Infernodash
Member
Oh look, another card that should have been slotted for Priests. Instead, we get embrace the shadow; a spell replicate of a minion we already have. Thanks Blizzard!
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Hearthstone |OT6| C'THUN for President! Why pick the lesser evil?
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Infernodash
Member
Good thing Faceless summoner is a mage card.
I think you mean Twilight Summoner. Faceless Summoner is the Mage card that gives you a random 3-drop. It would be good with that one too though. Assuming you could get it off of Burgle or Huckster.
Karsticles
Member
Double Kel'Thuzad. What does the 1/1 version get resurrected as?
Xamtheking
Member
Imagine the synergy with leeroy
a 1/1 with charge that gives your opponents 2 1/1s
I think the game has been lacking a card on that power level for quite some time
a 1/1 with charge that gives your opponents 2 1/1s
I think the game has been lacking a card on that power level for quite some time
BananasWithGuns
Member
Rogue has a pretty crazy amount of cards that work well with this too. This might be a two of in most Rogue decks going forward.
Yes, sorry, that's what I meant. Too many damn summoners in this set.
But my main point is that she'll be very good in a Raptor Rogue deck. She could even copy an Undercity Huckster and I think you might be fine with that.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Using it on Xaril will be pretty insane.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Khadgar huh? Can't say I expected another Mage hero before everyone else got one, but there is a surplus of mages and warriors. Aegwynn is probably next.
Anyway fuck Khadgar.
Anyway fuck Khadgar.
GwyndolinCinder
Member
That rogue card so good!
Probably at a later time. Right now it's a promo a bunch of companies are doing for charity within the app store
The downside is that you have to have played that dragon already, and a lot of the good dragons have mana costs greater than 5. If it survives, sure.
I guess. That being said, Malygos exists and the OTK potential is pretty big there.
Malygos+Conceal > Shadowcaster+Baby Malygos+Sinister Strike+Sinister Strike+Evis = 40 damage
Khadgar huh? Can't say I expected another Mage hero before everyone else got one, but there is a surplus of mages and warriors. Aegwynn is probably next.
Anyway fuck Khadgar.
So you are telling me he is the BM king?
Yup, pointed it out earlier, and this wont be that hard to pull off. This is dumb.
I'm going to bet people will play rogue legendary and maybe this card even regularly but not raptor
raptor is going away in 8-9 months anyway but these cards are in for full 2 years.
I'm theory crafting all my Old Gods decks with the assumption that BGH has committed seppuku.
Raptor Rogue is a perfectly viable archetype. Just because arbitrary-as-fuck TempoStorm refuses to acknowledge it doesn't mean it doesn't have a place.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
My God shadowcaster + Xaril = infinite value
So probably never?
new Rogue card. I like it.
Priest am cry. What has Anduinn done to BBrode to deserve this?
Tbh with all these Magical Christmas Land combos I can't shake the feeling that this thread doesn't play much Rogue. Generally the cards you'd want to target with this thing don't stick, aggro isn't going away either and Blizz is really focusing on huge 9-10 mana game-ending drops this expansion so a 2-turn, 6-card OTK play is simply not happening.
Like, I'm not saying this card is bad, it's a cool concept and one of those unique, open-ended cards that are really hard to evaluate in advance. I'd love to hear what top-tier Rogue players like Dog and Lifecoach have to say about it.
Like, I'm not saying this card is bad, it's a cool concept and one of those unique, open-ended cards that are really hard to evaluate in advance. I'd love to hear what top-tier Rogue players like Dog and Lifecoach have to say about it.
Someone on the ladder kept stealing all his stuff and this is what we get or the team wasn't satisfied that their representation at tournaments wasn't at 0, so they decided to fix that.Either way, my dream for dragon priest is dead with how disgusting some of these class cards have been, rather go switch to dragon paladin and maly rogue
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
Or you could just play Faceless Manipulator and do that right now.
This is only better for small minions or battle cries.
Considering a large portion of the good minions in this game are Battlecries, that makes it standout from Faceless Manipulator quite a bit.
new Rogue card. I like it.
Oh, this is Recycle vs Entomb all over again, except it's happening in the same expansion.
veloxStrix
Banned
I like the Shadowcaster. I'm not sure yet whether I like her enough to play her in a deck, but I appreciate the card design. A 5 mana 4/4 that affects card advantage obviously calls Azure Drake to mind. The effect is novel with the potential to enable combos, but not so strong as to be an auto-include like the Drake itself.
Right now I don't see anything particularly worth using it on. Refreshment Vendor, Dark Iron Skulker, Cult Apothecary, Azure Drake, Harrison, and Stampeding Kodo are okay at the 4/5 Mana mark - where this card is most likely to synergize with it.
Of note though, Leeroy and Greenskin can be bounced with this guy. Combo potential there.
Going up the curve, Reno and Black Knight are both good contenders. Black Knight definitely having a chance to see play in the new meta if Soggoth is being ran in decks.
In magical Christmas land, we have Ragnaros that can be copied and then never played. But maybe Malygos, Conceal, play this next turn, play another Malygos the turn after could work... or you could spend about 3 turns doing nothing and then die. Ysera has the same issue. Copying anything above 6/7 with this card does very little that simply playing Anub'Aruk wouldn't.
Right now I don't see anything particularly worth using it on. Refreshment Vendor, Dark Iron Skulker, Cult Apothecary, Azure Drake, Harrison, and Stampeding Kodo are okay at the 4/5 Mana mark - where this card is most likely to synergize with it.
Of note though, Leeroy and Greenskin can be bounced with this guy. Combo potential there.
Going up the curve, Reno and Black Knight are both good contenders. Black Knight definitely having a chance to see play in the new meta if Soggoth is being ran in decks.
In magical Christmas land, we have Ragnaros that can be copied and then never played. But maybe Malygos, Conceal, play this next turn, play another Malygos the turn after could work... or you could spend about 3 turns doing nothing and then die. Ysera has the same issue. Copying anything above 6/7 with this card does very little that simply playing Anub'Aruk wouldn't.
Coming with fantasy combos are easy, building a functional deck isn't. You have this fantasy rogue deck that has a board consistently, curves perfectly and pulls off these Johnny combos , yeah sure, I wish best of luck to you, sounds a lot of fun honestly. The fascination with raptor some show here is so much that every card with deathrattle somehow is good with it and associated, even something like Xaril is often name dropped for raptor rogue synergy around here where it makes no sense, I think some people just don't understand the concept of value and tempo and how rogue in particular uniquely plays and swings between those. It's understandable, it's a hard class to evaluate and play and the least played class for a reason.
I was pointing at the obsurdity, we all know it's going to be a mill thing, or used on a strong battlecry like xaril, hell with Brann you can do it twice
I'm going to bet people will play rogue legendary and maybe this card even regularly but not raptor
raptor is going away in 8-9 months anyway but these cards are in for full 2 years.
Raptor should be in a bit longer I think, it won't rotate out until the first 2017 expansion comes out. So I'm thinking 10 months.
Also, I think people should not dismiss Wild as some no mans land.
then you get the shadow step toxin from xaril and do it a third and fourth time!
Recycle and Entomb was a silly controversy, though. What classes need/should have varies in their existing tools and play styles.
Not that I don't think it's hilarious that Volazj is worse in almost every regard, but still.
veryslowhand
Banned
wait brann plus this card equal two mini malygos?
veloxStrix
Banned
Still at charge to have spells put on it. You burst six, bounce a charge, and then throw buffs on it next turn. Not particularly good, but it removes the need for other chargers without providing too much of a downside. It has Combo potential, but it's not very good potential.
Or just make a bunch of Branns. Infinite Branns.
veryslowhand
Banned
I see it, five branns in board, agent si7 to face
edit: not a battlecry
edit: not a battlecry