Last Dark Portal Previews

Today, our preview journey together comes to an end. We've gotten our last previews (now I'm just winning some Aussies get on the ball and get a spoiler up since they're almost a full day ahead of us over there). Our final previews are gigantic monsters who will end the game within a couple turns of entering it.

Ivus, The Forest Lord
Cost: 14
Alliance Ally-Unique
10/10

You pay (1) less to play Ivus for each non-token Alliance ally in your party.

Each opposing ability, ally, and equipment can't ready during its controller's ready step.

Lokholar, The Ice Lord
Cost: 14
Horde Ally-Unique
10/10

You pay (1) less to play Lokholar for each non-token Horde ally in your party.

At the start of each opponent's turn, Lokholar deals 2 frost damage to each hero and ally in that player's party. A character dealt damage this way can't attack this turn.

Well, these guys are quite huge. They're also very expensive to play. I think you can only count on being able to reduce their cost by maybe one or two with your own allies. Any more than that at that point in the game and you are probably winning anyway. Obviously these guys are going to end a game pretty quickly after they enter play, but I'm not so sure that they can end it faster than Magni. I would be pretty surprised to see these guys get any real serious play. They are quite fun though. Sorry for the short post today, but there's just not a whole lot for me to say about these cards, and we're so close now, I just can't wait until we get to see the whole set. I have a lot of things I want to say about the new set, and I'll start covering it in detail next week, when I talk about how I think the quest makeup of decks will change dramatically with the release of the new set.