New Priest Card Revealed: Shadow Essence
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Looks like a kindergartner drew this.
Obsidian Statue buff
Can someone explain me the art? It looks like a very pissed ginger black dwarf wtf
I think it's Moira Thaurrisan.
move out of the way barnes.
Those minion copying cards make me feel bad for disenchanting velen earlier now :(
6mana malygos + radiant elemental + 2 mind blast + 2 holy smite = 10 mana, 34 damage
we have barnes already, and this doesn't work)
Did it occur to you that Barnes doesn't work that well because he's legendary and therefore you only have 1 of this effect in your deck? With this card you have 3 of this effect. Couple that with Eternal servitude and you now have a way to resummons those who have died. So with 1 Barnes, 1 Velen, 1 Malygos, 2 shadow essence and 2 eternal servitude it's basically like running a bunch of copies of Velen and Malygos with varied mana costs. It has enough board clear and enough healing to make it to the end game and hit the face with a combo. Still inconsistent, but will be fun to try to make work.
TL;DR Don't fall into the trap of saying "there is already a card with this effect that doesn't work, so this won't work."
Thoughts on decks it could go in.
Big effect minions - radiant, the new statue guy, lyra aint bad.
resurrect - big minions with either high mana cost or bad battlecries, normal ressurect minions and yet again statue
combo - idk what exactly, but combo is always a thing
Seems like a card that can see play.
Angry Chicken buff ;)
beyond trash like the whole expansion
Yes same thing different color and shape.
But we are going to enjoy that ;-)
Malygos is better in this case, but you probably run both in case you draw one
9 mana deal 14 damage and have a pretty important 5/5. It sounds good, but remember this also means you have no other minions in your deck...
Bad card, you don't get to discover which makes it too unreliable. Mostly it will do nothing. Also Eternal Servitude is better than this in every way.
Edit: It seems like this is the last priest spell. They didn't give any control spells :(
Please no, please don't tell me you think this way.
Even if it says random, it encourages creative deckbuilding by the fact that YOU choose what pool of random cards it pulls from.
You could have a "Mighty Titan deck" pulling out minions with strong abilitie, but have high restrictive costs such Y'Shaarj, Mayor Noggenfoggen, Obsidian Statue, etc.
You could have a deck that has Velen and/or Malygos as your only minion, as uses this card as a win condition with Mind Blasts.
Or if you run a deck with cards that have a lot of keywords or good abilities, you can even run this as a curve filling value card. Lifesteal Charge and Taunt scale great with this, and cards like Tortollan Shellraiser, Acolyte of Agony, etc. scale well with this.