I Take A Few Day Off from posting and BAMM!!!

Well, either UDE read my blog about dropping peaks like candy, or it was in their marketing plan all along to build the buzz (more than likely the latter :)). Where do I start? Do I keep moving with my short, amusing and partially brilliant assessments of the FOH cards or take a look at what it is that I have been craving for oh so very long, the beloved DK?


I know, I know, it may seem that I am "slightly" worried about how the DK is going to affect the TCG, but does that mean that I can't drool at the possibilities a little? While I personally was not happy with how the new Uber class took the MMO world by storm and set back raiding guilds for months, that doesn't mean that in the end the decision wasn't a smart one by Blizzard. After all, it did allow for people who were so attached to the game that they never really developed an alt to be able to skip a couple...well 50 to be exact...levels in order to have a respectable alter ego. As if the game didn't lend itself to that in the first place. I am sure that Blizzard is seeing people on more as a result of having the option of developing two toons versus just the single. Obviously they had the fore site to realize that when a person had geared that toon to a certain point, they would leave the game behind until the next expansion. Now, the user in question simply moved to the second toon and brought that one to god-like proportions of gear, gold and achievements.


Enough with that tangent, back to the TCG. Over the last few days we have seen the previews for the Death Knight. We have seen that they will employ pets, as expected. We have seen two of the heroes, my personal favorite is Randolphe Mortimer due to the obvious reference to that epic 80's movie "Trading Places" with the antagonists of the film being two brothers, Randolph and Mortimore Duke. His flip ability isn't half bad either. We have seen one of the new abilities, Mind Freeze, and believe me when I say that when quadruple stacked in a deck, it will have game changing potential.

Overall, these initial releases seem as though the Death Knight will have a very welcome introduction to the game. It can pretty much be said without reserve that when the set goes legal and the first booster packs with additions hit the shelves, they will be hitting the tournament tables shortly thereafter.

Interesting to say the least.