Priest Death Knight Revealed: Shadowreaper Anduin
A new Death Knight has been revealed by Kibler, Frodan, and Firebat via Omnislash.
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Shadowreaper Anduin is obviously a very exciting card for all of the Highlander Priest players out there.
In the reveal stream Mike Donais said he thinks this can be easily slotted into any midrange or control style priest deck, but I have a hard time believing that you'd have a super easy time getting the long term value out of Shadowreaper Anduin without Raza the Chained - the extra two mana cost of the bonus hero power significantly limits the number of powerful cards you can play (e.g. without a zero mana hero power you get hero power value and play Free From Amber, Obsidian Statue, or N'Zoth, the Corruptor). The same costs limit the benefit of this in a regular control style priest that wants to go off with big Lyra the Sunshard turns.
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Obsidian Shard? The Rogue Weapon? You mean Obsidian Statue?
Haha, good catch. I guess I need more caffeine.
Actually not trash.
This looks kinda boring..
Well, it's a good clear against jade... the hero power might have some combo potential
Key thing to note is that any Archbishop Benedictus play should be saved for after the Death Knight is played and after the Raza the Chained play.
He's saying Benedictus will disable Raza's battlecry if you play it before Raza. I don't think we'll see too much Benedictus in constructed regardless, so it probably won't be an issue. But who knows?
8 mana: experience the same disappointment your parents felt about your life choices.
The coolest art and the lamest effect so far. Like many other people I was expecting resurrecting\stealing stuff (or some kind of twisted healing), but it's just a slightly better shadowform. Buttlecry is also boring and pretty much useless (if you kill 1+ minions with 5+ attack, you must be low on health, then why would you trade off your original hero power?). It even seems hard to come up with a combo, which may fully take advantage of this new hero power. I really hope remaining hero cards are more exciting.
With 10 mana
Hero power = 2 dmg
Play Prophet Velen + hero power = 4 dmg
Play Mind Blast + hero power = 14 dmg
Play Holy Smite + hero power = 8 dmg
Total = 28 dmg
With coin = 32 dmg
It's hard to do but that is a lot of damage =)
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2 Radiant elemental+1 Shadow visions in hand, 1 in deck.
Hero power, Velen, hero power, radiant elemental, hero power, mind blast, hero power, holy smite, hero power. 34. It's only a 4 card combo with the only requirement being using raza and dk at some point in the match. Even without some ridiculous combo this hero power can get lots of value throughout the game.
Just add radiant.
Velen 4 dmg radiant 4 dmg mindblast 10 dmg+4dmg hero power, holy smith×2 = 8 dmg+ 8 dmg hero power
38 dmg for 10 mana :)
So ur deck must have duplicates. This can make the raza combo more complicated to achieve, since u need to draw the duplicates before using it.
Can be a thing, but maybe too situational.
so the new hero is very similar but even worse than an already non-competitive card. Blizzard devs are retarded shit.
Hmmm, I see Blizz! So the new Warlock DK Hero Power needs to be ... "Draw a card"?
Time is money friend ...
100% OTK on 9/10 mana: (Already have http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/49702-raza-the-chained used). 2DMG hero power + http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/22357-spawn-of-shadows (he will give us 4 dmg with every use of hero power) + 2DMG hero power + 4 DMG from http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/22357-spawn-of-shadows + http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/409-holy-smite + 2DMG hero power + 4 DMG from http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/22357-spawn-of-shadows + 5 DMG http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/415-mind-blast 2DMG hero power + 4 DMG from http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/22357-spawn-of-shadows + and card for mana left + 2DMG hero power + 4 DMG from http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/22357-spawn-of-shadows = 33 DMG one turn
TY Blizzard for le balance