New Paladin/Priest Legendary Card Revealed - High Abbess Alura
Wronchi just revealed a new Scholomance Academy Paladin/Priest Legendary card: High Abbess Alura
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As expected from the last expansions Paladin got the worst legendary and the worst bi-class legendary... Nothing is changed... (but always better this forcing of the previous legendary 8 mana that will never see play)
well if a class is weak, it takes them 2-3 expansions to react to that, because they work about a year in advance.
obviously they have yet to begin with us :)
Then don't tell me these cards aren't wanted, don't you think of it before a legendary like the paladin's 8 mana is crap !? You have to play it to find out !? Ridiculous , of course it is wanted!
They don't want help this class...
We haven't seen the whole set yet. Turalyon is underwhelming, but this card is super dependent on what spells we get from the rest of the set.
I think that many people are underestimating this card. I think that it's just amazing for paladin: you drop on turn 4 or 5, cast a libram of wisdom and this can become such a high value and high tempo minion very early on. The only problem of this card is that it could cast libram of justice and consac, which would be veru bad since you definitely want to keep those for the right occasion, butr at the same time there might even be a possibility to build a deck were the amount of good buff cards is so superior to the low rolls which will make it worth it.
That being said, this card is so horrible for priest that it's kind of ridicolous: the class has nowhere near enough buff cards to build a deck without the removal ones, and it wouldn't be worth it for just one single legendary. I am a paladin enthusiast, so I am fine with it, but it really sucks to see a card that is basically a "fake" dual class, since it's made for a specific archetype and it' utterly useless in the other class.
The card doesn't say anything about it needing to be buff cards. I think this has a place in a tempo priest deck. Certainly getting Apotheosis for free on this is swell. Maybe make a dragon tempo package and run Breath of the Infinite and such as well.
This is also great with the copy-divine shield card because spell burst will activate after the card does. It also works to thin your deck.
The main problem with this is it can really only go into tempo decks. You can't run any targeted removal cards at all.
I think this card will be fine in a priest deck built with it in mind. Priest doesn't need to run removals as spells in the deck, he can discover those spells instead, or use minion-based removal. This could work as a mid-range resurrect deck too.
I would say that buffs are not the only way to employ this card, cheating out any extra card tipiclay strong play. Having this cast ruin or holy nova wouldn't be the worst as it saves a few mana and leaves a body. You could also use it to hit mass res earlier than turn 14 assuming you had one or two minons worth geting back up. Specaliy on turn 7 8 against hyper aggro decks.
it doesnt say" cast a random spell" it says" cast a spell". probably options here
I don't think this should have been a legendary. You could have 2 copies of this and i feel it still wouldn't break the game. maybe i'm underestimating it?
I mean it has some negative synergies mostly in priest, but if your decks built around this it should be solid.
It's actually a super strong effect, and as huge fan of buff strategies I'm gonna enjoy the hell out if it but I can also so why people are super salty who expect OP shit because it says legendary
mi ez a fos🤣
I will craft her golden, just because she is a draenei and I am a huge fan of them. I will try to make something in wild, like spiteful priest, though she is probably not very playable otherwise and that is very sad.
The artwork is beautiful, one of the best from the set so far.
Mechanically fun card yet way to risky to actually be playable, alongside the fact this really did not need to be spellburst from a balance perspective.
Wish it was a battlecry effect (I know spellburst is the expansion's new effect... just sayin)
Even the video itself shows us how stupid this card is. -5/5. You don’t even play the copy of the spell so there is a chance of wasting a crucial buff/removal for nothing. Worst legendary so far
What are you smoking? Yes, if you just put this card into a random Paladin deck it's mediocre, but if you tailor the deck around it a bit this card will straight up win games if you play it on turn 4. Just imagine these scenarios:
Do any of those sound bad to you? Granted, you probably can't really put only (some of) these cards in your deck, but just the fact that if any of these cards *are* in the deck, and High Abbess Alura can cast them makes it worth including for the possibility of the highroll. And it's not like the rest of the spells you might put in your deck are bad. If Alura casts Consecration or Libram of Justice, even something like Call to Adventure, those are still incredible results when they're tied to a 4 mana 3/6, which is a premium statline.
the worst after paladin's 8 mana (8 mana and "maybe" you remove a minion)