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Hearthstone |OT5| Corrupted Deeprock Salt
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legendaries are very rare in arena but if the other cultists are anything like the first couple I feel like it will be the strongest legendary there is
people are gonna be picking up that common 3/4 a lot and even the 2/3 will be grabbed a fair amount considering people take things like river crocs for curve
BananasWithGuns
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Late April feels bad but more time to save up gold I guess.
I think starting it off with those corrupted cards was sorta odd, but C'thun itself is cool and getting it for free is great. Can't really say much about viability until the other cards that interact with it are shown, but that 3/4 guy looks really damn good already.
I think starting it off with those corrupted cards was sorta odd, but C'thun itself is cool and getting it for free is great. Can't really say much about viability until the other cards that interact with it are shown, but that 3/4 guy looks really damn good already.
That was underwhelming as hell.
*New Loot Hoarder that's 4/2 for 4 and draws a card. This isn't that bad of a card as some people are making it out to be but it's a very boring effect and card. Literally "we didn't think Loot Hoarder was meaty enough, so we doubled it!"
*Corrupted Healbot. This is basically a sooped up Zombie Chow for 5 mana. It only offers on stat above Pit Fighter (6/6 instead of 5/6). This doesn't heal you, it heals the other guy. Useful in Priest I guess due to Auchenai. Oh and they are still balancing around BGH with that statline.
*Validated Doomsayer. Clearly an anti BGH mechanic. You start with 0/7 and then it grows to 7/7. However, it being 0/7 means that it can be dealt with in other ways with stuff like Cabal Shadow Priest or just hitting with stuff... it's not like it costs 2 mana.
*Cthun sucks if they don't nerf BGH. The cards that you use to buff it are just vanilla minions by themselves (2/3, 3/4 etc). The deck would be far too dependent on drawing Cthun as the win condition. I will have to see these other cards that buff Cthun. Seems like you can make a whole deck with it. I just think this type of deck is bound to get tempo'd out before turn 10 assuming you even draw Cthun to use it.
I am not sure if they are even nerfing BGH with these new cards.
*New Loot Hoarder that's 4/2 for 4 and draws a card. This isn't that bad of a card as some people are making it out to be but it's a very boring effect and card. Literally "we didn't think Loot Hoarder was meaty enough, so we doubled it!"
*Corrupted Healbot. This is basically a sooped up Zombie Chow for 5 mana. It only offers on stat above Pit Fighter (6/6 instead of 5/6). This doesn't heal you, it heals the other guy. Useful in Priest I guess due to Auchenai. Oh and they are still balancing around BGH with that statline.
*Validated Doomsayer. Clearly an anti BGH mechanic. You start with 0/7 and then it grows to 7/7. However, it being 0/7 means that it can be dealt with in other ways with stuff like Cabal Shadow Priest or just hitting with stuff... it's not like it costs 2 mana.
*Cthun sucks if they don't nerf BGH. The cards that you use to buff it are just vanilla minions by themselves (2/3, 3/4 etc). The deck would be far too dependent on drawing Cthun as the win condition. I will have to see these other cards that buff Cthun. Seems like you can make a whole deck with it. I just think this type of deck is bound to get tempo'd out before turn 10 assuming you even draw Cthun to use it.
I am not sure if they are even nerfing BGH with these new cards.
this makes it seem that every god gets 16 cards. Or at least C'thun has 16 cards that empower him.
The other old gods won't have their own cultists. Think about it. We get C'thun for free because Blizzard did not want people to open cultists in packs and not be able to use them. If the other gods had cultists then Blizzard would give away those Old Gods for free as well.
Didn't a Deathrattle minion draw Cthun in their presentation? So there might be a way to force it still.
golden animations look great.
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/20058061/heed-the-whispers-of-the-old-gods-3-11-2016
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/20058061/heed-the-whispers-of-the-old-gods-3-11-2016
Read the card text, cultist are god specific.
No that was just the new Loot Hoarder. That was a very controlled game they showed.
Oh my bad. Didn't realize it was LH. (Or PH more accurately).
BananasWithGuns
Member
Ah, yeah, I guess it is 16 just for C'thun.
That seems like a ridiculous amount of cards to be dedicated to just one legendary.
Also apparently C'thun and the cultists won't be available in arena.
I think Polygon explains it best: http://www.polygon.com/features/201...expansion-everything-we-know-new-cards-reveal
I know that. Other people were suggesting that the other gods could have their own specific cultists. I explained why that won't be the case.
Perhaps not cultists but every god will have their own sub theme/keyword as Blizzard states here, so from that I assume that every god will have their own supporting cards.
Gonna keep this page updated with all the new cards. Currently trying to find their artwork online also.
http://www.levelbased.com/guides/hearthstone/cards/search?e=14&q=
http://www.levelbased.com/guides/hearthstone/cards/search?e=14&q=
BananasWithGuns
Member
Yeah, this is disappointing. I guess Inspire and Joust were born and died in TGT then.
God, if some of the cultists can reduce his mana cost by ANYTHING, a brann + cthun will be insane.
This is exactly what I expected to happen, and I like it. Give an expansion a gimmick and have that gimmick live and die with that expansion.
There might be new Inspire cards, they have revealed only 6 cards.
It's possible that some of the cultists are legendary minions themselves. C'Thun is probably the worst weakest god, they are such a major part of the set, I don't think the rest will suck like this, better not. I expect better cards of the set to be the class cards either way.
edit: I misunderstood, I get it know.
edit: I misunderstood, I get it know.
Officerrob
Banned
64 cards being tied to 4 legendaries seems a bit ridiculous
Good thing that's not happening, then.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
This new set could either be really interesting and game changing or worse then TGT.
Emerson
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There's zero evidence of this at all.
Only Cthun has 16 cards attached to him. The others will have completely different mechanics and may not interact with other minions at all. In fact it's likely they don't. They are giving Cthun away free because he interacts with so many minions. The others probably don't.
Emerson
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No the Blizzard quote specifically says there won't be.
Oh they specifically said there won't be more Inspire minions?
That sucks I guess. Oh well.
yes, there are a lot of interesting things they could do. Reducing mana cost, stealth, shield, add death rattles/battle cry's, charge, etc.
It would be a shame if it's just damage/health buffs.
It's useless to Silence Cthun. I guess you could BGH it but the Battlecry is what makes that card strong (or at least potentially strong).
But then you'd have to play shaman.
C'Thun vs Arch Thief Rafaam...
Rafaam is a 7/8 for 9, you can choose to deal 10 damage next turn.
C'Thun deal whatever damage when played plus the body, but you have to put bad minions in your deck that don't do anything when they are played until you play the god way later in the game.
It's kinda even slower than Rafaam or considerably worse than anyfin paladin for example. It's just so bad bad. Maybe if other C'Thun cultists don't actually suck there is a chance, but the effect isn't even game winning exactly.
Rafaam is a 7/8 for 9, you can choose to deal 10 damage next turn.
C'Thun deal whatever damage when played plus the body, but you have to put bad minions in your deck that don't do anything when they are played until you play the god way later in the game.
It's kinda even slower than Rafaam or considerably worse than anyfin paladin for example. It's just so bad bad. Maybe if other C'Thun cultists don't actually suck there is a chance, but the effect isn't even game winning exactly.
Emerson
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I think Cthun is much better than Rafaam even without the buffs.
You aren't wasting two turns on Cthun.
I wouldn't say they're BAD minions, they're just not constructed-tier minions. Plus, we don't know all of them and how they work together. You're probably still right, but i'll leave final judgment until we see them all. That said, unlike other gimmicks or 'races,' if it doesn't work in this expansion, I think there's no hope for it ever working.
That's 19 mana, dude. C'Thun is 10 mana.
It will be enough if you put 4-6 buff minions in your deck.