Wintermu7e reveals Abyssians new legendary artifact here: https://www.twitch.tv/wintermu7e/v/84919031?t=9m4s
For those of you who can’t wait however here is the card:
Shimzar Spoilers Day 13: Ghost Azalea
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Grincher nerf, finally!
Seriously though, Cassyva players are going to need a hell of a lot of creep to make this card worthwhile, and it’s a pretty dead drop in the early game. This makes me suspect there are a bunch more Creep generators coming up!
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I’m so hyped for this card. Lovely name and amazing effect, seems really strong late game. It’s like obliterate in terms of burst damage to face but requires your general to stay close, which limits the stay-away-and-control-the-board cass playstyle.
Every faction is getting a legendary spell and artifact it seems. I would like to see some Starhorn BBS combo artifact for Magmar. Like a punishment for opponent draw.
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woohoo, finally a reason for me to play aggressive creep
Love the concept, but wish it were a spell with a more permanent effect. As an artifact (and at 4 mana), I think they could’ve pushed it even further with +2 Atk. We’ll have to wait and see what other Shadow Creep support they offer; hopefully there’s enough!
,Deal 2 damage when your enemy draws’’…sounds AWSOME!..i woud love to see that…
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well with the creep changes that make it supposedly so much easier to generate creep, if it was a +2 everyone would be screaming their heads off “OP plz nerf”. imagine playing a shadow nova turn 4, then playing this card turn 5 and smacking face. thats 10 damage right there
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Wouldn’t that be 1 + 4 + 2 = 7 damage? Or does standing next to multiple Shadow Creep tiles also generate damage from each of those tiles?
+2 attack per creep tile, so 2(general)+2*4(creep tiles) = 10
I was waiting for a real shadow creep pay off outside of obliterate.
The card seems ok assuming we get some other ways to put shadow creep, even tho I feel like the card is slightly over priced (should cost 3 IMO).
Valid point, perhaps I’m letting my Cassyva love get in the way, haha. However, Shadow Nova on 4 is such an enormous tempo loss that I just don’t see it as playable (as of now, of course they could release some card to help recover from that). Also, assuming competent opponents, casting Shadow nova should be a huge telegraph that it’s time for the opposing player to play around this ASAP (create space or cycle for smaller minions/provoke/pings). Idk, the more I think about it, the more +2 Atk seems fine. Really need to see other cards though!
i was saying if it was a +2 instead of a +1 it would be a minimum of 10 damage (2+4x2), if there were BBS or crawlers, or more novas then it could easily 2 shot a general
This isn’t an early game card though. Your creep tiles build the entire game so this can scale really well into the late game. It’s like how the old shadow creep functions, but attached as a 4 mana artifact to your general. It does depend on how rapidly creep generation works with the new cards though.
I agree, this is certainly not an early-game card (though it possibly could with +2 Atk!). In the late-game, I very much look forward to the pseudo-Magmar surprise lethal plays with this card + Silhouette Tracer. Fingers-crossed for more Shadow Creep generators!
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yeah, lilithe is going to become the worst general if she gets no love from shim’zar
It’d tough to make an artifact that fits both the swarm, aggro nature of Lilithe and the control nature of cass. And Lilithe already has soul grimwar which is similar to this card.
The dream: drop this and tracer on 8 mana, then ping and obliterate on 9 mana (potentially attacking a second time).
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With all of the ways to generate shadow nova, this card certainly has potential to be a powerful finisher for Cassyva decks. This will allow two (expensive in the sense of legendary cards) powerful win conditions for Creep decks, the other being obliterate (or 3 arguably with Darkspine elemental, but it’s harder to make him work in comparison as a minion, making there be a spell, minion, and general win condition with shadow creep). How strong the new shadow nova will be will definetly determine just how strong the new shadow creep cards will be (although there are still other methods to generate shadow creep tiles that could be better alternatives, such as abyssal juggernaught, Cassyva’s BBS, the new 1 mana abyssian cycle card, abyssal crawler).
At the same time, it helps reduce the power of grincher slightly by adding an artifact that only Cassyva/Abyssian players can actually get a use out of, assuming that the expansion artifacts can be pulled by Grincher’s effect.
Straight grincher nerf. A bit too expensive but fits abyssian card style like the grow on death things.