New Card Revealed - Swampqueen Hagatha
A new shaman legendary has been revealed.
Upon playing this card, you will receive two discover interfaces containing Shaman spells. Choose one from each selection and then when you play the generated minion that was added to your hand, it will also play those spells! You get to choose the targets for the cast spells.
Okay, this is actually extremely important and interesting. This is the very first time in HS history, that a card let you chose 2 targets for one action. Because the Hearthstone engine was made for smooth and streamlined gameplay, you could only ever target one thing when playing a card, and only when playing one (which is why deathrattles and summoned minions never let you target anything). This is also why cards that do multiple things (Yogg-Saron, Shudderwock, Tess...) ALWAYS do it at random.
It's very good that Blizzard is finally trying to go beyond this extremely rigid ruleset, which honestly was starting to get very limiting.
Unless, of course, it's the same target for both spells, in which case this article should have said "target" singular
Man you are making conclusions on something that you don't know... Watch the reveal video and you will see that the first spell you choose is a target spell, the second one is not. Similar to zombeast creation, the options are limited.
They aren't letting you choose two targets. Peter Whalen said on Twitter, "First choice is random. Second choice won’t have targeted spells if your first choice was targeted"
https://twitter.com/legendaryferret/status/1107695976163115008?s=21
Unfortunately, it can only target a single thing. https://twitter.com/legendaryferret/status/1107695976163115008?s=21
I am disappoint.
Spaghetti code ruins interesting cards once again.
As a Shaman main, I love it. This is UI 2.0. You get a 5/5 on board, and you craft a 5/5 minion and that can cast up to 10+ mana of spells (hex, burst, AoE, silence, buff, card draw and maybe some new heal), not to mention making Shudderwock even better. The potential value is insane. And by splitting it over multiple turns (12 mana), it won't feel near as crappy to play against UI was, which gives me hope that they put a lot of thought into making high value cards not blatantly broken.
This is awesome.
Oh, and don't forget that Electra will trigger two Horrors!
Exactly. It's a high risk-high reward card, which is what makes high value cards fun instead of infuriatingly broken.
I personally love reusing iconic characters. Always felt it a bit of a shame to just invent new chars when you have some with so much lore and recognition to their names. Rather reuse and keep building on their stories
Yep. MTG has tons of characters that are reused and reintroduced.
I'm not entirely sold on it from a competitive standpoint, the effect looks fun but kinda slow. A 4 mana 3/3 Kazakus is much easier to weave into a turn than a 7 mana 5/5. So the turn you play it, all you will likely accomplish is a 5/5 minion. The spells can swing a game and shaman do have some nice spells... And some not so nice spells. I'm on a wait and see mindset for this one.
You don’t need to build the deck around this card though. Kazakh us came with a extreme drawback. Highlander decks are tough to craft, so much trouble drawing the key card needed.
This might (play testing needed obviously) be the drawback for a game changing swing card. With Shudderwok it can get a new horror and repeat the old horror again. It might be good enough to include in most non-aggro decks.
3 Legendary all 7 mana
A Kazakus that can craft a spell by combining only Shaman' cards but without the highlander restriction for your deck. Those saying that it's not good probably has never seen the Kabal leader perform its work.
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Not sure it's vanilla but okay ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Please, go over what "vanilla" means. Then read what you posted. You're welcome.
I kinda expected this was coming. Ok, here's exactly what bothered me thematically about this expansion, when it was announced, and possibly the entire Year of the Dragon:
How many "clones" will we end up with? We have two Rafaams, here's the second Hagatha, not counting spells like Hagatha's Scheme, and no doubt there's going to be a second Togwaggle. If Warrior gets yet another Dr. Boom, it will already be the third.
And with the other two expansions continuing this one story-wise, will there be even more Hagathas and Rafaams and Booms in those too? I mean, what will be the canon follow-up to the gang of evil attacking Dalaran? Either they will get thwarted and we will end up with a largely different premise next expansion, or they'll succeed and be present in the next expansion again, possibly getting more (legendary) cards named after them.
You could say it's "just cosmetics", but I find it somewhat silly when specific characters appear on multiple cards. I know this isn't the first time this happens, after so many "corrupted" versions of old legendaries in Old Gods for example, or Elise in Un'Goro, but I'm a bit afraid this is gonna pile up, and future Shaman decks will play 4 different Hagathas in a row, and that's before other Hearthstone characters make more appearances. Wouldn't be surprised to see Reno Jackson showing up again someday.
Of course, you shouldn't take anything seriously what happens on the playing field of Hearthstone, or interpret it in any way story-wise. You can play Cairne Bloodhoof in a Warrior deck against Shaman... But having the same character on two, three or even more cards is just getting ridiculous, especially when they play themselves, as it might very well happen with Hagatha's two cards.
As for the card itself... it's alright. I mean, it is somewhat slow that you only generate a 5-drop and you need to highroll on those spells, but you will likely get a powerful minion out of it. Not too shabby, but I'm not going crazy over it.