Hearthstone Descent of Dragons Spoilers: Ysera, Unleashed, Umbral Skulker, More

Lightning Breath is an interesting spell card that will be introduced in the upcoming expansion that is a worthy addition to any deck. It costs only three mana to use this card and what it does is let you deal four damage to a minion of your choosing on the battlefield.

This alone is pretty solid and is even enough to make up for the three mana-cost for the spell card but it has another use to it as well. If you happen to be holding a dragon card in your hand when you use Lightning Breath, this will boost the spell card and make it even better.

This will not only let you deal the expected four damage to the minion of your choosing but it will also damage the neighbors of that particular minion. Presumably, those neighbors will be also damaged for four but the card doesn’t specify that exactly.

This is a strong spell card on its own but the added benefit of having a dragon in your hand is really impressive. If you are planning on using a dragon deck, this is one spell card that we highly recommend as it will allow you to possibly clear the board rather early in the match and take control.

Next up in the spoilers for today is the Phase Stalker creature card. This simple beast card costs only two mana to summon to the field and it has the pretty good stats of two attack and three health. However, the fairly good stats are matched with a relatively important ability.

After you use your hero power, whatever it may be, the Phase Stalker creature card will allow you to cast a secret card from your deck directly. This is a solid way to get a secret on the field with ease and have something ready at your disposal to surprise your opponent.

Being that Phase Stalker is already a pretty strong card for your second or so turn, it is one that we definitely recommend for the upcoming expansion. This is especially the case if you happen to stack your deck with a couple of important secret cards.

Presumably, you will be able to use this ability multiple times if you want to get several secret cards on your field so long as you have Phase Stalker still on the field and you use your hero power at the same time.

Praise Galakrond! is a spell card that players who use a Galakrond deck will absolutely want to add to their collection. For those who don’t know, Galakrond is the villainous dragon in the upcoming set and it has a unique feature for it in the fact that it can be evolved in a match.

It has three forms in total, with the invoke keyword playing into how it evolves into its more powerful forms. Well, Praise Galakrond is one card that helps with that directly. It costs one mana to use this spell card and it does the simple task of giving one of your minions plus one to attack.

With that alone, it is honestly a fairly useless card when there are better ways to spend a single mana point out there. However, what it also does is allow you to invoke Galakrond once. With this ability, it makes it an essential component of some Galakrond decks.

It takes two invokes for Galakrond to evolve each time and Praise Galakrond is built solely for the purpose of granting one of the invokes you need to evolve it. Though it isn’t super powerful, Galakrond decks will find this card useful; other decks, though, probably don’t have much use for it.

Seal Fate is an intriguing spell card that we have already detailed a little bit in our recent deep dive into everything that you need to know about Galakrond. It is a Rogue rare spell card that costs three mana to use and it is also useful for invoking the evil dragon if you want to.

What you get for the three mana is that Seal Fate will deal three damage to an undamaged character on the field. This is a simple but somewhat underwhelming ability that Seal Fate has to it. Again, like with Praise Galakrond, there are much better ways to spend three mana.

However, at the same time as dealing that three damage to an undamaged character, Seal Fate will also invoke Galakrond once. Pair this together with another invoke card and you suddenly have the proto-dragon already upgraded to its second form. While not a required card for sure, it is a fair one for Galakrond Rogue decks at least.

Next up we have another creature card in the form of Shield of Galakrond. As you can see, the evil dragon is at the center of the expansion this time around and there are many cards that are related to it. This one, though, is not actually a dragon card at all but some sort of knight creature.

It costs five mana to summon Shield of Galakrond and it has the okay stats of four attack and five health plus the taunt keyword. In addition, it has a battlecry ability that activates when you summon this dragon knight to the field.

What the battlecry ability does is allow Shield of Galakrond to invoke the evil dragon once like the last two cards that we have went over. But again, this is another card that is a bit underwhelming in terms of power and usefulness on the field so we only recommend this to diehard Galakrond decks.

Twin Tyrant is one of the most powerful cards that we have seen yet for the upcoming expansion. It costs a whopping eight mana to summon this creature to the field but it does have some big stats to match the equally big mana cost for the dragon creature card.

It has the weak attack stat of only four but this is made up for a little bit in the health stat that is an impressive 10. While Twin Tyrant doesn’t have the best stats compared to other big creatures in the game, it does have a solid battlecry ability that activates upon entering the field.

Twin Tyrant will deal four damage to two random enemy minions on the field. While there is some randomness to the battlecry ability, it is a strong one that will deal eight damage in total. However, the high mana cost might makes this creature not worthy of adding to your deck. Regardless, it is a pretty strong defensive dragon creature nonetheless.

Umbral Skulker is the next card up and it is a creature card that costs four mana to summon to the field. This creature card arrives with the not super great stats of three and three each but it does have a battlecry ability that does make up for the lack of stats a little bit.

When you summon Umbral Skulker to the field, it will add three coins to your hand but only in certain circumstances. You will have had to invoked already twice in the game thus far for this ability to activate. This is a strange activity that we will need more information on to really grasp how strong this card is.

The coins themselves could be useful in the context of the game but we will really need to get to know what the coins will be useful for in new expansion before we can say more on that front. On the other hand, the requirement of having to invoke at least twice before summoning this card is a bit annoying as well.

At this time, we aren’t sure that Umbral Skulker will be a great addition to your deck collection but we will have to just wait and see on it.

But one card that we do know is pretty good at this time is Veiled Worshipper. This creature card costs four mana to summon to the field and it has pretty solid stats at five attack and four health. Like with the last card, it also has a strange battlecry ability.

When you summon Veiled Worshipper to the field, it will activate its ability but only if you have invoked twice in the game thus far. If you have, you will be able to draw three cards right then and there. That is a rather impressive card draw capability for this random creature card and it is worth having.

Unfortunately, though, it won’t have any use if you don’t have a Galakrond deck. Because of the invoke requirement, you are going to want to have a deck that revolves around that feature or else Veiled Worshipper will just be dead weight for your collection.

Last but certainly not least for the spoilers today, we have one of the most powerful and important cards to be revealed for the Hearthstone expansion yet in Ysera, Unleashed. This is one dragon creature that you need to know about, especially if you are wanting to have a dragon deck.

Ysera, Unleashed is the first legendary creature card that we have to go over in the set that isn’t Galakrond itself. Ysera is a legendary Hearthstone dragon creature card that costs a massive nine mana to summon to the field but it might be worth it for what it brings to the battlefield.

Starting out, it has the pretty good stats of four attack and 12 health that will keep it on the field for a good while. However, it has a strong battlecry ability, too, that activates when you summon Ysera. It will shuffle seven Dream Portals into your deck right then.

Dream Portal is another new card being introduced in this expansion that casts immediately without needing a mana cost when you draw it into your hand from your deck. When you do this, Dream Portal will summon a random dragon onto the field.

Ysera, Unleashed will give you not one but seven of these Dream Portals and put them into your deck ready for drawing. This means that you could potentially have a plethora of dragons ready to fill the battlefield all for free. This is a really awesome legendary dragon creature card that we recommend.