New Paladin Legendary Card Reveal - The Glass Knight
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4/3 Divine Shield for 4 is a solid body. Better than Silvermoon Guardian, but SMG is unplayed. Anyhow, this could easily be good. Coining this out, then playing Truesilver Champion on 4 would be a really strong sequence of plays in a midrange paladin.
I just play wild - does truesilver still see play in standard? everyone and their grandmama is playing the 3/2 weapon. in what world do you want a 4 atk weapon?
I do like tiny bubbles, but as a wild player, I don't see bubbles getting any play in a giants/big highroll/knife juggler-call to arms meta.
Truesilver isn't that common currently. But it's still a fairly solid weapon in itself, and Rallying Blade is rotating, so I wouldn't be surprised to see Truesilver come back. Midrange Paladin is the kind of deck which seems to always drift in and out of the meta.
Hrm. To that end, I'm kinda surprised there aren't more control Paladins out there right now, trying to take advantage of the fact that everyone will mulligan wrong against them. Maybe it's just that bad of an archetype...
I think it's very solid (fuck you haters). It's a strong body that can be pretty tough to deal with if you get taunt+lifesteal in the way.
Yet, I wonder, is it that much better than getting 2 to 4 secrets out of your deck? Idk, different build styles, but we'll see. Seems odd they would have this at the same mana cost as the secret puller, with kinda similar stats. Not to mention you really don't want to play this if your opponent has a chump, because dealing 3 damage is REALLY easy in this game. HOWEVER, this guy could get nuts with buffs, like Sound the Bells.
Actually it could be good with Spikeridged Steed on a control-ish paladin.
Reccuring divine shield on a taunt minion seems much more valuable and you could use the effect twice a turn...
You know a card is bad when you read "well, it's good with Spikeridged Steed on".
Even a 0/1 is good if you steed it. You have to evaluate the card on its own.
Ragnaros the glasslord syngerize very well with his best budy lighlord and can take the hit from the famous firelord.
Adapt - lifesteal
Same reaction as Keleseth on comment section. Can't wait lol.
Seriously? This is a legendary? Lmao, actually nevermind. Cheaper expansion for me.
Here is a better less blurry version*:
*does not make the card less boring
Honestly, "boring" was the very first word that came to mind when I saw this legendary haha. As far as creativity goes, it's on par with Cobalt Guardian... An unplayed mech from however long ago haha.
This card made me think of Wickerflame Burnbristle in it's use in decks.
The latter was expected to be hand-buffed but was still thrown in a lot of decks without hand-buff synergy due to it's overall versatility and cheap cost.
I could see The Glass Knight fill a same role, even if the deck it's in doesn't have huge healing synergy. Albeit The Glass Knight doesn't have taunt and is in a heavily contested mana-slot.
A lot of people compare it to C'Thun's Chosen but when that card saw play the early and popular minions were fat... Totem Golem, Tunnel Trogg, Sir Finley Mrrgglton, Keeper of Uldaman, as well the other C'thun cards; Beckoner of Evil and Twilight Elder. It was harder to pop a divine shield without having great loss, especially if the attack was of the shielded minion was high.
Now we have Defile, Lost in the Jungle, Knife Juggler, Duskbreaker and soon enough Lord Godfrey which are all good to pop a divine shield and then get at that low health.
Therefore I do not think this legendary minion will see play early in the expansion at least.
this is kind of like Darius Crowley in that it's not exceptional, but just a good body to have on its own. not bad even if you don't get the effect off.
Looking forward to that The Glass Knight, Benevolent Djinn, Bolvar, Fireblood combo. You know, the dream, three card (two legendary) combo that will happen 1% of the time.
This is the kind of card that reminds me a bit of Bloodmage Thalnos. I don't mean that it has the same function, or same value in a deck. I mean that, good or not, it doesn't look interesting enough for me to craft. It feels like a rare to me, which is what we saw with Cobalt Guardian.
However. The fact that they made it legendary is actually really interesting, for exactly that reason. Usually, they make legendaries with crazy effects, (E.G. Majordomo Executus, Ragnaros the Firelord, The Lich King, Ysera, etc.) so when they make one with an 'underwhelming' legendary, you would expect them to do it when they think a card could easily be OP with duplicates (Case in point, Patches, who was already crazy with just one). My gut says it's a solid but not especially crazy card (Not at all on line with patches), but the design process implies that blizzard thinks it's really good.
IDK, since there are so many cards rotating that give you and your minions health this seems pretty trashy.
i think people look at this without realizing that simply a 4 mana 4/3 divine shield minion alone is really good. remember what a pain in the ass that c'thun supporting minion was?