This card alone is just okay. But I think it's 100% sure that we are about to get more freeze oriented cards, wich makes this card actually pretty good,
Compare this to water elemental, which is also a class card with elemental tag which has same total stats albeit water elemental has better distribution , you will see that this is 1 mana overcosted.
The more cards are revealed, the less I am interested in this expansion, the power level of this expansion is lower than TGT till now.
No it's correctly costed according to Blizzard's value system, Taunt is worth at least a mana on their scale and whether or not the statline distribution is better or worse is really a subjective decision since health scales with Taunt better than attack and attack doesn't scale very well with Freeze either. The card is pretty solid even when compared to something like Sludge Belcher, it'll probably see play fwiw.
The more cards they release with a statline like this, the more I want to start running Stampeding Kodo. Looking past it's effect the stat distribution isn't great. Looking at the effect we are going to need to see more freeze destruction from Shaman other than the new weapon or more freeze effects for Shaman.
Taking into account the theme, I would think we've got at least 2 or 3 more freeze effects to come otherwise you end up with a discardlock type situation where it looks awesome but there just aren't enough effective cards to make it work consistently
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This card alone is just okay. But I think it's 100% sure that we are about to get more freeze oriented cards, wich makes this card actually pretty good,
Frozen elemental shaman will be a very real thing. Ice Breaker, Frost Elemental, Frost Shock, and Glacial Shard. Not to mention what else might come out this expansion. I can't wait!
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Very bad stat distribution. But freeze is okay and taunt is okay. Freeze synergy might be enough to make it playable.
This plus Ice Breaker will be a nice combo for Shammy
Not super impressed with the card... still don't know what kinda deck freeze Shaman will be. That said, it will get played. 2 stars
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I'm sure the deathknight shaman hero transformation will involve freezing
Oh, nice Cabal Shadow Priest buff
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Gonna have to run more kodos.
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Pretty good tool in control Shaman. No, this does not make that weapon viable though.
5 mana cost really suck for this. Pretty much won't see any play.
So I decided to just post the same comment for every reveal. It will save time since it summarizes a majority of the feedback:
It isn't powercreep so the card and expansion are complete garbage.
Free to try and find a game, dealing cards for sorrow, cards for pain.
The more cards they release with a statline like this, the more I want to start running Stampeding Kodo. Looking past it's effect the stat distribution isn't great. Looking at the effect we are going to need to see more freeze destruction from Shaman other than the new weapon or more freeze effects for Shaman.
Taking into account the theme, I would think we've got at least 2 or 3 more freeze effects to come otherwise you end up with a discardlock type situation where it looks awesome but there just aren't enough effective cards to make it work consistently