Shadowreaper Anduin
Shadowreaper Anduin is a 8 Mana Cost Legendary Priest Hero card from the Knights of the Frozen Throne set!
Card Text
Battlecry: Destroy all minions with 5 or more attack.
Flavor Text
"I will tell you what Velen never taught me. Whosoever stands before the Light… inevitably casts a shadow."- Mana Cost: 8
- Crafting Cost: 1600 / 3200 (Golden)
- Arcane Dust Gained: 400 / 1600 (Golden)
- Rarity: Legendary
- Class: Priest
- Card Type: Hero
- Set: Knights of the Frozen Throne
- Mechanics: Battlecry, Destroy Minion
Shadowreaper Anduin Additional Information
Hero Power: Voidform – Deal 2 damage. After you play a card, refresh this.
After several Hours of Playtesting, this guy is fucking OP as hell in Kazakus Deck.
This is gonna be a really strong utility card in control priest
Especially Kaz priest
It’s actually not easy to just play on turn 9 unless you’re ahead, or getting some good value out of the the drop
Exodia priest is gonna be a real thing with this card. Play this and raka beforehand, then eaither a lyra spam with radiant elemental or infinite discover with shadow visions cycling.
Priest is my favorite class. I was hoping for something more interesting and new. It feels like old ideas (shadow word death and shadowform) combined into new artwork. Other death knights are far more interesting. I’ll still probably craft it though. 🙂
I’d be inclined to disagree, i love priest as well. And just because a card seems to mix some other cards together doesnt mean its bad or unoriginal. This targets ALL 5 or higher attack minions, which can save you in a pinch. The hero power paired with raza makes for some crazy board clear.
and lets not forget prophet velen. I think this may actually work with velen and a spell based deck. But lyra would probably work better.
I like this card. I want to see if it can work with Prophet Velen (doubles the damage of your hero power) in ranked. But I doubt it. We shall see.
This is a good card, but i’m quite dissapointed because of how simple and boring it actually is. With such a cool art you could’ve Done something totally crazy for once with priest but no they decided to make a standard af card. Just like how Amara was nothing special(kind of like Reno Jackson, but ten health added.) I main priest, but the results are Just saddening. I was so hyped too! If only the hero power was with lifesteal or you could at least switch between healing and damage would’ve been way better. Or maybe give +1+1 to friendly Minions and -1-1 to enemies i don’t know, something that would’ve been new for a hero power but quite fitting for a DK anduin. Nevertheless is this a good card. Massive sw:d and crazy miracle potential.
I also main priest and I am sick and tired of being shoved down to low rank because priest has no way to counter agro early on and the quest just isn’t viable with the current run of standard death rattle cards. I had high hopes given the theme of the new expansion that we would get some killer deathrattle that can actually have a real impact on the quest but we have gotten nothing. All the good deathrattle cards are on wild but compared to what other classes have at there disposal on wild it again becomes unviable.
This desthknight card is the biggest let down of them all. If it was destroy all minions even that would be better but destroy 5 atk or more minions just means that 4 at minions will remain a serious issue and low cost agro cards will still be the end of us. Now for the third consecutive expansion, priest will remain second tier or lower and everyone will be forced to roll the dice on combo priest and dragon priest again.
I am one of the dragon priest users right now and i am stuck in rank 15 bcs last month i barely touched the game… Having only played priest since i started, i only have priest legendaries and i got baited crafting DK anduin and velen…. Now the aggro is killing me… Still i am not disenchanting any cards, but instead focusing on arena a bit more 🙂
Kripp ran an OTK priest for a bit this seems to fit into that mold really well
You no longer need that cards that refresh your hero power, or shadow form meaning you can put in more control cards.
This obviously is a good control card…ok-ish control card…if you have already Raza’d, that battle cry in the current meta…and a most HS metas is “do nothing” or “kill one minion” If it kills a big minion though, probably good enough for an OTK Priest to be somewhat viable.
Wait-a-minute…actually I hate this card. I don’t want OTK priest to be viable inner fire priest is obnoxious enough.
Strong card but still disappointed. It’s boring.
I’m not saying Blizzard isn’t trying but I wish they would’ve done something more interesting.
I totally agree it’s interesting but not exciting enough for something else they could have done. As I priest man I see the enormous value I can get but at the same time others classes heros look and feel better IMO
I will happily try to play this hero card in kazakus, Raza , Lyra deck and add the new lifesteal Mass card to stay alive in early game
Good card and nice art , it’s a pity that the hero power doesn’t bring any new idea than Shadowform ( and I mean not stronger but just …. more creative !)
I’d say this is the best Hero card we’ve seen so far but I’m still a bit disappointed because I was expecting some kind of synergy with Shadowform and not just a “better version” of it. However, definetely a good card.
I’m glad I have raza
WHY COULDNT THEY MAKE IT 4 OR MORE???
Break priests curse!!
I actually like the fact that there are some cards that a priest just can’t remove with an easy shadow word.
they can always reduce the attack with potion, or with gnome in wild
I see your point lol. But that would be stupidly overpowered
This card is a valid reason to craft raza.
Dunno about standard, but in wild, this card become win con of reno priest.
Make sure raza have turned on, and play coliseum manager. This card combo give you ability to, damage 4 for 3 mana, dmg 6 for 6 mana, dmg 8 for 9 mana. Those damage are non-random, separateable, per turn.
Quite flexible wincon, and cant be entombed, compared to just relying on ysera or Nzoth.
In standard, this card make me want to play elemental priest. Fire fly gives value in early and late game. Easier to discover extra lyra and radiant. Not to mention, just need one divine spirit and inner fire to 30 dmg ozruk.
Have you tried it ? If so how is it going in standard?
This Hero Power with Raza is pretty and if you stick Raza into the miracle priest with lyra it can be even some otk sheningans
The hero power should be Lifesteal as well
Disappointed, the only hero card I won’t run so far due to the hero power and cost.
Really? This is the only card capable of doing infinite damage and instantly winning you the game after play, a slight chance that’ll take some luck but a chance neverthe less. Pls its the only hero card revealed so far that has synergies with already extreamly strong cards in kazakus and raza and lyra. Its probably not an exciting hero power, but definitely a good one.
True but it feels plain. I like the more creative and interesting things we have seen with rouge, mage, and hunter. Granted this is still a good card but when I play competitive i would prefer something else.
The bad news is that this does nothing against some of the more popular aggressive decks right now. Token Druid and Token Shaman like to slap down lots of minions and then burst you down with a temporary mass buff (Savage Roar and Bloodlust respectively). Pirate Warrior tends to use smaller minions and big weapons to smash you down quickly. Even if you survive long enough against those decks to play this, it isn’t really going to help you.
The good news is that this is a very potent card against Jade decks and against Big Easy Druid. The other good news is that with Raza and Lyra, you could pull off some pretty degenerate stuff. But how viable is it to make it happen? This card requires a LOT of mana to play, and unless you’re killing your opponent’s whole (or most of it) board with this effect (which again, isn’t very likely, you’re losing a LOT of tempo getting this out.
All-in-all, I think the battlecry is ineffective against too many decks, I think the hero power needs too much support, and I think Priest can do fine without it. I don’t even know what kind of Priest deck wants it. I’m not convinced control Priest wants it because, again, it’s a very situational board clear, and Priest wants no part of that. If they want a damaging hero power, they’ll probably just run Shadowform. And that sentence probably cements how bad this card actually is. I dunno, maybe I’m wrong and control priest will love firing this hero power from the hip, but I just don’t see it.
The popularity of those decks are based on lack of early game clear, and heal for most classes, however this expansion has the first big glut of neutral healing dropped into the game for a few years.
If you’re using this you’re playing highlander or a miracle otk priest, priest is THE control class already, and this doesn’t synergize with high cost cards.
You know, I’m not really a fan of the card’s art honestly. DK Anduin looked way cooler in the art of all nine death knights. Like, what’s up with the whole purple spiky hair thing anyway?
Although this is a good card it’s not as cool as I’d hoped it be it’s just essentially a better shadow form. While the other classes get insane hero powers. This is just boring to me. The New priest legendary minion seems more exciting and, while not playable it is indeed fun. While this is not (as fun).
Are these cards spells? I mean can you dig for it with shadow visions???
no its a hero card. does not work like a spell
These are not minions, even not spells, they are… HERO cards! Wow
Looking good, and doesn’t kill the new Obsidian Destroyer.
Obsidian Statue*
4 mana for 4 damage and use a card with the remaining 6 mana. Thats not bad, It would really shine if the battlecry would say 4 attack minions instead of 5.
4 attack minions are tough for priests to remove.
RAZA THE CHAINED SYNERGY!!
Yeah, pretty good. With Prophet Velen its not bad either.
That’s the point buddy!
Thanks fatty!
Hmm, at first i was all hyped up but now… the more i think about this card the less good it is. 🙁
I think if it kills 4+ attack minions it would be way to OP. This is actually a good card
Exodia priest, welcome back 😀
Razar, Shadow Vision and Radiant elemental 😀
I absolutly love Shadow priest, im going also for this hero 😀
Shadow Visions into Shadow Visions until your openent is dead? Seems boring to me…
Anway unlesh you draw most of your deck, resulting in drawing the second shadow visions, making a deck with just 3 types of spells, not to mention you cant win unlesh you get this card feels like a weak meme deck to me.
I think spell cycle with lyra is a better option…. Unlike other combo decks with this you may never draw your second shadow visions….
That is quite a negative way to look at this card. By that logic mysterious challenger is trash because you just draw a punch of secrets and die.
Based on results from some pro players, Kazakuz priest isnt actually that far from being a legit meta deck as we speak. By the nature of reno style decks they get better with more cards because the more option the less you suffer for the 1x copies thing. Just adding this hero (likely you would wanna do that anyway with raza) and a second visions, you produce an otk 10% of games or so. So the only question is how bad is second visions the other 9/10 games. Id say pretty good actually.
Hey, I like the way you think! It’s a great combo finisher option, but unfortunately it won’t always work because there needs to be exactly one shadow visions in your deck. Good thing priest will have so many other ways to win!
Raza + this will be fun
Decent damage push with a raza the chained play.
Just think about how much his battle cry is worth: it’s basically a Twisting Nether that only kills the big minions and gives you health to survive against the smaller ones. I could see that being a mediocre 8 mana spell on it’s own.
this card makes Raza-kazakus priest pretty interesting
Anyone know how this will work with Raza yet?
Could have some interesting combos with Lyra here
the hero power will always cost 0
so basically a mass shadow word death + shadow form that cant be upgraded + 5 armor. for 8 mana you aint playing anything meaningful on field yourself on the same turn. Maybe doomsayer….its a bit akward
Kill golems in one swoop? Count me in.
When it kills 2 minions, that means you reducing the opponent clock massively. Ill play it even with just one minion to target.
With rarazaeach of your cards have extra 2 damage.
But, yeah. this isnt really answering priest early problem.
Though it still better than meme stealing effects.
Broken
Shadow Visions into Shadow Visions
Yeah that’s basically the effect of beardo but really improved… pretty nice card but we can see blizz recycle old ideas
It’s seriously ridiculous how people keep accusing Blizzard of recycling old ideas. I mean, you’re playing a card game where you throw some numbers at other numbers. There are a very finite number of things that can be done with those numbers. Especially while maintaining ideals like class identity.
Yeah but this card just gives you an unupgradable shadowform hero power so I think they could’ve tried to do something a little different here