The Darkmoon Faire Los Angeles has begun! Round one is being played as I type and Cryptozoic are teasing out the odd new preview in their picture feed on Facebook. Most amusing is they have someone dressed as Alexstraza playing a custom deck featuring lots of non-previewed cards - if you win you'll get your photo taken with the Red Dragonkin Aspect herself and earn a spot on the WoWTCG website as a Dragonslayer.
Which reminds me - the new website is due to launch soon - it looks excellent.
Anyway. A quick catch up on the official previews, starting with the Red Aspect herself.
Alexstraza the Life-binder
I've had a couple of days to mull this one over and after the initial feeling of it not quite living up to its Green cousin, I've come back round to seeing the potential again.
I've heard a lot of people complain about her method of play - costing one less to play for each ATK amongst allies you have on the board. Master Heroes usually hit play around turn 10, and there's been plenty of suggestions that if you have 15ATK on the board at that point you're already likely to win.
I don't necessarily disagree with that but I think there's more potential in this card. I've been discussing a draft decklist with a friend and it has the potential to be crazy. We're going to get together and have a play around with it next week so you should probably expect noise about it here!
Ysera the Dreamer
That's right - two Master Heroes in one set! Not only that, they're both available to all classes and reputations.
Ysera's payment oddities are not quite as easily-abusable as Alexstraza's, especially if you play a location. In a 'normal' deck you're not likely to see her before turn 10/11, but this is where the Green Dragonkin come in to play. Their effects revolve heavily around your resource row, and a couple of the previewed ones, Eranikus and Emerald Lifewarden allow you to lay extra resources, helping you become Ysera much quicker.
On paper, without building a deck around Ysera, I feel Kel'thuzad is a better fit for the classes that can use him. However, anything with even a smidge of resource acceleration in will love Ysera to bits.
I probably don't need to mention it, but Reawakening is clearly the tits in this situation too.
Avatar of the Wild
Never mind the Master Heroes though. Dual class abilities are Epic in Worldbreaker, and if the other, unpreviewed ones are anywhere near as good as this, we're in for a pretty exciting ride.
This card is perfect for filling in those gaps in your curve. It's however big you want it to be and it is always angry.
This card will also probably cost lots of money, and you will almost always want four of it...
Vigil of the Light
This card has a very important distinction from other similar cards that don't carry a purple tag at the bottom.
"Put target ally from your graveyard into play."
No mention of resources, or any other restrictions. Just grab an ally from the bin and put it on the table.
I've seen people talking about using this for a Turn 6 King Varian Wrynn... but why stop there? Turn 6 Xi'ri anyone?
Realistically Varian is the ideal card to aim for in this circumstance, and the major benefit it has over something like Ancestral Awakening is that not only does the lucky ally enter play with no damage, it will also get fully healed each turn.
Potentially great with Spirit of Stormrage too. A 0/12 Untargetable that gets healed fully each turn, that can search out other silver bullets (of any type!) in your deck is very, very tempting.
Juggernaut
It exhausts shit and makes you dangerous - and it costs 1! I don't know much about Warrior decks but you can't argue with something like this.
Summoning Portal
Being able to tutor any ally out of your deck for 2 is very reasonable. Being able to tutor Hesriana out of your deck for 2 is very unreasonable, and I hate it already.
This will enable Warlock midrange decks to run less hate - something like Warlock Orcs for instance, could probably get away with running one Cromarius, one Munkin and a playset of this, with the added benefit that you can always pick out that elusive fat guy that is hiding from you towards the end of the game. It still effectively adds 2 to the cost of anything you search out with it, and being an ability it is open to being interrupted by more than just Mages, but being able to search out the best possible answer to Weldon Barov at a moment's notice is not to be sniffed at.
That's your lot then - I'm not sure whether there's going to be an official spoiler but hopefully we'll see most of the remainder of the set in the event coverage.
Keep an eye on it! Coverage can be found on Facebook and the Crypto Blog/Website thing.
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