New Warlock Spell - Wicked Whispers

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A new Rare Warlock Spell, Wicked Whispers, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    A new Rare Warlock Spell, Wicked Whispers, has been revealed!

    Wicked Whispers Card Image

    Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!


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  • Trimutius's Avatar
    1580 2533 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Zoo gets some love. Nice

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  • BloodMefist's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 850 804 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Boneweb Egg gets some support (still boggles me that it didnt get any in Scholomance), and zoo gets a nice AoE board buff.  Grim Rally was run a lot, but destroying a 1/1 gives up minimal board advantage while this loses quite a bit of card advantage.  Still, I'll take any zoo support with a smile.

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  • Duke's Avatar
    205 82 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Could be sick in wild discolock 

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Wonder if they ever are gonna make discard targetable across the board like in runeterra... it feels so much better over there here.. there will always be feelbad moments... even with the "supposed targeting"

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  • Trimutius's Avatar
    1580 2533 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago
    Quote From DoubleSummon

    Wonder if they ever are gonna make discard targetable across the board like in runeterra... it feels so much better over there here.. there will always be feelbad moments... even with the "supposed targeting"

    They might, they already made it kinda targetable by duel hero power, maybe they will change it with classic revamp in April altogether

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  • Samzy's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 370 191 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Ah, discard. The mechanic that never quite works despite the amount of support that Blizzard tries to give it. 
    This one might work with the spiders, but I hope zoo finds a good home for this card.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago
    Quote From Trimutius
    Quote From DoubleSummon

    Wonder if they ever are gonna make discard targetable across the board like in runeterra... it feels so much better over there here.. there will always be feelbad moments... even with the "supposed targeting"

    They might, they already made it kinda targetable by duel hero power, maybe they will change it with classic revamp in April altogether

    if you look across the board on hand buffing or hand selecting cards, you will notice that no card in herthstone:

    1. selects more than one target

    or

    2.selects a target that is a card in hand..

    I looked it out and runeterra is also a game programmed in unity (the same engine as HS) so it's NOT an engine limitation to multiple targeting or targeting your hand..

    you see many cards saying "random" just because they didn't ever want to fix those self induced limitations they made to the game..

    for example Unstable Felbolt or  Unwilling Sacrifice also some hand buffs that would be fairly priced if you could control them...

    those limitations introduced a lot of deck restrictions and rng to the game cause you really want to hit those targets

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  • Fedrion's Avatar
    Zombie 1675 733 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    As a Wild player, I totally support Discolock, and will keep on supporting all the time, except when it becomes meta, I hate to see something I love become mainstream.

     

    That said, only works if you have either Silverware Golem, Boneweb Egg, Clutchmother Zavas or if you already played all your hand, if not it's pretty risky for it's effect.

    Papa Nurgle wants to share his gifts.

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    It has potential, like Grim Rally, but it may find a home with Galakrond builds

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  • FortyDust's Avatar
    Pumpkin 1190 1896 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago
    Quote From DoubleSummon
    Quote From Trimutius
    Quote From DoubleSummon

    Wonder if they ever are gonna make discard targetable across the board like in runeterra... it feels so much better over there here.. there will always be feelbad moments... even with the "supposed targeting"

    They might, they already made it kinda targetable by duel hero power, maybe they will change it with classic revamp in April altogether

    if you look across the board on hand buffing or hand selecting cards, you will notice that no card in herthstone:

    1. selects more than one target

    or

    2.selects a target that is a card in hand..

    I looked it out and runeterra is also a game programmed in unity (the same engine as HS) so it's NOT an engine limitation to multiple targeting or targeting your hand..

    you see many cards saying "random" just because they didn't ever want to fix those self induced limitations they made to the game..

    for example Unstable Felbolt or  Unwilling Sacrifice also some hand buffs that would be fairly priced if you could control them...

    those limitations introduced a lot of deck restrictions and rng to the game cause you really want to hit those targets

    It is important to remember that you can control the targeting if you manipulate the board state or hand state, which is a layer of strategy/skill not present when you can target manually.

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  • economicaooc's Avatar
    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Pretty acceptable in discard warlock, but while discarding lowest cost gives consistency, discard warlock usually wants to keep its lowest cost cards and discard higher cost payoffs.

    Thorough maybe. Not sure that discolock ever really plans on having enough minions on board for this to really take off.

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago
    Quote From FortyDust
    Quote From DoubleSummon
    Quote From Trimutius
    Quote From DoubleSummon

    Wonder if they ever are gonna make discard targetable across the board like in runeterra... it feels so much better over there here.. there will always be feelbad moments... even with the "supposed targeting"

    They might, they already made it kinda targetable by duel hero power, maybe they will change it with classic revamp in April altogether

    if you look across the board on hand buffing or hand selecting cards, you will notice that no card in herthstone:

    1. selects more than one target

    or

    2.selects a target that is a card in hand..

    I looked it out and runeterra is also a game programmed in unity (the same engine as HS) so it's NOT an engine limitation to multiple targeting or targeting your hand..

    you see many cards saying "random" just because they didn't ever want to fix those self induced limitations they made to the game..

    for example Unstable Felbolt or  Unwilling Sacrifice also some hand buffs that would be fairly priced if you could control them...

    those limitations introduced a lot of deck restrictions and rng to the game cause you really want to hit those targets

    It is important to remember that you can control the targeting if you manipulate the board state or hand state, which is a layer of strategy/skill not present when you can target manually.

    yes that's what I meant in the last line.. for example this card you want to design your deck/hand to have a "discard lover" as the lowest cost card in hand.

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  • meisterz39's Avatar
    925 1200 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Grim Rally was good, in part because of its synergy with eggs, but mainly because buffs aren't widely available in Warlock, so any board-wide buff is really powerful in Zoolock. It wouldn't take much in terms of discard synergy to make this about as good, and you can always just play it on with an empty hand for the buff.

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Great for zoo, and it's the good kind of discord card. (Bad kind= random discard.) Can't really say anything bad about this card, i like it.

    Standard: This will 100% see play in zoolock and some kind of tempo Galakrondlock. Galakrondlock always had trouble keeping it's board of 1 health minions alive, and Wicked Whispers helps fix that problem.

    Wild: It's a good Zoo card, so it's surely going to see play in some kind of zoo deck. Also it will see play in Discardlock, as Discardlock loves discarding cards and buffing the minions on board.

    RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.

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  • PLANETCRUNCH's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 820 1248 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Warlock got those spider eggs in Scholomance Academy that can be discarded to activate it's effect. 

    and with this spell being 1 mana it's pretty flexible to dump your hand of the smaller minions, play this, and then discard something you don't care about to gain it's effect. Will probably see play, but is it enough to push zoo on the ladder?

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Was thinking the same, Grim worked better with tokens but this just needs a card you no longer need or want to discard.

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Discolock was meta for a while in standard, which means the card isn't totally worthless. But, Discolock tends to be a zoo deck and the best card to discard with this, Boneweb Egg, needs to cost less than the gigantic pool of 1 drops and 2 drops associated with Discolock.

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  • slychd's Avatar
    Sparklepony 1175 484 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    I wonder if they will try to make discard warlock a thing.

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    I am not sure how strong this card is. Aggro Discard Warlock is a deck in wild, and they might run this, but usually the lowest cost card in your hand will be something like Flame Imp, Soulfire, Expired Merchant, Tiny Knight of Evil, or some other card you don't want to discard. Silverware Golem and Fist of Jaraxxus are going to be too expensive in most cases, so I guess the question is whether or not it will be worth it to start running Boneweb Egg.

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  • Demonxz95's Avatar
    Senior Writer 2245 2626 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Important thing to note: If you discard Boneweb Egg, the 2/1 Spiders WILL get the +1/+1 buff (is the interaction with Shriek and Egg is anything to go by), so that will definitely be quite strong.

    The Grim Rally comparison here is obvious. Depending on certain situations, discarding a card can be less bad than destroying one of your minions, although Grim Rally was good with small 1/1 minions or even stronger with eggs. If you have minions that you don't want to destroy though, then this will be better than Grim Rally. Whichever one is better than the other seems to be roughly 50/50, so I'm going to say this card is good.

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2220 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Grim Rally saw play, so this will too. Zoolock may not be common in the current meta, but it's a deck that will probably always find a place.

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5542 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Its a wide buff card which zoo really needs. Unfortunately, since the condition is to discard, it will rarely appear anywhere else other than zoo.

    There are a few problems with the card though. Don't start getting ideas of a burst finish as it can and will likely discard the second copy, or discard your other finisher in soulfire, so the shenanigans zoo can bring will almost always be limited.

    But Grim Rally was one of the most powerful buffs for zoo in its time, so this card will almost certainly see play.

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  • JackJimson's Avatar
    670 673 Posts Joined 11/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Yay, zoo support.

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2565 3339 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Starting my egg-zoo-list right about now

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  • FrostyFeet's Avatar
    Senior Writer Derpcorn 2170 1449 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Wild: possibly, Standard: unlikely. The latter just lacks the refill tools like Malchezaar's Imp. The value of sacrificing one card for +1/+1 heavily depends on your current board as well, so it might be a dead card in a lot of situations.

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Dragon 2215 2485 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Oh yea, like everyone is saying, this card will be played in zoo, and your best target atm is Boneweb Egg. But would the 2/1 spiders also get the buff?

    Edit: After reading, I found the answer, they will get buffed! :D pretty sweet

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago
    Quote From FrostyFeet

    Wild: possibly, Standard: unlikely. The latter just lacks the refill tools like Malchezaar's Imp. The value of sacrificing one card for +1/+1 heavily depends on your current board as well, so it might be a dead card in a lot of situations.

    zoolock use to play low mana cards and have the best hero power that allows him to draw cards.

     

    And yes, Malchezaar's Imp is an abomination, but Hand of Gul'dan are still in Standar.

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  • FieselFitz's Avatar
    Prince Charming 1105 1355 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Zoo support!! yes i like it - always loved Zoolock.

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  • SilverWolf's Avatar
    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    In wild, sometimes you must rely on Soulfire to discard your Silverware Golem or Boneweb Egg failing in most of cases.

    With this card you can discard in a safer way and not throw anything on a coin flip

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  • DescentOfDragonsOp's Avatar
    530 353 Posts Joined 12/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    not sure how this one will pan out may be good may be trash

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  • MenacingBagel's Avatar
    815 721 Posts Joined 09/24/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    nice little board buff for the lads the lowest discard make its control able which is nice

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  • NebuchadnezzarHS's Avatar
    Supporter 2025 1394 Posts Joined 06/14/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Situational worse version of Grim Rally.

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  • Sparkinarius's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Compared to Grim Rally, I actually think Wicked Whispers is contextually worse. First, Grim Rally could take advantage of deathrattle minions, so the downside of removing one of your own minions is actually an upside. Second, Wicked Whispers removes hand resources. The only good target you'll be able to reasonably discard is Boneweb Egg, which means most of the time you're discarding a potentially valuable resource to continue pushing aggression. Overall, I just don't see much of a competitive reason to run Whispers in Zoolock.

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  • KillaFIsh's Avatar
    375 250 Posts Joined 07/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Turn one could have two 3-2's.  Otherwise I think the card is pretty mediocre.

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  • Fisguinho's Avatar
    The Raven 1190 411 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    solid aggro deck, not really fun tho

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  • Lundy's Avatar
    Little Devil Teemo 1555 707 Posts Joined 06/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Amazing zoo card, and there are some cards that would like to be discarded, if you can manage them to be the lowest cost.

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  • Input's Avatar
    470 259 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Comparable to Grim Rally, but Galakrond tokens were just so easy to produce compared to cards in hand.

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  • Geno9999's Avatar
    Metrognome 1620 1210 Posts Joined 11/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Feels like an Auto include for Zoo, though the discard does make it awkward when you draw both copies.

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    Peasant 1175 590 Posts Joined 05/28/2020
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

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  • randomfan's Avatar
    Elemental 1255 744 Posts Joined 03/17/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    More targeted discard effects. I'm sure this will be included somewhere. Does wild discolock need more help?

    Unfortunately, common sense isn't as common as it should be.

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  • sule's Avatar
    Dinosaur 785 796 Posts Joined 08/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    This might see play in a very low to the ground Zoo deck that can fill the board with small things to buff. It will otherwise not even be considered in other decks.

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1565 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Great card for zoo decks, very likely to see play

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Seems nuts. Discard the Spider Egg with this and you get an extra two 3/2s on board, plus whatever you had already, which is a great swing.

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