How Zayle, Shadow Cloak Works + All Five Decklists
The new Dalaran adventure that releases this Thursday comes with a new awesome card that works like our friend Whizbang the Wonderful. Instead of the regular deck recipes though, Zayle has 5 special E.V.I.L. decks.
Obtaining Zayle, Shadow Cloak
There are two ways to obtain Zayle.
- Purchasing the entire adventure gives you a golden Zayle, Shadow Cloak.
- This can be done with money right away ($20) or gold as the wings come out (700 per wing).
- You must own the entire adventure before you'll get golden Zayle. You do not need to complete it.
- Crafting through 1600 dust gives you the normal version of Zayle, Shadow Cloak.
- The ability to craft a normal Zayle will unlock on Thursday when the adventure releases.
The Decks
There are five decks that Zayle provides. They are all E.V.I.L! Each deck comes from the class that represents each member of the League of E.V.I.L. and internally is referred to as such. Example: "Boom's EVIL Deck".
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On reddit, a community manager said that they are going to make a hotfix *soon* after the bug was discovered to prevent Zayle from being given in packs. No info since, that I know of. Should be some announcement somewhere sometime.
Thank you! Hope the will do some announcement after fixing.
I mainly play on EU that I invest in but my Asia account is my F2P server and I recently crafted Golden Whizzbang and let me tell you it's the best 3200 dust I have ever spent. Playing with all golden decks is so much fun (I don't even know why, it has zero advantage).
Looking forward to Golden Zayle, these decks look really good actually. They will be great for new players and F2P.
OMG yes. I crafted whizzbang the other day on a old account. Having all golden cards and heroes is so nice. I would also recommend others trying it out.
I will predict they will update these decks to its strongest version when they have released the remaining two expansions, cause the three expansions this year are connected after all, otherwise it wouldn't make sense.
after last expansion of the year, I think they will either stop or continue until it is rotated out.
I WAS very excited for the card and this announcement really let me down. I WAS hoping for this new card to hide some new heroes with new hero powers, new special OP cards that could only be balanced in this pre-made decks, maybe something like the henchman that we've already seen in last week's brawl. It wasn't unfortunately. I'm pretty disappointed that we're getting normal decks and decks with cards we've already seen nonetheless. So much wasted potential.
On the BRIGHT SIDE. It being available from tomorrow and having the possibility to craft the normal version with dust it's a great thing. Consumer friendly - you don't have to pay 20$ for it if you don't want to, you don't even have to grind 2800 gold, just pay 1600 dust. F2P friendly: just make a new account, grind ranks for 1-2 hours, open the free starter packs, dezenchant everything and get your decks to try out.
Some good things, some bad things. What I want to say is that I would have been a lot more excited to try the decks if it was released from the Day 1 of the expansion.
Uh... Buddy... Everyone knew that card was gonna be something as Whizbang... They will NEVER give a card in adventure which is not a card that everyone cas access to without buying it, that's the reason why adventure as Blackrock or Naxx etc... were stopped.
What?? You want new cards added to the meta? Do you know what the word competition means?
Except that the card is obtainable without buying the adventure... I have the card right now and the adventure isn't even out yet. Are you retarded?
Where and when can we buy the adventure? No pre-order this time?
Thursday! Should be available in-game and on the official site. Since it is in-game, you should be able to use Amazon Coins (affiliate link) provided you have Amazon Underground installed.
Isn't this just normal deck recipes with less rng than wizbang?
And will they be updated?
Not likely to be updated. They have to stick to the EVIL theme, card def wasn't meant to be useful forever.
So what happens when cards from the witchwood, boomsday, and rastakhan rotate while zayle is still in standard? Will you have access to wild cards in standard? Or will the decks be modified?
I think they decided it would be a problem for "future Hearthstone team". lol
Good observation there.
Most likely the card will get Hall of Fame'd early lol.
The decks will be modified most likely, just like whizbang after card nerfs or new expansion releases. They will probably keep the same "evil" theme consistent.
Yes, if you craft a regular Zayle (golden one can't be crafted), you will still receive a golden one upon purchase (don't even need to complete) of the full adventure regardless of if it's from money or gold. Granted paying for the adventure with gold means that you won't be able to get your golden Zayle until 3 weeks from tomorrow.
You can later dust the regular Zayle for 400 dust. Golden Zayle is uncraftable and therefore undustable. It's best to not craft it at all. If you really want it and can't wait then just pay for the adventure.
Incidentally, this also means that non-golden Zayle becomes a useless status symbol because it means that you have more dust than brains and you can't even show off your silly crafting choices. :)
Doesn't work. The moment you put in one or the other your deck gets auto-completed and locked.