Yeah, the animation didn’t make much sense gameplay-wise – Big Spell Mage absolutely wouldn’t play Ignite.

Yeah, that’s how it should work. First spell swaps its cost with Balinda’s attack, second with health (or vice versa, however they code it).

Haha, this is one of those cards that would be insane in the right deck… but there is no right deck for it 😀 Hopefully the plan is to reveal more expensive spells, I liked the old Big Spell Mage deck a lot!

Not in this card, but Apotheosis gives it Lifesteal, and makes the Deathrattle damage heal you too. Stuff like Lifesteal or Poisonous works with Deathrattle damage too.

His point is that if you give the card Lifesteal through Apotheosis, it will heal for the damage done from Deathrattle. Against a bigger board, this + Apotheosis is going to be a full heal basically (unless Silenced / Transformed).

I’m not sure about Quest Warlock, you lose the ability to damage yourself with Hero Power. Might still be worth it, but you would need to add more self-damage cards instead.

Yeah, at first I thought that it might summon two copies of Drek’thar himself (two extra 4/4’s), but I realized that two minions from your deck would make more sense. The wording is clear once you know it, but yeah, it can be a bit confusing when you first read it (but it’s hard to make it both short, clear and understandable at the same time).

That’s aboslutely true. If you build your entire deck around Drek’thar, you still have a functioning (albeit a bit weaker) Aggro deck. But if you build your entire deck around Vanndar, then not drawing it can be a big deal.

Vanndar’s effect is much stronger in the vacuum (reducing the cost of multiple cards by 3 is MASSIVE), but it’s also much harder to pull off and decks that will play it would most likely rely on him heavily.

Third parties are still doing the revelas. It’s just that Blizzard has hidden who’s doing it this expansion because they wanted to protect them against “backlash” from the community given the current situation at the company (and let them back out even at the last minute if they want to without anyone knowing that they did).

It makes the reveal season much harder for us, but I guess that I understand where they’re coming from.

Did they actually say that? Because in one of his AMAs, Iksar was saying that they’d love to do some cross-promotions with other franchises. Of course this is not exactly a cross-promo because it doesn’t promote anything specific, but I’m actually happy that they’re going beyond “Warcraft universe” (just like they did with Diablo in Mercs/BG/Duels).

Inhiszton is correct – it summons two random minions from your deck. Yes, the wording is confusing, I was wondering the same at first.

Thank you for your kind words!

And no worries, I’m used to busy release times. But Blizzard has been pushing SO MUCH STUFF over the last ~2 years that it’s hard to keep up sometimes 😀

I would say that it will be an easy auto-include in every non-Aggro Druid deck 🙂

At the very top of the page:

“THIS POST IS CURRENTLY GETTING UPDATED WITH ALL THE INFO WE JUST GOT! IF YOU WANT TO SEE A FINAL VERSION, CHECK BACK SOON!”

We just had an expansion reveal, 10 card reveals and a big patch release, and I’m just one person 🙂

Not quite, but I was pretty close!

Really? I liked it…

We had some better HS trailer songs, but for me it’s definitely above average.

Shattered in Alterac Valley – that’s my prediction! It would fit both the war and frost theme. Would also fit nicely with the three Year of the Gryphon names. First it’s forged, then it’s united and finally, it’s shattered!

Okay, it made more sense in my head, but still 😀

It was $15 for 12x Saviors of Uldum Pack + 1x Golden Classic pack in total (technically you got 15 Uldum packs in total, but 3 of them were from the first free chapter, so you didn’t have to pay of them). So the value was actually okay – nothing impressive, but you also got yourself at least a few hours of PvE gameplay on top of packs. You had to beat the entire thing to get them, though, so I can imagine that some players bought it and haven’t finished it : )

IIRC, you could even buy it for Gold too, but it was a bit more expensive (2100 Gold in total as far as I remember).

Reading those articles made me want to try the old PvE content again, but when I have some free time to play HS I feel like spending it on some Mercs grinding would serve me better.

Okay, but that’s really not Blizzard’s fault. They give cards to reveal ahead of time so people can prepare articles etc. And if someone leaks it, it’s on the website doing it, not Blizzard.

I’m getting some info ahead of time from time to time too and if I would post it too early it would be on me, not on Blizzard for providing me with the info.

Sometimes Blizzard leaks stuff themselves, but this time it’s on Eurogamer Italy. If I had to guess, they were supposed to reveal it a week or two from now and they put in a wrong date.

Thanks, I’ll link it in the deck description here too!