PlayHearthstone Japan just revealed a new Festival of Legends card: Barrel Of Monkeys
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So is there any catch with those spells or are these just the most broken spells ever?
Maybe I’m just unimaginative, but aren’t the two spells here the strongest cards revealed by a country mile? In terms of raw power (ie just draw and spam the card late game), they’re barely good enough, but the ability to fill mana for tempo on early turns like that is just amazing, particularly in hunter, where hero power early is weak.
Check the rest of the replies. There's literally someone who understood it the way I suggested, proving you're just wrong. Like I said.
so they are basically "triple" twinspells right?
I for one like the idea of Monkey hunter.
By default 6 monkeys, School Teacher for twelve monkeys, Twinbow Terrorcoil for eighteen monkeys, Queen Azshara for twenty one monkeys.
Trinket Tracker to tutor Bunch of Bananas, invite the monkeys to Sire Denathrius's ball...
A bit worried about Arrow Smith, but I'm fine with Hunter cards as long as they are not Spell that hit face or support brainless Odd Quest Hunter in Wild....
Looks like it is the same guy that wrote the card text for Thaddius, Monstrosity.
What does "(3 Monkeys/Banana Left!)" mean??? If the spell has 3 uses before it leaves your hand then actually type it on the card.
Sure, once you play the card yourself it will be apparent and you'd not be confused afterwards but I never played Thaddius, Monstrosity at all and I was surprised and kept saying "wtf is he talking about" in my head when a YouTuber kept saying that Thaddius is on the even polarity while it is in his hand. Thaddius still doesn't have any sort of animation or visual or sound effect while it is in your hand that indicate that it has changed.
We're finally returning to Monke, boys.
Pretty sure it comes back to the hand until there is no Monkey or bananas left.
??? what...
I love how the effect text doesn’t need to over-explain how it works. It’s nice when the Hearthstone team trusts the players will understand.
Barrel of Monkeys actually looks bananas. Great value!
I was so confused to see Silverback Patriarch at the bottom lmao but it is the token from the 2 mana spell.
Barrel of Monkeys is far stronger than people assume
I hate when the release cards with weird mechanics and don't explain them. Are the monkey and banana card just twinspells that you can play 3 times? Do they upgrade on use? Who knows.
Now, that Naga is scary cause we've seen so many of these "Deal damage to random enemy including the enemy hero" cards lead to degen mass damage combos.
Any card that somehow upgrades has the (Upgrades when you do X [..]) text in parenthesis on the cards.
Those cards are easily understood. They are spells you can cast three times before they are used up, exactly as the card text states. (3 Uses left) it's really easily understood if you just read the text on the card.
That's just wrong. Cards in hearthstone either have a line explaining what they do, or they have a keyword. Twinspell or Echo are perfect examples of this. They exist in both forms, but they're always explicitly stated.
The only exception to this rule so far have been cards where the explanation would be too long to fit on the card. Zephrys for example. It's very hard to accurately describe what it does - probably impossible in the very limited amount of text space a card has.
There's no reason for these cards to not be worded better. "(You can play this 3 more times)". Would be a very simple alternative, and I'm sure you could come up with something better. The way it's written now it could be a card that's part of a wider mechanic - let's say you have a legendary that revives when you play X monkeys, and then a number of cards that summon monkeys. It would make exactly as much sense to have the wording "3 monkeys left" on those cards. As in, you need to summon 3 more monkeys to revive the legendary. I can come up with 3 more ways this text could be interpreted by a player unfamiliar with it just off the top of my head. It's worded poorly, no way around it.
If this had a wider mechanic they'd showcase the card it's attached to first, like a specific legendary. Yes, sure, I guess there are ways of wording it more explicit however it's very much clear what's intended here. Pretending that it could mean "Oh, what if they actually mean this because there could be this mechanic somewhere in the set!" is just arguing for the sake of arguing.
These cards were showcased with the weapon that upgrades when you play spells and a minion that fires pings whenever you cast a spell. Obviously these are just spells that take up a single card slot but can cast multiple times to enable the weapon and the minion.
It's really not that complicated.
They are starting to use these random "flavor" words instead of clear wording more often in last two years. I don't have issue with it on one card that much. I'd say that bigger issue is something like making Whelps or Imps some subtribe. Where it's not clear at all what cards/tokens count or not before even building a deck. It's like they would suddenly make ancient of lore, rotten applebaum, etc., count as treants.
I didn't know this qualified as folk music.