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.
The new Lady in White ! Exept less people seem to have lost their minds this time around. When I see people saying this is better than Kazakus xD.
Fun, but bad.
That sums it up nicely. The only way this would be better than Kazakus is if they cost the same mana.
And Kazakus's spells were a thousand times more mana efficient.
Yes you do.
Realy nice Legendary, but in the fact its tempo killer card.
This has a value for Control or Shudder decks.
Perfect for board clear or buff minions.
Great but no OP at all.
Yeah definitely stops tempo dead, which means even in control it'll often be hard to find the right time to lay her down. But lots of potential to high roll the horror. And tons of value added to Shudderwock. Also just a really neat and fresh card.
Playing with the Hagatha hero card A LOT has taught me this: Shaman has a lot of useless spells. When you get 1-2 every turn just by playing minions you'd play anyway you're bound to get some great ones eventually, not to mention the 3 damage usually clears aggro boards to give you the time to get them. When you only get 2 random ones you can easily get useless or just bad ones.
Who cares, this card and Rafaam seem fun asf to me.
I’m the sad and dumb guy who didn’t realize 3 sets rotate out. I’m kinda sacred at how stale the game is gonna be.
Kinda sad I started playing round the time of un’ goro
should I dust all those old cards if I have no other wild cards ?
Lastly, do you think they should allow players to rent sets for wild? I wouldn’t mind spending 200 gold or 4 bucks on renting a set for 2 days.
I've been playing since before League of Explorers and I've dusted all of my wild cards. Do I regret it? You betcha! Would I start collecting/crafting old cards to compete in a Wild mode? Probably not. However, if there was a tournament/game mode where I needed older cards I would craft them for that. The adventures, for instance. They allow you to play cards from any set.
Unfortunately, no I don't think that'd be a very good idea for Blizzard. I mean, what they've been doing has worked great. Why change it? It'd definitely make us a lot happier but I doubt that the profit would be remarkable enough. If instead, they added functionality to purchase individual cards for money/trading cards between players, that I could see happening and wouldn't be totally against. Other games do that without much complaint from the players. Will they do that though? I just don't see it ever happening, because again, what they're doing has worked for so long.
Oh! And try not to worry about the game being stale. :) After a week or so (usually sooner) a meta develops where strong cards are discovered and workable goals are found out. It'll be all good, promise! :)
if you bother to stay around for a few more expansions you'll have wild cards
Of course, players that started long ago have some advantage and you will ever be in a disadvantage.
Consider two things though:
1) the mammoth block was the strongest block HS has ever seen. And there were not *that* many sets before ungoro: GvG, 4 adventures, WOG, TGT, and MSG. very few GvG cards see play in wild, TGT - does not exist in wild, WOG and mainly MSG have indeed a couple of cards being played. Of the 4 adventures there are mainly a few key legendaries played, and BRM is basically the TGT of adventures.
what I want to say is that with the mammoth block you have a significant amount of wild viable cards. Mammoth makes up maybe 1/4 of the whole wild pool (and raven another quarter), but its cards appear disproportionally high, so with raven together you probably have a lot more than 50% of the wild base. (this assumes, of course, that you have a very decent base of mammoth and raven cards)
2) it is entirely possible that blizzard will, at some point, award wild packs as part of some event. They never did that, so there might be a political reason that prevents them from handing out wild cards, but .... otherwise, why not?
if you really feel like DEing mammoth cards, i'd advise you to be mindful and to not DE cards that see wild play already. Like KFTs DKs, KNCs power epics and weapons, ...
if you DE these, then going back to wild later will be quite painful.
The first time sets rotated out it felt pretty bad for me as well, but being a newer player, you should embrace the rotation because it's really not that hard to get ~10k gold and about the same amount of dust every 4 months for the new expansion, and rotation gives you equal footing with players that have been playing for 5 years. I'm a F2P, super casual (days on end I don't play at all) player and I get there every time. I play only standard other than some quests I get, btw.
I don't dust anything but golden cards already have 2 regular copies of and it worked fine so far. If I ever feel pressured and short on dust, every expansion has a few dozen filler cards that are not necessarily common you can disenchant. dusting everything on a whim seems a bit drastic to me.
First expansion of the year, when 3 sets rotate to wild is exactly the moment when meta is least stale normally. Past year was bad example where after rotation actually almost nothing new come. But in general when a lot of key cards are gone, there is place for a lot of tier 2/3 decks (of course not based on the wild cards). And suddenly some experimental decks come to live... or some new decks.
I think that bringing back wild cards will not go in advantage to someone. Trust me, you will not want to play it a lot. It pretty much depends on your personal prefers, but I don't want to go in the wild mainly because I am sick of this decks which are rotating. If you play every day (or at least often enough), you will be happy when decks go to wild and new one come :). Of course some people love wild, but I don't think that it is something for you should have so big concerns if you don't have money/cards to play it.
PS for sure if tournament mode come to life, it will be standard.
Smart way of thinking about it. Thanks for the input, definitely gonna reconsider dusting wild cards.
I play from League of Explorers, dusted all my wild cards, never regreted it. Never wanted to play wild, and I'm much happier about having more standard cards with the dust to try lots of things. I will dust everything again at rotation, including my beloved golden Uther DK.
Nah, no chance on getting a good deal out of Activision.
definitely a way to see it.
it's about choices. In this case racha seemed like he might like wild. Once one realizes that wild is definitely not gonna be something one likes, then dusting all is a good decision - due to having extra dust for probably 5+ legends for each rotated set.
Not a good card. Stats are horrible and affect is too slow and not enough impact. There is no good standard spells, unless rise of shadows introduce some good shaman spells. Pretty much don't craft.