Shaman Card Reveal: Earth Elemental
The long awaited Sylvanas Windrunner and Earth Elemental card reveal is here! These are the two cards that we reported hiding in our card database and we are glad to be able to finally show them off. What awesome decks will you be able to create now with our deckbuilder?
Originally posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)Is that thunder in the distance? No, wait; it’s our latest Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft card reveal! The stalwart Earth Elemental rumbles onto the playing field in all of his boulderrific glory.
He really rocks. No, seriously.
The Earth Elemental is truly a gem amongst lesser, squishier cards, boasting a rock-solid 7 Attack and 8 Health for a meager 5 Mana. His Taunt power will protect your meaty, squishy Hero from even the toughest of blows. How do we balance the massive density of this minion, his incredible “stalag-might?” The Overload keyword stipulates that you have less Mana to spend on your next turn. So if you play the Earth Elemental on turn five, you’ll only have 3 Mana to spend on turn 6. Don’t take this bruiser for granite!
I could do this all day.
If an Earth Elemental dies, is that considered a proper burial?The Overload penalty is only incurred when you play the Earth Elemental from your hand, so try combining Ancestral Spirit with His Royal Rockiness to side-step his drawback. A rolling stone gathers no moss, but this stony guardian will gather a headcount as he crushes the competition beneath him. With this combination, you might win by a landslide!
Seriously. All day.
Shamans have an incredible amount of power at their disposal, so you’ll find yourself flinging around bolts of lightning or summoning powerful elementals to do your bidding.
Oh, you’re still here? Since you were so kind to tolerate my pile o’ puns, I’ll leave you with one last thing.
It’s been quite the rocky road for the Banshee Queen.Sylvanas Windrunner, the Banshee Queen. Sylvanas also works incredibly well with Ancestral Spirit because of her Deathrattle power. When Sylvanas dies, she steals a random minion from your opponent. Bring her back from death with Ancestral Spirit to do it again! Soon enough, all of your opponent’s minions will shout, “For the Forsaken!”
Rock on, Hearthlings!
Bornakk better be paying attention, because Zeriyah is fast becoming a favorite CM of mine.
I knew they would add SYLVANAS!!!! woot!
That being said, I would have rather her he a HERO!
They've already got a Horde Hunter, we would need the next one to be Alliance to balance it out! If Blizzard decides to even the faction representation, maybe we will see Alleria.
Lok'Tar Ogar!
...they could delete Rexxar and replace him with Sylvanas imo :p
Yes plz do that blizzard :D Rexxar is kind of old news and doesn't excite me as much as Sylvanas
Yeah, right, Earth Elemental, sure. More interested in the Sylvanas revamp tbh. Not sure what to make of it. 5 mana for 5/5 + random enemy minion? I'd feel better about it if you could choose the minion to subvert. It's not just the random minion, but you also have to wait for the Deathrattle, meaning the board might look completely different by the time it kicks in then when you play it. As it is this card is a bit too RNG for my tastes, I think.
Totally agree there is the low dmg and health for mana cost along with RNG factor of swap and the random nature of the board's change makes this a little weak. I hope it gets buffed in the future
As we know, our Dear lovely lady Sylvanas is a hunter. I wanna her in my deck not for sham...
Sylvanas Windrunner, luckily for us, isn't a Shaman exclusive card. She was simply a reward to the card reveal for those who decided to read the wall of text ;)