A bit tricky to pull of, considering you don't want to play 2 frost spells in the same turn for instance. Really interesting flavour, but let's wait and see what other spells mage gets this expansion
This is quite a nice thing to explore imho. I imagine something like this:
Also nice to know: the tradeable card is shown to your opponent when you trade it.
Maybe one of the content creating staff could put an article together with all the answers Celestalon (and maybe other devs?) gave on twitter after the stream.
There are a lot of control decks that currently tend to stack their hands a lot (and can generate more cards easily). Ironically enough, Warlock isn't one of them.
However, Mage might be given their wealth of card draw and ressource generation.
That being said, this is basically just a cheaper Healbot at best and I'm not entirely sure if a 4-mana healbot would even be playable these days.
Having not yet watched any of the videos, I'm guessing you just tap the arrows to swap the card. Cards that allow you to swap for something else if they are useless is going to be really nice. This card is of course Hellfire that doesn't hit face.
Dont get me wrong - I think the flavour of the expansion is very similiar to other expansions like Rise of the Shadows, Street of Gadtgean and Darkmoon Faire and i am not so excited. In all these expansion a "City" has a important role with dudes how sell things. I've never played WoW, perhaps thats the problem
Seems really interesting, and i wonder how it works. Does it only targets spells IN YOUR DECK that didnt start there? if so then it's amazing with C'Thun, the Shattered. If it's any class spell, but excludes the ones that started in your deck, then it won't see play because everyone and their mother keeps using Venomous Scorpid.
Personally i really hope it's option #1, because that allows for some really fun/interesting deckbuilding. (And so i can use it in Tesspionage Rogue)
Well, I thought I understood what this card does, but now I actually start to wonder. I too hope this card has Tess Greymane synergy, but my first assumption of this card was the other explanation, making this only playable in Arena.
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Oh, what am I doing giving this only 3 stars? You already know someone will find a way to equip this, draw 8 cards using Plot Twist or Hemet, Jungle Hunter, and find lethal all the way from 30 in a single turn. Let's hope that deck will be difficult to pilot, otherwise this might just be the new Stealer of Souls.
I have Neeru Fireblade in my collection, but I have hardly played him. The gameplay just didn't seem all that interesting to me. Now, if we add this new card into the mix the deck suddenly looks a lot more appealing. That is, of course, under the assumption that you can get to Blightborn Tamsin quite consistently.
My question for Tradeable is whether or not they can only be traded once, or if the keyword goes away after it's first use. I would assume it would only work once, but some confirmation would be nice.
What makes you think that? The Keyword says "Drag this into your deck to spend (1) Mana and draw a new card". There is no indication whatsoever that you can only use it once.
Good use of the start of game mechanic. This is one of those cards that'll only get better as more and more cards get printed, making the downside more negligible. But for now, I'm not convinced. Priests are already efficient in removing minions, so a 2 damage ping isn't going to add much and going face isn't really Priest's strong suit either.
Yeah its interesting how dependent most targon players were on snake.
Lulu into snake, the fangs into snake.
So when it got turned into a 1/1 targon players just noped out of the region.
I think thats bit of an over reaction. It was never meant to be a tempo region in the first place.
Agreed, Targon decks needed The Serpent and the Fangs to deal with early game threats and both them got hit. That's a good thing, regions who have powerful late game should not have access to good early game.
The Elekk this card leaves behind is a beast, so maybe N'Zoth decks would consider running this. Stats aplenty on this card, but we're not living in 2016 anymore, meaning that a 7 mana card without any synergy will not see play on ladder.
That makes sense. After the first battlecry he is dormant, and therefore can't interact with anything or do anything. He is treated like he doesn't exist, and so isn't able to trigger his battlecry again.
Yeah, Gallywix was in the game previously, but with the change to his Hero Power, he might as well be a new hero, honestly. Previously it was "Add a Gold Coin to your hand" for 1 gold. So you could bank up Coins to have a power turn later, i think now, you can do a lot more.
New Mage Spell - Sorcerer's Gambit
A bit tricky to pull of, considering you don't want to play 2 frost spells in the same turn for instance. Really interesting flavour, but let's wait and see what other spells mage gets this expansion
Tradeable question
This question has been answered on the same twitter thread. You can trade the card as often as you like, as long as there are cards in your deck.
https://twitter.com/Celestalon/status/1410704970089852929?s=19
This is quite a nice thing to explore imho. I imagine something like this:
Also nice to know: the tradeable card is shown to your opponent when you trade it.
Maybe one of the content creating staff could put an article together with all the answers Celestalon (and maybe other devs?) gave on twitter after the stream.
New Neutral Minion - Spice Bread Baker
alright so this is...interesting.
There are a lot of control decks that currently tend to stack their hands a lot (and can generate more cards easily). Ironically enough, Warlock isn't one of them.
However, Mage might be given their wealth of card draw and ressource generation.
That being said, this is basically just a cheaper Healbot at best and I'm not entirely sure if a 4-mana healbot would even be playable these days.
New Mage Spell - Fire Sale
Having not yet watched any of the videos, I'm guessing you just tap the arrows to swap the card. Cards that allow you to swap for something else if they are useless is going to be really nice. This card is of course Hellfire that doesn't hit face.
New Priest Minion - Darkbishop Benedictus
I'm not sure if Priest can entirely give up their Holy healing spells for this to work. We'll have to see what support is printed.
New Neutral Minion - Impatient Shopkeep
If this is going to see play it is because the tradeable mechanic has proven to be useful, not because this is a 3 mana 3/3 with rush.
New Priest Spell - Elekk Mount
That's a huge buff. It's also pretty expensive, but big spell discounts seem to be Priest's thing nowadays.
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Dont get me wrong - I think the flavour of the expansion is very similiar to other expansions like Rise of the Shadows, Street of Gadtgean and Darkmoon Faire and i am not so excited. In all these expansion a "City" has a important role with dudes how sell things. I've never played WoW, perhaps thats the problem
New Neutral Minion - Pandaren Importer
Well, I thought I understood what this card does, but now I actually start to wonder. I too hope this card has Tess Greymane synergy, but my first assumption of this card was the other explanation, making this only playable in Arena.
New Hunter Spell - Ramming Mount
Good for trading as long as you initiate the trade. It isn't really a face card though. I want to see the Ram token of course.
New Neutral Minion - Rustrot Viper
I do think this is actually better than Gluttonous Ooze in most cases, so I expect to see this card a lot.
New Neutral Minion - Spice Bread Baker
Jup, this might as well have been a Warlock card. I would be surprised if it shows up anywhere else.
New Neutral Minion - Mailbox Dancer
Will only see play if a deck is in dire need of coins, so practically never.
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New Warlock Weapon - Runed Mithril Rod
Oh, what am I doing giving this only 3 stars? You already know someone will find a way to equip this, draw 8 cards using Plot Twist or Hemet, Jungle Hunter, and find lethal all the way from 30 in a single turn. Let's hope that deck will be difficult to pilot, otherwise this might just be the new Stealer of Souls.
New Warrior Spell - Heavy Plate
Too expensive for the cost, would trade it away all the time.
New Warlock Weapon - Runed Mithril Rod
There is so much more draw these last two expansions, this will often hit handsizes of 7+ cards.
New Warlock Spell - The Demon Seed
There's this obnoxious wild deck. Could become even worse.
New Warlock Spell - The Demon Seed
I have Neeru Fireblade in my collection, but I have hardly played him. The gameplay just didn't seem all that interesting to me. Now, if we add this new card into the mix the deck suddenly looks a lot more appealing. That is, of course, under the assumption that you can get to Blightborn Tamsin quite consistently.
Tradeable question
What makes you think that? The Keyword says "Drag this into your deck to spend (1) Mana and draw a new card". There is no indication whatsoever that you can only use it once.
New Priest Minion - Darkbishop Benedictus
Good use of the start of game mechanic. This is one of those cards that'll only get better as more and more cards get printed, making the downside more negligible. But for now, I'm not convinced. Priests are already efficient in removing minions, so a 2 damage ping isn't going to add much and going face isn't really Priest's strong suit either.
Post Expansion Meta
Agreed, Targon decks needed The Serpent and the Fangs to deal with early game threats and both them got hit. That's a good thing, regions who have powerful late game should not have access to good early game.
New Priest Spell - Elekk Mount
The Elekk this card leaves behind is a beast, so maybe N'Zoth decks would consider running this. Stats aplenty on this card, but we're not living in 2016 anymore, meaning that a 7 mana card without any synergy will not see play on ladder.
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That makes sense. After the first battlecry he is dormant, and therefore can't interact with anything or do anything. He is treated like he doesn't exist, and so isn't able to trigger his battlecry again.
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Yeah, Gallywix was in the game previously, but with the change to his Hero Power, he might as well be a new hero, honestly. Previously it was "Add a Gold Coin to your hand" for 1 gold. So you could bank up Coins to have a power turn later, i think now, you can do a lot more.