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New Warlock Spell - The Dark Portal
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A new Rare Warlock Spell, The Dark Portal, has been revealed!
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The elusive new Handlock support now that Giant got yeeted. I don't really see this being a thing. If you want to play it immediately the discount is negligable, so it makes most sense to play this as a set up for future turns, in which case I have to ask why we don't just play the minion striaght up.
Maybe there's some weird combo involving select minions and Plot Twist for consistency, but I have no idea what that would be (if you say Malygos I'll punch you in the face)
I tried having fun once.
It was awful.
Damn, I am not exactly sure why, but some of the cards in this expansion are just garbage straight away.
Some sort of Handlock without Giants and with the dude legendary that makes your handsize bigger? I am not conviced yet.
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ― George Bernard Shaw
EU Legend: S52 (ZooHeal Lock); S76 (Highlander Hunter);
... Malygos...
Besides the obvious Combo cough*Malygos*cough , there aren't that many Targets for this, at least in Standard. Maybe you just play a t5 Abyssal Summoner or get a cheap Zzeraku the Warped?
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Mountain Giant had to rotate for this?
Struggle with Heroic Galakrond's Awakening? I got your back :
Great addition to Handlock. Could also be used as tutor in a spell-heavy deck, e.g., to find Malygos.
I still foresee Galakrond Control Warrior to be a thing, and this could help
A Win-more card, but it seems too weak if you ask me. Warlock has plenty of draw and it already has the Quest to reduce card cost.
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.
This card is just bad saw some gameplay, I am not impressed.
insane handlock card. handsdown this will allow handlock to be even more deadlier considering getting discounted cards while cycling deck.
This is an handlock card and to combo with something like Malygos...but for me in standard Handlock will be weak because of last Hall of Fame
Might see play in some kind of handlock deck, but those decks have been gutted with the premature death of our good friend Mountain Giant. Maybe in Even Warlock in wild?
Fourth turn most hand-synergies may come into play, so this may help you start bigger.
Major combo potential. Interesting addition.
Exactly where I want to try the card.
It's...okay, I guess. Tutoring a minion isn't the worst thing. I just don't see it being run in a deck I care about, so...yeah. *shrugs*
This card seems real slow for Warlock, handlock especially
Discounting combo pieces is something warlock typically does semi often - mecha'thun and any of the many thaurissan combos come to mind - but this seems unreliable in a class where your combo pieces are often weird and discounts need to go on your final win cards rather than your discount-ers. Unreliable, expensive and probably not combo-able.
This post is discussing the wild format.
Might work in Plot Twist warlock if you can open a slot for this but the real question is, do you really want to open a slot for this ?
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Big Warlock? Or another combo enabler. Will see some experimentation, and surely find a home.
A nice card for handlocks. This could be the Demon cheating tool warlocks have been missing since Possessed Lackey got nerfed. I am glad Mountain Giant got sent to the Hall of Fame so that we can have cool cards like this.
Carrion, my wayward grub.
Doesn’t look that great really, it’s not that hard to get the effect off, but the effect doesn’t really help much (since you spent so much on the card draw in the first place)
Who needs consistency when you could have fun?
Easy to trigger its effect in control Warlock, so it may be a very strong card in the right deck.
Malygos would be a great draw from this, as some folks said, but I don't think you want to build your deck around that. Too inconsistent. And this from a guy who tried to Jepetto his Malygos for Druid combo decks until I cried.
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Considering (1) spent for sheer draw, you spend (3) to discount (5), the neat mana cheat is (2), which is not bad at all.
You basically waste some Tempo to gain it back with interests later, or even in the same turn (which is the basic philosophy of Hand-decks).
And I think that is the best usage of this card, not really for Combo purposes.