New Card Revealed: Blood-Queen Lanathel
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I dont see it in the meta at the moment tbh. Discard is a very inconsistent and the cards up until now were usually aggro themed but maybe they will go into a very different direction with the new set as this card seems to indicate.
If you want to make discard-warlock a thing please consider changing from random discard that the player chooses what cards to discard..Then we speak in an other different basis.Right now every discard/prototype is pretty weak cause there aren't many ways to recover from losing your cards and having no hand or little answers to this..And this card can be a victim as many others in a discard deck!
discard as a mechanic is not good someone pass it onto blizz
Perhaps I'm reading into it wrong, but isn't it possible that this could keep a running tally even if it's not on the field or in your hand? You could draw it on turn 12 or whatever and find it's a 10/6 for 5 mana, to throw out random numbers. That's not that bad: she'd continue to rise in strength, without worry that you'll discard her by mistake 'cause she's safe in the deck.
She'll be like a Giant, in that regard; those guys take into account the long-term play. I think some people are looking at it too narrowly, like she has to survive multiple rounds of Russian Roulette discards in your hand to net any boost to her Attack. She's not trying to be the Warlock equivalent of Bolvar Fordragon.
Plus, if the Warlock DK does something like adding a discarded card back to your hand, you could potentially be able to play multiple copies of this in one game.
Let me guess the DK herocard.
Can't be discarded
Battlecry: Shuffle all cards you have discarded this game into your deck.
Heropower: Summon a random minion you have discarded this game into the battlefield
That would be soooo OP :) I love it :D
If it didn't have the Lifesteal, this card would probably be epic quality, instead of Legendary. It's not like the lifesteal adds that much value to it anyway, because the card still has to sit there for a whole turn and avoid being killed or silenced. This seems like a badly-designed legendary, unless there are gonna be some more discard utilities coming out. Like, even if you play this card well and pump it up to a 7/6, it's still easily dealt with by that point in the game. (We still have trouble with Lakkari Sacrifice being viable because you can't just easily discard 6 cards by turn 5; it usually takes a good 7 or 8 turns.) I suppose the lifesteal means that if it's attacked and killed, at least it'll give you 7 health or whatever from damaging the opposing minion. But it all seems really lackluster... Kinda feels like the old WoW days, when Warlocks kept getting shafted by the devs.
To make this card (and the others like this) playable i think we need a card that could return any discarded cards in the game and it can't be discarded. It can be a spell like Lock and Load , Stampede or it should be the lich king hero power.
we need a discard effect that let us, the player, choose what card to discard.
In yu-gi-oh we had both random and none random discarding effects.
hearthstone please give us non-random discarding cards.
not everything have to be random to be fun!!!
That can't... That would be completely broken, with existing cards. They need to just stop with the discarding, entirely, except on extremely strong cards like Deathwing.
Imagine if you could choose your discard, no Warlock would ever lose... turn 1/2 Succubus + Silverware Golem = GG.
stop trying to make discard lock viable cuz NO ONE likes to discard their hand by RNG
Wait for the rest of the cards. We expect lots of synergies and compensations with discarding mechanics. Do you remember the Quest Rogue? the same is going to happen to discardlock
What if u discard this then? *facepalm*
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Maybe Cruel Dinomancer can resummon it? But my experiance with DiscoLock says that it'll also be discarded :D
There are always discarded cards that you currently need, no idea how it works, but eg. Frost Mage gets 2 additional Frost Novas, 2 additional Blizzards and at least one more Ice Block ... RNG <3
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So Warlock continues being as the weakest class untill the next expansion I guess...
Anything wrong with that?
Until Ungoro, Warlock managed to stay tier 1 or 2 in the meta since Beta, I think Warlock needs a break. Last thing we want is Team 5 giving them 0 mana 5/5's and 4 mana 7/7's like they gave to shamans.
Dont forget that shamans have also been Tier 1 decks since Beta. Why dont they get some hate too?
17 cards revealed. 118 yet to come.
This... Is one of the worst legendaries ever conceived?