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Heavy Shaman INCOMING!!!!

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This card is INSANE! Feral spirit turn 3 for 2 mana turn 4 you can lava shock and follow up with another totem or 2 drop. This also makes lightning storm turns less of a draw back. Unbound Elemental decks will likely return in overload / burn decks.

Aside form spell power decks, the best thing this opens up is causing heavy overload cost abilities such as Earth Elemental to be playable with being BACK BREAKING from bgh and neptulon lets you get tempo back and spam the board with murlocs. Lava burst got much better too

Shaman finally have tempo back, However I bet this will pigeon hole shaman into dragon spell damage decks with azure drakes and thalnos for the new meta. Maybe malygos burn will be bomb now

Really sweet card. It either gets a must have for all Shamans or only works properly with Neptulon and Earth Elemental to recover one mana. Otherwise it's just deal 2 damage and have the same amount of mana as with overload.

Suddenly Neptulon and Earth Elemental become  more playable.

This just changed the game for Shamman. Love it!

All hail new mechanics!

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I'm no hater but so far the Blackrock cards have been ResidentSleeper.

what does resident sleeper mean?  I tried looking it up.

I see potential in this one. Something tells me that Warriors are going to benefit more from this adventure, but after this card i can see Shaman being the second in this advantage list. Anyway, the text card don't exactly say when you can unlock your mana crystals, in the turn you play the overload or on the turn you are overloaded, but this last scenario is the right interpretation. 

Edit: Better yet, both options are correct! By turn 10 you can unleash your overload and have the full mana again on the next turn!

I dont know if this card will see a lot of play.  The two mana slot usually has more mandatory cards such as flametounge, crackle, and creeper.  I also do not see shamans running that many overload spells.  Maybe around 4 overload cards in a deck is the average.  I am sure people will experiment with this.  This is not really an early game spell since you are overloaded with feral spirits, or lightning storm and can not pay the two mana unless you are in T4+. 

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Suddenly Neptulon and Earth Elemental become  more playable.

Earth Elemental is as terrible as it was before. It's lack of play had nothing to do with it's overload. It's simply to easily removed in the current meta.

Neptulon is okay, and sees plays. But all you're getting back, with Lava Shock, is one mana. That could be a big deal with some Murlocs, but most often not.

youre not getting 1 mana youre getting your 3 mana back. if you play neptulon at turn 7 then in turn 8 you only have 5 mana crystals cause 3 are locked. but if you play this new card you get 2 damage or maybe 3 if you have spellpower and all your remaining 6 mana to play an elemental for example. i believe this card is huge for shaman, in all stages of the game

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I am very interested in this card...  perhaps replaces lightning bolt in this deck?  A little risky against aggro, but the upside is huge.

Gosh leave your advertising at home please...

OT I'm sure this will help shaman get away with some of the problems that Overload does.

lol, I'm just laughing at this graphic of a dwarf getting owned in the chest by a huge lava ray.

Lava Shock

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I have a question maybe for the deck architects:

Is this a staple in all shaman decks or only the heavy overload ones?

i think its a staple to midrange shaman or any kind of shaman except mech shaman which dont really user overload cards that much

Very good but why Blizzard is taking the Weaknesses of all class? In GVG gave healing totem and now this? What will be next? better draw mechanic for priest and hard removal for druid ? there will come a time when no class will have weaknesses,that's right?.Anyway and again,very good card.

OH MY ...... LORD ! You think Innervate is a good card ? Well think again ..... This card is just GREAT , shaman finally got a way to work with their overload <3 .

ga..ga..gaaame chaaanger!