Blood Shard Bristleback is basically an Acolyte of Agony until later in the game. The tricky thing is that you want the six damage earlier on in the game, and that damage starts to fall off later in the game once the effect becomes active. Thinning your deck with cards like Soul Rend don't seem effective as you risk discarding Bristleback. Overall, I think you'd want to focus more on removal that works when you want it to.
Great card for secret paladin. Only giving 3 stars right now, but if Secret Paladin gets the right support (i.e. the right secrets), this quickly approaches 4 or 5 star territory!
Blizzard got me at nitroboost poison generator. There are so few poisons that it could fetch it pretty often, and even some of the other poisons aren't bad. The randomness probably means that the really aggressive decks don't want this, but there are plenty of midrange decks that can either offensively or defensively.
Pretty good in Elemental decks, but I think people are really underestimating how good it is to have a sturdy Windfury minion out that can potentially hit face with Rockbiter.
If you can build an Elemental deck that fights for the board efficiently then this can be a huge threat
"The mercenaries are still early-on in their experience, sort of like level 14 characters. We'll see the characters grow over the next year up to that level 60"
now... this is interesting!
did they say something more? does that means that each exp will have those 10 mercenaries BUT more powerfull (with the peak being in the last exp)? :3
"If you played an Elemental last turn" never really took off in Un'Goro, and I don't think this fares any better. Decent effect if you manage that though.
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lmao, Priest gets nerfed Shadowform and Mage gets a better one.
New Paladin Weapon - Sword of the Fallen
1 less mana and I could see Odd Paladin playing this. It's still a good card for regular secret paladin however.
New Paladin Weapon - Sword of the Fallen
Very powerful for secret paladin and great sinergy with the legendary that summons minions
New Shaman Minion - South Coast Chieftain
Together with the 1/2 Deathrattle summon a Murloc Tinyfin, which is really sticky, this will really secure the board!
New Priest Minion - Serena Bloodfeather
Very interesting effect, but no a legendary one.
Stealing half stats +1 is good, but it leaves the minion alive
New Warlock Minion - Blood Shard Bristleback
Blood Shard Bristleback is basically an Acolyte of Agony until later in the game. The tricky thing is that you want the six damage earlier on in the game, and that damage starts to fall off later in the game once the effect becomes active. Thinning your deck with cards like Soul Rend don't seem effective as you risk discarding Bristleback. Overall, I think you'd want to focus more on removal that works when you want it to.
New Paladin Weapon - Sword of the Fallen
Great card for secret paladin. Only giving 3 stars right now, but if Secret Paladin gets the right support (i.e. the right secrets), this quickly approaches 4 or 5 star territory!
New Neutral Minion - Lushwater Murcenary
JUst good. They really want to make tempo Murloc finally happen instead of limiting the archetype to some janky slow swarming shenanigans.
New Rogue Minion - Apothecary Helbrim
Blizzard got me at nitroboost poison generator. There are so few poisons that it could fetch it pretty often, and even some of the other poisons aren't bad. The randomness probably means that the really aggressive decks don't want this, but there are plenty of midrange decks that can either offensively or defensively.
New Shaman Minion - Arid Stormer
Beautiful to look at.nice colors!
New Neutral Minion - Lushwater Murcenary
Murloc Shaman will sure have strong turn 2 options with this and South Coast Chieftain.
New Shaman Minion - South Coast Chieftain
Do I even need to point out that 2-mana SI:7 is nuts for any tempo deck?
New Warlock Spell - Altar of Fire
Sinergy with Neeru Fireblade, but I don´t like it anyway because of destroy.
If it was discard would be better.
New Shaman Minion - Arid Stormer
Pretty good in Elemental decks, but I think people are really underestimating how good it is to have a sturdy Windfury minion out that can potentially hit face with Rockbiter.
If you can build an Elemental deck that fights for the board efficiently then this can be a huge threat
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more secret mage support, thanks iksar
New Neutral Minion - Kindling Elemental
Seems pretty strong, solid-enough stats and good effect. I also smell a lot of combo potential here...
New Neutral Minion - Lushwater Murcenary
Good companion card, with some 0 or 1 cost murlocs this is juicy.
New Neutral Minion - Kindling Elemental
I like it. There are enough good elementals that it could see play.
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happy to see the Kabal being mentioned outside of Kazakus.
New Rogue Minion - Apothecary Helbrim
I think this will see a fair bit of play as the weapon/face rogue archetype has risen in popularity. Also, supports the SSS nicely.
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"The mercenaries are still early-on in their experience, sort of like level 14 characters. We'll see the characters grow over the next year up to that level 60"
now... this is interesting!
did they say something more? does that means that each exp will have those 10 mercenaries BUT more powerfull (with the peak being in the last exp)? :3
New Neutral Minion - Kindling Elemental
Core card for any elemental decks. Being able to play ahead of curve is always good.
Maybe Elemental MAge does become a thing
New Warrior Spell - Physical Training (Rank 1)
Excellent tool for control warrior with a lot of minions in hand
New Shaman Minion - Arid Stormer
"If you played an Elemental last turn" never really took off in Un'Goro, and I don't think this fares any better. Decent effect if you manage that though.
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Caravans