Like many players, I was excited when Battleground was announced. However, my initial excitement was dampen when seeing the selection of heroes. Where are the iconic 9 starting heroes we are familiar with? I am intending to rectify that situation.
Things to keep in mind:
Each heroes will have multiple hero powers with the intend to represent different aspect of the class.
The Hero Power reference BASIC and CLASSIC Set only. This is because I think these are the cards that represent these heroes best. It wouldn't be Ragnaros if he doesn't deal 8 damage randomly.
Each hero will each get at least one "generic" hero power - that is, Hero Power that mainly offer board advantage and one "utility" Hero Power - a hero power help them in the game in a unique way. However, be warn that sometime the category can have some overlap.
Let's begin. Each heroes are sorted alphabetically by the name of their class:
Malfurion:
Savage Roar and Mark of the Wild are "generic" Hero Power of Malfurion. They benefit different board state and strategy for him: One allow him to go wide with high attack minions to win the early game or possibly go for low attack high health minions and then buff them up, while the second one create big beatstick to protect your valuable targets.
Wild Growth is the "utility" Hero Power for Malfurion. It allows you to be very creative with your Gold curve and create interesting break points. Fall off pretty hard in the late game just like Wild Growth.
Rexxar
Animal Companion is the "generic" Hero Power for Rexxar. Pigeonhole you into a Beast build, so Misha was chosen to give it some utility over the Curator's Hero Power
Steady Shot is the "utility" Hero Power for Rexxar. Get extremely aggressive in the mid and early game to smorc down the enemy. Good for punishing late game oriented heroes like AFK or Lich Baz'hial
Jaina Proudmore
Ice Lance is the "generic" Hero Power of Jaina. Most similar (but significantly better) than Pyramad given that the Freezing only take 0 Coin. Of course, you have to have some strategic think on which minion you really want the Health buff to land on.
Blizzard is the "utility" Hero Power of Jaina. A better version of Nefarian's Hero Power at double the cost.
Uther:
Blessing of Kings is the "generic" Hero Power of Uther. Suitable for a mid-range playstyle
Lay on Hands is the "utility" Hero Power. Heal you up, Discover a minion of your choice depend on your Tavern Tier
Anduin:
Inner Fire is the "generic" Hero Power for Anduin. This allow for strategies that value high health low attack minions to thrive.
Radiance is the "utility" Hero Power for Anduin. Allow you for more durability during the mid and late game when you're near death
Valeera
Edwin's Assisstance and Conceal iare the "Generic" Hero Power for Valeera. It allows her to have an interesting playstyle of keeping control of her board space and which minions considered to be disposable to activate the Hero Power. Conceal help protect your squish minions and allow you not to draft as many Taunt and protect them from minions like the Zapp Slywix since Stealth will prevent him from choosing them as a attack targets.
Shadowstep is the "utility" Hero Power for Valeera. Allows her to easily get a double / triple minions and combine them together.
Thrall:
Lightning Storm is the "generic" Hero Power for Thrall. Similar to Nefarian, this allow him to ping off Divine Shield and remove those pesky small minions (like that dangerous Khadgar) all while dealing some serious face damage. In exchange, this will Overload Thrall for 1 going in the Tavern.
Ancestral Spirit is the "utility" Hero Power for Thrall. Allow Deathrattle, Poisonous or just generic big upgraded minions to resummon themselves.
Gul'dan:
Corruption is the "generic" Hero Power for Gul'dan. This force your opponent to buy weak / understat unit unless they want to be sniped off by your Hero Power.
Sense Demons is the "utility" Hero Power for Gul'dan. This ensure you will have Demon synergy right off the bat.
Garrosh
Inner Rage is the "generic" Hero Power for Garrosh. A 0 mana version of Putricide's Hero Power in exchange for the minion to take damage.
Brawl is the "utility" Hero Power for Garrosh. This allow him to reduce significantly the damage taken if he lost the combat round.
Better theme wise and isn't too OP compared to Pyramad
Steady Shot
I am not sure about this one (Could be too useless or too strong)
Blessing of Kings
Being able to consistently give a minion +4/+4 is very strong, especially when compared with the same cost for Jaraxus (even though Jaraxus is pretty underpowered, this seem too strong +3/+3 is better)
Sell two cats for +4/+4. Very powerful because you can get strong units like Nightmare Amalgam early game and it become 10/12 in late game without any other buff because it keep +4/+4 when it become golden
At 3 gold, it is still OP late game because it is a consistent +6/+6 (10 + 2 gold when you sell two)
Should cost 4 gold
Conceal
Should use same wording as Lich King
Shadowstep
I think you are thinking about it adding a copy to hand?
The card is good even if it simply return to hand and remove from field because it will give you a space to sell and do other things
Ancestral Spirit
This is balanced
Inner Rage
Again, the buff is kept on golden so this is really strong
Brawl
Late game it would still be like 8-10 damages so this isn't really that goodT
TLDR: Shadowstep, Ancestral Spirit are the balanced and interesting one.
Moonfire (Passive): At the start of combat, Deal 1 damage to an enemy minion with the highest health. (To remove divine shield)
Kill Command (2 Gold): At the start of next combat, Deal 3 damage for each beast you control to a random enemy minion (up to 21 damage to same monster)
Tracking (1 Gold): Discover a Tier 1 minion. Summon it. (Great early game but not much you can do with 3 "summoned T1" that take up board space)
Polymorph (6 Gold): At the start of next combat, transform the left-most enemy minion into a 1/1 Sheep (Just disable a minion at the cost of a lot of gold where you could've spent to search for golden minions)
Blessing of Might (2 Gold): Give a minion +3 Attack. (Just to give some small guys a little boost. Attack isn't really good without health and this doesn't scale too fast)
Mind Control (4 Gold): At the start of next combat, take control of a random enemy minion until after damage calculation (You don't keep it and opponent doesn't lose it)
Sprint (7 Gold): Put all shop minion into your hand
Like many players, I was excited when Battleground was announced. However, my initial excitement was dampen when seeing the selection of heroes. Where are the iconic 9 starting heroes we are familiar with? I am intending to rectify that situation.
Things to keep in mind:
Let's begin. Each heroes are sorted alphabetically by the name of their class:
Malfurion:
Rexxar
Jaina Proudmore
Uther:
Anduin:
Valeera
Thrall:
Gul'dan:
Garrosh
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TLDR: Shadowstep, Ancestral Spirit are the balanced and interesting one.
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The freeze part of Blizzard seems broken.