Artanis Hero card REVEALED! It’s even more BROKEN than I thought…

[@Transforsen]

The unique thing about this miniset is that it's pushing a specific archetype rather than generic cards that aren't constrained to a single type of deck which previous minisets have followed, meaning that if the Protoss/Zerg/Marines playstyle doesn't work then NONE of the cards will ever see any play.

[@KrimsonSpeed]

It also pollutes the pool of randomly generated cards. You can easily get cards that are awful/useless because they require you to play other protoss spells, etc.

[@MaxRenke]

I think that is explicitly the intent. clearly they are trying to calm things down before rotation.

[@MsLucho1998]

​@@MaxRenkewhich will mean that if they fail, the cards that survived rotation will still be on top. It's a pretty bad plan tbh

[@magetathelion5825]

TBH this card is good even stand alone in druid for 7 mana you get 2 3/4 with charge 3 mana each basically, 5 armor and an HP that grant divine shield to you and a minion

[@CasualClairvoyance]

Not really because there’s always select cards that see play for all sorts of reasons

[@ZeddyHearthstone]

No views in 2 minutes, I've totally fallen off

[@g_eddie]

I'll redeem ZeddyFall on stream in honor of this momentous occasion

[@porkchopsuitcase9906]

You were on? Haha jk man

[@braedon1830]

Don’t worry I’m here now

[@jonaswestman1245]

You just feel like a whole different KZbinr if you dont shout ”BLIZZZZZARD!!!!” as your intro

[@breakingrowesbud]

It’s mostly because we have to mentally prepare for your pronunciation of SC terminology.

[@jamesbaker4143]

As someone who loved Starcraft, this is absolutely in theme with Starcraft. The names, the abilities, what they do in Hearthstone matches what they did/provides in Starcraft.

[@fl3xratgame]

No, is not spooky. i like that this mini set in general only works with the miniset it self, very specific everything

[@lordsalex]

Time to construct additional pylons

[@bamboozald22]

This is far better than I was expecting and crazy for druid who can already ramp so fast right now.

[@AlanAlberti-gt4tm]

if zeddy gave 5/5 rating you know this one will be bad

[@kerotomas1]

Blizzard: How much powercreep do you want? Players and their mothers: YES

[@GrenadeMan9000]

interesting way to balance the game, just make everything broken

[@norkester444]

turn 5 artanis that is scary

[@bannor9870]

Turn 4 with New Heights for Druid.

[@securityguy9992]

Mana cheat ramp toss druid is gonna be hella fun

[@Daniel-ww8nr]

Artanis deserved a whole video aloneee

[@Discerned_]

7:37 It's *power* is truly *overwhelming* . 😅

[@nathanborgesgoncalves3613]

For incredible that its look i think artanis is still a slowdown on the powercreep

[@Silverflower351]

If Artanis doesn't say my life for aiur i'm gonna be piss :D

[@becausecontextmatters5260]

Why would he? Artanis wasn't a big fan of Aiur and tradition in general

[@Silverflower351]

@@becausecontextmatters5260 i forgot who says who its been a while since i played starcraft, but the zealot on the other hand it might say it :D

[@richarizard4049]

He doesn’t while attacking. It would’ve been awesome if the zealots said it.

[@Silverflower351]

@ nor even when you summon it?

[@Sycth55]

My life for mana cheat

[@MthieuBrdoux]

😂

[@albrown122]

All Protoss minions should come with Divine Shield to represent their force shield. StarCraft has actual spells and abilities that can count as spells in HS. But they are turning some minions into spells. I would have made the Photon Cannon a 2/3 minion with a continuous effect of dealing 2 damage to the first enemy to attack. It's to represent its shooting at anything in range.

[@Mikach066]

you can theoretically play this earliest turn 2 with druid. druid gets the 0 cost spell that discounts ANY protoss card by 2, then coin + innervate x2. yes thats a highroll but you can still do it by turn 4 rather easily without innervate.

[@arma308]

Artanis and Warpgate/rogue pirate will discount rogue's templars by 5, which means Sonya can generate multiple archons after Artanis is played. Or blink spell+pirate. It will be interesting to see the math of all the ways rogue will destroy me...

[@g_eddie]

A hero power that gives divine shield to your hero seems absolutely bused. Buh-roken, in fact.

[@iuricunhamurakami8261]

Yeah, they never did something like that before right....

[@Ggg6vcyyfryruuuf]

Al'akir crying in the corner while reading this

[@quentind1924]

​@@iuricunhamurakami8261 You had that paladin legendary spell that gives your hero divine shield after you play a holy spell, or that 1-cost spell that can give divine shield x3

[@MinoriGaming]

There have been zero hero divine shield effects that have been good.

[@1skorn]

I'm afraid for what Kerrigan will have since its the favorite child of blizzard

[@erica2980]

I feel like I've seen a lot of cards that claim to do things with my Protos minions, and not a single Protos minion I'd be all that excited to play.

[@ДюсековИльяс]

I mean druids piece is absolutely crazy, but it is 12 mana, so shrug

[@bleflar9183]

Oh no they gave Artanis his canonical power.

[@toddmowery7221]

It will be fun to see Zeddy play Priest

[@ZKEUS]

I would say Artanis is probably fine at (7) mana because it's similar to an Inzah-like effect, which is kinda useless until you draw it and might be worthless by that point... BUT, Druid exists.

[@Zagrash]

I'm scared about the post rotation meta. Could be off the chart chaos, linear and imbalanced. Reminds me of Mean Streets post rotation meta.

[@sng9x]

Can you use this Hero Power if you don't have a friendly minion on your board?

[@sonofliberty78]

The Artanis hero card is significantly more powerful than Jim Raynor, imo. It’ll be interesting to see what effects and hero power they’ve given to Kerrigan.

[@PrabhDhil]

Seems much weaker to me tbh, there’s not gonna be many protoss minions and the hero power seems weak

[@sonofliberty78]

@@PrabhDhilWith Charging Zealots, High and Dark Templars, (plus Sonya); Rogue’s got all the Protoss minions it needs.

[@DemonMankeyMan]

Artanis might see play outside of protoss decks, he still summons 2 3/4s with the ability to act instantly. Divine Shield on heroes isn't to be underestimated either

[@oscarbabinski4904]

the card that up atk give by druide hero power work with him? and if you give your charge minion 10 atk with that isn't that just win?

[@darkumineru1681]

Artanis is good even if you ignore the discount in some decks has its 6 face damage and a great heropower

[@kaikazel3261]

I honestly dont know if I like or hate this card, and this miniset in general. What I liked about hearthstone is that each class has a different kind of flavour and, I know this was lost a long time ago when priest became agro and hunter became control, but this hero doesnt make much sense to me for the classes its targeting, besides the reducing cost. I dont know, we will see how it goes.

[@scowil456]

Card text doesn’t say hero power is limited to only protos minions 🤔

[@brakoholic]

This might be enough to make me play druid again. It's my main class, but I have 2500 wins with it so I'm trying to focus on other classes these days.

[@SaltyBeagleYT]

I can't wait to see how this works out... good or most likely bad. xD

[@jsjeidjjsidisjc5224]

A Druid going second can coin, innervate, double pylon, and then play Artanis turn one. 1 in a billion scenario but would be so tilting

[@Nunubotz2]

you can't double pylon, it on itself is a protos card

[@volpieee]

And what will artanis turn 1 even achieve? 2 fine minions and an empty hand? I'm not sure it's that good even if it was possible

[@BobWhoosta1]

Artanis isn't broken, you are!!

[@CasualClairvoyance]

Hearthstone is just absurd now and I love it

[@puffclantv8436]

its like they always want to lower the power level for all the classes except for the 4 that are part of protoss they always the most broken besides Warlock ofc

[@gGeezZusS]

I hate the fact that he doesn't feel like a priest or mage card at all. None of his effects sounds like a mage or priest effect.

[@RustyShaklefudd]

These iconic Starcraft characters deserve to be broken.

[@maximal99334]

Zeddy control decks need win conditions. Also since the mana reductions are limited to protoss cards it's fine.

[@grizzly311tr]

Control decks have an obvious win condition, fatigue. Welcome to card games

[@maximal99334]

@@grizzly311tr lol

[@APriestMain]

Did the devs ever say that they were actually trying to actively lower thw power level long term? I feel like no

[@henrymccool]

Its a great hero power, bit historically all hero cards have had a ton of power to close out the late game, plus that mage minioon just reminds me of Cthun, and cthun was so bad it got buffed by 2 mana.

[@MOHWORDLIFE]

Do u think druid players will use protoss cards or they gonna keep playe taunt deck

[@impkiller5932]

They would summon carrier from dungar and that's all.

[@Troninater]

Do I need to comment every card reveal or just the very first one? Either way I'm hyped and hope I win the contest. :D

[@volpieee]

Just the first one, check the description on this video, there is a link

[@vincentp.2280]

Isn't shield primarily a Paladin keyword?

[@volpieee]

Kind of, but other clases do get it sometimes, and it fits protoss really well

[@DemonMankeyMan]

Protoss in SC always have both their base health and an energy shield/secondary health bar. This mechanic doesn't really exist in HS so Divine Shield is a good substitute.

[@ralphf.7611]

We did it, we broke Shadowstep 🎉

[@kennynicely9676]

Artanis looks nuts.

[@racagou]

I don't know, it doesn't seem that bad even without any other Protoss cards: double 3/4 Charge is nice and the hero power is nice even out of that context (also, Shadowstep on the Zealot is still valid even without any other Protoss card).

[@animegx45]

It doesn't need to give them charge. Why the hell do they have charge?

[@francisedwards8786]

I remember when OTK meant you killed from 30. You use it all the time lol.

[@volpieee]

Hearthsone players can only whine from what I see: half the player base cryes that the cards are overpowered, the other half that they are underpowered, and I for one, really like the designs of the cards and really want to try most of the archetypes here

[@mobiasjoe2807]

Mass mana cheat for all of a faction is wild.

[@magetathelion5825]

Now this is a card i would spend my money on even stand alone is quite strong

[@chadgamer6942]

I dont see this competing with hand buff paladin it seems so slow

[@Sin2dead]

Artanis nerf to text: 1 mana less incoming

[@IgnisNatus]

If you play another heroe card like Reno lone ranger. This aura effect its gone?

[@conradsmight2220]

It's a battlecry so I think not

[@KrimsonSpeed]

The effect should remain because it says "this game"

[@IgnisNatus]

@@conradsmight2220 Yeah i get is battlecry. Just confuses me when the battlecry texts ends. If zealots are the battlecry only or the whole text.

[@conradsmight2220]

@IgnisNatus the whole text I assume, most other heros like this have their whole play effect be the battlecry

[@IgnisNatus]

@@KrimsonSpeed Lol you're right. I feel like zeddy reading cards xD

[@CyDOOM]

I love Rogue and I love hero cards! This is sweet!

[@ozon69]

1 mana zealots can be played with sonya. Isn't it cool zeddy?

[@ZAYKONN]

Thank God the discount is a Hero Aura, imagine we had 0 Mana Protons! The game would become incredibly unbalanced, thankfully Blizzard makes sure that we have to spend Mana to play cards.

[@willewald7633]

I think this goes up to 9 because of Druid again, a in less capacity cus of rouge. Two classes u never want to see combine.

[@MsMassacre-j9y]

hilarious that a hero card with the hero power to give away divine shields is given to 4 different classes. none of which are paladin.

[@TL-fz4yr]

Power Overwhelming!

[@sayaztv]

Turn 5? Mean Turn 2 for druids.

[@justusneubeck]

Druid Artanis turn 3 going second

[@mythsealaes2206]

i know its rotating but artanis + groovy cat...

[@DamianPereyraHs]

Oh boys... All embrance the Meta: Turn 3 New Highs, next turn Artanis (cheating with new 0 cost protoss spell).

[@wilfredsteampunk5705]

hey hearthstone I remember that game! hey starcraft I remember that game!

[@FollowYourTrueDreams]

I just wish they would fix their mobile app so it doesn’t keep crashing every time I buy a pack from the store! WTF is taking them so long to support older devices?!

[@zeleros4027]

I am totally in the minority, but I am not that impressed by Protoss stuff. It has more hope than the Terran stuff, but even with the amount of mana cheat they are pushing it still feels quite slow to me. At least until rotation.

[@daviddietz1776]

this is going to be a clown fiesta

[@yurisargsyan2968]

For me it's the hero power that's crazy)

[@johnj4471]

Zeddy yet again proving lack of awareness in the game as if 12 damage turn 7 won’t frequently be able to end games. The better assessment is how often will you have all 3 cards.

[@Tatercon]

By 7 warrior already has either 20 armor or 6 taunts in the way 12 dmg is doing nothing turn 7

[@johnj4471]

@ one class with the lower win rate out of them all….

[@yadielsotomayor5015]

Zeddy, you need to play Yugioh. It will make manacheating in hearthstone look like a nice even fair manacurve

[@MegaNoob112]

These cards are nuts

[@WaterAndClay]

I like this set so far

[@chesschilla]

My life for Aiur!

[@PrabhDhil]

This cards being severely over rated imo, the mana cheat is only for protoss cards which is very niche and the hero power seems mediocre. Raynor seems a bit stronger of the 2

[@hblanche]

Obviously obvious statement: auto-include in a Protoss deck.

[@LuizMoratelli]

2:44 mage having only 2 minions :/

[@kazy356]

En Taro Artanis!

[@casadake]

This is just a spell, very uncreative

[@xbon1]

too bad whizbang never updates with these miniset cards

[@KaiteWDrey]

Yep! This is it. I was already contemplating the possibility of finalising my decision but this card makes me thing the dev team either doesn't care about scaling the power level down or the higher ups are forcing them to print broken effect to keep on selling sets. I'm gonna officially stop playing hearthstone and I'm not sure if I'll ever come back because at this point it's literally turning into worst Yu-Gi-Oh where you fling as many card as you possibly can to OTK your opponent as fast as you can and if I have to play worst Yu-Gi-Oh! I'm gonna play actual Yu-Gi-Oh! because at least there I have hand-traps that allows me to interact with my opponent during their turn instead of having to sit there and watch them combo off/try kill them faster than they kill me/cheat even more mana than they do to summon a huge board that's near impossible to remove. I legit feel like the 10th anniversary marks the DEATH of the hearthstone I knew and loved for over 7 years, Combo/OTKstone isn't the reason why I like playing the game but right it's the only way to play the game.

[@NitroMelon]

Artanis at 7 mana is insane, it wouldn't be balanced even at 11 mana, Druid sucks

[@volpieee]

Are you high? What is so unbalanced about him? Especially at 11 mana, I can get what can be strong about him at 7, but 11? Really?

[@birlibirloco1711]

So, because of mana cheating, they're actually printing over 10-Cost cards... That's a too realistic approach for a fantasy themed game: CEO's and Politics also build around problems instead of solving them.

[@gachibass3639]

Protosstone inc.

[@mrbuu792]

charge, divine shield, +1 attk.....feels more like a paladin card. not getting priest from this at all lol

[@mrbuu792]

except the art ig ^_^

[@douglas29x]

funless hero card of all time

[@loshotrosha]

Pls Blizzard cards are too small we need more text more power we need to close games in turn 2 turn 3 is too slow

[@dvides89]

Man where’s my favorite class’s reveal ??? ( yeah literally by Ranked Wins, it’s by far my most played class)😂😂😂 Maybe Tassadar ???

[@Devilfish6666]

Classes dont get their own hero cards. Artanis is the hero card for all 4 Protoss classes. Some Protoss minions we havent seen yet could be Tempest, Mothership, Adept or Stalker off the top of my head so those are very possible.

[@alexanderjamesaustin]

So terrans get mech and starships, protoss gets mana cheating and otk, and zerg get 1/1s that aren't beasts, woof

[@Shadovvwithoutbody]

No good direction. Rule of trash isn't my style.

[@benjaminscott7039]

Mana cheat is always fun 😊

[@thundercatq259]

Turn 1: coin into photon cannon and kill an enemy minion Turn 2: photon cannon to kill another enemy minion Turn 3: construct pylon into Artanis.

[@TheVermifuge]

The hero power description needs re-wording. It's confusing to read.

[@udllord]

wild brann artanis

[@MrQuobit]

So...carrier by turn 6...nice

[@OrthodoxRabbiBillClinton]

They will try 😅

[@maurovavotici6553]

Sonya can do copy of archon..... no good