Besides, 0 mana destroy a bad 12/12 Legendary isn't much better than 2 mana destroy a bad 12/12 Legendary, which is what Shadow Word: Death is going to be. If you play a stat stick, it'll get hard removed. It's just that the 0 mana one is far more specific.
Though its too early to tell, I don't think Magtheridon is as bad as you say.
It's not a stats stick. I see it more as a combo board clear with a 12/12 body.
For example, on turn 8 you could run this with Hellfire which leaves you a 12/12 body after a board wipe.
Q: So hoarding packs before major nerfs will be a good dust strat if you have a good collection (Editor notes: This is a comment about the new duplicate rule). A: There's a caveat here: once you receive a card, you'll have it marked for "collected" purposes. So if you disenchant a card you've received, it's still considered "owned." So you can't exploit the refund system that way. There's a great benefit to this though: If you don't like a particular card or class, you can disenchant them and not have to worry about getting them in future packs.
Q: And how long is the card will be marked "collected"? For example, I've opened an epic I don't want so I dust it right away. But if I already collected other epics I would like to have them all again. A: Forever. Once you've collected a card, you've collected it.
I wonder if the "collected" tag is retroactive or will only take effect from March 26 onward.
For example, say I dusted nerfed cards from a few years ago. Are those still marked as collected?
Does the duplication protection work for Golden cards? I keep the good common cards, but DE the bad ones (f2p). If I open packs after march 26, does that mean that every golden common I get are ones I don't have the regular version of?
As I understood it, it does not differentiate between golden and non-golden. If you have 1 golden and 1 non-golden of the same card, from the system's perspective 2 copies have been "collected" and you will not receive any copy again (until the random phase starts). If you have 1 golden and no other copy, you will receive the second which may or may not be golden (RNG).
When you DE a card, it is still "collected" from the system's perspective. Say you have 2 epics, you DE both, you will not receive any more copies of the 2 epics as they have already been collected (up until the random phase).
I could easily see myself running 2 copies of this in every warlock deck. With demon hunters being the flavor of the month, this won't have a shortage of targets.
Any chance or news if they will do anything with Sacrificial Pact? For example, making it only affect friendly demons.
With the release of ashes of outland, they have printed a lot of demons for all classes. The demon condition seems to be less situational with all classes likely running demons. For instance With Magtheridon, sac pact could easily be destroy an enemy 12/12, heal 5, for zero mana! A huge tempo swing.
I have to say though, since this was initially supposed to be Masters Tour Indonesia before all the coronavirus issues, wouldn't it have been nice to revert the move? APAC players were supposed to have the "home advantage" and now they're the ones that will have to play at some horrendous hours even though it's an online event.
DH seems to get more cards from Outland than the other classes, probably as compensation. I don't think cards will be added to the old sets, that's just unfair if you're done buying those. Maybe we'll get a class bundle like the Mage bundle recently?
Makes sense. Maybe that's why they were dry running the class specific pack.
You guys are right.
A wait and see approach is best.
Though its too early to tell, I don't think Magtheridon is as bad as you say.
It's not a stats stick. I see it more as a combo board clear with a 12/12 body.
For example, on turn 8 you could run this with Hellfire which leaves you a 12/12 body after a board wipe.
EDIT: Removed error.
I wonder if the "collected" tag is retroactive or will only take effect from March 26 onward.
For example, say I dusted nerfed cards from a few years ago. Are those still marked as collected?
As I understood it, it does not differentiate between golden and non-golden. If you have 1 golden and 1 non-golden of the same card, from the system's perspective 2 copies have been "collected" and you will not receive any copy again (until the random phase starts). If you have 1 golden and no other copy, you will receive the second which may or may not be golden (RNG).
When you DE a card, it is still "collected" from the system's perspective. Say you have 2 epics, you DE both, you will not receive any more copies of the 2 epics as they have already been collected (up until the random phase).
I could easily see myself running 2 copies of this in every warlock deck. With demon hunters being the flavor of the month, this won't have a shortage of targets.
Any chance or news if they will do anything with Sacrificial Pact? For example, making it only affect friendly demons.
With the release of ashes of outland, they have printed a lot of demons for all classes. The demon condition seems to be less situational with all classes likely running demons. For instance With Magtheridon, sac pact could easily be destroy an enemy 12/12, heal 5, for zero mana! A huge tempo swing.
If you drop it while your opponent has a full board, does it activate immediately? Or becomes dormant forever?
Interesting first perma sealth minion. At 5 health it should survive most big damage based AOE spells (like Flamestrike, Chaos Nova)
I wonder if this will make attack buffers for rogue (i.e. Cold Blood) more viable.
They will only be streaming top 8, right?
I agree with this.
Am I correct to assume the effect triggers indefinitely until either:
So the effect is similar-ish to Rolling Fireball in terms of movement.
I would prefer a more defensive stat distribution on the body. This strikes me more of a defensive card.
Looks like a good card first glance.
Just a -1 stat below vanilla stats for 7 mana.
Replaces itself in your hard with another big thing.
Has rush which means it affects the board when its played
And as others have mentioned the text has a great synergy with Strength in Numbers.
Prismatic Lens is rotating. So murloc paladin loses 1 of 2 (Tip the Scales being the other) of it's key cards.
I wonder if murloc-dragon pally can be a thing.
Interesting tech card to counter combo decks.
Limited usefulness against token decks though.
I hope the board-centric high health priest decks they are trying to push works.
If that plan succeeds I think this card will see play.
Thanks FrostyFeet! Appreciate the response.
Do you mind sharing the link to the official post re: copy protection?
Additionally, when does the protection take effect?
Is it when you get the pack or when you open the pack?
For example, if I get the classic pack in this week's brawl and open it post release, will it be protected?
Great news!
Makes sense. Maybe that's why they were dry running the class specific pack.
Just wondering, will DH be a one set class?
Since it will be introduced in the next xpac, will it only have 1 set?
Whereas all the other 9 class will have 4 (3 from year of the dragon, 1 from new xpac).
Or will blizzard retroactively print new cards for the year of the dragon for the DH class?
Synegizes well with Wrathscale Naga for board control and Feast of Souls for card draw.
2/2 1 mana minion with an upside.
Not a build around card, but I expect this to be an autoinclude in all DH decks.