Clarifications
- The new hero power persists for the rest of the match due to it being a Battlecry effect. (Source)
- Only base hero powers will change. Modifying your Hero Power in any way won't let the Battlecry go off. (Source)
- Shamans can summon duplicate totems through their new hero power. (Source)
- Shamans can only summon their basic totems. (Source)
Hero Power Upgrades
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Thx for the info.
Right, that also includes priest in shadowform. I made a priest aggro deck and played Justicar when I was in shadowform to see if anything would happen but no luck. Only "starting hero power". Makes me think I should try READING the dang cards once in awhile.
Perfectly Balanced... RIP Dr. Boom
play this as a warrior against an oil rogue, and watch them quickly, if not immediatly run out of win conditions.
It turns warrior's hero power into a cardless counter to eviscerate. 3 hero powers counters 2 fireballs.
There are people, including streamers who do not put this card in their control warrior deck. The idea of not running this blows my mind.
Furthermore, if you are not already golden warrior, you can just craft golden version of justicar, spend $9.99 on magni skin, and you are golden hero power and golden hero.
Hearthstone Pay2Win confirmed.
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Lol on the Lord Jaraxxus comment!!! However, the last 2 times the "good" lord has been played on me I have beat him and yes, by the hair of my chinny, chin, chin!!! The hero power is already replaced with a better one and you don't get much better than that!!! Yep, I was stoked to win both times and don't expect it to be a common thing but the lord has enough power/control issues already, he may want to see a shrink about it. I think Warriors 4 armor is insane!
the main thing that disuades me from using this is the 3 health. maybe i am wrong but i would maybe want a 6/3 to ram into something as opposed to being something most aoe spells can kill. the upgraded hero power is nice but maybe charge would make it better or is that just too OP?
Charge would definitely be OP. This thing is a monster in the right decks as is.
The value you generate from the hero power is well worth it, but I still prefer to hold her for an empty board. As she can often bait removal or run into a Belcher. 6 atk is really nice!
while i do agree that an upgraded hero power is nice a simple bash can destroy this minion before it does anything else such as kill that belcher. though if it does survive it would be more than worth it.
It doesn't need to do anything else. If its body absorbs one of their cards, and you're left with a permanent advantage, it has worked out. It's not great against aggro, but is a huge advantage in control vs. control.
Being able to have duplicates of the same totem actually sounds pretty alright. Has anyone tried how it works in totem shaman?
For shaman it lets you put more than one totem down so you have have like 4x spell power totem
The completely changes how I see this card as well as the enhanced shaman's HP. Thanks!
I'm sitting on 1600 dust right now, wondering which TGT legendary I should craft. Justicar sounds like a strong candidate.
Justicar is probably the best legendary in this expansion. The rest are pretty situational, replaceable, or just bad.
The only options are Chillmaw, Justicar, Varian and Saraad. The rest is not good enough.
Between those, Justicar is the most versatile by far.
imo this is only worth if you play warrior or paladin (and maybe mage). the rest of classes' improved hero powers are either not good enough to play a 6/3 for 6 or instantly lose when they do that. there really is no neutral legendary in TGT that can fit into every deck like Dr. boom; Icehowl and Nexus-Champion Saraad are the only 2 that come close to not requiring to build a deck around them.
Sorry if this obvious but for people who don't know you can use your normal hero ability, play her, then use the improved ability on the same turn if you have the mana. It works well with control warrior if you have a slow turn
that would be 10 mana for you. Just play shield block instead.