Shudderwock
Shudderwock is a 9 Mana Cost Legendary Shaman Minion card from the The Witchwood set!
Card Text
Battlecry: Repeat all other Battlecries from cards you played this game (targets chosen randomly).
Flavor Text
Beware the Shudderwock, my son. We're fresh out of vorpal daggers.- Mana Cost: 9
- Attack: 6
- Health: 6
- Crafting Cost: 1600 / 3200 (Golden)
- Arcane Dust Gained: 400 / 1600 (Golden)
- Rarity: Legendary
- Class: Shaman
- Card Type: Minion
- Set: The Witchwood
- Mechanics: Battlecry
Shudderwock Card Review
It looks like the early leaks have turned out to be true. I was honestly hoping that it will be the case because of this card. Shaman’s power level is very low right now, but this is absolutely insane. There are LOTS of strong Battlecries, and while targets are random just like in case of Tess Greymane, there are lots of Battlecries that are always good.
In Wild, this could obviously be broken with the whole Jade mechanic. Jade Claws, Jade Spirit and such are Battlecries, so you will get a HUGE board after playing this, a board that your opponent just has to answer or he dies.
But looking at cards that are still in Standard, there are still quite a few good options. Any kind of Battlecry card draw, weapon destruction, Saronite Chain Gang (as shown on the stream), Bonemare, Fungalmancer, Guild Recruiter, Defender of Argus, Mind Control Tech, Stonehill Defender, Zola the Gorgon, Kalimos, Primal Lord and so on and so on. If you want to go all-in, you can even play Yogg-Saron, Hope's End and then double his Battlecry!
Even though it’s only a 6/6 for 9 mana, you can’t really look at that, as it will do so much immediately, heavily depending on what deck you’re playing and what you’ve already done this game.
While it’s hard to say what deck exactly will this go into, it looks very promising!
Card rating: 9/10
I have this card myself, I also agree that this card needs to be nerfed.
Does the battlecry of previous Shudderwock also repeated by the current Shudderwock in play?
* Assuming a copy from Zola the Gorgon was returned to hand by Grumble, Worldshaker
** Disregard Grumble, Worldshaker
nerf this canser
Plz nerfff
Just played game against shaman battle cry…can definitely say that some battlecry cards need nerfed in relation to this card. Got to a point where he had fatigued and played it then I got stuck in an endless loop of about 40 cards that ended up with him having another 2-3 shudderwocks in hand EVERY TURN. With that life steal bug card going off it is legit impossible to win.
Basically like a quest mage OTK mage… the opponent just needs to win before the combo goes off
So much love for Shaman!
This should have been a neutral card to say the least. Blizzard must keep the classes balanced.
This will be nerfed soon i hope.
BLIZZARD YOU NEED TO NERF ALL BATTLE CRIES NOW
This might be a dumb question but how does this card work with something like totem cruncher(4 mana 2/3 taunt, destroy your totems GAIN +2/+2 for each destroyed). Would it give the stats to a random minion or does it act as if shudderwock cast this battlecry for himself
He gains the buffs for himself.You can understand that how he interacts with Saronite Chain Gang.(It summons another copy of Shutterwock)
You just know that if you play this in Elemental Shaman it’s going to just trigger the battlecries from the Fire Elementals and blow itself up instantly 😐
Can this go infinite if you play murmuring elemental before him in the same turn?
Can Shudderwock repeat the battlecry of a previous SHudderwock?
No
Yes, yes it can. Shudderwock has a Battlecry that does things, therefor it would be added to the pool of Battlecries triggered. Like Trump said, adding Grumble’s Battlecry into the pool with 2 Shudderwoks + Murmuring Elemental would be basically an OTK.
Im sorry to say it my guys, but the order is random. saronite + grumble will be a coin flip. Why does hearthstone always have to ruin my fun with rng 🙁 besides that this card still seems awesome 🙂
Instant Craft on release day, enjoy the hell out of it… Then get you dust refunded when they nerdy it b4 next expansion is launch.
My thoughts exactly… spend basically all my dust to get this card, but hey… I’ll get to have one REALLY fun season, then disenchant it in a month. Why miss out on all the fun when this card is basically free to craft?
Tis Brilig
Evident, can you please make the Shudderwock an available avatar for the site? I just really wanna BE it, ya know?
Turn 9: chain gang, dopplegangster
Turn 10: 4 shutterwocks, 4 10 drops with evolve
Don’t mean to burst your bubble but evolve is rotating out, i mean of course you could still do it in wild but its probably much too slow for standard with all the naga giant decks.
so we saw from the reveal stream that this card be very strong, and that it works with Hero cards.
The Hagatha synergy is terrible lol, but THRALL!
Instead of all that shuffle minions into your deck crap play cards that summon dudes. This is already good in a Shaman Evolve Shell
Then you have a big end game play where you play the Work it summons a bunch of trash and evolves twice for a NZoth-ish effect. Prolly put some card dray battlecries in there too. For a NZoth/Ultimate Infestation effect.
Apparently when you use the the thrall battlecry to evolve this the effect stops, as shown in an amaz video versus dog. So thrall is a nombo for shudderwock
This card i very good if you get the effect. This is really good with stuff like hagatha. Dealing 3 damage to all minions when you play this is insane. One thing i thought about is what if you played this ones then bounce it. When you play it again does this take this cards effects also? Like it does this cards battlecry twice?
Mi first deck Will be thai Combine with “deal dmg to the enemy hero” and multiplers.
A new cancer will be born! Muhahaha
This + Grumble = amazing 1 mana infinite minion
I think this will not bounce itself though. Will combo shaman require grumble to survive on board?
Do-able with Saronite Chain-Gang (bounces the copie(s)), but since the order is random, it’s not guaranteed.
This card will be in every shaman deck that aims for lategame.
Play a stonehill and possibly servant of kalimos before this with a things like Sauronite Chain Gang and the value is already insane.
There might be mix of Hagatha, Guild Recruiter, Argus, Ooze, Primordial Drake, Master Oakheart, Black Knight etc.
Funnily Tinkmaster Overspark (antisynergy with Sauronite) might see play with this because it might be hard to find a turn to play this without, Basically your opponent will have a 1/1 or 5/5 after this will be dropped and Ezpz, you got the game. But tinkmaster is decent in Void Lord, resurrect meta anyways.
C’thun deck obviously. Can be played before or after C’thun, better before obviously.
Yea, and OTKs.
Never mind the C’thun part, old gods is rotating out, somehow I thought it doesn’t because someone mentioned C’thun.
Looking for someone to clarify, if you were to play this on an empty board and you had already played Zola, would the Zola battlecry be able to hit it self, it seems that it would depend on if Shudderwock is the one supposedly casting the battlecry.
I believe it wouldn’t just like world shocker wouldn’t pick it up either
This could be a rather decent late game option in an Elemental Shaman deck seeing as pretty much every elemental has a efficent, spell-like battlecry, and it will copy Hagatha’s battlecry too. All you’d need to do is throw down an elemental the turn before you drop this.
This is better than Tess Greymane for sure.
Thank god Shaman can’t add this card back to the hand in the same turn they play it.
Unfortunately, There is way to add this to your hand, more specifically, play saronite chain gang and zola the bla bla and there you have one more jabberwock, oops i meant shudderwock
That would require a lot of set up, proper sequencing, and a fair amount of luck if you start out with anything more than an empty board when you drop this.
thank you I’ve been waiting for someone else to call it shudder wock
jabberwock. ahh!
There is now a way to add gumble to your hand though… could do a fun grumble chain gang combo with this guys
Zola the Gorgan, if you’ve already played Grumble or get lucky from a Servant of Kalimos (since Grumble is an elemental) to generate a second one. 2x Grumble + Kalimos makes for a fun loop.
This plus Yogg-Saron = best film ever
why isn’t this card named Jabberwocky?
We need to find a way to make shutterwock tribal. Where you shutters, then shutterwock, followed by something like a shutterwock.
It looks like some people actually have, but we need more!
Shutterwock meta!
Rouge Got a Yogg-Saron.
Now it’s Shaman’s Turn.
#makeshamangreatagain
Dear lord, in wild this can be 9 mana 6/6 battle cry summon 6 jade golems. This concerns me.
This card is definitely the Jabberwocky from Alice
People gave some cool ideas so I want to add some:
– Baleful Banker
– Twilight Drake
– Elise the Trailblazer
– Bonemare
Always playing Shudderwocks with empty board for infinite deck of them after Baleful Banker. The other cards say for themselves.
And Spiteful Summoner after shaman get some good big spells
I wonder… if you play this on an empty board, and at one point you played one of the Brewmaster cards (return minion to hand) you could repeatedly play this turn after turn.
Just put a bunch of direct damage, board control and heal battlecries in.
I kinda want to try this idea now, but truthfully I hope my free legendary isn’t him lol
(Guess this only works if all battlecries happen regardless at want point he is returned to hand)
Brode said both the Shaman and Rogue legendary work like pre-nerf Yogg, so it should keep doing the effects. I’m not going to trust his word 100%, though…
I don’t believe that works but if you play chain gang into grumble it should just win you the game as you now have another Wock in your hand.
if you want more check out my version: http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/actual-otk-shaman/
Is the order random or the order you played the cards in?
Apparently the order is random… Brode said otherwise… I’ll let you know in 3 days!
It is randim, you can clearly see it in the final reaeavel video
Turn 4-7: Play Saronite and Nightblade and/or Lifedrinker (just saw this card and added it here)
Turn 6-8: Play Grumble (has to be after Saronite)
Turn 9+: Play Shudderwock: Creates a copy of itself, deals 3 damage face and then bumps copy back to hand (costs 1 mana).
Turn 10: Play 10x 1-mana Shudderwock for 30 damage face.
Plenty of good battlecry cards to tech :
Chief Inspector (even though Ice Block isn’t standard anymore)
Priestess of Elune, Darkscale Healer, Fungal Enchanter, etc… if you need a bit more survival
Fill the rest of the deck with good control cards and draw.
Grumble’s battle cry only returns other minions.
It returns the copy made by the saronite battlecry
The order is random though. Confirmed by Ben on the stream. Still the possibility is high you’ll bounce one back, maybe even 2. Combo Shaman incomming, but still a lot of setup required with relatively bad cards.
Didn’t he confirm that they will always be the same order? I swear I heard him tell Day9 that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/8b0rs3/shudderwock_happens_in_order/
Ok, apparently Brode was wrong…
All I can say is you play as many “3 damage to face” cards and both Saronite, so you get 66% chance (instead of 50%) to get a saronite effect before grumble (and deal 6, 9, or 12 damage instead of 3). You can also add Zola the Gorgon for safety 9-mana backup (on empty board) and/or the Baleful Banker.
coldlight oracle kappa
Why are you guys alays saying Kappa? I try very hard to understand but I can’t. What’s the reference?
it’s basically equivalent of just kidding. Check the twitch emote with same name.
Finally nightblades and elune priestess(i disenchanted her) will be usefull xD would be very nice use chain gang and frozen effect cards,it clear the board,it awakens the darkness or maybe…JUST CTHUN THAT SHIT!!!!
Shudderwock plus Reno Jackson…
This card is insane and an autoinclude in Evolve Shaman. Imagine the cards such as “Big time racketeer” “Doppleganster” and “Saronite Chain Gang” (I don’t know if it summons a 6/6 or original minion though) It will work with “Thrall, Deathseer”. If you go second you can even save the coin and coin and play “Murmuring Elemental” toghether with it. Great potential. Just to find out if it’s strong enough to carry Evolve Shaman.
Most evolve cards are rotating out, so it’ll be good for Wild Evolve Shaman.
Even if this doesn’t find a place in standard this should be an auto include in any jade shaman deck. This is just simply too good of a card for a jade deck. You could easily fill your board with 4 or 5 jades, each bigger than the last.
How does this work with the worldshaker? It instantly go back to your hand costing (1)?
If it does this is just OP
I can already se a OTK with two Nightblades
Maybe some hero healing battlecry too
Seen how it works with saronite it shouldn’t but… if it triggers saronite first it will send to hand the copy
worldshaker bounces ALL other minions, since this is casting that it will just bounce everything else you have other than itself. Essentially playing woldshaker again
My favorite card in the entire set, so many possibilities, infinite situations, as a Shaman main I love this damn card and the first deck I’m going to make is a battlecry Shaman with both Hero Cards and this sexy legendary. 5/5.
Play this in Wild … AFTER you played Yogg-Saron …
This is really good. Remember, the death knight is a battle cry. You can play cards that makes minions such as saronite chain gang and instantly double evolve them. Including the easy ways to make this a draw spell makes this see very strong.
How does this work with doppelgangster’s battlecry? Will it summon two copies of itself, or will it summon two doppelgangsters? If it summons two copies of itself, there could possibly be an OTK with a charge giving minion such as one of the hogriders and two doppelgangsters.
Two copies of itself, not Doppelgangsters. O_O That would be in Wild, but in Standard we have Saronite Chaingang!
Why is nobody talking ’bout C’Thun =-D it almost doubles his stats.
That actully sounds really fun 😀
What about just getting C’Thun battlecry. How do you suppose that will work? Does it deal the damage of C’thuns damage? does it deal this cards damage? How does that interaction work?
I have so many questions about this card.
Disguised Toast will have his work cut out for him.
Toast has been spending a lot of farewell time on his streams for his one true love yogg saron. But I worry- how long until that piece of charred bread in sunglasses curbs the cunning god for the shudderwock?
Definitely an interesting legendary. Shame that Jades are rotating out – excuse, shame that SHAMAN Jades are rotating out (Druid’s can be deleted from the game for all I care). In Wild you can refill your board with super strong green men (some of them even with Taunt to protect you). In Standard… well, I don’t know how powerful UNTARGETED Battlecries are for Shaman. Like, I wouldn’t run Fire Elemental with this guy. Nor Hagatha (kill your own stuff) or Kalimos (the Elemental Invocation will be chosen randomly). I don’t see this legendary as powerful right now, but with the upcoming 5 expansions Shaman can get good battlecries and make this worth it. So 2.5/5 stars now, possibly 4.5/5 stars in the future.
Why not Kalimos? He doesn’t have a targeted skill, the only annoying part could be filling the board with 1/1. But what happens with Grumble and this thing? You can repeat this fellow for 1 ?
With Kalimos you usually always choose 3 damage AOE. Damage to oposing hero or restoring health are not bad, but normally lackluster. Filling board with 1/1s is not what you want in the end game, and it can happen to you… Nope, don’t like it.
Well if you have also played the DK wouldn’t be bad either . BUT if it triggers both saronite (first) and Grumble afterwards it will crush the game. Literally
OK, so I’ve been saying Brode and Day[9]’s stream on Twitch. I had never thought Saronite Chain Gang would double this minion and not invoke another Chain Gang. So with that Combo in mind, this already has 4/5 stars in Standard for me, and as I said, it can get broken and go to 4.5 or even 5 stars.
Yogg 2.0 ?
Play this in wild with yoggs battlecry……….
What if you played two of these???
Exactly! This could get very wierd, cant wait for the Hysteria (youtuber) video about this card!
What if you play it with brann + the 2 mana 1/1 elemental which doubles next battlecry?
It says from cards you played not from battle cries resolved. I would assume this wont stack.
Well actually maybe nothing since it says “other”? Idk if it excludes just the one battlecry from when you play it or all these battlecries
Looks like Blizzard wants to experiment more with these Yogg-Saron-like effects. This could potentially be very good, plus I like the card art.
Welp, it has better stats than Yogg…
How does this card work with zola? can it copy itself?
You Need to have Summoned a copy of it (saronite chain gang) and then Zola has to go off. Because Zola says ”of a friendly minion” which means all other friendly miniors except Zola