New Shaman Card Reveal - Eureka
A new Shaman card has been revealed by flurry1989.
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Wild already has a 4-mana card that essentially does the same thing. Could be good in standard though.
It's not better than Ancestor's call because the turn you play Ancestor's call is the turn you OTK your opponent.
You need to pay 2 more mana for Eureka, which is a big deal.
Obviously this has nothing to do with meteorology as Shaman theme for science in this expansion, and obvioisly blizzard team doesn't care much about consistency. Ok card, a bit more for the memes.
This is not the project card, just a card. Or i'm wrong?
Project card need to be about meteorology, biology ecc
Ah probably, my mistake... I thought all cards are themed around class based science branches.
It is like recruit big warrior/priest but from hand
I mean, it's just a better Ancestor's Call (bar the mana cost), but even AC doesn't see much play in Wild. One idea I had is to make a half-assed OTK deck, where you can play Eureka! to get out something like Malygos and then blast the opponent's face with, say, two Lightning Bolts. Next turn, you still have Malygos, and can probably finish off the opponent like that. However, we don't have the OTK Shaman spells like Crackle anymore, so maybe the combo will need some help.
It's a worse Ancestor's Call the vast majority of the time. You wouldn't play AC/Eureka in anything but a combo deck, where you are waiting to pull the one specific minion from your hand (most likely malygos) and kill them with spells that turn. In this combo scenario (which will be the only way Eureka will be anything close to viable imo), you don't care about whether or not you summon a minion for your opponent because you will just be killing them with spells regardless, and so you'd much rather just pay less for the same effect (AC).
Of course if you're trying to pull off a minion-based combo where you just get a ysera or a lich king or something out at a discount, sure, you'd rather not summon something for the opponent, however I don't believe that Eureka would be playable in this scenario. Edit: I forgot it summoned a copy of the minion and not the minion itself. This makes the minion-based combo seem more viable.
electra stormsurge + this to summon malygos + lightning bolt face for 16 dmg on turn 10
6 mana Al'Akir into double Rockbiter?
isn't this just broken?
I’m doubting that this will see play. It’s better than AC in that you still have the minion in hand, but for combo decks, all you care about is one turn of burst, which at 6 mana probably isn’t good enough. Nobody even plays AC shaman in wild anymore so I think this card is overrated in combo decks and will only really be good in value control/deathrattle decks.
One things to consider is that there is such a thing as critical mass. Two copies of AC aren't always enough, but four copies might be, especially when you can AC after using this. Don't forget you also have more ways to fetch cards (minions) from your deck now.
So you basically need to get rid of minions and then you can play Malygos for 6 mana.
Not bad at all.
Wait what?
Malygos?
WAIT
I think I got it
Double Eureka...
Yeah I got it
soo technically we got Grumble/Fire PLume Harbinger to reduce the cost of Electra Stormsurge. Technically Electra's cost could come down to 0 cost. After that get out Malygos with this, into Electra into Lava Burst + 2x LIghtning Bolt for 32 damage.
You need at least 2 turns before that to set up the combo and need to dump any minions in hand for Eureka to work.
On the other hand you can use a reduced Electra to double your Malygos and do the same thing for 39 damage.
At which point do you ask yourself why you didn't just play Shudderwock?
Then there's Big Shaman....how many Big Minions does Shaman have? Al'akir...and that's pretty much it. Everything else is neutral and in that case you can just play Big Druid or Warrior
If you get Malygos out with this and then into Electra, there would be a 50/50 chance you get Electra off of Eureka... also even is Electra is 0 cost Eureka is 6, Lava Burst is 3 and Lightning Bolt is 1, that's 10 Mana. no second Lightnling Bolt possible...
Just play Electra into Eureka and get 2 Al'Akirs or 2 Lich Kings or 2 Malygos...
This is super powerful.
I'm sorry WE?
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