Can't really judge this without seeing more cards, but it could be crazy if freeze is easy to come by, considering Shaman absolutely has the healing required to use a card like this.
With this expansion being Knights of the Frozen Throne and the card text reads "destroy any Frozen minion damaged by this" you know there will be a freeze spell or minion that enables freeze. Could even hint towards the shaman Hero Card as well. We shall see if this meta defining or not
Text should read, "hope you drew both Glacial Shards". I like the idea, but this seems very situational. Although, I can understand the hesitation in giving Shaman a good cheap weapon!
Well; this basically confirms that the Northrend expansion will have quite a bit of Freeze in it.
This was kind of already confirmed, since we learned that each class would be associated with one of the three Death Knight specs, which are Blood, Unholy, and Frost, so three of the classes are going to be focused around Freeze effects for the set.
As a side note, this looks like part of the reason that Blizzard made Hallazeal the Ascended and Jade Spirit Elementals, since this seems like they're really going to be pushing control for Shaman, and this is going to be absolutely fantastic with Glacial Shard ofc. It might be a bit out there, but I'm personally super hyped because there's a chance Deathrattle Shaman is going to be returning, since historically that's been one of the best control styles Shaman has had to work with, with Ancestral Spirit on Earth Elementals and all that.
I don't thin Shaman needs a another class card in order to use this, both Glacial Shard and Frost Elemental activate the card's hard removal and both of those minions support an Elemental deck. If you only play one copy of the weapon and they print one more neutral freeze minion (Ahun is probably a Shaman or neutral legendary elemental with a Battle Cry: Frost Nova effect) then I think there would be enough base activators for it. It'll still probably suck ass and be completely unnecessary, but if you really wanted to ...
Nice to see a decent weapon for Shaman, not outright overpower nor a smorc weapon neither.
You can use it to clear small annoying minions at earlier stages of the game with the 1 damage alone, eventually hitting big dudes alongside freeze effects.
I hope this expansion makes this weapon reliable but even with current card pool its a cool niche card.
Look at the picture with all the hero death knights. Most of them are in ice (frost). Some are blood like Gul'dan and Anduin I believe (red). And Rexxar is unholy (green). Frost is self explanatory. Blood I believe has to do something about health and its regen. And unholy about bringing the dead, hence the zombiebeast.
I'm pretty excited for this card. We can't properly judge it without knowing what support freeze shaman will have, but if either legendary freezes minions or there is significant freeze synergy, this card could be insane. I'm being cautiously optimistic.
Single target removal is a nice change of pace for Shaman. All they really have at the moment is Hex, right? If they get the freeze effects to back it up, this could see play. But if they're getting more freeze, you can argue that Doomsayer would be better. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
Well, if they made Maelstrom Portal what is insane compared with Arcane Explosion maybe shaman gets something like: 3 manas freeze all enemies (the hero too) and get a random 3 mana minion...
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Can't really judge this without seeing more cards, but it could be crazy if freeze is easy to come by, considering Shaman absolutely has the healing required to use a card like this.
With this expansion being Knights of the Frozen Throne and the card text reads "destroy any Frozen minion damaged by this" you know there will be a freeze spell or minion that enables freeze. Could even hint towards the shaman Hero Card as well. We shall see if this meta defining or not
Text should read, "hope you drew both Glacial Shards". I like the idea, but this seems very situational. Although, I can understand the hesitation in giving Shaman a good cheap weapon!
Actually, it is possible Shaman won't get any new freeze cards in this expansion. It can as well be setup for next expansion.
I think, there must be really crazy freeze mechanics for this card to play
I don't thin Shaman needs a another class card in order to use this, both Glacial Shard and Frost Elemental activate the card's hard removal and both of those minions support an Elemental deck. If you only play one copy of the weapon and they print one more neutral freeze minion (Ahun is probably a Shaman or neutral legendary elemental with a Battle Cry: Frost Nova effect) then I think there would be enough base activators for it. It'll still probably suck ass and be completely unnecessary, but if you really wanted to ...
Nice to see a decent weapon for Shaman, not outright overpower nor a smorc weapon neither.
You can use it to clear small annoying minions at earlier stages of the game with the 1 damage alone, eventually hitting big dudes alongside freeze effects.
I hope this expansion makes this weapon reliable but even with current card pool its a cool niche card.
Malkorok buff!
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Control shaman will find a place to play this thing. Freeze is a thing that some Control decks would like to run anyway.
Take a look at my card creations here in vojza's mini expansion topic.
Look at the picture with all the hero death knights. Most of them are in ice (frost). Some are blood like Gul'dan and Anduin I believe (red). And Rexxar is unholy (green). Frost is self explanatory. Blood I believe has to do something about health and its regen. And unholy about bringing the dead, hence the zombiebeast.
*trying to make a good ice breaker joke*
first we get Ticking abomination and now we get this...im little bit disappointed.
i really hope that blizzard shows some reasonable cards very soon.
Why does it say all? maybe leading to something else that means it will damage multiple targets?
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Wat the fack Iz dis?
So much hard removal so far! I wonder if every class gets some.
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I'm pretty excited for this card. We can't properly judge it without knowing what support freeze shaman will have, but if either legendary freezes minions or there is significant freeze synergy, this card could be insane. I'm being cautiously optimistic.
Wait, wait, wait...
A shaman card don't is undercosted, broken and will not be nerfed in the future.
How Blizzard expect shaman players use a card like this?
Single target removal is a nice change of pace for Shaman. All they really have at the moment is Hex, right? If they get the freeze effects to back it up, this could see play.
But if they're getting more freeze, you can argue that Doomsayer would be better. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
Well, if they made Maelstrom Portal what is insane compared with Arcane Explosion maybe shaman gets something like: 3 manas freeze all enemies (the hero too) and get a random 3 mana minion...