A new card has been revealed by IGN. This card will be given to all players for free ahead of the expansion.
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This card should be viable in a number of decks. Looks promising!
What I really want to know is will we get a free class legendary ? or just this ?
I believe we do get the Class Legendary too. This card will be given out to everyone before the release of the expansion - similarly to Marin the Fox - and then we should be able to get a class legendary upon release as well.
Turn 9 Alexstrasza turn 10 Archmage Vargoth + 2 x Mind Blast? Then Mind Blast nerfed / Hall of Famed as it's been haunting faces for too long? xD
This is quite incredible. I always loved when they gave out fairly accessible cards early our / before the release (be that from Adventures, like Prince Malchezar, or pre-release, like Marin), but this is on another level. This card seems playable and just great, it can be a real nice addition to pretty much any F2P / low budget deck and actually be quite relevant. While Marin was more of a fun and flavourful legendary, this one is quite good.
The possibilities with this card seem endless, though it might just be too risky to use with damage spells that don't have a guaranteed enemy minion(s) or hero as target (or healing spells that don't target you) since it could just as easily mess up your entire game.
In wild, with Emperor Thaurissan, you can include it to get your OTK in even more ways:
With 1 discount from Emperor Thaurissan you can have a 6 mana Prophet Velen + 3 mana Archmage Vargoth + 2x 1 mana Mind Blast for 30 damage, and that is just one of the many ways this card can make your win condition more flexible.
Of course, he could just as easily copy your coin, but sometimes the risk is worth the reward.
It's just one of many ways though, so you could just as easily use it for an extra Holy Nova or Spirit Lash for example to get you to your OTK turn.
Cool card, interesting choice for the free card of the expansion, seems like it can actually see play so looking forward to it.
Definitely an interesting card.
Though it'd probably be broken, I wish it cast all spells played this turn. I want 20 lovely, fiery missiles from a Cinderstorm x2 + Vargoth combo. Reminds me of Flamewaker... *tear*
Still, I'm sure players (who are more creative than me) will find a decent use for this card.
Pretty sure it's gonna be a staple in value rogues if they become a thing.
Can't wait to throw this in warrior. Double Bring it On, Execute, Dead Man's Hand, Gather Your Party, etc. Too bad Big Warrior is rotating to wild.
Very cool that this freebie is so flexible. Marin the Fox is a fun card, but he doesn't see a ton of play except as a meme.
Exactly what I was thinking - will be watching what a few of my fav. streamers do with it
Can we expect him to be released this Tuesday April 2nd?
Being as he’s similar to C’thun and Marin will be unable to be disenchanted? A
I love how flexible this is for a freebie but at the same time I really hope this doesn't replace the random class freebie you get on release.
Glad blizzard went the neutral route with this card. I can see this possibly getting out of hand in a few classes. Especially in wild. Looks like a decent Legendary all around. Cheers!
Such a good card and it's nice how they are giving it to everyone free. It also states that it will be given "ahead of the expansion" so that's doubly nice.
Gonna be gross in tempo mage with stuff like arcane missiles, cinderstorm, even just arcane intellect is pretty insane. damn this is good
I like it. This is going to be cool to experiment with.
This card is nasty!! on wild you can play the mage quest infinitely!!!!!