This is not as strong as people think. Currently a lot of players run Azure drake, and few competitive dragon decks around.
Still a clear priest needs and better than excavate as most minions will die and don't require combo to clear.
unlike lightbomb this probably gets 1 copy included on all control priest decks. If meta is dragon heavy this card is almost useless though.
That is good to have a check on Priest decks. You definitely don't want a definite strong Priest card that could clear everything like Lightbomb, Blizzard did have a careful check on this class design.
A balanced good class should be good 60-70% of the time, but still meet difficulty with the other 30-40% match-ups. This is why MR Shaman is unbalanced, because it is always good 80-90% of the time.
With Dragonfire Potion and other new cards, Priest will at least be safe from Aggro decks from now on.
This card is insane...it doesn't need to be played in dragon priest to be good ...it could be played in control priest and it would argubaly be even better!!
My favorite class has been Priest since before Naxxramas came out. This card is so overpowered it's insane. I'm happy blizzard understands Priest have been getting garbage for the past year but This is overboard. Last year Priest got excavated evil which cost 1 mana less and dealt 2 less damage to the board. Also it hit everything dragon or not. This is so much better than excavated evil that I'm wondering what where they thinking. On top of that they basically made Shadow word horror (which was pretty much useless) another overpowered board clear on a similar level to equality concentrate. This is like having a rat problem then you introduce a bunch of snakes to get rid of the rats. Sure the rats are gone but now you have a snake problem.
yes only dragon priest will run this card, since when this card comes out, and you play a different priest, this card is countered hard when you play against a dragon priest :P
anyway this card is great, good lightbomb replacement. i forsee elise or something being played in dragon priest, so that this card isn't useless in the mirror (which we will see alot of).
on a side note, priest still countered hard by azure drake LOL
Sry but there will not be mid -shaman or anything like we see now. The meta will shift to control. People will have to change the decks accordingly.
And everybody will play priest of course.
You do realize that mid range decks usually have a leg up on control right? Mid-Shaman just happens to be aggro leaning right now, but with powerful tools like 4 mana 7/7, hex, thunderbluff, and thing from below, mid Shaman will most certainly be around in some form.
Sry but there will not be mid -shaman or anything like we see now. The meta will shift to control. People will have to change the decks accordingly.
And everybody will play priest of course.
You do realize that mid range decks usually have a leg up on control right? Mid-Shaman just happens to be aggro leaning right now, but with powerful tools like 4 mana 7/7, hex, thunderbluff, and thing from below, mid Shaman will most certainly be around in some form.
agreed, midrange shaman won't go away, it will just be more manageable cuz it gains some counters and once rotation happens it loses some of the more op cards.
If there are supposed to be more Dragons (or Drakonids, I guess) then there's a chance there'should more support for Dragon decks to be in a lot of classes, which would make the meta more dragon heavy, which may render this a little more useless
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That is good to have a check on Priest decks. You definitely don't want a definite strong Priest card that could clear everything like Lightbomb, Blizzard did have a careful check on this class design.
A balanced good class should be good 60-70% of the time, but still meet difficulty with the other 30-40% match-ups. This is why MR Shaman is unbalanced, because it is always good 80-90% of the time.
With Dragonfire Potion and other new cards, Priest will at least be safe from Aggro decks from now on.
This card is being slightly overrated and will likely not be more than a one of....until BRM rotates out and it becomes meta defining!
Yeah, DragonPriest will be very strong metacrusher. Priest you'll continue to win
This card is insane...it doesn't need to be played in dragon priest to be good ...it could be played in control priest and it would argubaly be even better!!
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My favorite class has been Priest since before Naxxramas came out. This card is so overpowered it's insane. I'm happy blizzard understands Priest have been getting garbage for the past year but This is overboard. Last year Priest got excavated evil which cost 1 mana less and dealt 2 less damage to the board. Also it hit everything dragon or not. This is so much better than excavated evil that I'm wondering what where they thinking. On top of that they basically made Shadow word horror (which was pretty much useless) another overpowered board clear on a similar level to equality concentrate. This is like having a rat problem then you introduce a bunch of snakes to get rid of the rats. Sure the rats are gone but now you have a snake problem.
worse lightbomb.
Finally they made a viable priest AOE. Thank you Blizzard!
No love for arena priest :(
yes only dragon priest will run this card, since when this card comes out, and you play a different priest, this card is countered hard when you play against a dragon priest :P
anyway this card is great, good lightbomb replacement. i forsee elise or something being played in dragon priest, so that this card isn't useless in the mirror (which we will see alot of).
on a side note, priest still countered hard by azure drake LOL
Well, I think Azure Drake and Twilight Drake will see a lot of play when the new expansion released.
If only Priests had AOEs that actually put minions on the board
this is the card that could make Control Priest viable again.
It could be a huge board swing in Dragpn Priest too of course
Nice card for Priest but still weak to the most problematic card for the class - Azure Drake.
Good in Control Priest , flipping GREAT in Dragon Priest.
Really looking forward to trolling midrange shaman with dragon priest until next spring!
Sry but there will not be mid -shaman or anything like we see now. The meta will shift to control. People will have to change the decks accordingly.
And everybody will play priest of course.
If there are supposed to be more Dragons (or Drakonids, I guess) then there's a chance there'should more support for Dragon decks to be in a lot of classes, which would make the meta more dragon heavy, which may render this a little more useless
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