New Shaman/Mage Legendary Card Revealed - Ras Frostwhisper
PlayHearthstone Instagram just revealed a new Scholomance Academy Shaman/Mage Legendary card: Ras Frostwhisper
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The only way this card would work is if it gets buffed by spell damage in hand. But then you have to HoF Malygoose and very likely still OP. Hopw it is? 1 star
This is really good. Compare with Despicable Dreadlord which saw tons of play.
Pretty sure we’ll see something to back this one up. I don’t think an OTK imo unless they release some 1/2 mana cost spell like “ you have Spell damage + x till the end of the turn” that can be discover and drawn easily by a miriade of existing cards
I think this is much more of a mage card than a xama. It's a 3/5 as mage, but currently a 2/5 xama, unless we get some new cheap spell damage.
At first I was extremely impressed by this card but after thinking about it a bit more carefully, I don't think it's as good as I initially thought. I do believe that most of the time, it's just going to be used as a 1 of Despicable Dreadlord. A 3/6 that deals 1 aoe to every enemy a turn, which is solid. We know first hand just how good that can be. And of course occasionally for shaman, you'll get the benefit of the extra damage when you happen to have a spell power totem on the board. But I don't think trying to include spell damage in your deck to make this card more effective will work out any better than trying to add spell damage to your deck to make any damaging spell more effective. It's just not really worked out well in the past.
Generally speaking, spell damage is rarely included in a deck solely for the sake of spell damage. There's usually some form of OTK involved (think Malygos) or the spell damage is more of a side-effect that happens to be included on a minion with some other powerful effect (Like Astromancer Solarian). So more often than not, this card will just be doing 1 damage with the Occasional 2 damage landing. Very rarely will it do more than that barring very exceptional circumstances. IE: Totem shaman with 4 buffed/cloned spell damage totems.
So, does that make the card bad? Not at all. But I don't think this card is overly impressive either. It's certainly not an auto-include but I do feel like there will be a place for it in a few shaman and mage decks.
Not excited by this card at all. Just seems garbage to be honest. Too situational and boring.
I think we will see OTK-Mages in the new meta.
Yes I already know a combo.
Jepetto Joybuzz into Malygos + Archmage Antonidas + Ras Frostwhisper + bunch of 0 Mana / 1 Mana Spells = GG
But Glide Meta will quickly bust these kids outta there.
edit: actually looks a bit TOO optimistic on 2nd look xD
? Wheres the otk? And how tf do you draw 3 cards with jepetto?
hahaha, well lets think about something?! as I cant seem to come up with anything better. The other Mage Legendary looks pretty meh, so I would definetly prefer a Jepetto'ed Maly over it for the Spell dmg boost.
Mage: Plays Spell Damage minion.
Opponent: "Get rid of it. Get rid of it. Get rid of it. Get rid of it. Get rid of it. "
Well i guess so much for the class identity speech they gave awhile ago, completely alienates and surpasses Despicable Dreadlord, I would imagine every Mage and Shaman will run this weather Aggro or Control since this also hits the face like Altruis the Outcast. Weaker cards like Twilight Flamecaller was also run often, you get way more stats, repeatable effect and can be amplified. It's one of the top Legendary so far. It will be nuts in Arena.
Dreadlord is not a legendary. Also, it has a demon tag.
Thx Sherlock. I think what i was trying to say went over your head.
Also it's... not currently in standard.
both mage legendaries are super boring.
Maybe powerful, but boring as fuck.
Let's hope the Mage/Rogue legendary is more interesting....
Has crazy potential given that new totem archtype where they copy the spell-damage buffed totems (augmerchant).. also Mozaki shenanigans.
i can see a mage deck that includes Jepetto Joybuzz + Ras Frostwhisper + Mozaki, Master Duelist + Headmaster Kel'Thuzad
doesnt even need Headmaster you can straight go for the OTK with Frostwhisper, Antonidas and Malygos instead.