Prophet Velen
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Double the damage and healing of your spells and Hero Power.
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He's been exiled from his home, and all his brothers turned evil, but otherwise he doesn't have a lot to complain about.
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Double the damage and healing of your spells and Hero Power.
He's been exiled from his home, and all his brothers turned evil, but otherwise he doesn't have a lot to complain about.
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welcome back to being the best 7 mana 7/7 Velen! :D
Only if BGH gets nerfed, else he's unplayable still. :(
Not anymore :( Now there's such a thing as Flamewreathed Faceless
It may be a powerful 4 mana 7/7, but it isn't the best 7 mana 7/7!
REMASTERED SINCE 26.10.2016
Ever since I liked to play Priest, i has been desiring to have Prophet Velen in my Collection. He has some really powerful potential, cause he have so many synergies and combos in Priest Decks. Let's start with Stats: He's basically thankfully gone from standard Dr. Balanced, but with no bots. But Velen's "bots" are the Ace of spades in your hand. You drop Dr. Boom, other typical legendaries to rise pressure for your opponent. You drop Dr. Velen to finish the game with insane burst like 1-2x Pyroblast(For those who didnt get it, i call Pyroblast a doubled with Velen's effect Mind Blast, as they do the same amount of damage to enemy face.) in your opponent. [card]Emperoso Thaurissan gives you opportunity to Drop 7/7 creature and deal 10-n amount of damage for 8-10 mana with 1-n cards discounted. If you compare other combo decks like Malygos ones, You need a lot more cards to do OTK, but most likely these cards won't be drawn in time, and you will just die. Except maly druid, who uses Maly as an alternative win condition. You still can use Prophet Velen[card] instead/with [card]Malygos or Alexstrasza with a lot of combopieces to make full OTK attack, with maybe little setup. But why would you, if you can just finsih off your opponent with 10+ damage during fighting it with another type of deck. I personally play Dragon-Velenpriest. It allos me to stale for late game, and then try to kill my opponent with minions, or comboes. Alex here is great, as she is a dragon and her effect is for combo preparation. If other decks manage to kill enemies with like none of combos, why cant you? Pyroblast used to be cosidered a great finisher, but for the same mana you can deal 2x damage, if Emperor lays correctly.
What is more, you can use him with Malygos, Bloodmage Thalnos, Malygos, Emperor Thaurissan and Barnes, so this little guy may either pull a discount for your hand, +5 SPD, or Mini-Velen himself. Try to guess what you can do with 4 mana with an effect of one of those cards... And you still have the full copies, if your mini-puppet dies.
If leave the OTK theme of Prophet Velen, he has some other synergies. After Justicar Trueheart, you can heal 8hp with your hero power. Missing good old Ancient healbot? No problem, here you can use several cards tu get him into your hero power. Or use Ragnaros the Firelord's attack which can be targeted, if you somehow manage to use Auchenai Soulpriest or Embrace the darkness while Velen is on board. Prophet Velen is that kind of cards that has to be removed ASAP, otherwse you will have a great advantage and make enormous value out of our cards.
When you drop Prophet Velen with some purpose you want him to use for, he gives you more value. Let's count the famous COmbo: 10 damage spell equals to 6 mana cost, if you use 1mana=1.5dmg formula, which most of spells have, except Pyroboom. With just Velen for 9 mana you can drop 7/7 minion and throw 10 damage, which equals to 7+6 = 13 mana. With lil' help from Emperor Thaurissan you can add +6 value to t and it will be 7+6+6=19 mana value. Malygos- Druid may deal more, but it's another class, and we are talking about using Velen.
In some weird cause scenario, if you are in deep late game, maybe met a control deck somehow, you may just drop him as a 7/7. Then you will be able to heal him or yourself, and let him trade with most of enemy stuff. A it's said, you still can use a gun as a just a heavy stick, if you dont have bullets to shoot.
So, to sum up, I want to say that Prophet Velen is not underpowered, he's just underrated and kinda slow. He is both a pressure card and win condition, considering how you are gonna use him. Once i got him from a pack, has been playing for a while and I surely state that i won't disenchant him. He might be used in future as well.
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The Expert Set:
Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight
Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus | Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream
The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:
Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth
Other Sets:
| Kel'Thuzad | Arch-Thief Rafaam |
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pyroblast is a mage card....LOL
lol ragnaros's hero power can't actually be targeted
I disagree that he's underwhelmed, he sees descent play and with good reason considering he's got great combo potential and could be a win factor if the enemy can't remove him. With soulpriest he can deal 10 damage on flash of light 6 on naaru, Justicar passive at 8 damage, he doubles spellpower, so a mind blast with malygos and him would be 20 damage and soulpriest effects on healing make it benefit from spell power too. So ya if you're looking for viable make a more rounded combo deck with malygos soulpriests maybe zombie chos and other spell power minions.
Maybe if only this was a 6/8 body at 7 mana... 7/7/7 is simply just not viable these days with BGH around. We already have Dr. Balance.
Comparing with his peers from other classes, which were introduced as Classic Expert Legendaries (right from the start of Hearthstone), Prophet Velen is undoubtedly far more underwhelming for the many past metas.
Tirion Fordring
Grommash Hellscream
Archmage Antonidas
Lord Jaraxxus
King Krush (depends, but still good for finishing the game)
Other than Al'Akir the Windlord, Cenarius and Edwin VanCleef (compared to the other 5, but still see some plays), the above 4/5 other legendaries still see a huge amount of plays these days.
It is really sad to see that this card can only remain in the collections, or easily turns into dust.
King Krush
Hahahahahahahahaha
How does he interact with spell damage anyway? Does he double the extra spell damage too, or does it depend on which card was played first?
This is how you win a tavern brawl!
Ah, hello there.
I so want to use one. If you make a deck filled with spells (not 100% but maybe 15 spells) would Velen be any good?
I want to make a viable deck with him so badly
Just got this from my tavern brawl pack. So happy but not what I wanted (Jarraxus, Al'akir or Malygos)
he is bad because you have to wait one turn and have a very specific hand to make good use of him . In the meantime, Dr. Balanced drops at 7 and destroys the enemy's board all by himself.