New Warlock Legendary Card Revealed - Neeru Fireblade
YiLingShu just revealed a new Forged in the Barrens card: Neeru Fireblade
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trust me, this card is insane in wild zoo discard warlock. you don't stop drawing and is a good win condition to deal with the board on late game. Also in standard there's a few cards that works well with this.
I won't be mad if I get this from a pack opening, is that type of legendary card that hurts to craft but is a plus to get it.
We have to think about two thinks when reffering to this card:
Will burn warlock work? There are lots of cards yet to see, but i don't think it will be a good strategy.
Will be this card played OUTSIDE that archetipe? I think that, if the meta is control heavy, it could be a possibility. This card is not so bad for tempo in non control v control, and the payoff...
The payoff: I think the portal can be easily underestimated becouse of the nether portal, for example, or Chef Nomi, that was never run in Warlock, but six 3/2 at the end of EACH turn is a heavy payoff, it can really help out if you are out of resources, and so is your opponent. Your opponent will have to clean your board every turn, and generate somo kind of pressure, becouse the imps WILL be generted in his turn as well, so, if im not wrong, they will be able to attack at the start of the next turn. They WILL need a taunt.
Is this better than Rustwix: If you plan on playing Rustwix, is highly difficult that the game is going fatigue (but possibe!). Will you be able to get this payoff in that case? Thats what i don`t really now right now.
What do you think, do you aggree with me? Please tell me :)
Yeah, no. This “mill yourself” strategy isn’t going to work, for SO MANY reasons. None of these payoffs are worth anything in comparison to the cumulative fatigue damage we’re taking every turn, and with no resources to draw, and limited cards in hand, any control deck with even a modicum of removal tools laughs at this.
I actually don't think this card in particular is very good BUT I think there is one avenue that could definitely be a possibility for this "mill yourself" warlock strategy, and that is getting near/to fatigue, and then combating it with cards like Envoy Rustwix, Kanrethad Ebonlocke, and even Vectus to support the other two. What I'm saying is that warlock certainly has ways to refill their deck, and with powerful prime minions at that. So that is a possibility for this archetype. I'm not saying that it will be good, I'm just saying it's possible, and definitely has to be brought up for this topic.
This card itself, Neeru, would actually prevent you from playing minions like Envoy and Kanrethad, so it actually has counter-synergy with what i was just talking about. Which is why I don't think it's very good. But yeah.
In reality we know that works. In the past we had Chef Nomi. A deck with the aim of outomill yourself fast in order to cast her. The issue is: Is the new legendary good enough in order to payback for an automill? Like now I think now. Chef Nomi was able to put more 30+ damages on board this is not. In any case, we will see.
For sure in any case it is a mediocre card, if your deck is empty and you would have been a combo deck it means you would have a combo combination in hand to close the game, like Mecha'thun. I am sure that this card will not be played in wild.
I really dont think this card is weak . I really like it . Dont think it will be an archetype around mill warlock . Warlock has the heropower so he doest need to mill himshelf i think . Just a nice endgame value . Btw the battlecry is legit ? I mean that if your deck is empty , a portal is opening . Then you can fill your deck with primes and still keel the portal ? if so , then its not that bad as we think , i guess ?
Seven 3/2 minions doesn't feel like adequate payoff to burning your own deck, especially in late game.
You could just run it in a standard control deck as an option in fatigue, which could work well paired with Jaraxxus, assuming you can make room for your 6/6 Infernals each turn.
On the other hand, Rustwix, Kanrethad, Felosophy, and Vectus are all still in Standard, so you could instead shuffle lots of Primes into your deck. Unfortunately with quest rotating out you don't get 0 mana primes, but most of them still cost 8 or less, so you can pair them with Infernals after playing Jaraxxus. Harder to draw them, though.
If that is like the portal from the quest, it will be 6 minions as the portal will take one slot permanently, which makes it even worse
It's no Mecha'thun, I'll tell ya that
You can attack with the imps immediately your turn starts right ? If they get summoned at the end of each turn.
This seems kinda bad.
Warlock has enough options for late playability if they are going for the fatigue game.
Most of the time, this will be a vanilla 5 mana 5/5. Maybe if it was 4 mana, some could play it for fun. But I don't think we will see a lot of this.
All I can see are memories of "Freeze Shaman", lets throw some random effect cards to a class and never support it again! People who say you can Soul Rend or even play uncorrupted Tickatus to mill your self faster are forgetting that well you need to have this card in your hand already or your game-plan is out the window.
As someone mentioned, if there is a new card to "discover" milled cards that would be strong, but hopefully they dont print such tools.
I believe there must be some more cards to support this "empty your own deck ASAP" archetype, because what we have so far, doesn't look strong enough to me. This card is obviously pretty useless in aggro matchups but also seems to be too slow in normal control Warlock decks (without pushing this whole "race to burn yourself" thing). Board filled with 3/2 every turn for free sounds nice, but let me remind you, that at this point Warlock is also taking fatigue damage each turn... unless there's more to this archetype that wasn't revealed yet.
To make it work, I think Warlock needs some tool(s) to stop fatigue damage. Maybe card that literally does that or card that fills your deck with something. It might be OK though, if you line this card with Jaraxxus and Envoy, but that sounds like veeeeeeery slow setup.
Seems cool at least. Like a better Nomi. I dunno what this self-milling Warlock really looks like, but I think more or less this card makes Soul Rend more usable in control match ups anyway.
Except mirror match-ups, any control match-up can be won by this card. Ridiculously powerful.
You clearly have never witnessed the power of Yogg Saron or C'thun
Oh believe me, I did. Still, they're vulnerable against Tickatus.
true, but then it was tickatus that won the match, not this card :P
Love this Card 🤩
It seems that Blizzard is trying to push hard a new Warlock archetype in which lock has to destroy its own deck. Neeru Fireblade, Soul Rend, Blood Shard Bristleback, and even Tickatus without corruption. Destroy your own deck it is very bad, at least you don't have a very strong drawback.
New archetype is a big word, considering the past Chef Nomi. We know from the past that the archetype works, even through it is nothing special. Overall in any case Chef Nomi had a much bigger initial threat than Neeru Fireblade, but Neeru is constant. Its main issue is that it is not able to reach 30 damages on board, like Nomi. We will see.