New Shaman Card Revealed: Ice Breaker
A new Shaman card has been revealed by Chinese streamer Autumn Day on Panda.tv. We have confirmed the text from Blizzard.
Remember, we haven't see all the cards yet, so there is a chance this ends up being more useful. Freeze Shaman inc?
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Frost Elemental and Glacial Shard if you're short on options
There are already Poisonous weapon that don't see lot of play. How a weapon that needs one step more be better?
The wording makes me think that you can damage a non-frozen minion and whenever that minion gets frozen afterwards it will get destroyed. Maybe we get some sort of minion based freeze that is non battlecry triggered like Demented Frostcaller. Could see some play in a gimmicky elly shaman with Glacial Shard and Frost Elemental
hard to evaluate ATM we need to aee more neutral/shaman cards to judge, at the moment it's quite bad, it it has enough synergy and be played, frost shock will finally see play (?)
Ice hate to break it to ya. But currently this card is pretty bad.
kek
is shadow visions, drakonid operative (gadgetzan), radiant elemental, and lyra not enough for you?
Freeze Shaman incoming?
Doesnt really look playable, but teases a new Freeze Shaman deck which is much more interesting.
watch them not add any freeze effects for shaman after this
Blade Flurry doesn't work like that. Remember Envenom Weapon + Blade Flurry?
The way this is worded makes me think shamans are gonna get a Blade Flurry effect.
Tbh it's the only way I could see this work, seeing as mage already has tons of freeze effects (which shaman doesn't even have that yet), and still Shatter never really took off.
Well... they do have Frost Shock. No one uses it though because it doesn't do enough for a card. Kappa
People should really wait for some other shaman cards to be revealed before evaluating this card. This is the expansion of ice god-dammit, there will be other freeze cards..
-- Sir we have too many shitty Shaman base cards like Frost Shock, should we make other set cards rotate into standard instead?
-Nonsense, Leave it to me.
*Makes Frost Axe*
-- Sir you do realize Shatter barely saw play and this makes your hero take damage?
-...
To be fair this is three shatters and can be used as a ping if you don't have a freeze. Its a much better card (not that being better than shatter is an accomplishment)
They probably will get more freeze, this card makes no sense otherwise.
Maybe I'm reading this wrong (and frankly I don't know why it would work like this) but if a minion has been damaged by the Axe and is then frozen is that minion destroyed?
No. The game does not track the damage source, so if you attack a minion with this, and THEN freeze it, what you get is a frozen and damaged enemy minion.