Draws you cards and if you have a 5 damage weapon then this is free.
Yes, this is good. Yes this will go into all aggro rogue/warrior decks. But will it ever go anywhere else? That's another question. Risky Skipper combo is still here and not going anywhere, and rogue still has cards like Dirty Tricks and Greyheart Sage to do the same thing.
Perhaps next year this will truly shine. Until then, I cant see Risky Skipper making way for this, so its strictly going to aggro pirate warrior and little else.
Its power is solely that it buffs your weapon while its out, so even if you get oozed, just weapon up and it still has the same value.
Its downside is obvious: it will never be alive past the same turn this is played, which will be 90-100% of the time. There's no scenario where your opponent would rather leave this be, not even a face aggro deck.
In many ways, this card suck because the buff is not permanent. But unlike Deadly Poison, there's no reason not to just play this even with a 1 charge dagger, since it doesn't really matter. And it comes with an okay 3/3 to boot, which needs to be destroy lest you take more value off it. Also this curves nicely to Steeldancer, making the card even more vital to remove immediately.
Not good enough. If the game is to generate combo cards then Whirlkick Master is the name of the card.
What makes this even remotely playable is that it has stealth. So if you're running stealth rogue, you'd might consider this card, but 90% of the time you'd be playing the galakrond package, so no.
Maybe next year, when galakrond rotates. Until then just can't see anyone putting this deliberately in the deck.
its not really as bad as it looks. In many ways, if you need a card to support weapons rogue, then this card will easily be it.
With high durability, at 3 mana, and cards like Deadly Poison and Vulpera Toxinblade, there's plenty of ways to make this a big weapon that will hit solidly for at least 2-3 turns. Upgrade this with Doctor Krastinov for more damage and charges, and make the doctor really scary.
But what about its competitors? Hooked Scimitar does more damage but is combo reliant and only have 2 charges making it face or bust. Waggle Pick cost more mana, and have only 2 charges plus a possible tempo downgrade. If I need a solid weapon that I can buff and control the board and hit face with, this weapon will still be the better of the three.
Obviously meta dependent. An ooze will doom this weapon, and then some.
This is perhaps the weirdest secret in hearthstone currently.
Its probably a discover spell rather than something you'd purposefully drop into your deck. The best classes that play more than 1 card per turn, of which rogue can find a use for, would be mage and ironically rogue itself.
Its weakness is that the cards you get doesn't get discounted so its like 2 mana resource, of which Dirty Tricks is very likely just better. Worse still, your opponent will have an option to mill your cards by playing a bunch of useless stuff, making it awkward to play both galakrond and togwaggle.
But since against both rogue and mage this card is excellent there might yet be a place for it somewhere down the line.
Wait why did they put code of polkelt into his flavor text? Also quick sort, so you don't really know in which order same costed cards are coming... Merge sort is better
Well I finally did it! I hit Legend! And I did it by accident, kind of!
I've been playing since a few weeks after launch with a few periods of playing very little, or not at all for a few months towards the end of 2014 and into early 2015. I've also played more casually for the life of the game, the first two years I literally played Casual only after earning my end of month rewards chest. And I'm the type who never played card games prior to Hearthstone, so when I first started playing and would drop Arcane Missiles or something on turn 1 and my opponent emoted "Well Played" I didn't realize they were being sarcastic... Anyway, I have learned a lot since then. Here's my Legend story!
I've been home a lot more lately with the state of the world and not working a ton, so while my wife's been busting her ass in the hospital I've been staying home with our son a lot. What do you do when you're home a bunch??? Teach your 8 month old son to play Hearthstone, of course!
Yesterday after he went to bed and my wife was working a night shift I decided it was time to play some Shaman. This is my favorite/most played class, but I have ignored it for several months now as I pushed for the golden portraits in the other heroes. But looking at the Tempo Storm meta report last night I saw an Even Totem Shaman list and was like, "That can't be that good, can it?" It can! In fact, for me it was 22-6 good from D5 to Legend (79%)!
As I got ready to face the final boss this afternoon, my son woke from a nap. I went and grabbed him and sat at my computer with him in my lap. It wasn't until after I clicked "Play" that I noticed something was very wrong. My son had shit his pants! I frantically tried to click "Cancel" so I could take time to change his diaper, but I was too late. I was matched with a Worthy Opponent; a Quest Mage! Now I had to pilot the deck while also being delirious due to the stench of a thousand corpses rising from my son's diaper as he sat on my lap. Sure I could have put him down, but if he started moving around a bunch on the floor, well... do you know what a blow out is?! If not, I envy you! I kept him on my lap to avoid further incident involving the Bog of Eternal Stench (you know, from the movie Labyrinth).
I got ahead on board, trying to maintain control while hitting my opponent, held off attacking into a secret which I was certain was Flame Ward (it was) to ensure my totems would live an extra turn to buff my Draenei Totemcarver, etc. Eventually I got to a turn where I could hit him in the face and bring the Mage to 8 HP while adding some spell damage to the board to power up my Crackle to "6-9 damage". a 50/50 shot! Do I take it???
That's when it hit me... "6-9"... 69! NICE!!! This glorious number was a sign from RNGesus that it would work! I hit for exactly the Mage's remaining 8 HP. I had done it! I had won, earning the Legend card back and Natalie Seline, completing my collection of Classic legendary cards. I also had a muddy mess in my son's diaper to clean up still. Celebrations would have to wait.
I never really intended to push for Legend, I've always just kind of played whatever I felt like bouncing around from meta lists to memes, aggro to combo and all deck types in between. I always figured if I found a good deck I had a lot of fun playing that I went on a great run with I'd get Legend but not stress over it. This Shaman deck seems really good in a meta full of Quest Mage and Discard Lock, and my win record would back up that feeling.
If you are looking for something really strong to make an end of month push in Wild, try Even Totem Shaman! There's nothing more fun than killing your opponent with a giant Idiot Totem!
Warrior already has Execute that comes 1 mana less, and warrior don't tend to have many cards in hand to make this a solid Assassinate. I will be surprised to see warrior play this card.
Rogue has access to zero mana spells like backstab, and does not already have a cheaper removal spell. So into rogue it goes, maybe as a 1 off, replacing Sap, depending on meta.
Mozaki, Master Duelist
Fun card, imagine getting this out of one of the spells in Spell Mage
Lake Thresher
Eh, FIller card
Jandice Barov
Fun card to play around with, might see some testing, but I dont think it fits any of the existing decks
Headmaster Kel'Thuzad
While the effect is somewhat simple, I really like this card!
Agh I need a Mr Bigglesworth legendary card lol
All Card Flavor Text for the Scholomance Academy Hearthstone Expansion
[Hearthstone Card (Wretched Tutor) Not Found]
Parasite reference. Nice!
New Paladin Spell - Blessing of Authority
The way I understand this is minion can still attack the turn before buffed by this?
For example,
5 mana 8/8 seems potent especially if you can attach it to a minion with taunt or lifesteal.
Also, additional value from Lady Liadrin.
New Rogue & Warrior Spell - Cutting Class
Draws you cards and if you have a 5 damage weapon then this is free.
Yes, this is good. Yes this will go into all aggro rogue/warrior decks. But will it ever go anywhere else? That's another question. Risky Skipper combo is still here and not going anywhere, and rogue still has cards like Dirty Tricks and Greyheart Sage to do the same thing.
Perhaps next year this will truly shine. Until then, I cant see Risky Skipper making way for this, so its strictly going to aggro pirate warrior and little else.
Hearthstone Theorycrafting Streams for Scholomance Academy This Thursday, July 30
Will be watching regis, influencing his deck building with my cheers... don't care about haters
New Rogue Minion - Vulpera Toxinblade
Its power is solely that it buffs your weapon while its out, so even if you get oozed, just weapon up and it still has the same value.
Its downside is obvious: it will never be alive past the same turn this is played, which will be 90-100% of the time. There's no scenario where your opponent would rather leave this be, not even a face aggro deck.
In many ways, this card suck because the buff is not permanent. But unlike Deadly Poison, there's no reason not to just play this even with a 1 charge dagger, since it doesn't really matter. And it comes with an okay 3/3 to boot, which needs to be destroy lest you take more value off it. Also this curves nicely to Steeldancer, making the card even more vital to remove immediately.
New Rogue Minion - Shifty Sophomore
Not good enough. If the game is to generate combo cards then Whirlkick Master is the name of the card.
What makes this even remotely playable is that it has stealth. So if you're running stealth rogue, you'd might consider this card, but 90% of the time you'd be playing the galakrond package, so no.
Maybe next year, when galakrond rotates. Until then just can't see anyone putting this deliberately in the deck.
New Rogue Weapon - Self-Sharpening Sword
its not really as bad as it looks. In many ways, if you need a card to support weapons rogue, then this card will easily be it.
With high durability, at 3 mana, and cards like Deadly Poison and Vulpera Toxinblade, there's plenty of ways to make this a big weapon that will hit solidly for at least 2-3 turns. Upgrade this with Doctor Krastinov for more damage and charges, and make the doctor really scary.
But what about its competitors? Hooked Scimitar does more damage but is combo reliant and only have 2 charges making it face or bust. Waggle Pick cost more mana, and have only 2 charges plus a possible tempo downgrade. If I need a solid weapon that I can buff and control the board and hit face with, this weapon will still be the better of the three.
Obviously meta dependent. An ooze will doom this weapon, and then some.
Scholomance Academy
Are we Still missing a few of the Studies Cycle? A few classes seem not to have one of them thought every class was too have one
New Rogue Spell - Plagiarize
This is perhaps the weirdest secret in hearthstone currently.
Its probably a discover spell rather than something you'd purposefully drop into your deck. The best classes that play more than 1 card per turn, of which rogue can find a use for, would be mage and ironically rogue itself.
Its weakness is that the cards you get doesn't get discounted so its like 2 mana resource, of which Dirty Tricks is very likely just better. Worse still, your opponent will have an option to mill your cards by playing a bunch of useless stuff, making it awkward to play both galakrond and togwaggle.
But since against both rogue and mage this card is excellent there might yet be a place for it somewhere down the line.
All Card Flavor Text for the Scholomance Academy Hearthstone Expansion
Wait why did they put code of polkelt into his flavor text? Also quick sort, so you don't really know in which order same costed cards are coming... Merge sort is better
Doctor Krastinov
I dont expect it to see play in the current meta
First Time Legend, a Dad's Tale
In case you want to see the win stats. Just realized in the first image I included the overall collective stats on HS Replay.
Cutting Class
Decent card, might see play
I wonder if Kingsbane decks would play it
First Time Legend, a Dad's Tale
Well I finally did it! I hit Legend! And I did it by accident, kind of!
I've been playing since a few weeks after launch with a few periods of playing very little, or not at all for a few months towards the end of 2014 and into early 2015. I've also played more casually for the life of the game, the first two years I literally played Casual only after earning my end of month rewards chest. And I'm the type who never played card games prior to Hearthstone, so when I first started playing and would drop Arcane Missiles or something on turn 1 and my opponent emoted "Well Played" I didn't realize they were being sarcastic... Anyway, I have learned a lot since then. Here's my Legend story!
I've been home a lot more lately with the state of the world and not working a ton, so while my wife's been busting her ass in the hospital I've been staying home with our son a lot. What do you do when you're home a bunch??? Teach your 8 month old son to play Hearthstone, of course!
Yesterday after he went to bed and my wife was working a night shift I decided it was time to play some Shaman. This is my favorite/most played class, but I have ignored it for several months now as I pushed for the golden portraits in the other heroes. But looking at the Tempo Storm meta report last night I saw an Even Totem Shaman list and was like, "That can't be that good, can it?" It can! In fact, for me it was 22-6 good from D5 to Legend (79%)!
As I got ready to face the final boss this afternoon, my son woke from a nap. I went and grabbed him and sat at my computer with him in my lap. It wasn't until after I clicked "Play" that I noticed something was very wrong. My son had shit his pants! I frantically tried to click "Cancel" so I could take time to change his diaper, but I was too late. I was matched with a Worthy Opponent; a Quest Mage! Now I had to pilot the deck while also being delirious due to the stench of a thousand corpses rising from my son's diaper as he sat on my lap. Sure I could have put him down, but if he started moving around a bunch on the floor, well... do you know what a blow out is?! If not, I envy you! I kept him on my lap to avoid further incident involving the Bog of Eternal Stench (you know, from the movie Labyrinth).
I got ahead on board, trying to maintain control while hitting my opponent, held off attacking into a secret which I was certain was Flame Ward (it was) to ensure my totems would live an extra turn to buff my Draenei Totemcarver, etc. Eventually I got to a turn where I could hit him in the face and bring the Mage to 8 HP while adding some spell damage to the board to power up my Crackle to "6-9 damage". a 50/50 shot! Do I take it???
That's when it hit me... "6-9"... 69! NICE!!! This glorious number was a sign from RNGesus that it would work! I hit for exactly the Mage's remaining 8 HP. I had done it! I had won, earning the Legend card back and Natalie Seline, completing my collection of Classic legendary cards. I also had a muddy mess in my son's diaper to clean up still. Celebrations would have to wait.
I never really intended to push for Legend, I've always just kind of played whatever I felt like bouncing around from meta lists to memes, aggro to combo and all deck types in between. I always figured if I found a good deck I had a lot of fun playing that I went on a great run with I'd get Legend but not stress over it. This Shaman deck seems really good in a meta full of Quest Mage and Discard Lock, and my win record would back up that feeling.
If you are looking for something really strong to make an end of month push in Wild, try Even Totem Shaman! There's nothing more fun than killing your opponent with a giant Idiot Totem!
Thonson
Blood Herald
No
New Rogue & Warrior Spell - Coerce
Its more rogue than warrior.
Warrior already has Execute that comes 1 mana less, and warrior don't tend to have many cards in hand to make this a solid Assassinate. I will be surprised to see warrior play this card.
Rogue has access to zero mana spells like backstab, and does not already have a cheaper removal spell. So into rogue it goes, maybe as a 1 off, replacing Sap, depending on meta.
Blessing of Authority
Strong buff that will see some testing, but I wouldnt count on it being good enough for constructed
I love the flavor text
Sorcerous Substitute
Mage and Shaman are the main contenders for this one, but even then I dont think they'll run it
Might be too situational even for arena
Smug Senior
Arena, nuff said
Runic Carvings
Has potential, but I wonder if it will see play in Totem decks?
Not sure Druid wants to play it over the mosquitoes card, which name I do not remember
Onyx Magescribe
Its strong value generator but:
1- There are more reliable value generators out there;
2- The spell will have to, majority of the time, come in the same turn, or it will go bye bye;
3- Just add the damn spells you want in your deck;
4- arena;