New Card Reveal - Countess Ashmore
A new card has been revealed by Andeluoni.
Learn More About The Witchwood
Looking to learn more about Hearthstone's eighth expansion? Visit our expansion guide for The Witchwood!!
Get Cheaper Packs!
This section contains affiliate links. They help the site!
If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.
The best part though? You don't even need an Android device because we've got a guide to show you how to setup an emulator if you're on PC!
"Ahh! After 10,000 years, I'm free! It's time to conquer Azeroth!"
Go go Mimiron's Rangers
New curator... No taunt is kinda bad but still i can see it in some decks.
Un-nerf and place into HOF?
Don't underestimate the taunt on Curator. Not sure if this will see play as it is 7 mana, don't affect the board. Those types of cards have historically not seen play.
Obviously great value, and wouldn't surprise me to see some slow deck take advantage of it. But no taunt... that's what made up for Curators loss of tempo.
Regardless, definitely a generous card. Will see.
Yea, pre-nerf Ancient of Lore totally never saw play.
Yea, but Druid can cheat the mana curve so is not such a loss of tempo, and that was a lot of time ago.
This also has better stats, can draw an extra card and is targeted draw.
Count Rush-more
And Kingsbane probably!
As many have said, Countess Ashmore is basically the new The Curator. What's really exciting about her, though, is that she pulls a Rush, Deathrattle, and Lifesteal card from your deck. Everyone here is talking about minions, but what about pulling Spirit Lash or Lesser Amethyst Spellstone or Spectral Cutlass? What about drawing Val'anyr or Twig of the World Tree or Kingsbane?
Rush is the only keyword here that is anchored firmly to minions, and I've seen The Curator run in decks like Big Mage where he's only there to draw beasts and dragons, so we may see some more interesting draw strategies than just "draw your deathrattle minions," etc.
Nvm.
I might be wrong, but I don't believe that Countess Ashmore will pull Uther of the Ebon Blade, since it's not really Uther of the Ebon Blade that has Lifesteal, but Grave Vengeance.
Why RUSH... that's such a bad keyword... why not Echo!?
New curator.... seems decent. She will find a room in occasional decks.
Kingsbane...
in what way?
edit: oh drawing the kingsbane itself
Even if no new deck arises Control Lock already has a good use for this. It's a body in control matchups and it yanks you a Spellstone and Rin/Lackey/Voidlord. Like Curator, one of the modes is likely to see little use, in this case I'd say the Rush, but even there, a Warrior might use this to draw the Woodcutter's Axe, a Rush minion to buff it with and any good lifestealer you can think of. And the body is way better than with Curator, so it can apply some pressure too.