New Paladin Card Revealed: Desperate Stand
A new Paladin card has been revealed by PromoArenaTV from Brazil.
Learn more about Knights of the Frozen Throne!
Visit our expansion guide to look at all the new cards that have been revealed so far, as well as anything else you want to know about the new expansion!
Doesn't respawn with N'Zoth
Why not Chillblade Champion? It could get you 6 points of health back in one turn with Desperate Stand provided the first one died attacking something to trigger the effect. Not the ideal use case, seeing as lifesteal has good synergy with attack buffs, but in a pinch that could be useful.
Maybe if you could passively buff Chillblade Champion, but that starts to make the combo unreliable for very little return. If only buffs sticked around after revival...
6 mana heal for 6 ?
Priest has that much healing for only 1 mana, that's probly not the best use.
I would certainly agree, though it would be 6 healing and 3x2 damage for 6 mana. There are certainly better uses for both, but if they see play in the same decks, maybe someone will take advantage of that interaction seeing as Chillblade Champion has charge and lifesteal.
Now how do you abuse this offensively, by reviving your opponent's minions? Corrupted Healbot when you can guarantee 1 damage to get a massive 16 heal from it? Ticking Abomination (lol like anyone's gonna play it) to blow up their board twice (as if anything will survive the first nuke)? Somehow get your opponent a Kel'Thuzad, an Unliscenced Apothecary and then flood his board with Apothecaries using 2 of these and trading a lot (and then die next turn because the enemy will have 36 damage)?
Yes...those are my win conditions.
as a priest I want paladin to cast this on my healbot 16 damage yay! but a better target would be boom-o-clock?
Cards like this just make me glad I play mage and I have access to polymorph
Oh people will be ragequiting on N'zoth again
Am I missing on some Galvadon meme or people seriously not realise that he revive as a 5/1
I think the point is less about Galvadon the minion and more a statement on the viability of The Last Kaleidosaur; Desperate Stand counts toward the quest and makes a minion stickier (maybe even a minion like Primalfin Champion). As per Kibler's recent Quest Watch video, the paladin quest suffers from a lack of sticky minions, and without buff targets you can't really win. This card, along with cards like Righteous Defender, may help significantly improve your odds of having friendly minions hang around long enough to be buffed.
Quest Watch regarding Paladin quests: https://youtu.be/X6Z7M-NMG6c?t=5m40s
This card is insanely good in wild Anyfin paladin, you could easily have 2 old murk eye at first Anyfin
divine shield, redemption, noble sac, desperate stand. imagine how hard that would be to kill
They are gonna make Defias Cleaner viable against deathrattle-heavy decks?
Or they gonna print the usable version of Death No Rattle?
Ohh cool, now i get 2 Tirions with only one Mindcontrol !
Love it ! its a Priest buff !
I think this could help make Galvadon not get smashed in casual and maybe work till rank 15.. I do like the Idea of casting this on The Vorrax to almost guarantee you will have a body to complete the quest on. Also the wording is a bit tricky. In not using resummon wording does that mean i can get double kickback from primalfin champion? XD
I already climbed to rank15 with my galvadon deck... with some of the new cards I am most certain that rank5 will be possible. maybe not as fast as others but atleast a lot more fun :)
Galvadon just got that much stronger (but not really)
"Desperate Stand"