Shaman Death Knight Revealed - Thrall, Deathseer
A new Death Knight has been revealed and it's Thrall! Some serious evolving going on there. The hero was revealed on Tempo Storm.
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About the DK theme, i understood like the Deathseer is a corrupted Farseer that has a ton of minion's bodies lying around waiting for him to transmute someone else's soul in to them OR he creates mutations of the minions or some stuff like that. All the DK that are appearing are in fact an idea of mixing DK and the original class, so jaina isn't a strict death knight nor rexxar and thrall are. It seems good enough for me.
You are totally right!
No offense but I heavily disagree, a deathknight dosen't evolve the living it and neither do shaman's. If it mutated the dead that would make sense but mutating the living dosen't. And yes it's abillity is called transmute soul which is a sensible a abillity for a deathknight shaman but that's not what the card does it's transmuting their bodies not their souls. The jaina card summons minions through murder and uses freezing and life steal(both DK abilities), and Rexar stiches things together which is something the Scourage does, but this card is a complete flavour fail it's like giving a person with skill in pyromance and lightining magic water powers as a mixture of the two.
I love playing evovle-shaman. I have been playing it a lot these last few months. But doing this just makes me a little sad. They have this freeze archtype going on and then they goes this direction with DK-Hero. It confuses me. As much as I love evovle, I want it to rotate out of the meta at some point. Mostly because it does not fit my fantasy of the Shaman. I would much rather have seen a deal dmg+freeze a minion hero power. :) Oh well!
nahhh shaman dont need a neew meta, evolve is to much fun.
More evolve tools = more fun.
Im not sure if you can get rid off your hero power for another rng hero power..Also i believe it could be a little powerful if you play it with a full board and your enemy on't have a board clear..I want to wait and see this card in play but im afraid that evolve is better now than this passive..
You arent paying 2 mana for boosting your board. First you have to pay 5 mana which will evolve your whole board which you have to build first. And this part is actually hard because 5 mana is pretty damn high consdering you want to have sth on a board first. And by something i mean AT LEAST 2 minions.
Then you have to pay 2 god damn mana for evolving just one creature? Evolving creature on a basis does nothing more than granting +1/+1 in stats. It will be good only if you can evolve a wounded creature. And this doesnt happen very often because usually minion die at your opponents turn, just after the turn, youve played that minion.
You hero power basically becomes a much much worse evolve.
You arent paying 2 mana for boosting your board. First you have to pay 5 mana which will evolve your whole board which you have to build first. And this part is actually hard because 5 mana is pretty damn high consdering you want to have sth on a board first. And by something i mean AT LEAST 2 minions.
Then you have to pay 2 god damn mana for evolving just one creature? Evolving creature on a basis does nothing more than granting +1/+1 in stats. It will be good only if you can evolve a wounded creature. And this doesnt happen very often because usually minion die at your opponents turn, just after the turn, youve played that minion.
You hero power basically becomes a much much worse evolve.
No. Shaman will have a new tier. Just for him.
Autowin tier.
its all nice and fun untill it hits a random doomsayer or one of new double edge sword cards like hydra and abominations, lets not forget Anomalus which will hapen like doomsayer preety much.
I do kinda think people are overestimating how good this will actually be.
Evolving for 2 doesn't really seem absurdly powerful and you also have to consider that you actually need to have useful minions for your hero power.
The thing I'M most afraid of is honestly the Doppelgangster abuse. I really hate current Token Shaman because it's just a pile of various archetypes stitched together because they are strong individually and I'd hate to see Shamans win just by going Doppelgangster + Evolve and then bump it up to 8-drops on the next turn. Especially since we haven't seen any big boardclears for this expansion yet.
Then again, if that really gets out of hand they'll probably just nerf Doppelgangster into being 2-mana tokens or something
So Dopplegangster into Evolve into Deathknight card for 3x Ragnaros? :P
This seems like a very nice card, tbh :O
Interesting card but I thought it would have something to do with the shaman freeze shenanigans going down this expansion :-_
This card looks really fun.
Now, a powerful turn five into, a turn six Doppelgangster evolve! sick!~
Meh.
It could be strong, but dull. No dk theme, no nothing. Just powerful rng.
I expected a frost witch or something mechanics...
The hero power seems really good to me. It means that every minion with damage on it can simply be upgraded. Of course you can get screwed by rng but that is true for almost every aspect of hs nowadays anyway.
The battlecry itself is good as well but it is a bit more situational I would say.
Cool card, but its abilities don't really fit the Death Knight theme, nor the title of "Deathseer." Not that evolve has ever really fit the shaman class thematically.
Same thoughts. It's more like "Liveseer". He gives more life. Idea of evolving - is life - it's going on next level of being. So I really wanna hear someone from Blizzard talking about the idea here.
They will be available in arena