Update 8:17 AM EDT: Ben Brode has confirmed Prince Malchezaar is indeed start of the game.
New Cards Revealed - Protect the King (Warrior), Prince Malchezaar (Legendary)
Ben Brode has revealed two new cards over in Korea! They are Protect the King and Prince Malchezaar.
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This can happen to you even if you don't play him, it's stupid to say it's bad only because of its downside, it has a very big value.
It's not a good card with a single downside, it's a pretty bad card with a single upside.
Unless you are playing on a budget, any legendaries you actually want in your deck will already be in there. So his effect will almost always hurt you until you get to the point where you would have fatigued. At that point he starts gaining a lot of value, but unless you're in a control matchup you probably will never get there.
Mind me asking, if everything you want is already in your deck, why are you even discussing about putting there malchezzar?
I just assumed we are talking about putting it in optimized (i.e. competitive) decks. I think it's an awesome card for new players and just for fun players, because playing with random legendaries you don't own and couldn't craft yet really makes for a fun experience.
Malch isn't nearly as good as people are thinking.
Just think about what he actually gives you - 5 extra cards in your deck (ONLY good in mill/super heavy control) that could be great, but could be utter trash (there's certainly a lot of bad legendaries about). Kills your curve, slows down combo potential. Elise Starseeker is better.
That's why it will only be used in control Decks. Aka Warrior and Priest. May be in rogue. Ofc you are not going to see this in combo decks and aggro.
Even though I agree that the power level is comparable to Dr. Boom, meaning, it might end up in a lot of decks, as far as gameplay goes they are completely different. DR boom offered an insane ammount of stats for the mana cost and it was difficult to remove. Prince Malchezaar offers a normal body comparable to a neutral (=Pit Fighter) with 0 initiative, and a random effect that is sometimes good, sometimes bad. Not all legendaries are good, and you might not even draw them. So no, it's not even in the same Zip Code as Dr Boom.
Even if there's no effect, which i doubt, the opponent can hover over your deck and see that you have 5 more cards than him.
Your deck will become 35 cards total, so he would definitely be able to see that you have him. But as far as a special visual queue at the start at the game, we don't know yet. Maybe, maybe not.
Text should be really good to play 2 - 4 for 7
Sorry, but the rarity probably might be true. At start of the video, you also see 1 mana 2/2 Warlock legendary card which turned out to be Enchanted Raven.
Not trying to dis you post. Just sharing some info. :)
Not to mention the Warlock card color :)
Probably not.
One wing usually only has one legendary.
Prologue - Prince Melchezar
First - Moroes
Second - Barnes
Third - Curator
Last - definitelly not Romelo and Juliet.
These are 100% boss cards. If you look at the LoE trailer there were featured 2 cards which aren't playeble, one was a minion from Escape from the Mines bossfight adn one was Golden Monkey token.
It is already known that cards shown on trailer is always shown as legendary but it is not necessary legendary... look at the raven for e.g.
Exactly, which means you can't really trust any of the info of that part of the trailer :)
It would be weird to get 3 legendaries from one wing, but the set is supposed to have at least 5 to keep up with past sets, so its not entirely impossible.
I don't think they would have bothered with the art if they weren't actual cards. You can also see the Raven in the back also. So if the raven exists, the other 2 most probably also exist.
If you look even more closely, at all of the trailers that Blizzard has ever released for Hearthstone, the initial cards are always Legendary Warlock cards. Just so you know.
They are always purple in the videos. It doesn't mean anything.