New Card Revealed: Ticking Abomination
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5) profit!
5) Profit!
4) mana 7/7 of course
Deal 5 damage to all passengers on the hype train
So when i read "no more reveal until 24th" i fought - oh yea 24th will be a day i will see some nice bunch of cards... yea right, i didn't expect one card on 24th especially that kind of card.
Well, the downside for the +1/+1 seems quite radical.
Definitely a card to be played with other deathrattles that give you good content ( like eggs ). Great value in a spells filled deck, however it brings down N'Zoth.
Also interesting card if they add SWAP cards or different SWAP mechanics, and it's a very cute counter to sylvannas, mirror image, and so on.
The problem when combining this with eggs is that if the opponent can kill this and the egg in the same turn, the deathrattle will kill what came out of the egg.
This would be a great card if it had Taunt, but without Taunt it looks a lot like Hungry Dragon.
i bet they will say something like: "it wasnt intended to show especially this card as the first one, they didnt have an special order for releasing, but they are curious about the new cards coming up next" xD xD xD
in my opinion, worst card-release-start EVER in hearthstone so far, even the first few cards a few weeks ago where all shit (except for the hunter-hero) it was the only card to maintain the hype so far. this abomination, especially with the loooooong time inbetween the next new card (no new card so far) really kills the hype
still a bad marketing choice to show the bad card as first
I am so sad that Blizzard screwed up the beginning of the card reveals. I am still on the hype train but I can see other people are losing faith :(.
Deal 5 damage to your minions and kill your hype.
I was so excited for this expansion,got the pre-order, got 15k Amazon coins extra, so my hype after waiting 2 weeks and refreshing all the time would be killed by a mediocre card and a single reveal?I'm ok with the card being better for Arena and mediocre but why this card and not a card that would blow ou minds? I hope I can take my word back after we get some more
This actually blowing people's mind. In the negative way :D
And this is not close to mediocre, not even in Arena. Planting a nuke on your board is never good tempo, nor valuewise.
Valuewise the stats are not that of a big puller, the best you can make of it is a 4 mana 5|6. And this is the miraclous best you can make of it.
This card is never be tempowise good when you are having advantage on board. Making potent trade always cost the high risk of it being on low health, more easily to be killed by weapons, chargers and spells. But not trading with a 5|6 makes it's high HP a waste and you have to lose some of your benefit.
Like, imagine the best, that there's nothing on board, so no danger and you play this on turn 4. You know that this minion has to die before the end of turn 5, or you are losing all of it's advantage by not playing any creature. Like, you might be lucky and got a Cabalist tome or some draw spell to fill your turn, but it cannot be removal. Because actually removing the opposing creatures makes up so your opponent would play higher creatures, ones that overgrown 5|6 so you are only dealt like 10 face damage for 2-3 card and lost the board.
If the opponent has any creature on board which does no able to kill it and you play it, the optimal strategy is to play 1 more minion and go face. If you cannot spike it up you are locked to play more creature under 6 HP and making the bigger ones helpless too (like, a 6|2 Orge for 6?)
Mirror entity counter,great card?Nop,just another pack filler
Edit:Actually its hard to say about card until we see the whole set,but even then i am sure it won't see play.Flamestriking your minions to get +1\+1 over vanilla yeti is a terrible idea.
To be fair the term pack filler mostly comes out to vanilla minion with some really weird stat distribution. There could be some interesting minions that really could synergize with this card such as a minion that could switch abilities/deathrattles, purify, or a minion that silences a minion and then gives buffs depending on how many things were silenced. This easily could be more than just a pack filler especially since we still have more than a hundred cards to go.
I mean, it's just a card. There will be more. I feel bad for all the people who have structured their lives around this moment only to have their dreams crushed.
I did well not to get hyped at all, seeing all the disappointed people here.
Honestly it's a fine card, I don't think it's the worst they've done by far. But I can see how the choice to reveal this after all this time can be questioned.
Announcement Video: "We didn't like the UnGoro daily reveals because they kind of stopped the hype train. So here are 4 cards and you'll be seeing more on the 24th! SAVE THE DATE!!"
2 Weeks later: "Okay, TODAY we will reveal... 1 card. Let's actually do daily card reveals! How does that sound?! HYPE!"
At Blizzard HQ the day just started. I'm pretty sure that there will be more cards revealed "today" (in American time), which will probably be in the middle of the night for people in Europe. But who the f cares about Hearthstone EU, right? FeelsBadMan
Great Spiritsinger Umbra synergy, but other than that fuck you Blizzard, for making me wait patiently for 3 weeks and then showing me this.