So I’m glad Shadowform is coming back into the core set, but I’m lost on what else that we have available for specifically standard can be incorporated into this kind of deck. With the loss of Auchenai Soulpriest and Velen, it feels odd.
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There will be more sahdowform/shadowpriest stuff they said.
And with spell types thats veyr easy to do to make shadow spell dmg.
But shadowform should still atleats go to 2mana.
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It was bad before and I’m sure it will be bad again.
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2 mana. Your heropower deals 2 dmg. Gain +2 additional dmg for every casted Shadowform.
It’s does +1 per extra
To be precise, it is capped at 3 dmg, afaik.
My version allows for Vargoth shenanigans;)
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given how weak shadowform has previously been it is guaranteed to be changed in some way. as for the more shadow priest stuff you should keep in mind that parts of it is simply that one of the spell types is shadow and they will likely keep pain and death.
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I think having other cards supporting shadowform is more important than shadowform itself.
If you ever reach a point in the game where turning your hero power to be like mage is useful, shadowform does the job. But you need the rest of your deck to reach that point first, and that deck will also have to keep working with your hero power afterwards.
Blizzard and priest? History says you are correct.
Maybe something similar to Baku, but you start with shadow form hero power instead of upgraded hero power? A couple dragons with shadow form synergy so you can shadow form / dragons with your deck? Maybe some card draw synergy with shadow form so you can have a tempo deck similar to tempo mage? Anything, anything, anything other than rezz priest!
I’ve tried Shadowform in every expansion since closed beta, and it needs one thing beyond all others:
Not being such an awful tempo loss to play it.
Make it 2 or 1 mana, and we’ve got a game going.
Being able to fish it with Shadow Visions 2.0 will help.
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A mini Velen with the same effect would be in order. Power creep him away; he’s not worth a legendary without Mindblast.
Also, let Priest healing and HP effects benefit from spell damage. Or I’d want that, but if they were going to do that they would have changed Spell Damage to Spell Power, which they haven’t really done…
Initially when they said Shadow Priest was returning I was thinking more along the lines of Shadow Madness, along the lines of nonlegendary cards with the recent Kel’thuzad effect.
Imo Should be 2mana and next Hero power costs (2) less.
2mana for the hp but can save if want to/need to till next turn.
but even at just 1mana it would be 3mana to deal 2dmg, or 2, 4mana to deal 2dmg once. it would be very weak even then at 2, 1 would be usable.
But even then needs extra support to be relaly make it work .
It just needs a cheap way to cheat it out. Followed with minions that have a battle cry that triggers differently if you are in “holy” or “shadowform”.
2 damage hero power that could upgrade to 3 is pretty good. The issue with Shadowform previously was it cost too much tempo. You just couldn’t afford 3 mana do nothing against any kind of curve even in 2014 constructed Hearthstone. It was a little different in Arena the overall slower pace allowed you to take that tempo hit a lot of the time and then make it up with value from hero power. We do have Nazmani now to make Shadowform cheaper. Compared to back then where Tharrisan was the way to discount which was much better to set up combo burst win condition rather than Shadowform value grind win condition.
Basically Shadowform was fair at base 3 cost and would be OP at anything less base cost. Making it cheaper though with Nazmani or cost health with Ghuun is fair though and that might be all thats needed to get a true attrition style control deck to work in constructed that has a real win condition of slow burn with Hero Power rather than just Fatigue.
Shadowform would be inrecbdly trash if costed 2mana, if they EVER wantt it to be a thign, it SHOULD COST LESS THEN 3.
Other priest cards /spells are alreayd betetr and fairly costed and can still be discounted same things; NO REASON SHADOWFORM SHOULD COST MORE.
And it would be OP if it costed 0 or 1. 3 damage targeted every turn on demand is very strong. It doesn’t take long to dominate the board with 3 damage hero power and from that position you could easily prevent a large majority of damage from getting through.
He’s rotating though isn’t he? Pretty sure he was RoS. Granted if they alter the card it applies to wild, but there’s far more you can do in wild with him than that.
might be worth trying at two mana, considering how powercrept aggro is atm.
They could make it same as Shadowreaper Anduin. Maybe cost 4 mana