We knew Un’Goro was teeming with dangerous elementals, but apparently its also infested with the most pervasive, aggressive and menacing species of them all: Murlocs.

Hearthstone has revealed another new batch of Journey to Un’Goro cards over the past day, including new murlocs, a murloc-related quest, elementals and a couple other cool new cards. Let’s dive in and see how the new cards will shift the meta.

Murloc madness

Murlocs aren’t going anywhere, baby. Take a look at this Shaman quest card, Unite the Murlocs, which plants the flag for murloc-stacked Shaman builds in Journey to Un’Goro.

Murloc builds haven’t been super popular in the recent Hearthstone meta but that’s probably because there was no Megafin, the reward for the Shaman quest card. Megafin is an overpowered 5-mana murloc, boasting a strong 8/8 body and a top-notch battlecry: filling your hand with random murlocs. With a bunch of low-mana in your deck, you could quickly find yourself completely overwhelming enemies with a very aggressive army of murlocs before you get into late game.

Now pair this setup with these next two cards, Primalfin Lookout and Gentle Megasaur.

Primalfin Lookout is a solid 3-mana murloc that helps you build up your murloc army by giving another murloc card if you already have one in play — definitely pairs well with the Unite the Murlocs quest card. Although the second card isn’t a murloc, it’s a hugely helpful card for murloc-heavy decks. Gentle Megasaur’s battlecry adapts your murlocs on the board, giving them a choose-able buff like windfury, +1/+1 or one of several other adaptations Hearthstone showed off in its first and second card reveals. Thanks to this, your murloc army gets a whole lot more dangerous.

Elemental takeover

Elementals are their own type of minion in Hearthstone in Journey to Un’Goro. That means they’re a whole new kind of beat to deal with, kind of like the murlocs above. Just take a look at these two new elementals.

Ozruk is a pretty intense late-game card with a ton of potential. If you play a couple elementals in one turn and Ozruk in your next, all of a sudden you have a 5/15 behemoth with taunt on your board. And if you’re playing a Shaman deck, throw Stone Sentinel in there on your next turn to beef out your board even more and give your inevitable murloc onslaught some late-game survivability.

Speaking of Shaman and elementals, feast your eyes upon Kalimos, Primal Lord, an 8-mana 7/7 that allows you to pick one of four invocations based on the elements, which can deal damage to enemy minions, damage the enemy hero, summon little elementals onto your board or restore a chunk of your health.

With these insanely powerful late-game elementals, Shaman players are going to have to choose whether they want to go with a very aggressive murloc build or a patient control deck based on elementals. Shaman are looking to be one of the most interesting classes in the expansion.

These are great late game cards, but don’t think Hearthstone neglected early game elementals. 

Fire Fly is a decent 1-mana card that isn’t too special, except it adds arguably the most adorable Hearthstone card ever right into your hand: Flame Elemental. For just 2 mana, this pairing is a great addition to a late-game turn if you’ve got an Ozruk in your hand and could also work as a solid bluff.

There is also the similar card exclusive to Mages, Flame Geyser, which is a good card for early board control plus puts a low-cost elemental into your hand.

In a seamless transition from elementals to miscellaneous cards, two new Priest cards were revealed: the elemental Crystalline Oracle and the spell Shadow Visions.

Crystalline Oracle is a good 1-mana throwaway minion for early in the game, giving you the potential to gain a really advantageous (or really mediocre) card, which can be a game-changer for Priests. Meanwhile Shadow Visions allows you to double up on one of your own spells, which is never a bad thing in Hearthstone.

Warlock snowball

The final big reveal in this set is the first silithid beast in the expansion, Clutchmother Zavas, a 2-mana 2/2 that can snowball into a crazy powerful minion over a few turns.

If you discard Clutchmother Zavas, she goes back to your hand but with an additional 2 attack and 2 health every time you discard her. This pairs well with the Warlock quest revealed last week, Lakkari Sacrifice, which gives you a Nether Portal to summon endless minion after you discard six cards. The synergy of these two cards makes discard-focused Warlock decks look very powerful coming into this expansion.

As Hearthstone continues to reveal more cards before the release of Journey to Un’Goro, we’ll keep you up to date on how the new cards are shaking up the meta.