Rise of Shadows - Eight Revealed Cards, Expansion Information
Blizzard has officially revealed the newest expansion to join the game in Year of the Dragon - Rise of Shadows! Here is everything we know so far.
- Releases on April 9, 2019. (Pre-release is April 5)
- New Mechanic: Twinspell - Casting this adds another copy of the card (without Twinspell) to your hand.
- Lackeys - Special token minions which are generated through other cards. They are 1/1 minions with "devious" battlecries
- Schemes - Cards which grow in power as they sit in your hand each turn.
- We will see some old mechanics return!
- League of Evil - Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warrior, and Warlock
- Dalaran Defenders - Mage, Druid, Hunter, Paladin
New Cards
Eight new cards have been revealed.
League of Evil
This is for Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, and Warrior classes. Each class is represented by one of the bad guys!
- Priest - Madame Lazul (The Fortune Teller)
- Rogue - Togwaggle
- Shaman - Hagatha
- Warlock - Rafaam
- Warrior - Dr. Boom
Reveal Video
Pre-Order
There are two bundles available for pre-orders. The Mega Bundle contains a Priest Hero!
Rise of Shadows Bundle
- Costs $49.99
- 50 Rise of Shadows card packs
- The Jewel of Lazul card back
- A random Legendary from Rise of Shadows
Rise of Shadows Mega Bundle
- Costs $79.99
- 80 Rise of Shadows card packs
- The Jewel of Lazul card back
- A random Legendary from Rise of Shadows
- Madame Lazul, Priest Hero (available now!)
First Week Bundle
During the first week of the expansion, a special 9 pack bundle will be available for $10. It will also include an Arena Ticket.
Card Review
KiwiiNbacon has reviewed the new cards.
I hope not because it probably means mage, druid, paladin, and shaman won't get a scheme card.
Any good reasons why should I spent money on the packs? :)
It is a discount, since you're paying exactly 1 dollar American per pack as opposed to ~2 dollars. You'll also get a free guaranteed Legendary and card back from the smaller bundle, or an alternate Priest Hero and Golden Legendary from the larger.
That said, if you weren't planning on buying any packs, then there's no real reason. The cosmetic stuff is nice, but it's way too expensive to buy just for that stuff.
will they giveaway a legendary at launch to everyone as they did before other expansions?
You only get one after buy one of the bundles.
you can not know. in the boomsday expansion, they did sell the exact bundles and gave random class legendary.
Yes they will give us one fre you can play before the expansion go like Marine the fox .
I have been playing this game since beta and this will be the first time I won't preorder anything. I know this is irrelevant to the majority of you, but I am sure there will be a lot of other players that are done with paying for this game.
Well, I guess if your a 1 class player only, youll do alright to start. But it is a rotation, and the first set will be super important to own in order to play. Especially if you enjoy playing more than 1 class. Or you can grind like theres no tomorrow and eventualy get your cards.
Think about it this way......time invested to make enough dust /gold to craft cards and buy packs vs $ for the preorder. HOw many hours would it take you to build the set without buying cards......and how do you value your time? I would say at least $25 hour for my time....so 4 hours to get the set or pay the money and have the cards right away.
Hey, at least theres Whizbang for you!
I've been playing the game since beta and bought exactly 0 packs. I'm definitely not a 1 class player, and I've been doing all right through 2 rotations, I'll do well through this one as well.
I've been playing the game since beta and bought exactly 0 packs. I'm definitely not a 1 class player, and I've been doing all right through 2 rotations, I'll do well through this one as well.
I've never bought a single pack with real money and it feels amazing because it makes every single pack feels really exiting to open and getting legendaries can be very orgasm inducing. It has been a year since i started a new account, and i now i have even shaman, deathrattle hunter, odd and control paladin which are probably way more than enough.
nice feedback. maybe u should also adress why tho.
Agree. Because every time you play ladder, and every time it turns out to be cancer.
I feel the same. There is no value AT ALL. They just keep churning out the same boring designs & fanboys eat it up. Stop feeding this hungry relentless beast. They need to make some changes to keep the masses interested. It's just not the game it used to be (yes, in a bad way). Do something different, stop making broken cards, reward your players (classic packs and 10g after 3 wins is NOT a reward), stop also making BAD legendaries that kill our pulls when opening decks. It's like opening a loop of opening Millhouse every time! You're not getting my money. I stopped buying with IRL cash when you made your price increase. $80 for pixels? You can keep it. I got gold (until you take that away from your players)
If you use forbidden words on 4 attack minion while you have 6 mana, will it use all the 6 or you left with 2 mana? Cuz if it use all of it, order is importent here.
Also what happen if you have 2 mana and use it on 3 atk minion?
Since it says that much attack or less, i am 100% sure that it will use all your mana without leaving any mana after.
Also i am pretty sure you cant target minions if you lack the mana, that or nothing simple happens when you cast it, but i am sure its the first.
I'd imagine it works like forbidden healing. "Spend all your mana. Restore twice that much health."
To quote from the Wiki,
This spell has two steps
So if you cast it on turn 10 and had 29 hitpoints, it would still spend all your mana, and then heal you for the maximum amount possible (1). Quite a lot of overheal. Or in this case, overkill.
As for the second question, as the card says "That much or less attack". Is 3 equal or less than 2? No. So either you just spent all your mana without effect, or the game won't allow you to target it in the first place if it is nice.
Shadows RISE UP
You clearly have no clue how powerful this card is. First of all its flexible and can kill a Doomsayer for free. Worst case its a 1 mana more expensive shadow word pain, but i think it will replace pain and is a 2 of easily!