Good point. But with Blingtron, you had to spend a total of 9 mana to get 10 mana. Now you have to spend a total of 5 mana to get 10 mana. And with the sphere you can set it up to have 19 mana in a single turn, but with blingtron you could get at most 15.
In the early game, it's not a mana problem; it's a consistency problem. You have to draw 2 legendaries in class that can't tutor weapons and you have better and more reliable ways to ramp. At turn 10 you are talking about a difference 4-9 mana, in a class that can heavily reduce the cost of cards in your hand via other minions plus cheat mana with cards like Floop. There might be something broken here but I don't think so.
Very good points. You are probably right and this won't make Twig of the World Tree into a big card. I didn't consider druids many other ways in which to cheat out mana, and by the time you have set up a combo with Twig into Sphere Into malygos or something you could have just as easily played Aviana + Innervate + Kun the forgotten king.
Ooh, I think I'm going to have some fun with this in wild since over there has all kinds of cool big demons. And I think this would be my third favorite card art of this expansion too. (Probably subject to change as more cards gets revealed)
Looks pretty useful, since you could use it to try to draw into an important card (like a galakrond or kronx) that you haven’t drawn yet, or just outright searching for lethal. Either way, chances are you’ll get something nice to play from it
This card is basically a giant middle finger to anyone NOT playing aggro. The only way to deal with this plague of a card is to join or resist. I, personally, will probably instant quit against any DH because I primarily play Control. Blizzard, once again, caters to a degenerate form of game play. Hopefully if enough people just refuse to play against DH and instant quit (basically making the opponent pick a different class or get bored because everyone just quits when the game begins), they will address this more quickly. Is it immature to not let a DH play? Absolutely. But there is no point in playing a game and planning ahead only to be punished for trying to have options, and making sacrifices along the way for those options.
Don’t really see this seeing play in anything but a combo deck, since that’s the deck that would benefit the most from being able to draw their expensive cards quickly
Good point. But with Blingtron, you had to spend a total of 9 mana to get 10 mana. Now you have to spend a total of 5 mana to get 10 mana. And with the sphere you can set it up to have 19 mana in a single turn, but with blingtron you could get at most 15.
In the early game, it's not a mana problem; it's a consistency problem. You have to draw 2 legendaries in class that can't tutor weapons and you have better and more reliable ways to ramp. At turn 10 you are talking about a difference 4-9 mana, in a class that can heavily reduce the cost of cards in your hand via other minions plus cheat mana with cards like Floop. There might be something broken here but I don't think so.
I don't think they're intentionally releasing broken cards.
I think they're just idiots.
Just wait out the first weeks after you're done testing half-baked theorcrafts. DH will get yet another nerf probably almost instantly. They have nothing to gain from making a single class the absolute best, even if they attract new players with it. At best those players will stay for 2 more expansions until they get frustrated.
Every demon hunter card in this set so far is so far above every other card released. Even the legendary cards are lackluster for every class but demon hunter. Demon hunter gets better houndmaster shaw. warrior/rogue get captain greenskin. Demon hunter gets send a card to the bottom of your opponent's deck druid/hunter gets worse keleseth. And those are the power dual class legendaries. The normal ones are worse. Mage gets Dalaran Aspirant, Rogue gets worse Piloted Shredder that always summons Kobold Barbarian. Willow for warlock is only good in wild and rattlegore is a meme for a big style of a class that doesn't even exist in wild with Woecleaver
Ace Hunter Kreen is nothing at all like Houndmaster Shaw. Glide and [Hearthstone Card (Star Student Selina) Not Found] don't send cards to the bottom of the deck, they shuffle them in randomly. Shan'do Wildclaw is not a strictly worse Keleseth, it just has a different deckbuilding requirement. Mozaki, Master Duelist is a million times better than Dalaran Aspirant. Your description of Infiltrator Lilian is kind of odd since a Piloted shredder that summoned a 4/4 is actually pretty good, and Lilian is better than that since she also has stealth. And I think it is a bit too early to judge Rattlegore since they might introduce more Big Warrior support this set.
Stop exaggerating just to make things sound worse then they are. Demon Hunter has been nerfed several times and I don't think we need more nerfs yet. And I doubt having [Hearthstone Card (Star Student Selina) Not Found] shuffle a single one of your cards into your deck will be the end of the world. Glide may be a problem, but no Demon Hunter cards revealed so far strongly suggests that they will be an insanely power super OP unstoppable force.
Well, can't argue with that logic. I guess you win.
I get that outcast isn’t that hard to actually trigger, but it’s still another condition for this card, on top of hoping you hit an important card from your opponent’s hand. Doesn’t really look that great to me
It's stats are pretty good, Chillwind Yeti's set the bar for 4 drop stats since classic- his battlecry is very unique and interesting.
playing this minion can guarantee you draw your powerful combo and control pieces in the late game to finish the match, but you can't play this minion on curve or your draws will be too expensive for the rest of the game and you'll lose.
So I believe even though control and combo decks will want to use him they won't use him until very late in the game when they can afford to play those pieces
The "Start of Turn" phase happens before the draw, so you'd see the card and make the choice before actually drawing it. Would be the same timing as Skull of the Man'ari, that pulls a demon before the player drew, so not really skipping the draw.
New Neutral Weapon - Sphere of Sapience
Very good points. You are probably right and this won't make Twig of the World Tree into a big card. I didn't consider druids many other ways in which to cheat out mana, and by the time you have set up a combo with Twig into Sphere Into malygos or something you could have just as easily played Aviana + Innervate + Kun the forgotten king.
Magehunter is a New Demon Hunter Card Revealed for Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Expansion
A straight up silence effect that also requires this to make a suicide dive most of the time.
Probably playable, mostly because playing Ironbeak Owl is much worse. It does get walled by taunts though
Moving on.
Lorekeeper Polkelt is a New Legendary Revealed for Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Expansion
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Archwitch Willow is a New Warlock Legendary Revealed for Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Expansion
Ooh, I think I'm going to have some fun with this in wild since over there has all kinds of cool big demons. And I think this would be my third favorite card art of this expansion too. (Probably subject to change as more cards gets revealed)
New Rogue Spell - Secret Passage
Looks pretty useful, since you could use it to try to draw into an important card (like a galakrond or kronx) that you haven’t drawn yet, or just outright searching for lethal. Either way, chances are you’ll get something nice to play from it
We're Getting a Collectible Neutral Weapon - Sphere of Sapience! Scholomance Academy is Crazy
I think it was tested, that after you shuffle something into your deck, your deck is reshuffled.
Sphere of Sapience
Hm didn't think about that synergy... seems good if you have both...
Out of Cards' Avalon Will Eat a Shoe if the Next Legendary Doesn't Have Spellburst
Glide is a New Demon Hunter Card Revealed for Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Expansion
This card is basically a giant middle finger to anyone NOT playing aggro. The only way to deal with this plague of a card is to join or resist. I, personally, will probably instant quit against any DH because I primarily play Control. Blizzard, once again, caters to a degenerate form of game play. Hopefully if enough people just refuse to play against DH and instant quit (basically making the opponent pick a different class or get bored because everyone just quits when the game begins), they will address this more quickly. Is it immature to not let a DH play? Absolutely. But there is no point in playing a game and planning ahead only to be punished for trying to have options, and making sacrifices along the way for those options.
We're Getting a Collectible Neutral Weapon - Sphere of Sapience! Scholomance Academy is Crazy
before I would think
New Neutral Minion - Wandmaker
Probably more of an arena card, but looks like it could be decent enough in constructed
New Neutral Minion - Lorekeeper Polkelt
Don’t really see this seeing play in anything but a combo deck, since that’s the deck that would benefit the most from being able to draw their expensive cards quickly
We're Getting a Collectible Neutral Weapon - Sphere of Sapience! Scholomance Academy is Crazy
I think what he meant is that when you shuffle anything into your deck the deck then reshuffles.
But maybe for the purpose of this card the game will remember what cards have been put on the bottom and will keep them there
New Neutral Weapon - Sphere of Sapience
In the early game, it's not a mana problem; it's a consistency problem. You have to draw 2 legendaries in class that can't tutor weapons and you have better and more reliable ways to ramp. At turn 10 you are talking about a difference 4-9 mana, in a class that can heavily reduce the cost of cards in your hand via other minions plus cheat mana with cards like Floop. There might be something broken here but I don't think so.
We're Getting a Collectible Neutral Weapon - Sphere of Sapience! Scholomance Academy is Crazy
Is this before or after the draw?
Demon hunter class identity.
Well, can't argue with that logic. I guess you win.
New Demon Hunter Minion - Star Student Stelina
I get that outcast isn’t that hard to actually trigger, but it’s still another condition for this card, on top of hoping you hit an important card from your opponent’s hand. Doesn’t really look that great to me
Lorekeeper Polkelt is a New Legendary Revealed for Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Expansion
F is pressed.
Omg can't believe that there isn't spellburst in there, assuming all the scroll and all..
We're Getting a Collectible Neutral Weapon - Sphere of Sapience! Scholomance Academy is Crazy
Tempted to craft this as golden on day 1.
New Neutral Weapon - Sphere of Sapience
I really enjoyed Brann's tracking hero power in Tombs of Terror, so I'm happy to see it incarnated into a playable card to some extent.
Sphere of Sapience
Thats when you play Lorekeeper Polkelt and draw it like a chad
New Neutral Minion - Lorekeeper Polkelt
Where do you start with this minion ?
It's stats are pretty good, Chillwind Yeti's set the bar for 4 drop stats since classic- his battlecry is very unique and interesting.
playing this minion can guarantee you draw your powerful combo and control pieces in the late game to finish the match, but you can't play this minion on curve or your draws will be too expensive for the rest of the game and you'll lose.
So I believe even though control and combo decks will want to use him they won't use him until very late in the game when they can afford to play those pieces
Lorekeeper Polkelt is a New Legendary Revealed for Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Expansion
Yes, your deck get reshuffled again, become random.
We're Getting a Collectible Neutral Weapon - Sphere of Sapience! Scholomance Academy is Crazy
The "Start of Turn" phase happens before the draw, so you'd see the card and make the choice before actually drawing it.
Would be the same timing as Skull of the Man'ari, that pulls a demon before the player drew, so not really skipping the draw.
We're Getting a Collectible Neutral Weapon - Sphere of Sapience! Scholomance Academy is Crazy
Well neutral spells are also kinda a thing with Arch-Thief Rafaam... But I mean collectible neutral spell...