New Rogue Legendary Card Revealed - Grand Empress Shek'zara
basarCos just revealed a new Madness at the Darkmoon Faire card: Grand Empress Shek'zara
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You mean a "5 mana 7/5 that will give you maybe one more threat because that's about as much as you can expect to draw it before the game is over", right? Grand Empress Shek'zara works immediately, she draws two cards, which is historically worth 3 mana (some classes have to pay even more for it), and you have some control over what you draw, so... let's give that a value of 0,5 mana?
When you consider that distribution, it means the 5/7 started body of Shek'zara only "costs" 2,5 mana. And I didn't even factor in bundling and combo potential, which should also be assigned a mana value when determining how good a card is.
This card is amazing. Just for fun, you wanna bet this card will see play in almost every Rogue deck? I'll come here in a month and we'll see who was right, if you like.
Lmao did you design the card or something man? You have replied to almost every post and you think the card will see play in every rogue deck. We get it man, you like the card.
I mean Waxadred is okay. But this is a lot better, and a very different card. Honestly in a tempo rogue deck that does a lot of cycling (which this would fit well into), Waxadred's pretty good if you can get multiple procs off.
So do you get +1 copy of whatever card you pick? Say you have 2 in deck and you discover that card, you end up with 3 of them?
what?
Does the discover generate a copy, or just determine which card you are drawing?
Discover, unless mentioned specifically, does not generate an extra copy, it gives (if not in your deck) or draws a discovered card.
You'll draw all copies in your deck. No generated new ones... The idea is to shuffle things into your deck. Especially auto-summon cards, and then pull them all... Leeroy Jenkins +Preparation + Shadow of Death + Preparation + Shadow of Death on turn 10 = Grand Empress Shek'zara on 11 for 36 damage.
... Just as an example.
Well, that's one idea, and I'm sure a lot of people will try it, but honestly, I think it will just be played in any normal tempo-based rogue deck at the end of the day. It draws two cards (usually), has good stats, and you have some control of what you actually draw. Good inclusion for pretty much every Rogue deck that's played ATM.
Man, JAlexander is not going to like this slowwwww card at all.
Finally a way to buy the spiders besides stoway
This is probably bad. Way too low tempo for Rogue. The value might be pretty nice, but most of the time it just draws 1 or 2 cards.
It's a 6 mana 5/7 that draws two cards, that's NOT "low tempo". The stats are pretty good, and a card that draws or generates two good tempo cards for you is itself high-tempo by definition. As an illustration, imagine you're playing Quest Rogue, you play Grand Empress Shek'zara, and one of the cards you're offered is Vendetta. In that example, Shek'zara is effectively a 6 mana 5/7 with "battlecry: deal 8 damage". That's just one example, but you get the point.
I think Shek'zara will see play in almost every Rogue deck for the next few expansions at least, it's very solid.
Unless you run it in a deck with Ticket Master or similar cards in which case it draws at LEAST 2 and summons a bunch of shit to the board at the same time
If you played two Ticket Master into Shekzeer, that's a "summon 6 3/3 and draw six" with a 5/7 body. So it's playable at worst, and game winning at best.
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the meme that keeps on memeing, value rogue.
I feel this in actual play is a Thistle Tea tutor on a 5/7 body. A great card to help revive galakrond further.
This seems pretty interesting, but I'm wondering how strong the application will be.
"Discover a card in your deck" means it could be literally any card, so until you're down to the end of your deck, you really couldn't guarantee any specific thing.
If you've used Togwaggle's Scheme to shuffle a bajillion Kronx's into your deck, you could only really hold a few of them anyway, so the rest would be burned, right?
I think this is looking good as a card to follow up Shadow of Death or the new ticket guy, since you would get all the minion presence, plus an extra draw for each card... but hitting these would still probably be the highroll and won't always be 100% certain.
It won't be 100% certain sure but it'll be pretty likely. Even if you drop her on turn 7, if you have 6 Tickets in your deck it's a 58% chance to Discover one. On turn 15 it's a 74% chance.
This card is amazing even as draw one or draw two. You don’t need to shuffle copies of something in your deck. You can just tutor draw (with some luck) what you need from your deck. All the better if there is an OTK deck for Rogue at the moment.
Bomb defuser combo with violet illusioner