New Mage Spell - Build a Snowman

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A new Rare Mage Spell, Build a Snowman, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    A new Rare Mage Spell, Build a Snowman, has been revealed!

    Build a Snowman Card Image

    Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!


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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Very cute, decent support for Big Spell Mage as well, but without some Freeze payoff I don't see it working out.

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • JoshoPrime's Avatar
    Headless Horseman 315 61 Posts Joined 01/16/2021
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Do you wanna build a Pyros? ♫ ♫

    good as a discover option insane in arena which is a common topic with a lot of this cards, and, a decent proactive frost spell for quest mage (gosh i hope another type of mage becomes viable or it will drive me insane)
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  • Tumbleweedovski's Avatar
    Protector of Elwynn 1470 598 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Arena: Pyros is back! Don't underestimate Build a Snowman. Pyros is still a good card and this is even better.

    Constructed: Build a Snowbrute and especially Build a Snowgre are unplayable on their own so this would need cards like Clumsy Courier to see any play. Are we finally going to be able to play Big Spell Mage?

    Arena > Wild > Standard

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Pyros has become a spell it seems. Solid for Big spell mage, but it does need more support. But considering they said that mages will have "big spells in their hand" this expansion, i'm certain we are going to see these amazing big spells they have been teasing for the last 2 expansions and mini set. Lets hope this new big spell mage is going to be really good and fun to play! Because i'll take any kind of GOOD mage deck that isn't spell mage any day.

    Wait Sorcerer's Gambit can run this as a freeze spell they can play any time... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! 

    Edit: I just remembered this: it's a really bad target for Deepwater Evoker, so maybe BIG spell mage might not even run it.

    RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.

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  • Erodos's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Reminds me of Pyros, but with spell synergy. They hinted at more frost synergy, which makes me believe that this card will be very handy in a multitude of ways.

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  • Lundy's Avatar
    Little Devil Teemo 1555 707 Posts Joined 06/21/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Frost Pyros! That card saw minimal play, in Elemental Mage no less, and this won't see much play either. Fun though.

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  • meisterz39's Avatar
    925 1200 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Lots of value here, and since the spells end up in your hand it's also potentially a reason to play Siphon Mana and Celestial Ink Set (and maybe move a little away from Incanter's Flow)

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5542 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Want it to be good, to be meta, but likely it'll never be.

    Pyros was introduced in a much weaker and slower meta and that card never really saw play outside of reno mage. And this card practically apes it at a time where mage really dont play or need minions at all to succeed.

    But for what its worth, it provides a decent minion with the dreaded freeze effect. So there's always that. In some form of irony, had this been a minion (and obviously an elemental), it might have carved a niche out in elemental mage, which isn't really bad in of itself. Too bad.

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  • sule's Avatar
    Dinosaur 785 796 Posts Joined 08/21/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Is good tempo. Quest Mage doesn't want this, even though it's a way to complete the Quest because the later parts are so expensive. I desperately don't want this to see play because I don't need songs from Frozen stuck in my head any more.

    I have spoken.

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Not bad, not good.  I do like the "questline" like pay off though

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  • GoddammitDontShootMe's Avatar
    Splendiferous 2145 1903 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2565 3339 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago
    Quote From GoddammitDontShootMe

    I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!

     

    Struggle with Heroic Galakrond's Awakening? I got your back : 

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    A proactive and relatively cheap spell for Questline Mage. Thank god Arcanist Dawngrasp was nerfed because Build a Snowman covers the lack of proactive Frost spells you can just dump on the board.

    Rating cards on coolness factor rather than predicting power because I like screwing up rating averages (and because I suck at predicting real power levels, but we'll ignore that LUL)
    Wins per class (2/6/22): DH-197; Druid-996Hunter-91«60; Mage-1056; Paladin-1126; Priest-746; Rogue-961; Shaman-1095; Warlock-871; Warrior-906

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Dragon 2215 2485 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Really nice value and will probably find a home in big spell mage. The snowman and future snow monsters are elementals, but doesn't have elemental synergy seeing as they summoned from spells. Nice value if one of the spells is cast from Magister Dawngrasp

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  • Swizard's Avatar
    1190 913 Posts Joined 04/30/2020
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Slow and bad tempo at all 3 stages.

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  • Sykomyke's Avatar
    Grand Crusader 780 985 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago
    Quote From Horus
    Quote From GoddammitDontShootMe

    I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!

     

    Glad others in this card thread didn't disappoint me! :P

    Frozen (2013). Do you want to build a snowman? – adoredee

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  • edalyas's Avatar
    Magma Rager 520 165 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 2 years, 3 months ago
    Quote From Sykomyke
    Quote From Horus
    Quote From GoddammitDontShootMe

    I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs!

     

    Glad others in this card thread didn't disappoint me! :P

    Frozen (2013). Do you want to build a snowman? &ndash; adoredee

    Someone actually posted this on main page when card was initially revelead but I can't stop myself - Do you want to build a Pyros?

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  • SilverWolf's Avatar
    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 2 years, 3 months ago

    I hope there is an achivement for building snowman's that references frozen in some way

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  • randomfan's Avatar
    Elemental 1255 744 Posts Joined 03/17/2019
    Posted 2 years, 3 months ago

    So this doesn't fit so much in the big spell archetype, but it does make questline mage a bit more reliable. Previously the hard part was finding enough minions to play your frost spells against. Now you have, not only a frost spell that doesn't need a target, but it also propagates itself giving fuel for the next stage, and it give you board presence. Not too shabby.

    Unfortunately, common sense isn't as common as it should be.

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  • Geno9999's Avatar
    Metrognome 1620 1210 Posts Joined 11/10/2019
    Posted 2 years, 3 months ago

    Really needs the spell discounts that Mage has, because 3/3, 6/6, and 9/9 for their respective costs seems very mediocre.

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 2 years, 3 months ago

    I like it, but it feels a bit slow. I'd rather just play Big Spells in my Big Spell decks and not worry about laddering up a smaller one.

    Welcome to the site!

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  • NebuchadnezzarHS's Avatar
    Supporter 2025 1394 Posts Joined 06/14/2019
    Posted 2 years, 3 months ago

    Frost Pyros. Olaf easily wins the cute contest though. Will see play because of the new XP achievement.

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1565 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 2 years, 3 months ago

    A strong card overall, might see some play. I can imagine it being specially nasty in arena.

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