New Paladin Card Reveal - Shrink Ray
A new card has been revealed by Gamespot.
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board clears too
Face is the place, we know :D
Am I the only one that's kind of worried about Odd Pally getting something resembling actual removal?
Yes, you're the only one worried. I'm excited about it.
Odd Paladin has only worked as an aggro deck so far. But if folks recall, Justicar Trueheart was a staple in *control* paladin decks. Now, making heavier Odd decks hasn't worked out super well previously, since nearly all the good control tools were even. This brings some of that back, and might enable an entirely different sort of odd paladin, a slower more midrange one, since it can better stand to lose the early game.
As to throwing this into existing aggro odd decks? Eh. The paladin probably has more minions and could trade away well, but that's not super exciting. At 5 mana, this is hard to combo with Level Up! or Stormwind Champion, so it'll be hard to leverage this into true advantage. I don't think it'll be too scary in aggro.
Great, something for odd pala too, I was thinking that my favorite deck for farming gold on leader will not see anything new. I can see putting one of this to help you against decks with lots of cheats (taunt is cheating).
( I think I'll get downvoted a lot this time :P )
I'll help you there, odd paladin is a shlub deck
Only reason why Enter the Coliseum didn't work as a board clear was because it left the opponents largest thing, which kiiiiinda makes it worthless. This on the other hand just works like Eadric the Pure, which sucked buns because it was too expensive. This is in a middling area where it's not THAT expensive, yet still has board clear potential. I think Equality is still just going to make this card not that great.
Wow! Nice counter to Zerek's Cloning Gallery
well, i play Galvadon with Lynessa just for fun sometimes, with Zola and 2 mana guy - put a copy of a minion into your deck, it's at least fun (for me) ....it's true that after this epxansion i've tried taunt druid, shudderwock etc but mostly I enjoy putting my face into the light :D
People keep saying this is a great Control Pally card, but I can definitely see this being used in Odd Paladin aswell, as a way to just get rid of the enemy board if they have taunts or any big threatning minions. Not a perfect strategy but it works in a way.
I mean, the whole premise of Odd Paladin is having your board swarmed with 1/1's, so yeah...
The good thing about this is you won't absolutely NEED to combo this in one turn to save your ass. Can throw taunts out in subsequent turns, if you're odd - 2 dudes/cheap minions can do the trick, and you'll have more than 1 turn to play or top deck consecration/avenging wrath/pyro.
It's super Equality!
Once you cast Shrink Ray all minions are equal! But if you play it at the right time, some will be more equal than others, haha.
It can better be described as communism XD
This is one of the best cards they ever made in game.
Blizzard is pushing Paladin control in this new expansion! I love it ♥
We're talking degrees of stretching the theme, and this feels stretched too far. You can't just wave your hands, say "science", and pretend there aren't degrees where it brakes the flavor of the game.
Oh no! Not muh flavor! This game had principles when it had murlocs in 20's outfits with tommy guns and mages throwing dance parties.
Tinkmaster Overspark is gonna have a fit when he hears about this! Anyone who thinks shrink rays are a viable thing needs to be turned into a chicken or a dinosaur.
I believe when they called the expansion "The Boomsday Project" and made Dr. Boom the lead character, they did just wave their hands and say "science". After all, science is the just the systematic study of the behavior of the world through observation. I observe that the behavior of this expansion is SCIENCE!!!!!! *explosion* *springy noise* *clattering sprockets*
Are there anyone here familiar with the term of SCI-FI? I don't remember anyone objecting Ant-Man being classified as a Sci-Fi movie.