Card Previews: September 27th

By Mike Rosenberg

We’ve got two three cost Blood and Ruby cards for you today, and we’re starting off with a heavy-hitter.







Claw of the Mountain God hits hard and fast no matter what. He will either run over the opposing champion like a bulldozer, or he will inevitably leave you high and dry if an opponent has a way to neutralize this troop without destroying it. It makes for a fast game regardless. 5 ATK is hard to argue with, since four direct hits will oftentimes win you the game, and Orcs are a race that is known for large troops and fast starts. When the Claw enters play, the race is on!

Both pieces of equipment associated with Claw of the Mountain God provide very different benefits. While Kog’tepai’s Breastplate of Regeneration lets an aggressive Orcs player cycle dead cards out of his or her hand as the Claw deals damage to an opposing champion, the Bloody Cestrus gives your in-hand Orcs some cheap utility while Claw of the Mountain God is in play.

Our next card is a little bit more straightforward:

Hey, did you want to start playing big troops, artifacts, and constants? Well, you’re going to need to be prepared to handle a few resource attacks. Demolition will set back a player’s resource number, which could potentially strand an unsuspecting opponent on too few resources to put anything worthwhile into play.

The equipment line-up for Demolition adds some extra strength to the card for PVE. The Fractured Mirror adds to the resource destruction, letting you look at the top three cards of an opponent’s deck in order to crush a resource there as well.

The common Demolishers, which reduce the cost of Demolition to one resource while equipped, are especially important. This will let you keep a deadly encounter’s resource number down to zero even after the AI plays a resource on the first turn. If you are trying to hold back fearsome troops by locking them in an opponent’s hand, then Demolition with the Demolishers equipped will prove key.

Before we wrap things up, I’ve got one last image to show you. The art from Demolition depicts a little bit more going on that isn’t quite captured by the full frame. That’s where these come in.

Extended Art cards are unlocked when you complete all achievements on a card’s double back. Complete all of Demolition’s achievements, and you can unlock the full art!

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