New Card Revealed: Blood-Queen Lanathel
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I'm not sure how I feel about this card, but I do want to see more mechanisms for Warlock to help discarding not feel so shitty. My hope is that we eventually get a card that lets us discover a discarded card or possibly even play a random discarded card.
Blood-Queen Lana'thel has some badass art at least.
If u not discard this and if u discard decent amount of cards and if it not be killed with any 6 dmg/removal next turn
then can be decent heal for 5-10 hp
Unfortunatly this card ist bad. Let’s be honest, discard mechanics will never work until you can control what to discard, and that would be ridiculously OP.
That card in particular: against control there are just way better cards. The lifesteal doesn’t really matter and even if it has like 7/6 it just gets removed.
And against aggro it is just way to slow. It will never have like 5/6 stats on turn 5, it will be a 3/6 that doesn’t do anything the turn it is played. Very bad against aggro.
Well I don't know if this is good or bad but why the hell are they revealing "objectively good or bad depending on what the rest of the set is" type of cards first? Shouldn't they leave those for last? These cards are really killing my hype...
How about. "when you discard this, return it back to your hand" add that and you are golden.
The discard mechanic is clunky, it just doesn't work coherently or consistently. This card does meet the standards in order to push it to competitiveness. At best it's gonna be a 5 mana 5/6 when played on 5 mana and has no impact when it is played. RIP Warlock if this is what they're trying to push as the theme.
Antique Healbot was a billion times better. This is not anywhere near its power level. This is play it and have super taunt vs aggro if you're even alive by that turn and in control v control who cares, because the jades will get you no matter how much lifesteal you have.
"Warlocks are getting some cool cards but they have to be careful."
*insert Ben Brode's laugh here*
not that impressive really, so in a normal game it's like 3 to 4ish attack maybe; or just ends up being discarded itself, there's no fail-safe either.
Power Word: Glory on a stick lol
Warlock Players be like : Rolling in the deeeeeeeeeeeep
i know i will find this in my first 10 packs....sigh...
Tell them only that the Lich King is dead and that Warlock died with him.
To bad that discard effects are based on rng. Warlock would really much better if you could chose what card to discard.
On overall note, HS would really be more competitive if you could decide certain outcome yourself (i.e. discard, search etc.).
Let's keep in mind that this card doesn't gain attack through a battlecry, so you can play it on turn six, for example, and then play some discard effect like soulfire to buff it.
But still, seems pretty bad.
Healthgain for warlock is allways really nice. Health is the major problem for warlock in any non-aggro scenario.
I will certainly get this to continue experimenting with the discardlock, inlucing the quest. This will be a major help against the aggrodecks, thus possibly freeing up some space to put in more controlcards. Sure, disclock using only this extra will not be a T1 deck, but this is a very nice and good boost for it. We'll have to see what more warlock gets, or if there are some neutral heals coming....
Also notice that this is NOT a battlecry, thus if you have this out and discard more cards it will suddenly grow... Did anyone want +9 surprise-attack using Deathwing?.
Deathwing would destroy her so...
Pfft, dying to Deathwing... how uncreative... will my cool combos never work X-(
Idea is good. But blizzard, do you have any idea about "discarding a random card" mechanic?
Regarding card... Discard mechanic viable... only in zoo-archetype. Does zoo-archetype need this card? I doubt.. This can be discarded while trying to buff it up - so this card require enormous amount of skill to play (while discarding only Silverware golems) :)
Looks like I will discard this Legendary.
maybe similar to Bolvar...takes ages to pump up to have some value. Hard to play on curve without discarding it + it can be silenced!