New Warlock Common Card Revealed - Hollow Abomination
Douyu.com just revealed a new Fractured in Alterac Valley card: Hollow Abomination
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I would write this card off if it was in any other class, but Warlocks have a lot of damage spells that can wittle targets down to the point where this can finish it off and get its stats. I'm really not liking locks getting another AoE that can help them clear the board.
Actually, right now Warlock uses only Soul Rend as mass removal, because everything else in his toolset is too slow / too weak / too situational. This one seems no different, unless it will get some additional support. Because even if you manage to kill 2-3 weaker minions, you'll get 6-8/8 for 5 mana at best, with is OK, but why don't use Flesh Giant instead? It's really better to play 2-6 Giants (with Raise Dead) than this. And if your main goal is to clear the board, you should rather consider Entitled Customer or Hysteria instead.
Seems too slow. Could be good with some Equality type effect (maybe Warlock will get one? Who knows), but otherwise big no no.
honorable kill keyword is kinda weird when a minion is doing 1 damage with a battlecry. I mean you cant overkill something with that, might as well the text be: "Battlecry: deal 1 damage to all enemy minions. Gain the attack of the killed." They are using the keyword here just for the sake of it, "exact damage" aspect means nothing here.
Honorable kill also works when you attack with it soooo it's not only for 1 damage battlecry
ooh yeah didnt think about that
I think people are overestimating honorable kill. Its really dang difficult to get this off, and have it be meaningful enough
this card is designed to target stealth pally
let me tell you a fact: since warlock is always tier 1 in wild, its doomed in standard. they'll never print powerful card for warlock becuz a bunch of wild players can only play warlock and nothing else and always crying to nerf warlock
no warlock card is immune from nerfs, its just a dust collector class
Wish Priest could be in such similar spot....
Put taunt on this minion and this will see play in control warlocks
yeah sure give him more
Useful against spell token druid but turn 5 is kinda too late to clear their board...
Where was this when odd pally existed?
I just don't think this will see play due to the amount of 2 health minions in the meta.
odd pally still lives in wild
Well, it doesn't have to be strictly a 2 health minion, since it could be reduced to 2 health by your other minions and its Battlecry and then this could kill it. But it's an awful cost for what it does; too expensive for Zoo; not big enough and lacks Taunt for control. It's just a tweener card that doesn't even fit in some kind of midrange demon deck (not that those exist) because it's not a demon. Will Honorable Kill work multiple times? As in, if it kills off a bunch of things with 1 health, does it gain ALL of their attack value? That would be kind of amazing against Quest Paladin... which no one plays.