New Rogue Epic Card Revealed - Cloak of Shadows
NGA Hearthstone just revealed a new Madness at the Darkmoon Faire card: Cloak of Shadows
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mill in wild?
New auto concede route: Prep + coin + Cloak of Shadows + Attack with hero + Concede.
Jokes aside, the only purpose of this card is to setup a combo deck. You can put it in stealth Rogue if you want but you’d rather just put an actual card instead
Valeera the Hollow is crying somewhere in Wild right now
Do you think Valeera is used for the stealth effect? It is a nice survivability tool ofc, but the whole reason is the power level of the hero power in a mill or quest deck.
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yeah its survivability, but ask what kind of rogue will use this
Similar to Frost Nova.
Less strong than Time Out! cause with time out! you could still trade with your hero for free and still be completely safe the turn after. With this you have not the trade for free (I guess you also lose stealth if you attack) and as is already been said Arcane Missiles or Hunter Hero Power can still damage you...
I don't think it's that great. Not really better or worse than Evasion, situationally could go either way.
What deck would use deck slots for this though? People are saying Mill Rogue, ok but what are you removing for this? Combo decks, it doesn't draw or do anything but prevent attacking/targeting for a turn.
I don't understand printing this card for Rogue right now.
There are lots of things you could remove in mill rogue. It's a tier 5 deck, tier 4 if you really know what you're doing and how to adjust to the meta. Mill rogue cannot expect to play a singular list and succeed in the wild meta, there are a lot of things that need to be considered depending on the meta. And the current meta, which is quite fast and deals a lot of face damage, requires more ability to stall if you want to play a greedier deck. Evasion is really not that good at stalling and you still might end up taking 5-8 damage, so for 1 extra mana, this is basically evasion + heal 5-8. There are a few situations where its not blocking things that evasion could, but those situations are very rare, or not very relevant, and shouldn't be considered when building a deck that should be built according to the meta.
However, I do believe that rogue needs a board clear like vanish in order to actually take advantage of this card to the fullest, so I agree that this card doesn't make much sense in the standard meta. I guess it can be played alongside shak'zara or something if you are trying to play some kind of value/combo rogue, but I doubt it will be a great deck.
I think this is a key card for a combo rogue to work and here is why -> Yes its a worse Time Out!, yes you could still take damage with cards like Consecration, but the point is not to surive at 1 hp, the point is that for 3 mana now you can ignore your opponents board to buy turns to put your combo together.
2 extra turns with 7 mana each you can do many scary stuff, dont underestimate this card
Not sure if anyone has written this, so I'll give it a go;
A lot are mentioning that this is a worse Time Out!. If you compare the wording on this card as to Valeera the Hollow, it seems kind of weird it's for >1< turn. These kind of things are rarely written with a number in hearthstone unless there's some sort of interaction that can alter it. I think this'll be hell of strong if there is.
It's like a crappier time out. You used to pay 9 for this with the Death Knight and there were still fringe cases where people could break through the stealth anyways, so it's not always going to save you.
Finally. Afteh all these years they finally made something similar to ice block/timeout. <3
YES!!!!!
This card alone could make mill rogue viable in wild again. One of the main problems with mill rogue is that doomsayer and vanish were not enough stall out the game anymore. If you can play this card to essentially buy an extra turn or 2 before vanishing, it can straight up win the game.
Loved this from DK Valeera, i love it now.
I didn't really play much Time Out! combo paladin but is this that much better than just putting down a 3 or 4 mana taunt card? I don't think rogue has much of a followup after they spend their turn building up a bigger board, clearing yours, and waiting for the stealth to go down. Dying to Arcane Missiles Mozaki, Master Duelist is going to feel bad.
For Wild it is that much better. For standard it is pretty meh card.
There has to be a way to abuse this with Educated Elekk . . .