I'm weirdly really looking forward to seeing how Cariel will react to Tamsin being Ressed as a lich by Lady Prestor.
Is this a confirmed thing, that tamsin was raised back as a lich by lady prestor? We know shes a lich now, but not who raised her
Uh they said this in the Hearthside Chat video where they revealed the tamsin hero card. They reveal this between timestamps 1:30 and 1:52! Actually i did make a small mistake, she got ressed by Lady Prestor AND kazakus.
Bit of a weird effect that is causing confusion and being in warlock makes it more clunky, compared to if it were a paladin card. I'm sure there will be some cool combos made where this abomination will get 30+ attack and go face, but it's probably just a meme and a decent arena card.
Might be good in duels against certain decks like token DH
The only really great deathrattles in standard right now are value ones like Envoy Rustwix and Kanrethad Ebonlocke unless you want to risk death via Hullbreaker and drawing a lot of spells. I do sound like a broken record, but we need to see more decent deathrattles before this new legendary spell can be good.
Well, it's one of those usual tech cards, but damn, poor Rend Blackhand got power creeped for days. The majority of decks run a few legendries so Grimtotem Bounty Hunter will generally have a target. Only problem is waiting for said target, so most likely this will be a dead card in your hand and could've been replaced with another card that would help your win condition.
So both Vanndar and Drek'Thar have heavy deckbuilding restrictions, and you need to be worried about shuffle effects like with Envoy Rustwix. That being said, it's kinda cool inventing decks like this, coz you can get creative, for eg: Try make a big spell mage with Drek'Thar or a zoolock. Quest Paladin with Drek'Thar would probably be bad right but still fun to try all these archetypes with these 2 different legendries.
Well, after looking at all the awesome big minion decks being invented, I'm kinda wanting to play with vanndar now. Think if I remember correctly, we get both vanndar and Drek'thar at the end of the faction questlines once the expansion launches, but could be wrong.
Regardless, pretty cool thematic flavor for both legendries.
Well this card will be great to push control archetypes since any class can use it to ruin aggro boards. Only thing is it's 5 mana so you have less mana in general to spend on setting up the perfect board clear.
More useful in wild, surprisingly, because Tax Paladin is fairly decent there thanks to Call to Arms. The redundancy in those recruit effects gives the deck a lot more consistency.
In standard, however, every aggro deck has a bigger drop (Greybough, [Hearthstone Card (Trampling Rhyno) Not Found], even Mr. Smite if you value the 6 damage burst), so Drek'Thar feels more awkward. Also, he competes with Kazakus, Golem Shaper in the 4 mana slot.
"Is your Deathrattle minion ready to summon a giant threat and yet is being ignored? Are Rogues more interested in drawing through their deck with cheap battlecries and comboes? Do you want the value Rogue dream? There has got to be a better way!
Hi, Billy Mays here, ready to introduce you to Forsaken Lieutenant, the PREMIER blitzing fast Deathrattle activator for immediate action. Did your opponent play a 2 drop? Boom, now it was traded with and there's a giant Nerubian for him to deal with. You need a quick draw? Just play this card and you'll be immediately rolling need like a champ.
But wait, there's more! Order Forsaken Lieutenant now for only 99,9 Gold and we'll include 2 (!) free damage from his attack! That's a lot of damage! And that's right, there will be no Intrepid Initiates around to ruin your Deathrattle needs by going face all the time.
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Everyone talking about the power creep on Tunnel Blaster and yet no one has the guts to pat Chillmaw's back, who has been powercrept at least twice now.
A proactive and relatively cheap spell for Questline Mage. Thank god Arcanist Dawngrasp was nerfed because Build a Snowman covers the lack of proactive Frost spells you can just dump on the board.
I really like how every hero so far does a million things on the Battlecry... except Bru'kan of the Elements. Every Hero Power is decribing a card worth between 2 and 3 mana and the Battlecry is, therefore worth 5-6 mana (maybe 1 more for the flexibility). Bru'kan looks the most balanced Hero of all so far. In fact, al three Hero cards for Shaman look very balanced yet flavorful in their own ways, which is good.
Personally i would say Cariel or Tamsin. The thing i like about tamsin is that she is the "comic relief" character at one moment with all of her of "Imp" puns, and the next moment she can be the most messed up and scary merc out of the cast. The fact that the undead warlock is the villain is kinda cliché to me, but i still think they have done a really good job with her story so far.
The thing i like about Cariel is the story of her and tamsin, and everything she did after Tamsin died to the scourge. I also really like how Cariel immediately left her post to find the forsaken warlock that "looked like tamsin" because that shows how much she truly cared about tamsin, even if she was turned into a forsaken. Just look at the final fight of Kurtras BoM, where Cariel instantly joins tamsin and betrays Kurtras despite the fact that Kurtras and Cariel worked together for the entirety of Kurtras BoM. Also even when tamsin summoned Anetheron into stormwind Cariel still thought tamsin was redeemable... until she saw what Tamsin did to their father. I'm weirdly really looking forward to seeing how Cariel will react to Tamsin being Ressed as a lich by Lady Prestor.
But i do want to say that Varden is also on top of my list, Varden is pretty cool. I just hope were going to get some Varden lore or a Varden BoM in not too long. I really want to learn more about Vardens backstory, because that's something Varden kinda lacks right now. (Unless i missed something.)
A tutor in my book are cards that draw a specific card that you eighter run as the only card of it's kind or cards that say draw x.
An example for the latter is The Leviathan which tutors Swain. And example for the first would be Babbling Bjerg when you have only 1 5+ power unit.
The example that you brought up doesn't really fit well here because a Ferros Financier - while being quite consistant is not a card that will draw a specific card for sure and you can't really manipulate it's odds of drawing a specific card unless you go mono P&Z.
The consistant manifest cards are for sure quite overtuned and the way I would nerf them is changing their low cost and buffing the stats so that a Ferros Financier can exist as a 3 mana 3/3 or 4 mana 4/4 leaving less options to play him along with all the other manifest units.
Invoke wasn't much of a problem because it's units came quite late to the Party and you could just rush them before their value train did something for them but 2 mana 2/2or2/1? That's very fast and makes sure the cards will be relevant in any meta which I don't think is good design.
You want infinite value? Then accept having less tempo and the fact that aggro/overwhelm decks will abuse your slow gameplan
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This deck is just awesome. After building it I went 3-0 immediately. Especially the disrupting cards are awesome. Never thought I would use Nerub’ar webspinner in a deck and would be so pleased with it.
Thanks man! I’ve got pockets full of tax already and can’t wait to collect more!
Ur'zul Giant is a New Demon Hunter Hearthstone Card Revealed by Blizzholics for Fractured in Alterac Valley
they are forcing token dh again? maybe this time will work
Favorite Merc
Uh they said this in the Hearthside Chat video where they revealed the tamsin hero card. They reveal this between timestamps 1:30 and 1:52! Actually i did make a small mistake, she got ressed by Lady Prestor AND kazakus.
New Warlock Minion - Hollow Abomination
Bit of a weird effect that is causing confusion and being in warlock makes it more clunky, compared to if it were a paladin card. I'm sure there will be some cool combos made where this abomination will get 30+ attack and go face, but it's probably just a meme and a decent arena card.
Might be good in duels against certain decks like token DH
New Warlock Spell - Tamsin's Phylactery
The only really great deathrattles in standard right now are value ones like Envoy Rustwix and Kanrethad Ebonlocke unless you want to risk death via Hullbreaker and drawing a lot of spells. I do sound like a broken record, but we need to see more decent deathrattles before this new legendary spell can be good.
New Neutral Minion - Knight-Captain
Nice arena card with new expansion mechanic. Nuff said.
New Neutral Minion - Grimtotem Bounty Hunter
Well, it's one of those usual tech cards, but damn, poor Rend Blackhand got power creeped for days. The majority of decks run a few legendries so Grimtotem Bounty Hunter will generally have a target. Only problem is waiting for said target, so most likely this will be a dead card in your hand and could've been replaced with another card that would help your win condition.
New Neutral Minion - Drek'Thar
So both Vanndar and Drek'Thar have heavy deckbuilding restrictions, and you need to be worried about shuffle effects like with Envoy Rustwix. That being said, it's kinda cool inventing decks like this, coz you can get creative, for eg: Try make a big spell mage with Drek'Thar or a zoolock. Quest Paladin with Drek'Thar would probably be bad right but still fun to try all these archetypes with these 2 different legendries.
New Neutral Minion - Vanndar Stormpike
Well, after looking at all the awesome big minion decks being invented, I'm kinda wanting to play with vanndar now. Think if I remember correctly, we get both vanndar and Drek'thar at the end of the faction questlines once the expansion launches, but could be wrong.
Regardless, pretty cool thematic flavor for both legendries.
New Neutral Minion - Spammy Arcanist
Well this card will be great to push control archetypes since any class can use it to ruin aggro boards. Only thing is it's 5 mana so you have less mana in general to spend on setting up the perfect board clear.
Also watch out with Shaman, being a battlecry, you can always pair Spammy Arcanist with Brilliant Macaw
Favorite Merc
Is this a confirmed thing, that tamsin was raised back as a lich by lady prestor? We know shes a lich now, but not who raised her
New Neutral Minion - Drek'Thar
More useful in wild, surprisingly, because Tax Paladin is fairly decent there thanks to Call to Arms. The redundancy in those recruit effects gives the deck a lot more consistency.
In standard, however, every aggro deck has a bigger drop (Greybough, [Hearthstone Card (Trampling Rhyno) Not Found], even Mr. Smite if you value the 6 damage burst), so Drek'Thar feels more awkward. Also, he competes with Kazakus, Golem Shaper in the 4 mana slot.
New Neutral Minion - Abominable Lieutenant
Note to self. Never leave only one big minion past turn 8 when playing arena.
New Rogue Minion - Forsaken Lieutenant
"Is your Deathrattle minion ready to summon a giant threat and yet is being ignored? Are Rogues more interested in drawing through their deck with cheap battlecries and comboes? Do you want the value Rogue dream? There has got to be a better way!
Hi, Billy Mays here, ready to introduce you to Forsaken Lieutenant, the PREMIER blitzing fast Deathrattle activator for immediate action. Did your opponent play a 2 drop? Boom, now it was traded with and there's a giant Nerubian for him to deal with. You need a quick draw? Just play this card and you'll be immediately rolling need like a champ.
But wait, there's more! Order Forsaken Lieutenant now for only 99,9 Gold and we'll include 2 (!) free damage from his attack! That's a lot of damage! And that's right, there will be no Intrepid Initiates around to ruin your Deathrattle needs by going face all the time.
This offer will only be available in Alterac Valley so you better act fast because this is a limited time offer! And don't forget! No Deathrattle will ever be truly forsaken, unless by the Forsaken Lieutenant!"
New Priest Minion - Undying Disciple
Everyone talking about the power creep on Tunnel Blaster and yet no one has the guts to pat Chillmaw's back, who has been powercrept at least twice now.
New Mage Spell - Siphon Mana
For the love of god, T5, just make it an unsung rule that cards can't be reduced below (1) mana unless stated otherwise.
New Mage Spell - Build a Snowman
A proactive and relatively cheap spell for Questline Mage. Thank god Arcanist Dawngrasp was nerfed because Build a Snowman covers the lack of proactive Frost spells you can just dump on the board.
New Demon Hunter Minion - Ur'zul Giant
Pretty good payoff for the token build, now the deck just needs something to make the tokens more impactful.
New Shaman Hero - Bru'kan of the Elements
I really like how every hero so far does a million things on the Battlecry... except Bru'kan of the Elements. Every Hero Power is decribing a card worth between 2 and 3 mana and the Battlecry is, therefore worth 5-6 mana (maybe 1 more for the flexibility). Bru'kan looks the most balanced Hero of all so far. In fact, al three Hero cards for Shaman look very balanced yet flavorful in their own ways, which is good.
Favorite Merc
Personally i would say Cariel or Tamsin. The thing i like about tamsin is that she is the "comic relief" character at one moment with all of her of "Imp" puns, and the next moment she can be the most messed up and scary merc out of the cast. The fact that the undead warlock is the villain is kinda cliché to me, but i still think they have done a really good job with her story so far.
The thing i like about Cariel is the story of her and tamsin, and everything she did after Tamsin died to the scourge. I also really like how Cariel immediately left her post to find the forsaken warlock that "looked like tamsin" because that shows how much she truly cared about tamsin, even if she was turned into a forsaken. Just look at the final fight of Kurtras BoM, where Cariel instantly joins tamsin and betrays Kurtras despite the fact that Kurtras and Cariel worked together for the entirety of Kurtras BoM. Also even when tamsin summoned Anetheron into stormwind Cariel still thought tamsin was redeemable... until she saw what Tamsin did to their father. I'm weirdly really looking forward to seeing how Cariel will react to Tamsin being Ressed as a lich by Lady Prestor.
But i do want to say that Varden is also on top of my list, Varden is pretty cool. I just hope were going to get some Varden lore or a Varden BoM in not too long. I really want to learn more about Vardens backstory, because that's something Varden kinda lacks right now. (Unless i missed something.)
Why Tutors Are Bad For LOR
A tutor in my book are cards that draw a specific card that you eighter run as the only card of it's kind or cards that say draw x.
An example for the latter is The Leviathan which tutors Swain. And example for the first would be Babbling Bjerg when you have only 1 5+ power unit.
The example that you brought up doesn't really fit well here because a Ferros Financier - while being quite consistant is not a card that will draw a specific card for sure and you can't really manipulate it's odds of drawing a specific card unless you go mono P&Z.
The consistant manifest cards are for sure quite overtuned and the way I would nerf them is changing their low cost and buffing the stats so that a Ferros Financier can exist as a 3 mana 3/3 or 4 mana 4/4 leaving less options to play him along with all the other manifest units.
Invoke wasn't much of a problem because it's units came quite late to the Party and you could just rush them before their value train did something for them but 2 mana 2/2or2/1? That's very fast and makes sure the cards will be relevant in any meta which I don't think is good design.
You want infinite value? Then accept having less tempo and the fact that aggro/overwhelm decks will abuse your slow gameplan
The Hearthstone Class Master Championship (tournament test runs)
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"...Looks like the Hunter tents have a few slots left open! Grab your arrows and your bow and join the tournament while you can!
On other news, we got our first Class Master Demon Hunter! Won't spoil the surprise on revealing more details, just drop by our charming site and see it for yourselves! Don't forget to check the "map of the Class Masters dominance" in Europe on the bottom of our page! Your participation in the Hearthstone Class Master tournament test runs is 100% free and it comes with a bonus of a symbolic price reward for all participants as a humble thank you for allowing us to gather information on our championship! You can buy gums and lollipops with it! It's a good deal! So, come out of the woods and visit a tent of your time frame liking! Check here to calculate the time difference as the Class Master is a Greek deed and it is set on Athens time standards!"
Drek'thar's Call to Arms - A Full Guide to Tax Paladin on the Wildest of Wednesdays
This deck is just awesome. After building it I went 3-0 immediately. Especially the disrupting cards are awesome. Never thought I would use Nerub’ar webspinner in a deck and would be so pleased with it.
Thanks man! I’ve got pockets full of tax already and can’t wait to collect more!
Fractured in Alterac Valley
Will there be a tavern crawl for this expansion? Keep forgetting if I've commented on all the cards and if there will be site rewards for doing so.
Undying Disciple is a New Priest Hearthstone Card Revealed by LastPriest for Fractured in Alterac Valley
*laughs in Paladin*
New Priest Minion - Undying Disciple
It's decent stats for the cost but boardclears that require your opponent to trigger them haven't been good historically.
If Deathrttle Priest becomes a thing this is obviously core but I have doubts about that.