New FoO heroes have been revealed. It's been talked about for a few days now and Bryon Lyons is writing a feature on it over at TCGplayer (found under my links section), but I figured I'd share my own thoughts on the cards. After all, I typically can't shut up about my opinion about cards. Enjoy!
Pictures of horde heres here.
Pictures of alliance heroes here.
Cul Rendhoof:
Solid, solid card for druids. It's also the first solid permanent and not crappy resource acceleration currently available. Makes turn 4 Kulans and such a solid possibility. Does nothing to speed up turn 4 Mokos but it does allow for turn 4 Zy'lahs, which is definitely worth mentioning (yes, turn 4 Zy'lahs. I heard those may be decent). Dunno yet though. It does lead to a huge loss of card advantage, and the flip really can't pull you out of bad scenarios, so it's probably cute at best. I do like it though.
Ona Skyshot:
This hunter's lucky she's marksmanship, because that's all she has going for her (and I do hope you're not playing marksmanship hunter for Silencing shot. Egads).
Exaura the Cryptkeeper:
I may be playing her for Slow. She's better than Varanis in my opinion because The Haunted Mills more than Solanian's (I'd rather pay 3 and draw a million cards than recur a card, but really this comes down to personal taste I guess), but we'll see. The flip is solid too. Cheap card draw and graveyard-nerfing.
Nathadan:
Whatever. I guess. At least I can Solanian's back Holy Shield now.
Raesa Morningstar:
Cute, and that's probably it. Though it's worth noting her flip encourages aggressiveness by playing Power Word: Shield, swinging the attached ally into something, and then bouncing the shield to your hand with its destruction trigger on the chain.
Zomm Hopeslayer:
Cute name. Because it's still slashing away ay my hope that rogues will ever be decent.
Mojo Shaper O'jomon:
Solid flip. Encourages control moreso, as it's essentially a free Guardian Steelhorn or whatever. I think I'd want to recur a Debros with this guy, but the troll quests are very attrition based, so Steelhorn with Kolkar Aggression seems like a better pair-off.
Harrigen Soulsunder:
At first I thought this hero was pure crap. Actually...nevermind. Still crap. At least she's a blood elf warlock, as locks have the best abilities to recur with Solanian's.
Indalamar:
Next please. Though this flip is fairly good in limited.
Now onto alliance...
Yanna Dai'shalan:
Captures the flavor of balance well. Kind of a joke on its own but it can be very potent when grouped with a ton of casters. It's essentially "pay 3, kill something", and I certainly can't complain about heroes that do this efficiently.
Kana Nassis:
Meh. Mundane flip. Better than Azarak's though. I think I'm still playing her for Lightning Reflexes. Rescue the Survivors is kind of like your super-counterattack anyway. What's an ally when it comes to survival hunter anyway?
Ozzati:
Probably one of the best heroes in the set, juding by this flip and dragon's breath. Hoses allies on its own and the fire-ability line-up is a huge encouragement to go aggressive. This is probably the new goodstuff alliance deck, dethroning Phadalus as the new set becomes legal for tournament play.
Thatia Truthbringer (can these names get any cornier? I mean really):
Better than Graccus in every way. Except she's holy (this is a compliment on the mmo, not so much in the tcg). Unless holy gets something better than Holy Shield.
Deacon Markus Hallow (I guess they can):
Terrible terrible TERRIBLE flip. Probably the worst of the set by far. Too bad for shadow priests. You're still stuck with Omedus. Oh well, cry some more. Whatever. You guys get Shadowfiend. That ally is insane.
Rotun Daggerhand:
Cute at best. It's still not making rogues tier 1 and probably not solid into tier 2, unless they get a huge boost in abilities this set. There's little reason to run a rogue over any other class.
Moala Stonebinder:
Not bad. I guess. I think I'd rather play Phadalus because recurring Totems is just better it seems.
Mazar:
Damn efficient. Dizzy's been dethroned for alliance warlock of choice (poor Zenith is ignored. He's really pretty good seeing as how most players will be playing really awesome heroes with solid flips). Vanquish for 3 is good.
Fillet:
Pretty bad flip, seeing as how fury encourages solo with Cruelty.
I'll talk about revealed cards later. It's late. I want to go to sleep.
-Mike
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3 comments:
Fillet: dont discount him just because the current horde fury warrior is a solo cruelty deck. There is nothing saying you have to run alliance warrior the same way. With his flip and with access to Luppo Shadefizzle and Perditions Blade, this hero might just make the basis for a solid alliance rush deck. Forget playing with Cruelty at all.
Raesa Morningstar: are you sure that trick works? You can bring the PW:S back to your hand after preventing the damage but before it goes to the graveyard?
Deacon Markus Hallow: I think you are being way too hard on this hero. His flip isnt that terrible. It may not be usable every game, in fact if the opponent is smart you will probably never be able to use it. However, it is still a powerful enough effect that it will change the way the opponent has to play in the late game to make sure he always has at least 1 card in hand, or maybe 2 cards in hand if he suspects Mind Spike.
It's not terrible.
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