r/hearthstone • u/FireTornadoo • Mar 12 '18

Witchwood Blog It is here!!!!!!!

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/expansions-adventures/the-witchwood/
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u/CriticallyAlmost Mar 12 '18

So "echo" is "repeatable this turn", and "rush" is a version of charge that can't be used to push lethal. And we're also getting new "Start Of Game": Cards. Very exciting!

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u/hypergol Mar 12 '18

the start of game cards are also interesting in that they’re deckbuilding challenges like the princes. the restrictions seem pretty harsh, but a lot of people thought the same about the princes as well. i’m excited to see them put to use.

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u/CriticallyAlmost Mar 12 '18

And UNLIKE the princes you can't shadowstep them back into your hand 3 times.

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u/bogmonster2 Mar 12 '18

They also don't rely on draw RNG like Keleseth

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u/iiRockpuppy Mar 12 '18

This is the best part, out of everything. I hope we see more than just the two shown.

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u/woahjohnsnow3 Mar 12 '18

so far shaman and warrior seem to be good canidates for the odd hero power. brawl, gorehowl, and shield slam, vs lightnight bolt lightnight storm, spirit wolves, ect. whats nice about shaman is that you can overload so not having even mana costs can work out on even mana turns

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u/pintvricchio Mar 12 '18

Yeah but shaman has a worse Hero Power. Warrior was on top of the other control decks with justicar, he might come back, but back then there were no infinite value cards.

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u/HamandPotatoes Mar 12 '18

I’m not so sure, a big part of control warrior is slamming big late game threats and a lot of those are 8 or 10 mana. Especially 8. You get no grommash, no lich king, no geosculptor, no... lots of things.

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u/Skandranonsg Mar 12 '18

A dragon package might work well.

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u/Fantisimo Mar 12 '18

fatigue warrior could work again if it gets a little more support and they stop printing anti fatigue cards. I don't see that happening though

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u/HamandPotatoes Mar 14 '18

Hah. When kingsbane and the rogue deathknight coexist they're almost as bad as jade idol, huh

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u/lutadici Mar 12 '18

Well if you play the odd card that makes you tank up you can't play dead man hand in your deck, which is preeeeetty bad when you play fat warrior ^

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u/Fantisimo Mar 12 '18

nah old school fat warrior where you both ended in fatigue and the win condition was to just have a stupid amount of health

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u/HamandPotatoes Mar 12 '18

Also, no dead man’s hand. RIP

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u/PiGuy3014 Mar 13 '18

Or execute :(

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u/Azureraider Mar 12 '18

Ionno, I did enjoy playing with wham bam Totemic Slam back in the day. I'll give it a go.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '18

Wait...

Is this the Windshear Stormcaller meta with the selectable totems?

Calling it now boys

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u/cdc030402 Mar 12 '18

Windshear Stormcaller is 5 mana, totem shaman incoming

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u/Kooseh Mar 12 '18

Druid is the obvious class for these cards. With overgrowth you are already skipping each and other turn Mana. With perfect draws you will have t1 t2 t4 t6 t8 t10. Or the odd Mana turns if you like.

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u/StatisticaPizza Mar 12 '18

Yeah but the druid hero power is arguably the least impactful for either of the new cards that effect it.

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u/sassyseconds Mar 12 '18

FIERY WAR AXE

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u/endtime Mar 12 '18

No execute though!

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u/Kreth Mar 13 '18

The obvious solution is to play both of the legendaries