New Card Reveal - Skeram Cultist
A new card has been revealed via the Chinese site Toutiao. Name has been confirmed to be Skeram Cultist via Zeriyah.
Card Clarifications
Quote from @PlayHearthstoneIf I play Steward of Darkshire and then play Twilight Drake, does it gains the divine shield bonus?
Yes, the Twilight Drake will get the Divine Shield and then its health gets buffed with the battlecry. (Source)Hey, just wondering how Steward of Darkshire will interact w/ Redemption? Will the minion summoned w/ 1 health gain shield?
It will only have Divine Shield if it originally had 1-health. Otherwise, it's considered damaged to 1-health & will not get it. (Source)
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can't wait for cthun
Well, at least most of these C'Thun-related minions have decent stats so that you don't feel like you're losing much, if any, tempo.
Nice to see they are clearing up rumours about Steward of Darkshire.
I realize that a lot of the C'Thunder creatures are kind of vanilla but an expensive Stat / cost minion seems way worse than the 2 as 3 drops.
Hand paladin confirmed
Stats seems fine and all Cthun buff cards are common or max (at this case) rare... So we will see a lot of f2p cthun decks
Is it the 3rd or the forth minion that gives C'thun +2/+2 ?
I really would like to see some new interactions with C'thun...
- Makes C'Thun's battlecry shoots 4 more missiles
- Triggers C'Thuns battlecry (wherever he is) this can even be a spell
- Reduce C'thuns cost by 1 as a battlecry
- Gets C'Thuns 3 places closer to the top of your deck (this have to be a legendary minion)
- Gives your opponent's C'Thuns -4/-4
Come on Blizz' don't tell me you are out of ideas already.
Don't get me wrong, I like this extension's concept of revisiting old cards, and I knew it would come someday I didn't thought it could be so early. This plus the fact that C'Thun's minions have (so far) only two effects makes my think that Blizz is running out of ideas (i hope I'm wrong).
Yeah, this is getting repetative. Also getting worrying that buffing C'Thun will be so easy that his Battlecry will just end up "win the game". You can already make him 24/24 with the same amount of random damage just by playing the 2x Beckoner of Evil, 2x C'Thun's Chosen, 2x Skeram Cultist and 2x Twilight Elder (assuming both Elders get killed off immediately after giving only +1/+1 each). Drop a C'Thun that size and you won't even NEED to attack- the Battlecry alone will kill everything.
don't feed C'Thun after the midnight
makes sence :D
So Steward of Darkshire interacts with stats as printed, not stats as played. Interesting.
If it was for all classes, there would be some really annoying handlocks. Twilight Drake, Faceless Shambler...
Hand-paladins incoming? Handadins?
Skeram Cultist is just bad. The stats are terrible, it doesn't have taut, and does nothing when it comes into play. The +2/+2 to your C'Thun is not even worth it at this point - there are other 6-drops that are way better and won't lose you the game straight up when you play them.
Sure, it's a good card to have for never players, but it will never see actual competitive play (definitely not as a 2-of). If you're running a Reno C'Thun deck then maybe you can afford playing a copy of it just because you don't have a lot of ways to buff your C'Thun, but the meta has to be incredibly slow to justify doing so. And even if BGH does get nerfed so this card doesn't die to it, there would still be no reason to ever run it since it still dies too easily to everything else.
How man BGHs do you plan on putting in your deck to counter all the minions where ppl said it has a weakness to BGH? 8?
It's not like someone runs 8 BGH targets. Also getting BGHed 1 time is enought to lose you the game because of the tempo loss. Thats why people run Dr. Boom anyway, because when he gets BGHed they still have to deal with the boom bots.
Noice.
Isnt Prophet Skeram an unique character in wow? Why is it not a legendary?:O
because it's just one of the cultists serving him, not the actual Prophet
Exactly what I was going to ask. A little bit disappointed, but hopefully there are some awesome legendaries to come.
a reverse Boulderfist Ogre Kappa...