However, you don't really want to buff something that is guaranteed to die at the end of the turn. As I see it, Death Knight's Hero Power is just a Fireblast with a few extra steps in order to enable Corpse synergies.
Yeah: Marrowgar is sick, but the deckbuilding restriction of 3 Unholy Runes is kinda harsh - in order to build your deck that way, you'll need very valid reasons.
To be fair, as things are right now I am hesitant on Marrowgar: there are many strong cards like the aforementioned Defrost or Patchwerk that require a single Rune that's not Unholy, therefore cutting off Marrowgar from the deck.
Look man, a skilled new reporter like Flux should be able to recognise a clear joke like this one, tho. This shit is embarassing. I have nothing but respect for the guy for creating and keeing up this website, but I think he's 100% in the wrong on this one.
You gotta stop using the term "misinformation". It's clearly a joke, it wasn't meant to misinform anyone, and I don't understand how anyone could be mislead by the tweet.
This could make for a funny combo with Grim Patron to just have this trigger 30+ times as the bodies generated by him could create more explosions until you have a board full of them with random health
I'm actually quite surprised how people aren't seeing this from Flux's point of view. A small amount of empathy should be warranted here. He's the owner of a news site, even if it's for a game. Misinformation damages the reputation of news sites and it wastes staff time.
Yes, Blizzard's fake post is in poor taste but it can also be seen as slapstick humor. This doesn't mean the whole OoC community should gang up on Flux if you don't agree with his opinion. Also view the bad language as being passionate about the subject 🙃
Does that mean that the rest of the OG Lich King's drops are yet to be revealed as collectible, or are they stopping at 2?
Army of the dead got altered, so that leaves doom pact and mortal coil. And its highly unlikely that those cards doesn't get a nod in some form. Its practically the two best lich king cards.
The only one I dont think will ever come intact is death grip and death & decay. These two might just be broken without alteration.
The first one for sure will have reborn. After that it depends on if the opponent kills it to remove the keyword. But yeah, as everyone's been saying the multiple minions with reborn help to reload the the corpses. So ultimately that is a plus. I still think time will tell with this one, and it's going to depend a lot on how you build the deck. To me this seems okay in most decks, potentially pretty good in a board based deck that wants to also play minion buffs.
Will see alot of play as far as I can tell, maybe in wild you’d prefer murmy or something, probably not though.
Runeforging:
If death knight receives good weapons this will see play, simple.
Chillfallen baron:
Nice card, draws 2, contests the board, leaves a corpse, also is the only non frost rune generic card draw so far I’m pretty sure
Malignant horror:
I don’t like this card right now, unless death knight gets alot of corpse generation I don’t see them wasting 5 of them on a subpar body that’ll keep robbing them of corpses. Atleast if your opponent full clears it it’ll have only cost you one corpse I guess
Corpse bride:
Atleast when compared to malignant horror this ones pretty nice, 5 corpses for a 5/5 versus 5 for a 2/4 reborn, personally I think the extra cost is a worthy tradeoff here as atleast your actually generating threats here.
Either way I’d like to see more cards that net you multiple corpses or I’m gonna start believing we’re expected to run ram commander and maybe even reef walker and grim necromancer in at least every unholy build maybe even in other runes aswell.
Edit: since grim necromancer is undead and so are her skeletons she might not actually be that bad, still would like for something more interesting.
Also as for anti magic shell, I think it’s comparable to the robes from scholomance this is permanent and doesn’t rely on your opponent not having 4 damage worth of minions, but this probably feels worse to tempo and right now I’m not actually sold on unholy blood’s ability to generate corpses yet.
I really don’t see frostmourne making it, a 7 mana for a 5/3 weapon just isn’t really worth it, paladin had libram of judgement a card that is incredibly easy to discount to 4-5 mana and had what in my opinion is a more practical upside and never really made the cut from what I recall.
Maybe it makes it in triple blood if it gets enough healing to facilitate it, it probably would be like if gorehowl vometed a board when you were done with it, but I don’t know when the last time that thing saw play was and I don’t think an upside in 3 turns is what it needed, But maybe it’s possible this makes it for an expansion maybe post rotation
If youre running frost this card is just a mandatory inclusion because it basically tutors other overpowered cards like Horn of Winter, Frostwyrm's Fury etc.
The fact that this card comes with a possible AoE effect with a 5/6 body clinches it. I dont think there's any card that does as much for 6 mana as this one. If it had taunt it would have been the most overpowered card to ever be printed, and I have a suspicion that it was once designed with it before deciding against it.
A decent removal option but not great because you're essentially still taking damage, which is the main point of a removal option to begin with. And at 2 mana, its no better in comparison with similar removal options available for other classes
Imagine facing a massive devourer and this card is the answer but losses you the game. What is the point then? But if DK doesn't get better removal options, then this one's an inclusion - warts and all.
God help us, this card shouldn't be allowed to exist. Fortunately, it is not Lightning Bloom all over again.
But Im head scratching as to why team5 even thought such a design choice is fair at all. Reminds me when Twin Slice and Eye Beam was 0 mana, just overtly overpowered design decisions. I know they want DK to be good, but a card like this is hard to balance around and even harder to nerf, because what kind of nerf does one actually impose on this? Make the rune requirement 3? Im sure it matters very little whether we're being destroyed by frost decks or frost+unholy decks.
Just another in a line of overpowered cards for DK.
Deal 4 damage for 1 mana, no corpse requirement, paltry rune requirement. This is just a dream card for any class never mind DK. Would be nerfed before we know it, because a card like this should cost 4 or have the discount only be 1.
Considering that Horn of Winter will likely be played in a deck that features this card, this is just license to burn face for 0 mana.
But I can understand the point of view of someone whose job is to keep up to date with these things. Getting pinged by nonsense is not likely to make anyone's day any easier to stomach. Still though, this is stuff to rant in private, because the good message will almost certainly be clouded by the case study's relative harmlessness.
This is the part where I agree with most of content creators. They need to stay fresh with every new content, which means, every little misinformation gotta be a pain in the ass.
Twitter and it's problem is different case. I couldn't care less about it.
We don't know how much of a buffer Death Knight will be though. The only buff cards we're currently aware of in Death Knight are Skeletal Sidekick and Anti-Magic Shell.
Nevermind the stats, I still think the Charge buff is too great for a 2 mana HP, considering you can use HP then buff the minion for a quick face damage.
Of course, with Renathal still here, and we don't know how aggresive DK hero can be, perhaps I'm judging too fast (or too far).
But hey, I quitted this game since Castle Nathria because of how I can't possibly stay competitive with F2P with how many cards they printed each expansion now and in the future, so just let me check up how this gonna turn up. (Probably get nerf to Rush.. Probably)
I already use HearthArena, personally, but that's good advice for others.
My problem wasn't a skill issue. My problem is that sometimes you draft a completely-unwinnable setup (oh, look, no spells offered and two minion selections where the minions actively hurt me). Arena can only conceivably be fair (and, imo, enjoyable) over a large number of games. When my draft is a literal non-game, I stop playing for a long while because I don't have time to not play games. That makes it impossible for Arena to "redeem" itself with actual, playable outcomes. I'd rather do chores and work than throw good money time after bad.
The buy-in wasn't always this bad, but the card mix has been really unfun -- again, imo -- for a number of years.
Death Knight’s Upgraded Hero Power Is Confirmed To Summon a 2/1 Ghoul
However, you don't really want to buff something that is guaranteed to die at the end of the turn. As I see it, Death Knight's Hero Power is just a Fireblast with a few extra steps in order to enable Corpse synergies.
Death Knight’s Upgraded Hero Power Is Confirmed To Summon a 2/1 Ghoul
Yeah: Marrowgar is sick, but the deckbuilding restriction of 3 Unholy Runes is kinda harsh - in order to build your deck that way, you'll need very valid reasons.
To be fair, as things are right now I am hesitant on Marrowgar: there are many strong cards like the aforementioned Defrost or Patchwerk that require a single Rune that's not Unholy, therefore cutting off Marrowgar from the deck.
Blizzard's Battle.Net Twitter Tweets Fake Hearthstone Card Reveals For Death Knight's Core Set
Look man, a skilled new reporter like Flux should be able to recognise a clear joke like this one, tho. This shit is embarassing. I have nothing but respect for the guy for creating and keeing up this website, but I think he's 100% in the wrong on this one.
You gotta stop using the term "misinformation". It's clearly a joke, it wasn't meant to misinform anyone, and I don't understand how anyone could be mislead by the tweet.
New Death Knight Spell - Corpse Explosion
This could make for a funny combo with Grim Patron to just have this trigger 30+ times as the bodies generated by him could create more explosions until you have a board full of them with random health
Blizzard's Battle.Net Twitter Tweets Fake Hearthstone Card Reveals For Death Knight's Core Set
I'm actually quite surprised how people aren't seeing this from Flux's point of view. A small amount of empathy should be warranted here. He's the owner of a news site, even if it's for a game. Misinformation damages the reputation of news sites and it wastes staff time.
Yes, Blizzard's fake post is in poor taste but it can also be seen as slapstick humor. This doesn't mean the whole OoC community should gang up on Flux if you don't agree with his opinion. Also view the bad language as being passionate about the subject 🙃
New Death Knight Spell - Anti-Magic Shell
Army of the dead got altered, so that leaves doom pact and mortal coil. And its highly unlikely that those cards doesn't get a nod in some form. Its practically the two best lich king cards.
The only one I dont think will ever come intact is death grip and death & decay. These two might just be broken without alteration.
March of the Lich King
I noticed you only need 135 comments and votes to complete it. That should be fixed, no?
New Death Knight Spell - Anti-Magic Shell
Does that mean that the rest of the OG Lich King's drops are yet to be revealed as collectible, or are they stopping at 2?
New Death Knight Weapon - Frostmourne
So prophetic & poetic
+1
Blizzard Reveals 5 New Death Knight Cards for March of the Lich King
The first one for sure will have reborn. After that it depends on if the opponent kills it to remove the keyword. But yeah, as everyone's been saying the multiple minions with reborn help to reload the the corpses. So ultimately that is a plus. I still think time will tell with this one, and it's going to depend a lot on how you build the deck. To me this seems okay in most decks, potentially pretty good in a board based deck that wants to also play minion buffs.
Blizzard Reveals 5 New Death Knight Cards for March of the Lich King
Body bagger:
Will see alot of play as far as I can tell, maybe in wild you’d prefer murmy or something, probably not though.
Runeforging:
If death knight receives good weapons this will see play, simple.
Chillfallen baron:
Nice card, draws 2, contests the board, leaves a corpse, also is the only non frost rune generic card draw so far I’m pretty sure
Malignant horror:
I don’t like this card right now, unless death knight gets alot of corpse generation I don’t see them wasting 5 of them on a subpar body that’ll keep robbing them of corpses. Atleast if your opponent full clears it it’ll have only cost you one corpse I guess
Corpse bride:
Atleast when compared to malignant horror this ones pretty nice, 5 corpses for a 5/5 versus 5 for a 2/4 reborn, personally I think the extra cost is a worthy tradeoff here as atleast your actually generating threats here.
Either way I’d like to see more cards that net you multiple corpses or I’m gonna start believing we’re expected to run ram commander and maybe even reef walker and grim necromancer in at least every unholy build maybe even in other runes aswell.
Edit: since grim necromancer is undead and so are her skeletons she might not actually be that bad, still would like for something more interesting.
Frostmourne is a New Legendary Death Knight Weapon for Path of Arthas Revealed by IGN + Anti-Magic Shell
Also as for anti magic shell, I think it’s comparable to the robes from scholomance this is permanent and doesn’t rely on your opponent not having 4 damage worth of minions, but this probably feels worse to tempo and right now I’m not actually sold on unholy blood’s ability to generate corpses yet.
Frostmourne is a New Legendary Death Knight Weapon for Path of Arthas Revealed by IGN + Anti-Magic Shell
I really don’t see frostmourne making it, a 7 mana for a 5/3 weapon just isn’t really worth it, paladin had libram of judgement a card that is incredibly easy to discount to 4-5 mana and had what in my opinion is a more practical upside and never really made the cut from what I recall.
Maybe it makes it in triple blood if it gets enough healing to facilitate it, it probably would be like if gorehowl vometed a board when you were done with it, but I don’t know when the last time that thing saw play was and I don’t think an upside in 3 turns is what it needed, But maybe it’s possible this makes it for an expansion maybe post rotation
Frostmourne is a New Legendary Death Knight Weapon for Path of Arthas Revealed by IGN + Anti-Magic Shell
"Considerably" is doing a lot of work there. This costs one less mana.
New Death Knight Minion - Overseer Frigidara
If youre running frost this card is just a mandatory inclusion because it basically tutors other overpowered cards like Horn of Winter, Frostwyrm's Fury etc.
The fact that this card comes with a possible AoE effect with a 5/6 body clinches it. I dont think there's any card that does as much for 6 mana as this one. If it had taunt it would have been the most overpowered card to ever be printed, and I have a suspicion that it was once designed with it before deciding against it.
New Death Knight Spell - Obliterate
A decent removal option but not great because you're essentially still taking damage, which is the main point of a removal option to begin with. And at 2 mana, its no better in comparison with similar removal options available for other classes
Imagine facing a massive devourer and this card is the answer but losses you the game. What is the point then? But if DK doesn't get better removal options, then this one's an inclusion - warts and all.
New Death Knight Spell - Horn of Winter
God help us, this card shouldn't be allowed to exist. Fortunately, it is not Lightning Bloom all over again.
But Im head scratching as to why team5 even thought such a design choice is fair at all. Reminds me when Twin Slice and Eye Beam was 0 mana, just overtly overpowered design decisions. I know they want DK to be good, but a card like this is hard to balance around and even harder to nerf, because what kind of nerf does one actually impose on this? Make the rune requirement 3? Im sure it matters very little whether we're being destroyed by frost decks or frost+unholy decks.
New Death Knight Minion - Gnome Muncher
I know I'm going to be buffing and reviving this to hell and back in a Big DK deck.
New Death Knight Spell - Glacial Advance
Just another in a line of overpowered cards for DK.
Deal 4 damage for 1 mana, no corpse requirement, paltry rune requirement. This is just a dream card for any class never mind DK. Would be nerfed before we know it, because a card like this should cost 4 or have the discount only be 1.
Considering that Horn of Winter will likely be played in a deck that features this card, this is just license to burn face for 0 mana.
New Death Knight Weapon - Frostmourne
It sucked then, and it sucks now.
Blizzard's Battle.Net Twitter Tweets Fake Hearthstone Card Reveals For Death Knight's Core Set
Yet I would love to see more datamining coming from you. It's been a while now. Screw with whatever they say, I just want some content to read in.
Blizzard's Battle.Net Twitter Tweets Fake Hearthstone Card Reveals For Death Knight's Core Set
This is the part where I agree with most of content creators. They need to stay fresh with every new content, which means, every little misinformation gotta be a pain in the ass.
Twitter and it's problem is different case. I couldn't care less about it.
Death Knight’s Upgraded Hero Power Is Confirmed To Summon a 2/1 Ghoul
We don't know how much of a buffer Death Knight will be though. The only buff cards we're currently aware of in Death Knight are Skeletal Sidekick and Anti-Magic Shell.
Death Knight’s Upgraded Hero Power Is Confirmed To Summon a 2/1 Ghoul
Nevermind the stats, I still think the Charge buff is too great for a 2 mana HP, considering you can use HP then buff the minion for a quick face damage.
Of course, with Renathal still here, and we don't know how aggresive DK hero can be, perhaps I'm judging too fast (or too far).
But hey, I quitted this game since Castle Nathria because of how I can't possibly stay competitive with F2P with how many cards they printed each expansion now and in the future, so just let me check up how this gonna turn up. (Probably get nerf to Rush.. Probably)
Hallow's End Patch Has Brought Back Dual-Class Drafts and Vintage Set Rotation to Hearthstone Arena, Just Not Without Its Own Issues
I already use HearthArena, personally, but that's good advice for others.
My problem wasn't a skill issue. My problem is that sometimes you draft a completely-unwinnable setup (oh, look, no spells offered and two minion selections where the minions actively hurt me). Arena can only conceivably be fair (and, imo, enjoyable) over a large number of games. When my draft is a literal non-game, I stop playing for a long while because I don't have time to not play games. That makes it impossible for Arena to "redeem" itself with actual, playable outcomes. I'd rather do chores and work than throw good money time after bad.
The buy-in wasn't always this bad, but the card mix has been really unfun -- again, imo -- for a number of years.