by JR Cook - 9 years ago     show comments

The last few days I’ve been quite busy with my day job (believe it or not BlizzPro is just a hobby!) and haven’t had a chance to really dive into the new cards revealed this week. I have been keeping our spoiler list up to date – so if you want to see all 75 of the 132 cards revealed so far go check it out.

Below are all of the cards revealed after Gamescom.

Lance Bearer

This is a card that could potentially start seeing play in some zoo decks or other aggro decks. The +2 he provides is permanent so he works a lot like Dark Iron Dwarf used to before it’s nerf. I’m personally excited to see how this card will work in a Hobgoblin style of deck as it provides some pretty awesome synergy with that card.

[Revealed by Lemond.fr on 8/9/2015]

Light’s Champion

Hey look we finally have a silence card in a new set *Kappa*

In all seriousness though, this is the tech card of all tech cards. Are you going to play it in ranked? I guess if all you see is Demonlock playing Demonfuse all day, then sure. If Hearthstone ever had a tournament mode that included being able to sideboard then this would be a great sideboard card.

[Revealed by Blizzard Taiwan 8/12/2015]

Icehowl

We showed this one off here – but we didn’t really go into commentary on it like we should have. This could potentially go into ramp druid that uses the newly revealed Aviana to try and protect her. I guess I could also see it as some kind of taunt buster… but really, what is most likely to happen with this card is that someone somewhere will try and silence it as soon as it comes out to hit their opponent’s face to finish them off and weep many tears when they realize they just silenced it’s charge.

Cutpurse

This card is either going to be really good… or won’t see play. It has a pretty big potential to bring back miracle rogue in a big way. Luckily though it’s not a 2/3 and is just a 2/2 so it’s not as good as it could have been. I’m excited to see what kind of decks people will try to build around this card and find out if it’s viable or not in ranked play.

[Revealed by Chinese streamer Lovelychook on 8/9/2015]

Healing Wave

This is a pretty great joust card for Shamans. Shamans tend to play some pretty large creatures and this gives them some great utility now against aggro decks like face hunter. A 7 heal turn is hard enough for an aggro deck to come back from, but a 14 heal one for 3 mana is going to be nearly impossible. Especially if a shaman drops this on turn 8 and then sludge belcher or something like it. Face Hunter is no longer going to feed off Shaman, that is for sure.

[Revealed by Blizzard in this blog post 8/11/2015]

Dreadsteed

This is one of those cards that looks really bad, but has the potential to be incredibly overpowered. Chances are though, it’s going to end up being really bad. Shamans will have a field day with it with Earthen Shock and with this being in the 4 drop slot that is a huge swing for your opponent. There are so many better 4 drops (Implosion, Piloted Shredder, Void Caller just to name a few) for Warlocks that unless this card has some kind of combo that makes it really really good I can’t see it getting played ever.

[Revealed by Blizzard in vote]

Sea Reaver

First thought is “wow, this would make Patron Warrior even better” – and then think about it for 2 seconds more and realize… no, it’s actually pretty terrible for that. In Patron Warrior you want to be able to control your whirlwind effects, so to have an unpredictable one happen wouldn’t be good at all. Also no Patron Warrior would be a 6 cost minion in their deck that doesn’t provide them any value they can’t control.

It does have possible synergy with Battle Rage but once again, it’s something you can’t control. So basically like Flame Leviathan I don’t think this will see play in construction or arena.

[Revealed by ComputerBild.de on 8/11/2015]