I think people are being too harsh on this card. Discover last isn't usually optimal, but it's not the end of the world. There's plenty of times when you play a Discover card on curve for a future turn (For example, Identity Theft, Nerubian Vizier, and Venomous Scorpid are frequently all used this way). This requires a slow matchup for maximum value where you can afford to grind out a bit of value every turn. It's too specific to maindeck, but I think this will be a solid ETC card for midrange/control Mages and a top-tier Discover itself.
It also has Divine Shield on closer inspection. Here's a list of all the static ability keywords that would make sense and all the minion types (alphabetically):
Beast -- Divine Shield
Demon -- Lifesteal
Dragon -- Poisonous
Elemental -- Reborn
Mech -- Rush
Murloc -- Stealth
Naga -- Spell Damage +1
Pirate -- Taunt
Quilboar -- Windfury
Totem --
Undead --
There are just barely more minions that logical keywords, so you do hit a cap eventually. It won't be an issue for regular gameplay, though.
They only showed up at the Darkmoon Faire once it was moved from a travelling faire to Darkmoon Island in Cataclysm. Shattrath was their first in-game appearance.
I'm going to be slightly more bold and guess it's a Shattrath expansion with a metal concert theme. Shattrath is where ETC performs in World of Warcraft.
Elite Tauren Chieftain does have five unique members. Samuro, Sig Nicious, Bergrisst, Mai'kyl, and Chief Thunder-skins. The band itself was personified by a Tauren bearing that name for Heroes of the Storm, and made its way into Hearthstone afterwards.
At the very worst, it's a 2 mana 3/3 Imp that deals 1 damage to your hero. It might see Imploc play for that alone.
It's a reference. One More Time and Get Lucky are both Daft Punk songs.
S tier flavor text.
As far as I understand, it removes Divine Shield from a friendly character and summons a 5/5. That can include the shield from Starlight Groove.
Obviously so they could retain the entire three-part joke in the eclipse cards' flavor texts.
Flag Runner saw play in that hyper-aggro Demon Hunter from Sunken City's early meta.
I think people are being too harsh on this card. Discover last isn't usually optimal, but it's not the end of the world. There's plenty of times when you play a Discover card on curve for a future turn (For example, Identity Theft, Nerubian Vizier, and Venomous Scorpid are frequently all used this way). This requires a slow matchup for maximum value where you can afford to grind out a bit of value every turn. It's too specific to maindeck, but I think this will be a solid ETC card for midrange/control Mages and a top-tier Discover itself.
Going Down Swinging is sending me straight back to middle school. Fel Out Boy. The flavour of this set is phenomenal.
Fel Out Boy
It's an Efficient Octo-bot.
Read Audio Amplifier's flavour text. Next-level trolling.
It also has Divine Shield on closer inspection. Here's a list of all the static ability keywords that would make sense and all the minion types (alphabetically):
Beast -- Divine Shield
Demon -- Lifesteal
Dragon -- Poisonous
Elemental -- Reborn
Mech -- Rush
Murloc -- Stealth
Naga -- Spell Damage +1
Pirate -- Taunt
Quilboar -- Windfury
Totem --
Undead --
There are just barely more minions that logical keywords, so you do hit a cap eventually. It won't be an issue for regular gameplay, though.
You can see Amalgam Band in the cinematic. It looks like it gains Rush, Poisonous, Stealth, Windfury, Taunt, and Reborn.
Heroes of the Storm was officially announced in 2011, and ETC was one of the heroes at that time.
They only showed up at the Darkmoon Faire once it was moved from a travelling faire to Darkmoon Island in Cataclysm. Shattrath was their first in-game appearance.
I'm going to be slightly more bold and guess it's a Shattrath expansion with a metal concert theme. Shattrath is where ETC performs in World of Warcraft.
Elite Tauren Chieftain does have five unique members. Samuro, Sig Nicious, Bergrisst, Mai'kyl, and Chief Thunder-skins. The band itself was personified by a Tauren bearing that name for Heroes of the Storm, and made its way into Hearthstone afterwards.
It's not a bug. Minions die instead of moving when a zone is full. The minion was never on your side of the board, since it had nowhere to move to.
All Death Knight discovers ignore Rune restrictions unless specified by the card.
Free is referring to the rarity of the card, not the price. All uncollectible cards, including heroes, have the Free rarity internally.
I don't know why the Arthas bot started making updates about heroes, though.