One is a neutral minion, but the other is much more interesting: the new Shaman legendary minion.
Following the voting on card releases, today Kripparrian revealed a new Whispers of the Old Gods minion on his YouTube channel. Hallazeal the Ascended will accompany Thrall on the battlefield, and he has an interesting mechanic. Not comparable to any other effect thus far ([card]Wrathguard[/card], maybe?), Hallazeal will heal you for as much damage your spells do. For example: a [card]Lava Burst[/card] will simultaniously deal 5 damage and heal you for 5 too. Interesting is the interaction with AoE spells such as [card]Elemental Destruction[/card] which, according to Hallazeal's effect, could heal you for 90 (given there are 14 minions on board, and it hits all minions for 5 damage). This is of course a little excessive, but the general idea behind the card is very interesting. A new type of "Heal Shaman" could be tested with, featuring [card]Healing Wave[/card] and possibly [card]Reno Jackson[/card] too.
Next to a new Shaman legendary, also a new neutral minion was revealed today. After the first ever image of the Old God N'Zoth was released earlier today, now one of his tentacles shows up in Hearthstone. Its deathrattle reminds of [card]Explosive Sheep[/card], [card]Unstable Ghoul[/card], [card]Abomination[/card] and [card]Chillmaw[/card]. However, since the first three of those will be rotated out in Standard, Tentacle of N'Zoth might just fill up a spot in e.g. Patron Warriors, which will mostly miss the presence of Unstable Ghoul. One thing is very promising about this card: If one tentacle alone can already do 1 damage to all minions, its owner must be capable of something far more destructive...
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