Yeah this is a bad card: if your opponent can't deal 6 damage on turn 6 it means that you're already quite far ahead and, at the moment, Shaman can do pretty nasty things with 6 mana.
This is more of a fun card than a strong one in my opinion.
Edit: I just read a really well written post above mine and I have to say that I may have made a mistake while evaluating this card. It's better to just see the other Shaman's cards I guess
Oh yeah this is really good. I don't know if it's just the hype, but it might even be one go the best cards of the set.
3 mana AoE for Priest is something the class has asked for a long time: this might even be better than Spirit Lash, which to be fair had a different role than just clearing the board, but was still used as a little AoE.
Basically this is Volcanic Potion with an upside that makes it strictly better.
The most important thing though is that now we know for sure that Priest's Legendary Dragon will be from the Infinite Dagonflight
that's probably just the semantics between how you and I label off-meta decks. Long story short: it will win some games but not enough to affect the meta.
I’m not sold at all by this card. Remember that Priest got same exact effect but on a weapon (Dragon Soul), which is much more difficult to remove if you don’t run a specific tech option with Shadow Visions, Lyra the Sunshard and Radiant Elemental in the same rotation, but never saw competitive play.
therefore, I expect this card to see fringe experimentation but not much competitive play.
Now that I think about it, Abyssal Summoner can see some experimentation in Wild EvenLock, maybe instead of Faceless Shambler: consider that the summoned minion is a demon with taunt and it will be a between a 6/6 and a 8/8 on average.
That should make it a little worse than Shambler, but said demon will be brought back by Bloodreaver Gul'dan, which means a bigger board swing later (EvenLock doesn't run that many demons, so I guess it' should be worth it).
Not a big fan of high costed eggs: Mechano-Egg on average is better and it's seen little play due to just Kangor's Endless Army shenanigans. Really dependent on how good the Dragon pool is (which should be at least decent), but yeah, for me it's just a meme neutral epic.
Yeah this is a bad card: if your opponent can't deal 6 damage on turn 6 it means that you're already quite far ahead and, at the moment, Shaman can do pretty nasty things with 6 mana.
This is more of a fun card than a strong one in my opinion.
To be fair there are quite a few cards that could be nerf worthy in this set: I guess I won't dust anything before DoD will rotate to Wild lol
Man I already see Heart of Vir'naal shenanigans with Cumulo-Maximus... Yeah it kinda sucks
Edit: I just read a really well written post above mine and I have to say that I may have made a mistake while evaluating this card. It's better to just see the other Shaman's cards I guess
Fair point, but I guess they couldn't make it more obvious.
Maybe the flavor text may give us another hint.
Well this is a JoJo reference if I ever saw one
Oh yeah this is really good. I don't know if it's just the hype, but it might even be one go the best cards of the set.
3 mana AoE for Priest is something the class has asked for a long time: this might even be better than Spirit Lash, which to be fair had a different role than just clearing the board, but was still used as a little AoE.
Basically this is Volcanic Potion with an upside that makes it strictly better.
The most important thing though is that now we know for sure that Priest's Legendary Dragon will be from the Infinite Dagonflight
Aye aye cap'n!
Every Evil class will have three Legendaries, since the 5 Galakronds are going to be given for free
Control must be creaming his pants right now
You got it man
It should be part of the Black Dragonflight, so yeah that's why
Well my first impression was "heh, not bad but not that good either".
Always me, after realizing how big the average dragon is and the tempo swing it provides: "oh shiet that's good goood"
To be fair, this card isn't as flashy as Zephrys the Great and Kazakus are, but it's still pretty damn good. Must craft together with Kronx Dragonhoof and possibly Waxadred.
Well, I used to play some Miracle Priest in order to abuse Dragon Soul, and Northshire Cleric + Wild Pyromancer + Circle of Healing was as broken as it is now.
Since I was writing that post while being a little busy, I forgot to include the Flamewaker point that you were clever enough to highlight.
Anyways, I still think that this card will be a 5/5 for funny shenanigans, but a 2/5 for the constructed environment.
"That should make it a little worse than Shambler"
This statement was written because of the mana cost: given that Abyssal Summoner costs 6, you can't go turn 3 Mountain Giant into turn 4 Faceless Shambler but yeah, you're also right.
I’m not sold at all by this card. Remember that Priest got same exact effect but on a weapon (Dragon Soul), which is much more difficult to remove if you don’t run a specific tech option with Shadow Visions, Lyra the Sunshard and Radiant Elemental in the same rotation, but never saw competitive play.
therefore, I expect this card to see fringe experimentation but not much competitive play.
Now that I think about it, Abyssal Summoner can see some experimentation in Wild EvenLock, maybe instead of Faceless Shambler: consider that the summoned minion is a demon with taunt and it will be a between a 6/6 and a 8/8 on average.
That should make it a little worse than Shambler, but said demon will be brought back by Bloodreaver Gul'dan, which means a bigger board swing later (EvenLock doesn't run that many demons, so I guess it' should be worth it).
I wonder if there will be a neutral 1-drop Dragon worth to be included in most decks.
Cool card nonetheless; I think it will see decent amount of play.
Not a big fan of high costed eggs: Mechano-Egg on average is better and it's seen little play due to just Kangor's Endless Army shenanigans. Really dependent on how good the Dragon pool is (which should be at least decent), but yeah, for me it's just a meme neutral epic.
I'm seriously impressed they didn't act like nothing happened
I almost forgot about that archetype lol