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Lorewalker Cho ??? come on ^^ Give him some love!
My only gripe is that you need other cards to get the full benefit of this card. It's amazing with circle, but that's only when you can get both into your hand. I'll have to see it in action.
Time to have some fun.
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OTK Priest really gaining viability, I love this. Right now Priest is either control ResidentSleeper or Dragon BrokeBack
Great card even better than Auchenai Soulpriest. It's twice cheaper and does exactly the same thing. Auchenai is often only needed to combo with Circle of Healing and dies nexturn anyway.
This straight up terrifies me. What the absolute fuck.
Turn 6: Emperor Thaurissan
Turn 7: Prophet Velen + Embrace the Shadow + Flash Heal + Flash Heal + Light of the Naaru + Light of the Naaru = 32 Damage, Lethal
I want to see a video of that happening
Embrace me! I like seeing an expansion on the Auchenai Soulpriest mechanic, good if you just need the effect that turn, not the body. Or if you need some extra mana to play cards like Flash Heal or something.
This makes keeping your draw mechanics up even more important since this card invites you to play a couple of cheap cards the same turn you play it...maybe it can be used as a one of for that time when you dont draw your soulpriest of just a a surprise finisher...at 2 mana i do like it.
This is really good for priests. I hope it will be played.
I don`t get why it`s epic. The card by itself does nothing. Weird.
Faceless Manipulator is pretty awful when it's played on its own, yet it's an epic. The point of both cards is to play it with something.
Typically epics are cards that have very unique effects, such as Doomsayer, Faceless Manipulator, or Shadowform. These all are cards that can't really be replaced by anything else, and while this is very similar to Auchenai Soulpriest it is much more powerful because it can limit what an opponent does if they think you have it in hand. 2 mana less also means you can use wipes or use removal while still developing your board with a large threat. For example 2 mana -> Embrace the Shadow -> Circle of Healing -> 8 mana threat such as Forbidden Shaping or Ragnaros the Firelord.
I run an OTK priest deck where you do Prophet Velen, Auchenai Soulpriest, Mind Blast, and Flash Heal x2, all with a proc off of Emperor Thaurissan.
Now I don't need to spend 4 mana just for the Auchenai effect.
Kreygasm
Prophet Velen plus Embrace the Shadow plus Flash Healx2 plus Mind Blast with one discount of Emperor Thaurissan=30 damage
T2: Mind Blast
T3: Mind Blast
T4: 2x Zombie Chow
T5: Embrace the Shadow + Flash Heal + Hero Power + Kill the Zombie Chows
T6: Embrace the Shadow + Flash Heal + Earthen Ring Farseer
That is a a total of (this turn damage / total damage)
T3: Mind Blast
T4: 2x Zombie Chow
T5: Embrace the Shadow + Flash Heal + Hero Power + Kill the Zombie Chows
T6: Embrace the Shadow + Flash Heal + Earthen Ring Farseer
That is a a total of (this turn damage / total damage)
T2: 5/5
T3: 5/10
T4: 0/10
T5: 17/27
T6: 8/35
Well that's assuming you're playing against a target dummy. You will be in trouble against most opponents if you don't play any minions or apply any board pressure until turn 4, those zombie chows are going to get slaughtered real quick and used to heal the damage mind blast did. GG
T1: Zombie Chow + The Coin + Zombie Chow.
T2: Mind Blast. Both zombies go face for 4 (4+5=9 damage).
T3: Embrace the Shadow + Leper Gnome + Trade the Zombie Chows. (5+5+5=15 damage).
T4: Embrace the Shadow + Flash Heal + Flash Heal (5+5+2 damage from gnome = 12 damage).
Total 9+15+12 = 36 damage > 35 damage, in only 4 turns.......... using 1 more Leper Gnome, 1 less Earthen Ring Farseer and Mind Blast.