Madame Lazul is back in Hearthstone's newest teaser video for the upcoming expansion to be announced at BlizzCon.
Wyrmrest Accord and Northrend's flying Dalaran can be seen in the video. What else do you notice?
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- The only thing I'm sure about is Dragons and a new lackey that is probably Drakonid or Draconic Lackey and might have a " if you are holding a dragon" synergy.
- I don't think those two cards represent the keyword. It represent probably the sides, The Light bleeds are Golden and Purple and the lights are changing sides occasionally. She is constantly changing cards to predict to future correctly but all cards are same and changing lights so she can't decide what will really happen.
- My personal thought is that Dragon Aspects are coming, because LoE just saved the Uldum and didn't tried to get Dalaran back. Here, I wonder what happened to Kalecgos, Khadgar, Rhyssa, Nozari, Vereesa and Stelladris. They just fled or captured by E.V.I.L. ? I really think that;
Alexstrasza for Hunter
Ysera for Druid
Malygos for Mage
Nozdormu for Paladin will come to fight with Deathwing.
Because Rafaam is just a Ethereal Thief who wants to exchange Dalaran with something precious. He made Togwaggle the King. So Togwaggle is just a servant of Rafaam, didn't have any plans. Dr. Boom only wanted wisdom of the Dalaran for his experiments in Booms Lab. Hagatha has just sided with them like Dr. Boom because of wisdom and she sided with E.V.I.L because the enemy of my enemy is my ally but Lazul is different. She is a servant of Old Gods so the key character here is her. The Lore might shape like this;
She learned that Rafaam will steal the Dalaran and will want to exchange it with something precious with her visions so she had found Rafaam and offered him that The most Precious thing in exchange should only be given by old gods so they are bringing Dalaran to Deathwing because all of the Old gods are imprisoned. The ultimate plan will be Lazul's in my opinion, not Rafaam's. Rafaam is just want to sell Dalaran. He is an ethereal and he only wants trade.
So in light of all these, Dragon Aspects will not want Old Gods have Dalaran and fight with them to save it unlike LoE. LoE just wanted to save Uldum, not Dalaran.
- There is also a great opportunity to bind lores together like how Malygos got mad and fight with all Azeroth for defending that " Mortals should not use magic.". The changing lights of Lazul's cards make me think about how Malygos changed sides and also the lights are golden and purple. It might be also about Nozdormu and Murozond.
These are only my personal speculations.
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So as you can see, There are great opportunities and so much possibilities. I hope Team 5 used those opportunities and make a wonderful lore-related expansion.
For the cards and our experience, I really only can say about Dragons and Draconic Lackey. I don't think there will be a "choose one"-like mechanic. And I'm %50 sure of new Nozdormu, Ysera, Malygos and Alexstrasza. They greatly fit the theme of Paladin, Druid, Mage and Hunter.
Yeah I'm not sold at all about this one: that would mean that every deck that uses Lackey would have to run a Dragon package in order not to have a dead 1/1 in hand, which seems pretty unreasonable to me.
Just think about Tempo Rogue, or even just Rogue, with Dragons: that doesn't make a lot of sense to be fair.
You are right but Lackeys are so powerful how they are for now in my opinion and it can be some kind of balance for them. Also its just a thought but I'm almost sure about new lackey is being a draconic Lackey. Just can't be sure of its text and effect. :)
Yeah but adding a vanilla 1/1 for most of the classes is a middle finger to the mechanic as a whole, not a balance choice. I'm as sure as you are that the new Lackey will be Dragon themed, but I'm also sure that its effect won't be limiting for deck design like "if you're holding a Dragon".
Oh well, 24 hours to go in order to know the truth!
From the trailer here's what I noticed.
-This set takes place in Dragon Blight, which is home to all the Dragon Shrines, and Wrymrest Temple.
-This set has uncertain futures, just like the End Time dungeons and the final raid with Deathwing
-This set hints at time travel and possibly a new key word. Maybe one that similar to Choose One or play a card, and an altered copy of it goes into your deck. Kind of like Forgotten Torch. This is my personal speculation.
-This set will feature LOTS of dragons, and possibly the biggest grand daddy of them all Galakrond.
I love all those ideas. What class would you like to see more dragons added to the most?
Considering that the two previous expansions called back both old enemies and old allies, I suppose that by putting in Dragonblight (a region of Northrend, where the Lich King has his throne) mean that we're going to revist also KotFT.
Too bad the game is in a death spiral due to so many of the recent things, I hope this new exp can restore it but I have big doubts
why do I get the feeling that this the expansion where I'm going to have to craft those Cathedral Gargoyle's only for them to rotate the next expansion
Either way, at this point I'm mostly interested in how the story plays out and whether they can top Tombs of Terror in terms of fun and replayability.
Not having much hope for the meta at this point...at best we're gonna get a KnC sequel where Warlock jumps from garbage to tier 1 because of a busted set
Actually craft them, because I've been having a blast playing a Wild Pally deck, and those are great Early game cards.
And the winner is... Whichever side has cooler card back!
Since Dalran crashed into Black Rock Mountain I think that some black dragon flight could infiltrate into Dalaran.
Now Dalaran is just "this" close to the Wyrmrest Temple and Galakrond skeleton, and they have access to all dragonflights sanctums. A dragon war maybe?
Now, we have seen it on Ragnaros. How can something that is just corrupted, became corrupted again? Maybe we can see Neltharion, the Earth Warder as the only uncorrupted dragon, and every other dragonflights on the Old Gods' side?
Tha changing colors were from the flex/hex bundle, maybe we choose one team to follow up.
Tinfoil hat on: The beginners pack with 1 Legenday Classic Dragon, was released foreseeing the year of dragon? So, if they change that pack, could be a reference to future expasions?
PD: sorry for any mistakes, english is not my first language.
edit: Typo.
They will present 2 legendary for each of the evil classes and ppl will vote what card from those 2 they want "printed" for the game
I wonder if they let Blizzcon audience decide the outcome :D
My thoughts immediately went to the single-player adventure, and I wonder if there's a way the community will decide which faction wins based on aggregate stats from the single player campaign.
Constantly switching, maybe they will fix the witchwood expansions since they removed the two core cards of that expansion.
My brain produced a mechanical alternative to Quests -- a branching mechanic with a different outcome depending on how you play. eg which happened first, you casted 4 spells or summoned 6 minions?
Or eg, whichever player first has 7 minions at the same time gets a benefit (which you would put in play because you've designed around getting to 7 first... but the opponent could play to delay your reward or even beat you to it).
One thing I've learned from HS teasers is any guess I come up with is always wrong. They lead me in a direction that won't be reflected in actual meaningful content :)
So glad there weren't hordes of dragons rampaging in this one because it would mean there definitely won't be any!*
* though there was a skeleton of something large. (my dream of dragons is dead?)
Hmm maybe there will be certain cards that ask us to choose Dragons or Old Gods for different effects. Or the choose is directly referring to just the single adventure. I am hoping for dragons and old gods to finish this year with a crazy finish!!