New Shaman Card Reveal - Storm Chaser
A new Shaman card has been revealed by Poly.
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It still thins out the deck for combo, or nice control tool. Or get the spellstone for whoever runs that deck.
shudderwock buff boys, prepare your exasperated sighs
WOOHOO!
Should've been druid class card LOL
Yep if it costs “5 or 5” ;)
Hella yeah, Bloodlust bomb is back!
3 mana is a fair cost for a 3/4, 1 mana is a fair cost for drawing a card, and drawing a specific card is great, so Storm Chaser looks like a very good card. It's unfortunate that it's great for Shudderwock decks - a battlecry effect that draws AOE in the early game and won't overfill your hand or push you into fatigue when you drop Shudderwock is very powerful. You also get to do things like pull Eureka! for some consistent (probably Malygos) combo play.
It's also probably useful for the goofy Spellstone decks - not consistently drawing and powering up your Spellstone is a major part of why that deck is so ineffective. Combine consistently drawing Lesser Sapphire Spellstone early in the game with cards like the recently announced Thunderhead and you might be able to squeeze enough value out of playing overload cards to make that deck viable (albeit a low tier).
The only surprising thing to me is that this effect isn't in Mage. Seems like an obvious synergy for the Big Spell Mage archetype which gained no meaningful support in Witchwood.
Gnomish Inventor has a worse statline and has a plain draw as opposed to a tutor draw (tutor meaning a draw effect which targets a specific card or type of card), when tutor draws are usually more favourable than plain draws. Yet Gnomish Inventor does occasionally see play in meta combo decks which need massive amounts of draw to find the combo pieces. Other recent tutor draw minions at the 4-mana slot are Sandbinder and Witchwood Piper. These have both seen much more play than initial appraisals gave them credit for, and are both weaker in stats than Storm Chaser. Bright-Eyed Scout is a tutor draw minion with the same cost and same stats, however its tutor effect is hugely more inconsistent than Storm Chaser's.
Storm Chaser draws a 5+ cost spell for 4 mana. This means you play a not-horribly statted minion on curve on turn 4, whose draw effect much of the time will draw a card into which you can curve into perfectly (assuming that it would be appropriate to play that 5-cost spell on turn 5). This card would fit perfectly into control shaman running Volcano and would massively increase the consistency with which they can clear an aggro board on turn 5, which is typically roughly the turn by which you need to clear the board before the risk of them snowballing their board advantage becomes considerable. It's interesting that Storm Chaser would also fit perfectly into token shaman in which Storm Chaser would be guaranteed to draw the win condition, Bloodlust. This has the potential to be a very powerful option, if token shaman can find a way to fit Storm Chaser into the deck without sacrificing its early-game consistency.
As others have noted, Storm Chaser also seems to have in mind the potential of drawing Eureka!. The problem I see with this is that a deck running Eureka will most likely be running big value minions like The Lich King, Ysera, and Al'Akir the Windlord, and will be trying to run as few smaller minions as possible. This means that such a deck almost has to be a fairly heavy control deck, and control shaman really wants to be running Volcano, however doing this ruins the tutor draw for Eureka, and a control shaman intentionally dropping Volcano because of Eureka will typically struggle to succeed more than other control shamans.
Overall, Storm Chaser is at glance a very solid card which, despite not being flashy, may turn out to be very powerful in wildly different shaman variants.
Cards this thing can draw are Bloodlust, Volcano, Everyfin is Awesome and Lesser Sapphire Spellstone as of now. This raises one question from me, why was this card printed? Given that the legendary spell is also probably going to be 5+ mana, that makes it so there is 5 possible cards this thing can tutor for. This card is literally just going to be a two of in any token decks now just simply because of the fact it lets you get turn 5 Bloodlust. This card just baffles me of why it was made. It's a decent card though.
there is also Eureka! that was already revealed
Oh yeah, whoops. That could actually be pretty decent too using this card to tutor for either a Volcano to stabilize or a Eureka! to get ready to drop Malygos and win from burst. Thanks for catching that.
decent card
mecha'thun waiting room
Seems gut in Malygos shaman in Wild. You can get Volcano or Sapphire Spellstone
We are currently have very few spell cost 5 or more. So this is a hint for us that they are going to push Big Spell Shaman in the next expansionS. SeemsGood
Watch them buff Hex to 5 mana so you can draw it with this. kappa
4 Mana 3/4 Elemental
Battlecry: Draw a Volcano from your deck.
Great, Shudderwock Shaman has another useful tool to draw Volcano
Gah, will this be run in shudderwock to have consistent volcano?
Heimerdinger?