We've got two new Warlock cards revealed on Douyu - Shadowborn and Shadow Waltz!
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Shadowborn is very strong, but also very awkward with Tamsin Roame. Because if it does hit something like Dragged Below, you'd be cursing the screen. But as usual, mana cheats like these cannot truly be written off, whatever the scenario.
In standard, there's like a few good shadow spells you want discounted; Impending Catastrophe, Abyssal Wave, Tamsin's Phylactery, Soul Rend etc. But in my opinion there's a chance this is simply redundant, because with impending catastrophe fulfilling the crucial draw factor, you're better off just playing Runed Mithril Rod, suffer a turn 5 do nothing for a more amazing end game.
Shadow Waltz is just a mediocre card that I assume was only designed to make shadowborn look good. But in essence, the real question is why bother playing this when midrange warlock hasn't been a thing in standard since evenlock ages ago. You're better off just clearing with the multitude of AoE warlock has.
I agree that Shadow Waltz wouldn't go into a control warlock: you either go for a board-based strategy or for a board-clearing strategy; mixing them just gives you anti-synergy.
Maybe it would be useful as reload for zoo, but the risk there is that you need it to either be discounted or played after a sacrifice to be good, so if your board just got cleared by an AoE and you either don't run Shadowborn or didn't draw it yet, you're not going to reload fast enough.
Regarding Shadowborn in zoo: the only other Shadow spell I see worth running in zoo would be Impending Catastrophy, but that's a card that you want to play before your board gets wiped, while Shadowborn needs to die to get the discount, so it seems like an awkward combination.
Edit: With Lady Darkvein, it seems they are pushing for Shadow spells in zoo. I think it would need more support than the already revealed cards though.
Guess you have to give 3 stars to a 3 mana 3/3 that reduces the cost of a shadow spell by 3. Gotta keep that consistency
I agree with 3.
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