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  • Scholomance Academy

    Staff Pro

    Celeste remains in the client. Still not new data associated with her though.

  • New Druid Spell - Survival of the Fittest

    So if I recall correctly we had a very decent Big Druid deck at the beginning of the Outland expansion that ran Bogbeam and the other 7-mana 0 cost spell alongside some other cheap stuff as fuel for Exotic Mountseller. Replace Mountseller with Kael'thas, add in Overflow and fill the rest of the deck with a Big Dragon Core and boom. Big Druid that actually scales into lategame thanks to this.  With enough 0-mana spells you can play Kael into Overflow into this in a single turn and just win from there. Makes all those 4-attack dragons into actual threats (which is what was previously an issue with the archetype, the lack of actual game ending threats)

  • Two New Cards Accidentally Revealed for Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Expansion

    Faceless Corruptor not only gives two minions rush, it also puts a lot of stats into play, so that you can often trade into your opponent's board and have one or both halves of the Corruptor survive. The Broom is not impressive stats-wise; it's a good support card, similar to Goblin Lackey, but does not represent a threat by itself.

  • New Neutral Minion - Onyx Magescribe

    Germination and [Hearthstone Card (psychic split) Not Found] could make fair use of this chonker.

  • New Neutral Minion - Wretched Tutor

    Seems okay as a neutral AOE for a deck that has plenty of low cost spells. But it also seems like a typical showcase card to highlight a new mechanic - find, but probably not strong enough to see consistent play.

  • New Neutral Minion - Onyx Magescribe

    Vanilla stats and a relevant effect for any Dragon/Spell deck. Could easily see play in Mage and Priest, and probably some other classes (albeit to a lesser extent). There may be some opportunity cost issues with this card, as there are so many other good ways to generate resources today, but it seems like a solid card.

    All that said, I don't love this card. It's a lot of resource generation for a neutral card, and while it is tacked on to a Spellburst effect (which implicitly limits its applications - lots of class/archetype pairs run spell light), it certainly feels like a card that takes away from classes that specialize in resource generation, and it adds to the resource generation fiesta that is today's standard meta game.

  • Two New Cards Accidentally Revealed for Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Expansion

    Current Spell-Druid probably wont put this in, but maybe some Form of Big Druid with Embiggen, Ironbark and Bogbeam. 

  • Spellburst

    Staff

    You cast the spell, the Spellburst activates, and the minion doesn't have the effect anymore. Kinda like Divine Shield and Reborn.

  • Spellburst

    Afaik, it is once per minion.

    You play a Spellburst minion

    You cast a spell

    Spellburst triggers, and the keyword disappears from the minion.

  • Spellburst

    Spellburst - A new keyword! This is an effect that triggers only one time, on casting a spell.

    How exactly it works? Once x game or once x spell cast or once x turn ?

  • New Neutral Minion - Cult Neophyte

    Seems like a good card for an aggro deck in a metagame with at least one prominent control deck, as it can defend against early game AOE like Breath of the Infinite and help you snowball your board. But in a metagame with mostly midrange and aggro decks, I don't think you pick this.

  • Two New Cards Accidentally Revealed for Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Expansion

    Bro the broom costs 1. It's insane.

  • Two New Cards Accidentally Revealed for Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Expansion

    I believe people will play a deck with Kael‘thas and the 6/8 Taunt from the adventure.

    And of course it isn‘t the real name :D when cards are leaked outof.cards give them a name. The name is always with „fluffy“ in it.

  • New Neutral Minion - Transfer Student

    Fun effect, and pretty consistently worth 2 or more mana, but you can't rely on it to fit into a strategy.

    Where Transfer Student might shine is in the Heroic solo content, where you have to build your own deck and you always know what board you'll be playing on.

  • New Warrior Minion - Troublemaker

    I'm a little surprised at how good this seems. A 6/8 unit is worth about 6 mana, and dealing 3 damage twice is certainly worth more than 2 (Multi-Shot would have you believe it's worth 4, but that's a pretty weak card).

    On an empty board it's totally insane (12/14 in stats and a fireball to the enemy's face), and even on a board with several enemy minions it's pretty strong. The only catch is that it's board-limited on your side, but that seems pretty minor. If your board fills up, you're winning anyway, and if your board doesn't fill up, you keep getting 3/3s.

  • Two New Cards Accidentally Revealed for Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Expansion

    Ummmmmm wtf

  • New Warrior Minion - Rattlegore

    Rattlegore is not a super flashy card, but if you can stick it to the board (that is, if your opponent lacks a silence for it), you're looking at a total of 45/45 in stats over the lifetime of this card. Obviously its too early to tell if this card will have a real Warrior archetype to fit into, but it's good enough that it could fit into a lot of Control Warrior decks as a late game threat.

  • New Shaman Minion - Diligent Notetaker

    This card is very exciting. Vanilla stats mean it's playable in just about any deck, and the Spellburst ability could make for some crazy combos.

  • New Priest Minion - Frazzled Freshman

    Seems fine, but needs a lot of support to make it good. Could be good with Inner Fire, and maybe the Paladin/Priest dual class card will be a cheap buff to make this more compelling.

  • The Naxxramas Card Back (July 2014 Ranked Reward) is Now Available in the Hearthstone Shop

    Staff

    I think depending on how this goes, that is the plan, to bring more card backs to the shop in the future. This surely is a test run.

  • Patch 17.6 - Scholomance Pre-Orders, Battlegrounds Updates, July Card Nerfs

    Staff

    Well, they seem to be keeping the rotation Standard, no longer rotating Wild sets in, for the time being anyway.

  • Darkmoon Faire as Expansion 3 in 2020 - Is Blizzard Really Teasing us Hard or is it Deception? Old Gods?

    Staff

    I dont remember that reaveal, but that was funny :)

  • Two New Cards Accidentally Revealed for Hearthstone's Scholomance Academy Expansion

    Indeed, I did not say it won't be scary. But if it is powerful it will be a very different beast to UI, and one that will probably not feel so bad for the opponent.

    I suspect if it is hated it will be because of massive turns with Kael'thas allowing you to flood the board and buff it at the same time. In that case the issue is with Kael'thas, who probably should never have been made to begin with.

  • New Paladin Minion - Goody Two-Shields

    Some people are calling this an insane card, but I just don't see it. It's great when you're ahead, but the moment you're behind this doesn't help you catch up and with how hearthstone is, I think that means it'll just be a solid card. It's not a bad card but I'm not sure it's this beast either.

  • Scholomance Academy

    Pretty cold with this expansion. My hype is below zero, let's see the coming cards but for the moment I don't feel very excited with this. Thematic meh and dual classes meh too.