson's Avatar
    670 673 Posts Joined 11/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Am I correct to assume the effect triggers indefinitely until either:

    • it fails to kill another minion or
    • there are no more minions to hit

    So the effect is similar-ish to Rolling Fireball in terms of movement.

    I would prefer a more defensive stat distribution on the body. This strikes me more of a defensive card.

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  • allthehype's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 630 739 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Holy shit I love this card for some reason. Maybe it's the name, the art, or all of it? Too bad it's missing a tribe though, I thought it was a dragon at first sight.

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

    Looks like Godzilla made it's Way into Hearthstone!

    Really cool Art and the Effect is pretty strong! 

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

    How does it work with double Battlecry?

    If the first 3 damage kill a thing does it already move to the next one or does it stay on the dead minion?

    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

    Against aggro decks, maybe, as some sort of board clear, but I am not impressed. I don't like it. 

    “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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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    I think the second battlecry will proct after the first one's finished. So if it kills the opponent's board the 2nd battlecry is redundant, I guess.

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

    A weaker bodied Fire Elemental, but with a semi-repeatable effect. Decent card but would've liked to see more health on this

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  • RavenSunHS's Avatar
    Refreshment Vendor 880 1487 Posts Joined 03/27/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    Basically a 3-hp board clear, with an aggressive body.

    That's a pretty nice Tempo swing.

    Problem is when said board has bigger minions in-between.

    Compare with Duskbreaker and Arcanosaur.

    Lurker is more threatening, and its condition is on the effect itself, board-based instead of card-based.

    Either way, even in the worst case scenario, Lurker always does a minimum action.

     

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  • RandomGuy's Avatar
    430 614 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    A+ card.

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  • duppie's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 320 240 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    not too sure about this guy.  he's got the potential to be powerful or shitty depending on the board state. like if your opponent has two 4/4s this is a terrible play, but if they have a board of 3/3s this is flame strike with a body.  

    the body is really easy to kill but it does have a threatening attack.  It has quest synergy (it's battlecry might be pretty nutty with the quest hero power).  

    Might be too situational to see play but it might be strong enough effect to always find some decent use.  The fact that it's so insane against token/flood strategies might be enough to make it auto include.   I hope it sees play in a good shaman deck, i like the card.

     

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

    Looks like Godzilla made it's Way into Hearthstone!

    Really cool Art and the Effect is pretty strong! 

    Now waiting for Mothra and the rest of the monstercrew to join as well

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

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    I really like this card because while the effect is strong, it isn't anything so unique that you would need to craft to play a certain deck. It is strong, but not mandatory. You could justify playing it in any deck, or no deck.

    Plus, the art is awesome.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • Haffax733's Avatar
    Devoted Outlander 1035 297 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    I like this card because it makes minion placement more important. Due to the weak body, this card fits rather into a control deck. Let's see if Control Shaman becomes competetive again.

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

    Great card. Makes placement important, and it gives Shaman a "Defile/Lord Godfrey" kinda card. Maybe this will help make control shaman better.

    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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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    "Throw it back! THROW IT BACK!"

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

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

    Is there any ruling with the doubled battlecrys? I would suppose first a normal battlecry, and then the same if there are survivors - but centered where?

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  • bryanfeanor's Avatar
    Llanowar Elves 335 47 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Defile but for Shaman, Even shaman is really strong in Wild but lacks a good board clear, with this man it is gonna be shaman stone all over again,.

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  • Este's Avatar
    Bloodfeather 650 162 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    I've just realised that the first strike is targetable, oh my god, that makes it so much better! Now I want to open it

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

    Reminds me of godfrey, but this one you can play around.. it's great that it cares about position AND minion health... will need to pay attention vs shaman, also I think it's 6 damage if you play quest?

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

    pretty nice card for potential board clear. no negative fallback for this battlcry so I give it 5 stars.

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

    I like this card but probably it's heavy meta dependant. In a meta full of token or agro this is a huge card, but in other situation need some help to full clear the board

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

    It's better than Fire Elemental, but it's only really strong against token decks. Don't see it carrying any type of deck, but might be slotted into Highlander Quest Shaman.

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  • dracobk201's Avatar
    Frog Prince 285 16 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    It's a POWERFUL Fire Elemental. It's so good vs aggro.

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

    Bring back Quest Shaman

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

    Cool art and a potential board clear, spell control shaman will make the list.

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

    I'm not a fan of this, mostly because of its pitiful Health. Yeah you're in it for the Battlecry, but still. The Battlecry itself is devastating against token decks, but will that be enough to carry it? I don't believe so.

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

    Hellfire + worgen greaser, I guess? A lot of vanilla minion + boardwipe legendaries in this set. About as acceptable as they come, not great, not bad. Probably sees play in shudderwock decks?

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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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

    Looks like a strong arena card, I'm hoping it's effect just keeps going off if it keeps killing minions, so it becomes a board clear on a body.

    Otherwise it's a slightly better Godfrey since it doesn't damage your own minions either

     

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

    I don't know how good this will be, but I do know this: clearing a board with this card will be FUN AF!!!

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

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

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

    Seems like a generally good card you could put in most decks. Definitely gonna be getting this card at some point

    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

    Strong effect, but feel like it has relatively low health for its cost.

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  • Xerawolf's Avatar
    Derpy Elf 175 37 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    The art is really really cool and the effect is strong. Maybe a bit too slow to fight against aggro. But definatly a solid effect. 

    Cant wait to see the animations in action. 

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  • Car's Avatar
    185 226 Posts Joined 03/31/2020
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Finally this is just a beast to deal with token decks in standard.

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  • HunterPlayer123's Avatar
    60 2 Posts Joined 11/23/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Wait, So does it kinda work like Rolling Fireball, or is it just "deal 3 damage to an enemy minion, if it dies, deal 3 damage to one of its neighbors and that's it?

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago
    Quote From HunterPlayer123

    Wait, So does it kinda work like Rolling Fireball, or is it just "deal 3 damage to an enemy minion, if it dies, deal 3 damage to one of its neighbors and that's it?

    I think it will continue to chain onto more minions until one of them survives

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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