Death Knight Cards
Card Clarifications
- He has the same generating effect as his dog, Arfus.
- The Random Death Knight cards are not the Death Knight Heroes but rather a brand new set of specialized class cards.
- You can learn more about each of the Death Knight tokens available on our guide.
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Basic cards are supposed to be weak, Legendary cards are supposed to be powerful...
Pay (Or play for years) to Win bullshit... How is a newish player meant to compete with all of this? And while it's true, nowadays most sets have better Patriarchs, there are still no neutral cards that are strictly better (or almost strictly better) than Yeti, with the possible exception of Mechanical Yeti.
Difference is, Patriarch was never good and Yeti pretty great before GvG. The issue now is that a neutral card is better than a pretty decent class specific card!
Yes, I've been playing since Beta and I've hated any cards that are strictly worse than older ones. This one is especially bad, simply because it's strictly better than a CLASS card! Make it 9 mana or a 7/7, or buff Ironbark to an 8/9 or whatever, just don't make a neutral card strictly better than a very playable class card.
Still, your comparison is weak. Ironbark Protector is a base card that is free for everyone whereas The Lich King requires lots of luck to open or quite some time/money to get.
Wouldn't you want something more for 1600 dust than something you could also get for free?
K.
No, I'm not a fan of stuff like that. Having to pay (Or spend a lot of time playing and spending dust on it) to get a card that's just straight out better than another card is really shady, and can lead to some disgusting P2W practices. Fortunately for me, I've been playing since Beta, and I can get most commons and rares from each expansion, as well as a decent amount of Epics and Legendaries, but it still is really shitty when Blizzard admits the cards they made before are too bad to be worth using. The only argument that makes a tiny degree of sense to me is Legendaries can be better because you can only put 1 in a deck, but if two equally skilled players have a match and one of them wins because he has more blue or purple gems than the other, while the decks are functionally identical, that's shitty. I like The Lich King, it's a good card that rewards control and is interesting as well, but it completely takes the shine away from Ironbark Protector and that's a real shame. Pompous Thespian, Evil Heckler, Huge Toad and Gentle Megasaur are a few more cards which Blizzard released and made other cards redundant with it. Because buffing cards won't get them more money...
Well, you can run up to 2 Ironbark Protector in a Druid deck but you can only run 1 The Lich King, so of course the Lich King is going to be a bit better, since you can only have one.
But I agree with you, it sucks to have a "basic" set that kinda sucks, with the exception of some class cards and Ooze.
Honestly, i was expecting a much more impressive art for the Powerful Lich King....
Frostmourne still hungers I guess. Let's deliver some souls to it!
seems legit
i'd like to craft you in golden ;)
Long live for taunt warriors... :D
Not sure if im wrong or not, but i remember that Ragnaros the Firelord moved to Wild because it was the best 8-drop. If you needed an 8-drop, you put Rag in your deck, right?
Seems like The Lich King is the new Rag in this perspective...
Lich King is much more defensive than Rag.
Rag's end of turn kills a minion most of the times, or even delivers lethal.
The Lich King protects you and adds emergency cards to your hand.
Rag couldn't rotate out of Standard unless moved to Hall of Fame. Lich King will leave Standard in 2019.
Would've been waaaaaay better if you get a Death Knight card at the end of EACH TURN
The fact that it is an 8health taunt won't make him last so long on the board as Ysera bcs of 12health
Are you drunk my friend? :D
Ysera has 4+ health -4 atk and 1+ mana cost. Imo Lich King's effect is better than Yseras <3
you right but I want lich king to stay on the board during the whole game not just 1 or 2 turns :(((((( love him
what are you talking about? It IS Each turn. Look at Ysera .... same wording~