Rogue Legendary & Common Card Reveal - Tess Greymane & Blink Fox
Two new cards have been revealed by Blizzard via a promotional email.
- This card functions like pre-nerf Yogg. (source)
- Battlecries of minions will not trigger. (source)
- If you previously stole a Hero card from your opponent's class, played it, and became that class, Tess plays all of your Rogue cards instead. (source)
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WOW paradox card, the better thief Rogue is (=more people play him), the worse thief Rogue is.
As though you could put a minion on the opponent's side. No, minions summoned are always yours.
Decent cards. A bit more expensive slashburglar (which is not always better, but playable). Tess Graymane is a bit expensive, but playable as well. Tess is not trash like Lilian Voss. It will not be tier 1 deck, but you can do at least decent deck based on stealing, which may be fun. I really hope that such deck may be competitive enough... in a future maybe.
If we look a bit closer to Tess Graymane. It is just like N’Zoth and Bloodreaver Gul Dan. Only itis not consistent enough unfortunately, but as well it can gave you big amount of value for 8 mana.
hi there daughter of yogg
Hm... One rogue card left...
And there is no secret...
And there is no combo...
Or combo secret. It would be interesting. Somethink like ,,After your oponent play a minion deal 4 damage to his hero. Combo 6 damage":D:D
I dunno about memes... Yogg saw A LOT of play in competitive decks before its nerf. This is a lot like Yogg, but you can actually control, to a certain extent, which spells are played. It's a bit more work, but it seems like this could be more than just a meme card. It even costs less and has better stats than Yogg. I'm not gonna write her off just yet. Blink Fox seems pretty cool. 3 mana 3/3 draw a card from your opponents class seems pretty good. So many games seem to go into fatigue these days and it seems that being able to draw something without actually drawing your deck has become more relevant. This'll be fun to play with.
All of you complaining that this doesn't fit an existing Rogue archetype and Blizzard is just "forcing" Burgle Rogue. Think for a second. Rogue is already powerful. Miracle Rogue, Tempo Rogue, etc. have always been around and unless a lot of their cards get sent to Hall of Fame, they always will be. If this was two powerful cards for Tempo/Miracle, you would all be complaining that Rogue was going to be the new oppressive meta, and in a month when you were proven right, you'd all be clamoring for nerfs. So how does Blizzard win? They print cards that are cool, have unique effects, and might bolster an archetype that has some support, but hasn't been at the forefront yet. At the very least this doesn't break Rogue, and if all goes well it might even bring some fun and variety to the Class.
Blizzard wins by adjusting the rogue classic/basic set so we don't have to play this stupid "you can't have any good new cards because otherwise rogue will be OP" game every new expansion
1) Blink Fox is one of the most competitively costed Thief Rogue cards in the game. It doesn't have the Combo synergy of a cheap dude like Swashburglar, but the body is more relevant. 2) If you play Tess in your deck, you can make the fully informed decision of what spells you will and will not play, what things to discover from Hallucination, etc. to get the most out of her effect. Play card draw, untargeted AoE, Secrets and she will repay you in kind. This puts a lot of strategy into your traditional "Yogg effect".
I'm ok with Blizzard making these cards for Rogue. Rogue already has a powerful archetype in Kingsbane varieties and they'd be hard-pressed to print something to compete with it directly in terms of powerlevel without powercreeping rogue for the next 2 years. The power level in standard is going to go down so even an existing deck like Kingsbane may become significantly more powerful to give Rogues something serious to play (I've played it as a Miracle-focused deck in Wild without Coldlights and it does just fine), and in Wild, Burgle has been on occasions borderline viable (I've spent a lot of time trying to make it happen and it can beat some of the top decks with the right hand), so giving it more support there is welcome, especially support of this quality, rather than trash like Pickpocket.
it shows how stupid the community is upvoting som1 saying that a 3/3 for 3 is more relevant than a 1/1 for 1, you are really bad maybe some kind oof learning disability
Think I'd be happier with the echo legendary...
People calling Tess "just a meme card" or "yogg 2.0" didn't really bother to understand the card. This is NOT like yogg, it's more like Lynessa, you know EXACTLY which cards it's going to play, in which order, and you have full control of which ones you want it to play.
if all you have done is spamming cards like fireball or other targeted spells BEFORE playing Tess you only have yourself to blame for completeley screwing you up. In the hands of a smart player it can be insane.
So the RNG is a solid strategy ?
Cool but where are competitive cards?
A 6/6 is worth about 5 mana for Standard power level. So we need to get 3 mana worth out of the battlecry. Roughly, we can assume that we'll get about 2/3 value out of cards replayed by the ability, since minions will lack battlecry and synergy, and randomly targeted spells lose value. So in order to break even, we should aim to play 5 mana worth of other class cards.
Now, obviously, we're not trying to break even if we're playing Tess. The whole reason to play her in constructed is to abuse as much free mana as we can. The issue I see is that cards that generate additional cards tend to be costed higher, so the free mana of Tess recasting cards is partially offset by the mana spent generating cards from another class. Generated cards are also going to be inconsistent in terms of quality and utility. So on a card for card basis, Tess seems like she will generate a lot less free value than Yogg did, since Yogg was powered by spells you wanted to play anyway, which could fit your gameplan and could be efficiently costed.
The play pattern is also different than Yogg, because Yogg essentially functioned as an AoE spell once you powered it up enough. Tess will only work that way if you already generated an AoE, and that's a lot harder to set up.
If you read the post, Blizzard specifically clarified that Battlecries will not trigger.
This could work with The Lich King. 5/8 death knight cards are always good, Obliterate is RNG fiesta, Doom Pact is situational and Army of the Dead may not fit in Burgle archetype.
Lich King is not Class, but Death Knight is