Do not fall prey to excessive posting in the (low content) HARTHSTONE?! thread. Move discussion of cards, pics, speculation, strategery, and lockbox here.

To the uninitiated...
Who are the Old Gods? It has always been debated whether the Old Gods, the Legion, or the Titans were the big bad of Warcraft. Until this week. It was just revealed that the Titans are dead, and the Legion was formed to have a faint hope to be able to defeat the OGs. (ps loyal shadow priests knew all along). In nerdspeak, they are pure Chaotic Evil. (Which surely depends on your frame of reference...shadow priests)

The Old Gods' influence and exact spheres of control over Azeroth is only speculated upon.



But wherever they show up purple tends to prevail. Here are the Twilight Highlands:



One of the first OP cards linked in the reveal is...
In the very, very black corner wearing the very, very black trunks...



C'thun resides in Southern Kalimdor and has an army of avatars known as the Silithid. The Silithid are very Starship Trooper-ish and not nearly on the awesome level as other OG minions.



C'thun was speculated as the only OG to ever be defeated but that distinction belongs to Y'shaarj.



Y'shaarj was killed by the Titans a long, long time ago when the saga began. He ended up corrupting the panda continent (that no one cares about and pretends doesn't exist) in death.

At the apex of the Warcraft franchise we have Arthas, who was indirectly a pawn of Yogg'Saron.



Yogg is my personal fave and I hope that Brody does him justice in HARTHSTONE. His minions are the Faceless Ones, and they reside in the icy continent of Northrend. There are also some death spiders and vikings if you're into that ****. GOAT VILLAIN.





The big dick daddy of this whole group is N'zoth, but no one knows anything concrete about him other that he probably lives under the ocean and has done a lot of naughty things.



We shall indubitably also see tons of Twilight Cultists (so, so many Cultists)



and an appearance from everyone's favorite apocalyptic ogre, Cho'gall.



It summary, the OGs are the equivalent of Lovecraftian Horrors in the Warcraft universe. Unintelligible, incomprehensible beings of madness and good times.

I'm realllly hoping there is a small chance that Blizz does something to make Shadow Priest viable in this expac.

*whispers of the old gods

Count me on Team Y'shaarj.

hahahah

WRATH

WOGWOGOWGOOWOGOWOGGGGGGG

4 more mana for 6/6 body on Avenging Wrath before taking into account massive buffs... seems good. Er, to clarify, it's obviously not good without the buffs. But dealing even 10 instant damage makes it way better than Rafaam.

its arguably very good at 8/8 already... kind of shows the insane potential.

I wonder if one of the synergistic minions make you draw it or close enough to that effect.

Maybe a legendary minion that makes you draw a "random" old god from your deck? which would make different old gods archetypes very reliable

I can imagine a twilight cultist minion or something that's requires a couple turns of being in play before it can summon C'thun into your hand or onto the board while still allowing the battle cry. Obv it would have to be something gross like a 2/3 for 5.

corrupted captains parrot one time

Seems like c'thun could work in a paladin deck with a build similar to their murloc decks.

I wanna see what the corrupted huffer is.

corrupted huffer, 3 mana 2/4 taunt

one card today....

OOOOOOOOONE

wtf

they chose THAT CARD to show us ?!

jesus

most boring card in the game

When did you guys lose faith in the hearthstone team?

did it look a bit like this?



SAD indeed

that plus quartermaster going to be a brutal combo in wild

edit: obv add in muster, silver hand regent and warhorse trainer for dumb but maybe awesome deck

comp spirit combo won't be bad either against certain classes.

That card is pretty underpowered.

enh while it's not a great card it only looks under powered in relation to muster. The baseline cost for cards that give you the effect of a hero power is usually 1-1.5 mana per hero power.

it's ****

Clearly. That doesn't make it underpowered though.

When can we preorder the 50 packs?

that card really could not be more disappointing

power level discussion aside, this is the type of **** that i was concerned about - this is just a slight tweak in muster for battle, there is nothing new here. this type of stuff is just making people pay for slightly different versions of phased out cards

the standard format is only good if the cards/decks substantially change with each expansion

Supremely disappointed. "We're going to breathe new life into the game by retiring a bunch of cards and replacing then with similar (but worse) cards."

WTF Blizzard.

Wild format FTW at this point.