Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

It's Hagatha Time!

• Swampqueen Hagatha - Shaman Legendary Minion; 7 mana 5/5; Battlecry: Add a 5/5 Horror to your hand. Teach it two Shaman spells.
  • How it works: You Discover two Shaman Spells. The Horror's Battlecry will read: Cast (Spell 1 - this spell is a targetable spell) and (Spell 2 - this is a non-targetable spell). The Battlecry is targetable, so no RNG here. Spells with Overload will Overload you the usual way.
    • A video that shows it in action.

Edited by FergardStratoavis on Mar 18th 2019 at 9:14:22 AM

Ooh, that's very neat and very versatile. The discover might sometimes not give you what you need, but it's generally going to be good enough for your current needs.

That's really complicated, but potentially a lot of fun. The main problem is that the initial tempo loss of playing Hagatha is severe.

It entirely depends on the RNG. But a 7 mana 5/5 isnt unheard of.

Edited by Memers on Mar 19th 2019 at 9:02:03 AM

A 7 mana 5/5 that casts 2 spells is almost always gonna be pretty worthwhile

It's a 7 mana 5/5 that gives you a 5 mana 5/5 that casts two spells. Without gimmicks, you cannot deploy the payload in the same turn as you prepare it, making Hagatha a huge tempo loss and potentially unplayable in an aggro field.

You need to establish a tenable board position before you can safely use it.

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 19th 2019 at 12:35:55 PM

Its a 7 mana 5/5 that gives you a 5 mana 5/5 that casts 2 spells.

Over 2 turns it is 12 mana 10/10 worth of stats that casts 2 spells.

Two new cards reveal:

Priest

Lazul's scheme: 0 mana epic spell, reduce the attack of an enemy minion by 1 until your next turn. (Upgrades each turn)

Hunter

Oblivitron: 6 mana 3/4 legendary minion, deathrattle: Summon a mech from your hand and trigger its deathrattle

Lazul's Scheme: Seems like someone might make use of this in constructed, but it feels awfully situational. I guess it's to replace attack-lowering cards from other sets to make Cabal Shadow Priest and Shadow Madness viable, but those decks are never Tier 1. The zero mana cost does mean that you can combo those cards much earlier than you otherwise could.

Its other use, of course, is for Inner Fire or Topsy Turvy one hit kills. I foresee many attempts to build it into decks.

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 19th 2019 at 2:06:47 PM

It seems more versatile than situational, imo. Can combo with many cards, or just be used to keep a big minion from killing your stuff.

How many times does it upgrade? Just twice, like the spellstones?

Scheme cards upgrade indefinitely, as far as I am aware. Each turn they are in your hand, their effect increments by one.

If this spell were in your opening hand, on turn 12 you could reduce Deathwing's base attack to 0 (temporarily).

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 19th 2019 at 4:12:48 AM

Card reveal schedule begins at 25th with a reveal stream, save for some cards on the 21st.

Edited by FergardStratoavis on Mar 20th 2019 at 8:47:41 PM

And here we go.

• Improve Morale - Warrior Common Spell; 1 mana; Deal 1 damage to a minion. If it survives, add a Lackey to your hand.
• Rafaam's Scheme - Warlock Common Spell; 3 mana; Summon 1 1/1 Imp (upgrades each turn!)
  • Verifying if all numbers improve or just a number of Imps; if the latter, then that's one surefire trash card so far. No one's playing Fiendish Circle, and one of Forbidden Ritual's upsides was its flexibility.
• Omega Devastator - Warrior Epic Minion; 4 mana 4/5 Mech; Battlecry: If you have 10 Mana Crystals, deal 10 damage to a minion.
  • Reuses Omega Defender's first art.

Edited by FergardStratoavis on Mar 21st 2019 at 6:24:08 PM

Yeah, but summoning 7 7/7 imps is a bit broken. At only 3 mana, you can easily combo it with buffs to keep the imps from being too squishy.

Edited by Fighteer on Mar 21st 2019 at 1:25:50 PM

Nice to see more omega cards. They're cool concepts.

Rafaam's scheme looks like it's either going to be really bad or incredibly strong. If the number and stats of imps both increase, it won't take long before you can summon a shitton of overpowered imps.

If you draw it first turn, for example, you'll be able to play three 3/3 imps on your third turn.

Based on what I've seen, Rafaam's scheme only increases the number of Imps. Not their stats

Edited by Ghilz on Mar 21st 2019 at 1:30:39 PM

Here's the Priest villainess!

Madame Lazul - Priest Legendary Minion; 3 mana 3/2; Battlecry: Discover a copy of a card in your opponent's hand.

That's pretty generic, although if Priest is going back to "steal everything" as its main gimmick, I'll be happy.

It's generic, but it's useful in two ways. It lets you grab a card, and it lets you see what your opponent has in their hand.

I adore this week's Tavern Brawl. The limited deckbuilding, combined with a dash of psychological counterplay with the ban system, makes it really fun to just try out a combo for a round or two.

Isn't this a cheaper Drakonid Operative without the dragon requirement and a bonus of revealing three cards in your opponent's hand? Isn't that super busted?

Drakonid copies from the deck deck, which is sometimes better.

But seeing (up to) 3 cards in your opponent's hand is more relevant information and being able to copy the best of them is suuuuuuuper nice. It's also on a cheaper body.

Much better card, but also legendary.

I like it. Useful and fast.

Also, a 3/2 for 3 is a lot more vulnerable for its cost than a 5/6 for 5.