New Priest Epic Card Revealed - Shadow Word: Devour
Online Station just revealed a new Fractured in Alterac Valley card: Shadow Word: Devour
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I'm not sure this is impactful enough. Would rather it stole 3 health and costed 5.
At that point I would be happy to buff an opponents minion in order to clear the rest of their board. Sort of like Brawl.
Really like this card , cheap , flexible . What priest needs overall to gain control . Hope new meta will be boardcentric , otherwise this will be useless .
For 1 mana that is insane tbh.
I think people underestimate this card.
Whoever played a bit of control priest, knows that the main reason you play that class-archetype is to give board-centric players a nightmare of a game, especially if it is midrange or light aggro. There is really no other reason to choose priest-control, any combo will beat you hard and there are barely any win conditions, all you do as that playstyle is to never let your opponent hit your face no matter how late you 2 are in the game.
This card does exactly that: just makes an annoy of a minion on the board while dealing AoE for only 1 mana. Will this be better than Hysteria/Psychic Scream? Of course not, but it will be played just to make aggro/midrange's life even harder.
Also it's worth to consider how cheap it is. Wild Raza Priest played alot of times weird cards like potion of madness, power words, holy smite, spirit lash that really only works with Bloodmage Thalnos. Just clear cards that trolls the aggro/midrange opponent that are also cheap enough for Spawn of Shadows.
Cheap clear cards will ALWAYS be played in priest even if they aren't the best, solely for that "Do nothing, discover alot, clear the board forever" playstyle. God I even played Power Word: Glory for that basic "troll a cheap minion" and it worked perfectly in any control priest deck I've had.
Someone already mentioned alchemist, I thought it was obvious where this was going. Sorry. Guess not.
Samuro + SW:D + CrazedAlchemist will have 1HP and can kill only one minion which has >0 attack. Samuro + Alchemist + SW:D can deal +12/+6s to the specific boards for 7 mana but it looks pretty unrealistic to put all this in the deck.
It's not so much about killing minions. More so about building a lot of health, using alchemist and then going face.
Wait, face?
Samuro's effect only triggers when it TAKES damage. With 1 health its frenzy effect will never activate.
It has rush, not charge. It cannot hit face.
You didn't think this through.
This card has potential.
Turn 5: Blademaster Samuro + Shadow Word: Devour
Turn 8: Blademaster Samuro + Shadow Word: Devour + Apotheosis
What is Samuro doing to benefit from this? It's stealing health. Now you have a huge 1/X Samuro to do...something?
Yep, 5 mana deal 2 to most of the board looks not solid enough)))
Edit: You're right. I forgot the extra damage only applies to the minion it's attacking, not all of them.
I mean, it's like a "Deal 1 damage to all minions" but requires a minion, and it gains health too. For 1 mana? Seems ok.
The devs have really grown fond of the "eating stats" mechanic
"Steal" means it goes through Divine Shield or Immune
Interesting Card, can pe pretty good but its hard to rate right now.
i mean...its jus 1 mana
Interesting card at least:
- situational as expected for Priest card
- minor AoE which is good
- combo with other minions for board control or attack damage
Duels is going to be a nightmare.
I reserve judgment on this card until I see more of the Priest cards revealed. One person mentioned Moonfang with this and I find that hilariously effective.
Playing this in tandem with a taunt can stonewall a lot of things, and it's even free if you find it off of Palm Reading.
to be somehow еffective you'll need to get moonfang before turn 7-8 and avoid in return such things as sap, devolve, coerce, hex, barov, bladestorm, sw:d, standing several turns under freeze ... or just lethal from opponent in next 1 or 2 turns while just ignoring him