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Tempo Buff card.

But also draw and summon spells.

I quite like it.

Nice stats for it's cost, and it's a pretty strong effeect.

Paladin: Great for Libram/buff Paladin. Will see a lot of play. Looking forward to experimenting around with High Abbess Alura already!

Priest: As the reveal showed, it's really risky for priest. It's probably best in a tempo priest deck with a lot of buffs. This is also really good with Gift of Luminance.

well High Abbess Alura, we can say: "We expect great things from you."

need a dedicated deck ...

I will be happy to shadow word my own minion :)

Hilarious reveal, Wronchi animations is always fun to watch. So many good/funny lines.

"i will fight that minion with taunt"

Seems super strong with Shaman's spell-generating capabilities and Druid's access to good spells.  It can help stabilize on a turn where you play something like Nourish, which is really strong in some matchups.

This is the fair version of puzzlebox. Played att 10 mana and the effects are capped at 10 mana. But then also less random bc discover instead of totally random.

I'm glad they were willing to say something on this. I appreciate it only leaves you with +1 card in hand, but at the same time shaman is a jack-of-all-trades class so it cannot be difficult to find an effects for legendaries that don't arguably violate class weaknesses.

To me it is less about the card itself and more about trusting the class identities to hold, because they ensure each class has weaknesses that you can target if you want to beat them. As soon as those weaknesses are filled in or made so minor as to not matter, you get games where one player feels like there was nothing they could do to win even if they tweak their deck to improve their odds, and that really sucks.

Shaman is shit now that is why it got printed

I don't see a reason a DH would run Magehunter over Consume Magic. Consume Magic is cheaper, can replace itself in hand by drawing a card, and isn't restricted by taunt. Also, the stat upside of Magehunter doesn't really matter as most of the time you care more about the silence effect, which Consume Magic does better. Maybe this sees play after Consume Magic rotates out with the DH Initiate set.

I mean you just kill scary legendary before going face

Most likely an early hint at Human Shamans coming to WoW.

Dude... playing as Priest against DH now is an auto-win. Stop whining.

I think you just have both for consistency

From what they said in one of their posts. The class weakness identity, are stuff mainly from the classic/basic sets, if memory serves. They stated at one point, they wanted to have them specified so they could on occasion break out of the mold and do something different.

I played some games with him thrown in and it's definitely a nice addition. As you said he is great for healing and also makes as a great board clear with divine shield. I updated my guide for the deck and added Zilliax as a tech card against a aggro heavy meta. Against a slower meta i don't think the healing will be needed if you are able to keep up board control and tempo, which you will need against the incredibly strong control decks in wild. Thanks for the comment!

well, if there is an 8/8 and 4/12 anywhere(!) on the board you get 8/12

this will be great in arena(although not sure if anyone still plays that mode ;) )

Keymaster Alabaster doesn't yield its benefits until your next turn, and that's really slow for a 7-drop without Rush or Taunt. Also, generally speaking, your more likely to get low-cost cards (< 5 mana) than high-cost cards (> 5 mana) across all decks as every deck needs something for the early game. I just don't see why any deck would want to run this.

Annnnd the question on shaman's identity / class weakness dodged

First Day of School is effectively a 1-drop and a 2-drop in one card, just like how Fire Fly served this purpose in tempo decks of its time. Also can have some mid-to-late game utility with Kael'thas Sunstrider since its a 0-mana card that could cheat out spells like Lay on Hands and Libram of Hope. In conclusion, a very solid tempo card that I think easily replaces Imprisoned Sungill in Libram Paladin and has some shenanigan potential.

I hate this. We are definitely gonna see an OTK deck that abuses this.

Great on paper, but hard to find a use.
I suppose Grave Rune seemed the same and it sees play so we'll have to see how it pans out.

This is card is just good. 5-star for me, even if only combo or control decks would run it.