Neutral Legendary Card Revealed - Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
Alliestrasza just revealed a new Descent of Dragons Neutral card: Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
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Alexstrasza is very hot, I want November to end and December 10
Dragon Breeder is a card
A Horny Queen... that summons 2 other dragons... do i need an adult?
!!My Queen!!
Pushing highlander decks? Yes please! The deck really doesn't have anything to do with Dragons.
On a side note, all of Allie's reveals I've seen have really been fantastic, and this is no different.
Oh wow!
I know it’s a 9 8/8 body put (potentially) tons of stats on the board, but isn’t it “boring” of an effect for Alexstraza? A card which has one of the most game changing abilities in the classic set?
It might be an unpopular opinion, but the effect still seems thematic despite it being a tad boring. I mean, you know there's going to be highlight videos of people playing this, and getting two copies of Dragonqueen Alexstrasza.
my warrior says thank you !
With RNGsus on your side that's a board full of 8/8s and a hand full of dragons!
A fair and reasonable card. Though at 9 mana they could have buffed her to 9/9 to maker her stand out from her classic counter part.
Fair and reasonable until you go against the guy who plays Alexstrasza into Alexstrasza into Alexstrasza.
Assuming that they add another 15-20 dragons and that this generates dragons from all classes you have two 2% chances to get a second Alex. That comes out to a 3.96% chance to pull one.
Then to pull a second, you have another 3.96% chance, which means overall it's about a .15% chance to get two, so one out of about every 650 plays is going to get mega value, and one out of every 25 plays is going to get double 8/8s and two free dragos in hand.
Cry more.
If a good card didn't do something mega good every once in about 650 plays, or very good once in about every 25 plays...it's not actually very good. Those numbers sound perfectly reasonable.
That's not the point though. The point is that Blizz has already said that they don't want to design cards that feel bad to play against. Crystal Core rogue was not really good, but when they got lucky you just got destroyed. This is the same way. Even without multiplying herself, you're still looking at things like:
Nuke an enemy for 7 with Crowd Roaster and generate more value with Brightwing
Double your hand with Emeriss and drop an 8/24 Kalecgos then play a free spell
Nozari to full health and Alex the enemy back to 15
Shuffle 7 dream portals in your deck with new Ysera and discover another dragon with one of the class based ones
Right now it is literally a 50-50 chance to get a free legendary with each roll on Alex. And only a 25% chance to get something less than 6 mana, one of which is just a free mana reset (Nozdormu).
It's an extremely strong card that I can see being run even in non highlander decks the same way Zephrys is right now. Which means it's pretty good risk of being nerfed.
Cards that generate other slow cards in highlander decks are...not as good as you seem to think. Extreme value, but this card probably won't even get drawn in half the games its played, and when it's drawn you have to be in pretty decent position to use it because it will usually be the only thing you'll get to do that turn. Yes, crowd roaster is a good card. Emeriss is a great card...if you've got a 10 mana turn where you can afford not to affect the board, heal, or play a taunt. Which is to say... I've NEVER seen it played. Also, you could get brightwing. Or something meh like that bronze dragon that gives you 4/4. This is basically a giant weaponized pinata with a highlander condition. It's not gonna break the game.
I hate this DAMN RNG SHIT!
Don't play card games. Try chess. Or Tic-Tac-Toe. No RNG there.
well all hail to the queen.
Okay shaman take your pants off, let’s see those legendaries.