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Update 3:25 AM EDT: Added tweet from Ben Brode confirming an awesome combo and he also mentions that Ancestral Spirit will have a new description come Naxxramas.
6:24 PM EDT: Added another tweet from Ben Brode concerning the name of the new card.
Curse of Naxxramas - Shaman Card Revealed - Rebirth
A new card from the Curse of Naxxramas Adventure has appeared on the PlayHearthstone Twitter account and it's a Shaman Card! You can find more information about Curse of Naxxramas here. If you'd like to take part in discussion of the card over on our forums, there's a thread for that.
Quote from @PlayHearthstone“Elements guide me!” Rebirth guides your minions back to the realm of the living in Curse of Naxxramas this summer!
Quote from Ben BrodeWhat is the result of Cairne Bloodhoof + Ancestral Spirit + Rebirth? 1 Baine Bloodhoof + 2 Cairnes?
Correct. Ancestral Spirit has new, clearer text in Naxx, too.
Thanks for all the feedback on the name of the new Shaman spell. We are discussing it. (Source)
Naxxramas Card Recap
With the addition of today's card, Rebirth, we're now up to a total of 10 known cards from Naxxramas, 5 of which are class cards. Check out the previously announced cards below!
Rebirth also happens to give Shamans access to the stupid-as-all-hell 8 mana 18 damage Leeroy combo finisher that previously only Rogues could use. This is actually one of my main reasons for wanting it to be 3 mana instead - so the combowombo is delayed until turn 10. I do hope that Blizzard has taken all these combos (with unannounced deathrattle minions from Naxx as well as current minions) into consideration when setting the cost, but I find it likely that the community will still majorly break some stuff when the adventure hits.
You mean like Leeroy + Rockbiter Weapon + Windfury?
Oh, wait, that's only 7 mana and can be played with cards currently in the game. Can't be what you're talking about.
Or how about Leeroy + Rockbiter + Windfury + Rebirth + Rockbiter for 27 damage. Fun times. Leeroy + Rebirth + Rebirth next to a Flametongue is 24 damage. This just makes the combinations even more dangeresque.
That would be 30 damage actually OTK.
Leeroy + rockbiter x 2 + windfury = 24 damage + rebirth = 30 damage for 10 mana and 5 cards
I like this card much better than rivendale. More like a one shot death rattle effect!
So, does this also act a 4 mana faceless manipulator with ancestral spirit?
This needs a "ramdom" somewhere in the text
Rebirth will open up some nice Shaman combos like this: http://youtu.be/d5Do0exF8Fc
Also on turn 3:
The Coin + Nerubian Egg + Rebirth = 0/2 and 4/4 on the board on turn 3
cairn bloodhoof + ancestral spirit + rebirth + rivendre + faceless
army of bloodhooves.
Good luck getting that combination in a match.
You can 3 in one turn leeroy, total of 18/ 24 damage if flametongue is on board... you leeroy ancestral spirit into a mob (1 shot kills six or 8 health (rags?)) and then go 2 8 damage hits to face. (turn 8 Ancestral Spirit + Leeroy Jenkins (to mob face) he dies.. comes back, charges face ..Rebirth ..goes to face.. or for 2 mana more Windfury (32 damage with flametongue, 24 damage without .)
even if all new combos fail or get countered this will be shaman version of leeroy shadowstep, flame tongue + leeroy + this 16 dmg
More Nerubian Egg combos! Or even better, target Sylvanas!
yeah, would be a nice combo!
I think competitively we need to understand that this card maybe a gimmick card in a future meta because once this card is released the meta will be nothing like it is now. So what will all the other classes be running and what strategies are going to be common, looking at those may determine that this card is too slow to run or not worth the space or the most OP @#@$ on the planet. But what it will do is get Shaman out of the mid-range build and expand to maybe more of a control or aggro monster in the game.
Naxxramas meta:
All decks will be: 26 cards + 2Ironbeak Owl + 2Spellbreaker
^^^^
Priests may get a big boost from these new cards due to access to mass dispel, silence, etc. One thing I'm kinda confused about though….always thought blizz didn't like OTK meta, but these new cards will almost certainly increase OTK across the board from all classes.
Yea Tyc! I agree with you. But I kindda wanna see how the paladin secret is gonna feel into the shockadin deck, since we always have more then 1 minion on the board. It will suck if they wipe our board with a swipe, but if the remove them 1 by one it's gonna get crazy value.
The funny thing though, this card removes silence.
Yea, but the effect would be much more strong if the minion still had the deathrattle effect on it. For instance rebirth+sylvanas= steals a minon+ gets another sylvanas. If sylvanas gets silenced (assuming it was played b4 turn8 of course) the effect is only a "non-silenced sylvanas". Well in both scenarios it's bad for the player that's facing the shamman, but it would be worse if sylvanas was not silenced.
P.S. Ok Holyrock... But if instead of one rebirth, the shaman has 2? Aite, I quit this game... lol