- Fishman, Pirate Thief, Mechanistic? Are we traveling back in time to 2014?
- No, welcome to 2022 and let's relive those classic decks together.
Hearthstone's first expansion pack for 2022, In Search of the Sunken City, will soon be released, and this expansion pack takes us to the dangerous underwater world to explore the ancient city of Sim Aisaly. Sin is the "glory of Isala" in Danassus, the city is named after Queen Isara, and we will be able to see a variety of Naga creatures, as well as fascinating ancient civilizations. And in this new card preview period, Sara's favorite new card is the "Trench SurveyOr"!
The Trench Surveyor is a mage's 2-fee companion card with the effect of "Battle Roar: Bottoming Out." If a mechanical card is selected, draw this card. "In the real world, trench surveyors are used to explore the mysterious seabed, after all, mortals cannot penetrate hundreds or even thousands of kilometers of trenches in the earth's crust. In "In Search of the Sunken City", the Trench Surveyor is designed to survey Sin Aisali to see what good things are hidden in the seabed.
And this digging, dig out all kinds of treasures. "Exploring the Sunken City" brings a new keyword "bottoming", which is the main gameplay of the new version. Bottoming allows you to view three cards at the bottom of the deck and then choose one to reach the surface and place it at the top of the deck.
The new version also features the brand new "Isala Cards", which are capable of shuffling a "sunken" powerful card into the bottom of the deck. In the quest for the Sunken City version, there are often sunken treasures and cool legendary cards at the bottom of the deck, and the bottom can help the player find what they need.
As a 2-cost 3/2 attribute retinue, the Trench Surveyor is naturally a very passing figure, and at worst, a velociraptor. Its roar effect is "bottoming out", which can help you optimize the card order and improve the quality of the next draw. If you pair it with other cards in the new version, you can achieve a lot of fantasy combos. For example, Ambassador Fei Lin shuffles 3 giant companion cards to the bottom of the deck, which you can draw and use immediately on subsequent rounds.
In addition, the trench surveyor has a second effect, that is, if you select the card placed at the top of the deck as a "mechanical card" when performing the bottoming action, you can immediately draw this card. Once the trench survey machine is placed in the mechanical card set, it is a stable filter retrieval method, and 2 costs 3/2 also draws 1 card, "This is really too supermodel!" ”
Moreover, the trench survey machine itself is also a mechanical card, which has noble mechanical properties, can increase the concentration of mechanical cards in the deck, and it is also possible to draw another card, which can play a role in supplementing the hand. Even in 2022's Hearthstone, with a 2-fee premium figure and a stable draw, this is a fairly powerful single card. Most importantly, the designers intend to support the idea of mechanical law in the new Hearthstone Year!
In the new cards that have been announced in the current preview period, the mage has obtained 3 new cards of the mechanical race, including 1 orange card. Mechanical method is one of the two major constructions of the mage profession in "Exploring the Sunken Land", and it is also a rare follower mage gameplay seen in recent years, everyone has played a lot of mage decks with spell systems, it is time to have some freshness and retro experience.
"Mechanical Shark" is a fire demon in the mechanical law, after you summon 1 machine can deal 3 random damage, since the trench surveyor itself is a lower cost of 2 fee units, or it is easy to play with the mechanical shark, if in the high cost round, you even have the opportunity to play the mechanical card drawn by the trench surveyor, so that the mechanical shark triggers the effect twice.
The "Scavenger of Aisara" itself is a unit of standard stature, and the effect of the war roar is to shuffle a "sunken scavenger" into the bottom of the deck. The Sunken Scavenger is a powerful spin-off card, 3/4 of a standard stature and a mechanical race that can be pulled out directly by the Trench Surveyor. Its Battle Roar effect is to randomly place 3 mechanical cards into your hand, which allows the mechanical method to have more means of replenishing cards.
Veteran players who believe in the mechanical method have already burst into tears when they see these new cards, and from 2014 to 2016, the mechanical law was once one of the most popular decks of the national costume, and the T7 hunting/zoo is considered a must-play for novices. Mechanical method was once all the rage, fast paving and continuous pressure is the characteristic, and its biggest drawback is the lack of card ability, once the empty hand card has no endurance, can only draw one hit one.
This made many mechanical players of that year have to bring 2 blue young dragons to make up cards, and the A-3 mechanical King Kong that was later launched was also a fully constructed card. Now that Isala's scavengers have directly replenished 3 cards, and the trench surveyor has drawn 1 card stably, Mom no longer has to worry about my mechanical method playing empty hands!
Although Quest for the Sunken Lands did not bring back the Mechanical Ace Dr. Bang Bang, the Mechanical Law obtained an exclusive orange card for the Mechanical Race that was a hundred times better than the Blazing Beast. Although the Gaia, Mega Mech is an 8-cost 5/7 body unit, it summons 2 appendages, "Gaia's Drill". "Giant" is another keyword in the new version, and minions with giant keywords all have appendages that can be strongly matched with the ontology. Whenever the Giant Companion's body is summoned to the field, these appendages are summoned, even if they are not used from a hand.
Gaia will deal 1 damage to all enemies after your mechanical units attack, if you already have a bunch of mechanical units on the field before you hit Gaia, gaia can trigger the effect multiple times to deal 1 AOE damage and punch in the face. After all, the characteristic of the mechanical method is the special effects of the scene, and the entourage focuses on grabbing blood. Some of my friends may ask, "What if my machinery has been completely untied before Gaia comes on the field?" ”
Don't worry, Gaia's drill bits are 2/3 of the raid derivative units, and the raid effect allows them to attack when Gaia plays. As a result, Gaia can deal 2 damage to all enemies during the turn without the help of other mechanical minions, and has a chance to unravel a 6-blood unit. So, if You Can Draw Gaia later in the game, you'll need a trench surveyor!
The Trench Surveyor also has some cooperation in the neutral card pool, which can shuffle the giant minions of Ambassador Fei Lin into the bottom of the deck, place them on the top of the deck, and if it is a giant minion of the mechanical race, it can immediately draw a hand. Even if it's not a mechanical unit, all Giant Minions are very powerful Legendary cards that can improve the quality of your Minions. The neutral faction should have some other mechanical race cards, and the potential of the trench surveyor is still very large, after all, many of the high-quality units in the mechanical law, such as clockwork gnomes, noisy robots, mechanical jumpers, and manned harvesters, are actually neutral cards.
Although the mechanical method in wild mode is already the tears of the times, but the main high-quality low-cost machinery is not much, 3 fees to play empty hand cards is easy, once after eating a wave of cards to solve the lack of offensive power. The arrival of the Trench Surveyor will certainly increase the overall strength of the mechanical method, and whether it can rise again depends on whether there are more powerful mechanical cards in the undisclosed cards.
For the standard model, there are only 5 mechanically related cards in the entire Year of the Griffin, of which 3 are neutral cards. The cold drink ice machine is obviously a component of The Ice Sa and does not have a chance to play in the main offensive mechanical method. Golia is an arena god card, but there are almost no chances to play in the construction. The mine engineer is to find 1 mechanical card and reduce the fee by 1, but its own body is too poor, and it is not a machine itself.
Therefore, mechanic players still need to wait for the full card of "In Search of the Sunken City" to see what the specific mechanical card pool is, and to see if the 2022 core series will bring some powerful mechanical system cards back. After all, the most important reason why the mechanical deck was able to dominate the environment a few years ago was that there were 2 fee reduction machines, and the electrified robot and the mechanical jumper had to return to at least one in order to make the mechanical method a set of competitive card sets. Considering that there are many die-hard players of the Mechanical Law and the lack of follow-up system mages in the standard environment, the designer should be able to fulfill our wishes.