Smokestack
1 mana spell
Deal 1 damage to a minion. If it dies, Excavate a treasure.
Mo’arg Drillfist
4 mana 4/5 Minion
Taunt
Deathrattle: Excavate a treasure
Tram Conductor Gerry
7 Mana 4/4 Legendary
Battlecry: If you’ve Excavated twice, summon six 3/3 Tram cars with rush
The Azurite Snake
Warlock’s Tier 4 class exclusive excavate treasure
4 mana 5/5
Battlecry: Your hero steals 10 Health from the enemy Hero
These excavate cards put death knights class excavate cards to shame. Like… it’s not even a comparison. The level 4 treasure is a pyroblast on a stick that from the sounds of the wording…EDIT: The devs just confirmed on twiter it does in fact raise the warlocks max health just like vampiric blood. No more speculation about it anymore. So it’s a 4 mana 5/5 body pyroblast the opponents face and gain vampiric blood’s effect. And all of the excavate cards are properly statted or even overstatted for the mana cost. And the legendary is amazing…
Death knight got shafted (pun intended?). Warlock is the REAL excavate king of the expansion (so far)
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Yeah it steals the health and adds it to the warlocks health… so crazy.
7 mana legendary is nuts and so easy to activate.
It’s crazy how good all the cards are and then you look at Priest reveals… it’s night and day in power.
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The Azurite Snake
Need a nerf thread already.
4 mana 5/5 pyroblast improved lifesteal, bouncable, is bs.
zeddy keeps saying the most toxic card is coming in a few hours so guess we need a nerf warlock thread.
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Highlander and Excavate feel like they have 6 years of power creep between them.
Especially with Plague DK being a thing, I don’t see any Highlander deck getting above Tier 3.
As for these cards they look great.
Way stronger Excavate generation than DK, but DK has the Skeleton that resummons itself to balance it out.
Excavate looks very strong.
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Mo’Arg also has class synergies. Reverberations, shallow grave, can eat it with a kraken… copy and etc. all that good stuff. So not only are warlocks excavates far stronger than DK’s he can also more easily abuse synergies to get more of them. DK CAN discover its excavates, but its going to be much more difficult than warlock just adding cards with synergy to excavate a ton.
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This thing is going to be absolute cancer with Brann. I hope the devs preemptively ban him from duels
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cries in shaman… i have to play 10 turns of elementals to do 10 dmg to face 
It’s like they have designers per class and no communication between…
I already hate this coming meta.
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Battlecry: Your hero steals 10 Health from the enemy Hero
This thing is going to be absolute cancer with Brann.
That’s gonna be a problem for wild players to figure out. I’m glad I play standard.
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I’m not sure how long it takes to get to a tier 4 excavation but I think its just ‘play 4 excavate cards’ and with a 2 mana 1/1 that excavates and that 4 mana taunt it should be pretty trivial to get it around turn 6 or 7. Then with saloon brewmaster and youthful brewmaster only 2 mana… Its a turn 10 deal 20 heal 20. As if this game didnt already have enough from hand otk damage.
Outside of that the other cards are pretty bland which is funny because 3 or 4 years ago a 7 mana summon a giant board would be broken but today its just play a 5 mana spell and watch them all dissapear.
only 4 escavates to get…
sure if it’s in the bottom of your hand it will not be super impactful, but still a 20 hp change. for lethal/save.
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There are 2 neutral and 2 class excavate cards in each excavate class, so 8 total excavates that you can directly include. But through discover and synergy effects it’ll be possible to excavate even more. Death knight can discover undeads (which the skeleton is one of), and 3 mana spells (which is the class excavate…school teacher anyone?). Warlock can shallow grave mo arg or reverb it, or eat it with a ravenous kraken… etc etc. Warlock can also discover smokestack with school teacher and spell discovers.
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also the cycle resets after legendary, so you can get multiple copies of it.
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The devs just confirmed on twitter that Azurite Snake IS in fact vampiric blood. Talk about power creep. Warlocks can get 50-60 max HP just like blood DK now… and they get saergeras to boot.
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You could also get more excavates with zola, the bounce twins (youthful and saloon brewmaster), and if you’re really into it cover artist can become the taunt and excavate as well.
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And shaman getting pushed more control cards and still stuck on 30 hp without ways to increase.
Yes ima bish about shaman forever!
no but if it was just a lifesteal, it would say lifesteal-
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Is it possible to get more than one Excavate legendary? If no, this isn’t bad. Azerite Rat with Reska is more game-winning.
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Is it possible to get more than one Excavate legendary? If no, this isn’t bad. Azerite Rat with Reska is more game-winning.
Yes, it is. After you dig up the first legendary the cycle resets, so you just have to dig another 4 times to get a second. If you can manage to excavate 12 times in a game, you’d then get your third azurite rat/snake/w/e broken thing.
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In which case, thank goodness this isn’t Undead. A lot of Warlock’s DR synergy is for Undead.
They added a neutral 2 mana 2/2 minion called Saloon brewmaster.
Battlecry: return a friendly minion to your hand. Give it +2/+2
Warlock can just bounce snakes to repeat the effect.
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Maybe all of this can be prevented if treasure cards had an additional rule.
They HAVE to be played in the 1-2-3-4 manner.
You played and then copied the snake? Great, but before you can play the snake from your hand again you HAVE to play the first 3 treasures before you can use a 4 mana treasure again.