12 New Cards Leaked From New "Reign of the Black Empire" Hearthstone Expansion, New Old God Keyword

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12 New Cards Leaked From New "Reign of the Black Empire" Hearthstone Expansion, New Old God Keyword

Yep. It's happened again. We're getting huge leaks on the set before the reveals even begin. As part of BlizzCon this year, we've gotten an announcement for a new expansion surprisingly early. It marks the very first time that the third expansion of a year has been announced in September, and the very first time that third expansion of a year will be released in October.

There's a lot to be excited about in the new expansion, titled Reign of the Black Empire. We know next to nothing, and the hype train has already started rolling. Unfortunately for Blizzard, they have once again managed to leak the cards of the set too far in advance.

Found in the press release kit are 16 cards that are from the expansion. There also appears to be a new Old God keyword, which was not explained in the BlizzCon reveal. As such, we have no idea what it does yet, but the mechanic is found on cards that each have their own tokens associated with them, and are predictably, found on the Old Gods.

12 of them are part of the card set itself, and are labeled here. The remaining 3 cards from the press release kit are event cards.

What do you think of the new cards in the set? Let us know in the comments below.

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  • Nzoth, Dreams End - Probably most playable in priest because of Sol'etos, and the existing quest priest design is already a proven concept. The only issue here is that umbra already exist and is probably already the better card. Nzoth is more flexible because you can actively reduce its cost, it has somewhat anti-synergy with umbra, and the fact that nzoth can perfectly function as an AoE provided one other minion exist on board. But again, if youre building a deck thats tailored to take advantage of a specific deathrattle, go for umbra. Nzoth is only better if youre building an actual deathrattle-filled deck.

    Y'shaarj, Titan Bane - Easily the best old god because it'll fit into just about any deck that plays a decent chunk of minions and is more or less guaranteed to be fully utilized in two turns, ensuring that either an untargetable minion destruction is required or you just suffer it for two turns.

    C'thun, Eye of the Empire - Depending on how many side minions there are to trigger its abilities, its probably the most playable old god, simply because you actually get to use it earlier than the others via intermediaries. And if somehow you reach turn 10 having triggered them all, you get to blast 21 damage to your opponent's face.

    Mastermind Yogg-Saron - The most baffling but thats by design. Its very nature ensures you will never have control over what yogg's abilities will do, nor what he will do to your hand. Playable? Probably not. He'll probably pyro your face, and I say that because though hearthstone's AI arent blockheads, team5 would probably code this to be 'extra' dumb for the memes alone.

    Isiset - Im actually dumbstruck over its design. Unless breaking them out of ice means they can immediately attack, those two massive 10/10s are just gonna twiddle their thumbs while you get a punch to the face. And it also means youre essentially playing a 6 mana do nothing, which even in this power level of hearthstone likely will get you dead.

    Uldir Quarantine - Theres likely another rainbow card that'll allow you to trigger this on 4. The problem is, not only are you playing a 3 mana do fuck all, even on curve this card is doing nothing special. Consider that beast tripwire does the same shit on turn 4, zero conditions, and its still only a decent card in a curated deck.

    M.O.T.H.E.R - At some point of time it'll probably get nerfed. A mere 5 mana or less AoE spell in hand is all it takes to make this card completely nuts, ensuring that every deck that scales to the late game will play this because why not? Its just too much cost reduction to ignore, and if you safely play this first you probably just win the game. Good thing its a free card eh? Means it'll go through 4 different nerfs and you wont get any dust back.

    Shadow Sculpt - Mug shaman bait. But its so good in that deck it'll probably single handedly bring the deck back into tier 2. Maybe.

    So new expansion, and I cant pretend that Im not at least slightly hyped. Its old gods, and theres a decent-ish power level in the new cards, meaning theres a non-zero chance they'll see play. But Ive been fooled before. We shall see if the new cards hold any kind of water on release. Team5 might probably nerf cannon/dragon warrior at some point and it'll serve as a signal as to what we can expect.

    Brief mention on the assemble keyword. It has strong potential. Complex, different and as the vid showcase have shown, it can actually get a bit insane sometimes. Perhaps for that reason, I feel it'll be more successful than the old gods themselves.

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