I don't know what to say. this is just so beautiful, too beautiful for words.
now in wild you have hex, devolve, and now plague of murlocs. all of which are amazing removal tools for clearing annoying minions and ruining resurrects.
Woah, this one is very sweet! It deals with the big boards of Mountain Giants made by Conjurer's Calling, messes up with Kangor's Endless Army and most of the Big Priest's ressurect spells. It can also be combined with an AoE spell for a better chance of clearing the board.
In addition to all the advantages people have already noted, if you play Murloc Shaman, it allows you to potentially turn a bunch of crummy tokens you may be stuck with into Murlocs. E.g. Lackeys, or totems, etc.
If you are facing 4 mountain giants, suddenly they're just murlocs.
If your opponent has one or two massive taunts on the board, again, poof, they're gone.
I am a Shaman fan (full disclosure), but this card is just great as it puts major risk back into decks that run huge minions. Those decks should not feel like they just can't lose if they hit their curve.
It's probably trash for murloc shaman, but it will work wonders as a better devolve. Would you rather turn an 8-drop into a 7-drop or an 8-drop into any murloc? And your totems are probably turning into better minions too!
this would have been nuts...like 2 years ago when Cubelock was running amok.
I mean, I guess it's a decent counter to the Giant Spam in Mage, but still, this is mainly a control card...maybe Token Shaman will run it to turn a weak board into a sligthly better one while devolving the opponents
This card is the NUTS. This might be the best AOE in standard when it comes to dealing with big boards. It's an AOE transform, holy crap.
It does have some balance built in because if you're far behind and you give them murlocs + a war leader you could just die so it isn't super strong against aggro. The power level against decks that want a big board like cyclone mage, mech pally, res priest, etc is insane though. This can even be a strong tempo swing card if you have some minions on a board and a lightning storm. Take value trades, play this, storm, boom.
This is an actual answer to a conjurer's calling board whatever turn they play it. This is the first card they've previewed that looks like it would actually make a big impact in the meta if it was released today.
How many more good AOEs does Shaman need before people stop saying Control Shaman isn't a thing?
I'm happy this card exists. :)
Control shaman needs good minions to play. Part of why warrior is so strong is because it's removal often comes on a stick, militia commander, dynamatic, omegaLUL devestator. The thunderhead buff gave us one, walking fountain is also the nuts. Just one or two more and control shaman is in business. The ones they've shown so far have potential.
Seems like they're pushing Control Shaman A LOT. We already have Hagatha's Scheme or Lightning Storm, now we also get Earthquake and this. Aggro decks will have some troubles (btw, goodbye big priest and conjurer mage).
You could totally guess the effect, hahaha. But I mean, who would have guessed the name? I thought they tried to take the name from the plagues of egypt.
Based on an interview posted on Shacknews, the earlier iterations had Frogs instead of Murlocs.
They are really going out with the shaman love right now, lol. More cards revealed for this class than any other so far I think. I like the card as well. Will be crazy in wild with so many murlocs.
Very cool card. I'm sure we'll see it in action a lot simply because of Hagatha spell generation. Combine with something common like Lightning Storm and you have a simple board clear combo. But I'm already envisioning surprise Bluegill Warrior lethals being featured on Trolden.
I see this as a pseudo Evolve and Devolve combo; it (likely) nerfs an opponent's board, and creates (or keeps) opportunity for murloc synergy on one's own board.
Good or not, this will see play in my decks for sure.
I know the spell won't always work this way (you could potentially upgrade the opponent's board, if you face other aggro decks), but this will certainly be included in control shaman and in some token decks against other control opponents or against some buff decks. Also, yeah, f*ck Big Priests in wild.
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
I. . I mean. . this is. . just. . .
I don't know what to say. this is just so beautiful, too beautiful for words.
now in wild you have hex, devolve, and now plague of murlocs. all of which are amazing removal tools for clearing annoying minions and ruining resurrects.
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
Woah, this one is very sweet! It deals with the big boards of Mountain Giants made by Conjurer's Calling, messes up with Kangor's Endless Army and most of the Big Priest's ressurect spells. It can also be combined with an AoE spell for a better chance of clearing the board.
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This is just amazing.
In addition to all the advantages people have already noted, if you play Murloc Shaman, it allows you to potentially turn a bunch of crummy tokens you may be stuck with into Murlocs. E.g. Lackeys, or totems, etc.
If you are facing 4 mountain giants, suddenly they're just murlocs.
If your opponent has one or two massive taunts on the board, again, poof, they're gone.
I am a Shaman fan (full disclosure), but this card is just great as it puts major risk back into decks that run huge minions. Those decks should not feel like they just can't lose if they hit their curve.
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
Control shaman is definitely a ting now
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
It's probably trash for murloc shaman, but it will work wonders as a better devolve. Would you rather turn an 8-drop into a 7-drop or an 8-drop into any murloc? And your totems are probably turning into better minions too!
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
I was going to say something along those lines. haha
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
this would have been nuts...like 2 years ago when Cubelock was running amok.
I mean, I guess it's a decent counter to the Giant Spam in Mage, but still, this is mainly a control card...maybe Token Shaman will run it to turn a weak board into a sligthly better one while devolving the opponents
New Shaman Spell - Plague of Murlocs
This card is the NUTS. This might be the best AOE in standard when it comes to dealing with big boards. It's an AOE transform, holy crap.
It does have some balance built in because if you're far behind and you give them murlocs + a war leader you could just die so it isn't super strong against aggro. The power level against decks that want a big board like cyclone mage, mech pally, res priest, etc is insane though. This can even be a strong tempo swing card if you have some minions on a board and a lightning storm. Take value trades, play this, storm, boom.
This is an actual answer to a conjurer's calling board whatever turn they play it. This is the first card they've previewed that looks like it would actually make a big impact in the meta if it was released today.
Control shaman needs good minions to play. Part of why warrior is so strong is because it's removal often comes on a stick, militia commander, dynamatic, omegaLUL devestator. The thunderhead buff gave us one, walking fountain is also the nuts. Just one or two more and control shaman is in business. The ones they've shown so far have potential.
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I'm more curious on the Foe Innkeeper 2.0x3000.
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Epic indeed!
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Seems like they're pushing Control Shaman A LOT. We already have Hagatha's Scheme or Lightning Storm, now we also get Earthquake and this. Aggro decks will have some troubles (btw, goodbye big priest and conjurer mage).
New Shaman Spell - Plague of Murlocs
Based on an interview posted on Shacknews, the earlier iterations had Frogs instead of Murlocs.
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They are really going out with the shaman love right now, lol. More cards revealed for this class than any other so far I think. I like the card as well. Will be crazy in wild with so many murlocs.
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
Nice... board clear kinda which is actually good in my murloc decks...
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Finally something that actually answers board full of 8/8s
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
This card is super strong. You can answer cyclone mage conjurer's calling boards for mega cheap
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
This is awesome another way my Lucentbark Druid falls apart against shaman. I would love some kind of an answer to transform or silence.
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
Very cool card. I'm sure we'll see it in action a lot simply because of Hagatha spell generation. Combine with something common like Lightning Storm and you have a simple board clear combo. But I'm already envisioning surprise Bluegill Warrior lethals being featured on Trolden.
New Shaman Spell - Plague of Murlocs
Yesss this will be the perfect inclusion for shudderwock-bore-big-priest-to-death-with-infinite-armour-shaman in wild, love it.
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
Doesn't fit Even shaman, but still. Great card !
New Shaman Spell - Plague of Murlocs
I see this as a pseudo Evolve and Devolve combo; it (likely) nerfs an opponent's board, and creates (or keeps) opportunity for murloc synergy on one's own board.
Good or not, this will see play in my decks for sure.
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
And Old Murk-Eye got mightier ..!
New Shaman Spell - Plague of Murlocs
A reprint of Devolve?
I know the spell won't always work this way (you could potentially upgrade the opponent's board, if you face other aggro decks), but this will certainly be included in control shaman and in some token decks against other control opponents or against some buff decks. Also, yeah, f*ck Big Priests in wild.
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
Big Priests hate this card. :D
Better than devolve, because Devolve gives the Priest still big minions, but murlocs are nearly all the time small.
New Shaman Card Reveal - Plague of Murlocs
Didn't think about that. It might be decent to kill big priest