You can only buy them in bulk, which mean in some cases, you will be left with a currency excedent after buying the desired service. Ergo, you now have given actual money for virtually no service. (all you've got is an I-Owe-U).
Even "better", you're now incentized to spend that remaining currency, otherwise it would go to waste, right ? But because you will probably not have enough for the service you desire, you now have to buy even more currency.
It's particularily true for vulnerable consumer, as it "helps" them to underestimate the amount they actually spent. Because "it's not spending actual money ! I'd already paid for it".
Also, it's an opened gate to reimbursing purchase made with actual money in virtual currency. (I.E. not reimbursing anything at all). They cannot actually cross that gateway yet though. Because there's a lot of country which frown upon such practice. But still, it's opened...
Predatory practice in marketing and sales actively hurts vulnerable people, and strive to create even more of them. (most notably, children and dopamine-addict)
Even, if you're not part of that vulnerable population yourself, you're still concerned :
It promotes mindless grinding, and force-fed content such as those egregious "you-have-to-play-mercenary" quest chainlink, or the weekly "go-get-yourself-grinded" 5-ranked win quest.
It's discouraging experimentation in deckbuilding for casual player. Because the cards you craft have to be good, otherwise, you're "wasting" dust. Thus, resulting in staler meta for everyone.
I could go on and on.
Cosmetic is the best step they have taken in years.
Price inflation, and whatever they are trying to pull with "runestone" are huge setbacks.
(I'm having mixed feeling about mini-set and that new "path of arthas" set. It does feel nice to have something to dump gold into. But apart from that, it stinks of bad/greedy intentions.)
It seems... fair enough ?! When compared to previous mana-cheating engine in Druid at least.
Apart from the usual counter (dirty rat, theotar &co), the opponent has the opportunity to counter it by interacting with your armor pool/ armor generation.
It's a replacement effect, so once it goes off, you are locked out of your mana pool until the end of the turn. It's actually quite restricting.
Also, it deserve some bonus point for being a relatively novel concept.
It's a wonderful card to discover/generate. (In fact I suspect it has been created solely to enrich Umbral Geist and Vision of Darkness discover pool)
If there's any spell in your decklist worth its spot, it is preferable to get that opportunity to copy it; rather than virtually any other random garbage you might have got.
I'm not sure it will find itself a spot in most list though. It suffer from the comparison with card like Grey Sage Parrot. Powercreep is a bitch. :-/
That being said, competitive deck love consistency, which that card can provide in a lot of scenario.
I would not craft it; but I'd be moderately happy to open one.
It got plenty of synergies : Rush, Elemental tribe, Fire-spell, Deathrattle (and damaged minion synergy, because rush, dormant and reviving will make it very easy to setup and trigger such effect)
It got impact, both short and long-term.
And most important of all, it has limit. It will resurrect twice. Period. No matter how much you copy it, it's bound to have an end, eventually.
Because let's face it, ad nauseam effect are only fun for one person.
Put whoever designed it in charge. He's the one who gets it.
I love the whole concept. I love the execution; it seemed healthy at 6mana for the minion + 3mana per spell.
But they had to ruin it by making it another casino clown-fiesta discover effect. Ugh.
The perspective of suffering through 5 long sifting of discover effects per turn is mind-numbing. (because nobody would pass on the opportunity to play it alongside Radiant Elemental, right ?) Be it as the player, or as the opponent.
Managing to trigger that guy twice might induce severe RAGE! :D
Meme aside :
I like it more than asvedon on the ground that you can at least play that guy proactively whenever opponent's spell are scarce. And broadly speaking, I find ressource-denying way more powerful than ressource-copying.
It's an okay card. Desirable, but not a must-include.
I'm a bit worried that it might be the "one-too-much" Hand disruptive card. Dev's really need to stop administering so much of those "coping-mechanism"-treatment card; and think about actual solution for the true underlying problems : powercreep & lack of interactivity.
In my experience, expecting the opponent to play a spell is a bad bet in Hearthstone; moreso in wild.
There's some list that simply won't run any.
There's some list that will cast only one or two, as a finisher, so you will never get to copy it.
Even if they cast something, warrior is not priest or rogue thief, you can't expect nearly as much synergy out of that spell than your opponent will get.
The dev' probably expects that card to enable clever battles of the mind (probably in conjunction with Disruptive Spellbreaker). But it won't. Hearthstone is not suited for that kind of card. 99% of the time, the best way to deal with Asvedon will be to ignore it.
It feels like they had something crazy in mind at first, like "counter your opponent next spell. Add a copy of it to your hand that cost (0)". But relented while testing it.
That card will be better in Standard than in Wild; and it's not a good sign.
T3 : Sketchy Information => Draw and trigger Scourge Illusionist => Copy a 10-mana deathrattle, it now cost 4(!) (*)
T4 : Enjoy playing a 10-mana deathrattle "on curve".
What if your opponent silence/transform it ? Well, it was just a copy. Just actually play Scourge illusionist to tutor another big deathrattle copy.
(*) Or if you get "unlucky" and pull your second copy of scourge illusionist, play it that turn, as it's now a 0-mana card. Chances are that you will get to trigger its deathrattle before T4's end.
EDIT : If you find that T3 too slow, or want to tutor a non-deathrattle minion, you may consider putting Masked Reveler. You'll get to play it the same turn, it has rush to trade against aggro, and it will synergize nicely with itself, scourge illusionist, or any minion with a powerful non-battlecry effect you may want to cheat out early.
It synergize with a lot of old shaman which hardly saw play until now.
It's an synergistic undead card.
It has anti-synergy with shaman's evolve trope (which I despise).
It's not that easy to abuse : it needs to die to give its payoff, which either require your opponent's "cooperation", or to spend your own ressource onto. And it's hard countered by silence and polymorph effect.
Really weird card, which feels out of place in hunter.
(Is there a chance we might understand it wrong ?
Like : it does not just enhance the drawn spell damage by 1. But actually makes it a "give +1 spell damage until the end of game/turn" spell ?
Seems unlikely...)
Right now, it gives me a relic/libram kind of vibes : We may get some card that'll synergize with it that expansion. But we should not expect more support past that point.
In a vacuum, it's seems neither bad nor good : discovering a spell directly from your deck is an okay-ish effect; regardless of arcane synergy. Priest has been making use of such effect for years.
In the end, it may well prove to be just a fair and balanced cards (though unexciting) : another Thrive in the Shadows, but with a slight twist - sometimes -.
soulless.
It's targeted at children and dopamine addicts; And it shows.
I like that Denathrius nerf, it's more elegant than I expected.
It still a solid card, but it will definitely require more investment to reach the OP zone.
Online currency are shady by nature.
You can only buy them in bulk, which mean in some cases, you will be left with a currency excedent after buying the desired service. Ergo, you now have given actual money for virtually no service. (all you've got is an I-Owe-U).
Even "better", you're now incentized to spend that remaining currency, otherwise it would go to waste, right ? But because you will probably not have enough for the service you desire, you now have to buy even more currency.
It's particularily true for vulnerable consumer, as it "helps" them to underestimate the amount they actually spent. Because "it's not spending actual money ! I'd already paid for it".
Also, it's an opened gate to reimbursing purchase made with actual money in virtual currency. (I.E. not reimbursing anything at all). They cannot actually cross that gateway yet though. Because there's a lot of country which frown upon such practice. But still, it's opened...
There's plenty of reasons to be angry about it.
Predatory practice in marketing and sales actively hurts vulnerable people, and strive to create even more of them. (most notably, children and dopamine-addict)
Even, if you're not part of that vulnerable population yourself, you're still concerned :
It promotes mindless grinding, and force-fed content such as those egregious "you-have-to-play-mercenary" quest chainlink, or the weekly "go-get-yourself-grinded" 5-ranked win quest.
It's discouraging experimentation in deckbuilding for casual player. Because the cards you craft have to be good, otherwise, you're "wasting" dust. Thus, resulting in staler meta for everyone.
I could go on and on.
Cosmetic is the best step they have taken in years.
Price inflation, and whatever they are trying to pull with "runestone" are huge setbacks.
(I'm having mixed feeling about mini-set and that new "path of arthas" set. It does feel nice to have something to dump gold into. But apart from that, it stinks of bad/greedy intentions.)
You're spitting facts here.
Yet I like it. It may not be a good card powerlevel-wise, but it's a good card balance-wise.
(okay, a less-awful card. Mana-cheat still sucks. But we can't abandon it overnight. They have to deflate it over a long period.)
I would touch it in wild, as a statement.
It seems... fair enough ?! When compared to previous mana-cheating engine in Druid at least.
Apart from the usual counter (dirty rat, theotar &co), the opponent has the opportunity to counter it by interacting with your armor pool/ armor generation.
It's a replacement effect, so once it goes off, you are locked out of your mana pool until the end of the turn. It's actually quite restricting.
Also, it deserve some bonus point for being a relatively novel concept.
Wut, really ?! As I understand it, discover/add a shadow spell implicitely fetch from all class's shadow spell pool.
Otherwise, how would Umbral geist works for class which don't have any shadow spell ??
Or is it that "add" effect fetch from all class, and "discover" effect fetch only from the current class ?
It's a wonderful card to discover/generate. (In fact I suspect it has been created solely to enrich Umbral Geist and Vision of Darkness discover pool)
If there's any spell in your decklist worth its spot, it is preferable to get that opportunity to copy it; rather than virtually any other random garbage you might have got.
I'm not sure it will find itself a spot in most list though. It suffer from the comparison with card like Grey Sage Parrot. Powercreep is a bitch. :-/
That being said, competitive deck love consistency, which that card can provide in a lot of scenario.
I would not craft it; but I'd be moderately happy to open one.
Now, that's a well designed card.
It got plenty of synergies : Rush, Elemental tribe, Fire-spell, Deathrattle (and damaged minion synergy, because rush, dormant and reviving will make it very easy to setup and trigger such effect)
It got impact, both short and long-term.
And most important of all, it has limit. It will resurrect twice. Period. No matter how much you copy it, it's bound to have an end, eventually.
Because let's face it, ad nauseam effect are only fun for one person.
Put whoever designed it in charge. He's the one who gets it.
I love the whole concept. I love the execution; it seemed healthy at 6mana for the minion + 3mana per spell.
But they had to ruin it by making it another casino clown-fiesta discover effect. Ugh.
The perspective of suffering through 5 long sifting of discover effects per turn is mind-numbing. (because nobody would pass on the opportunity to play it alongside Radiant Elemental, right ?) Be it as the player, or as the opponent.
A shame, really.
Friendly remainder that Drakkari Enchanterbelong to standard currently.
Managing to trigger that guy twice might induce severe RAGE! :D
Meme aside :
I like it more than asvedon on the ground that you can at least play that guy proactively whenever opponent's spell are scarce. And broadly speaking, I find ressource-denying way more powerful than ressource-copying.
It's an okay card. Desirable, but not a must-include.
I'm a bit worried that it might be the "one-too-much" Hand disruptive card. Dev's really need to stop administering so much of those "coping-mechanism"-treatment card; and think about actual solution for the true underlying problems : powercreep & lack of interactivity.
I've long dreamed of "reaction" spell card. Basically, secret card without the concealed part.
That way, you preserve secret-able class identity, while allowing all class to interact with opponent's turn.
In this instance, they may have made it a reaction card "Counter opponent's next spell."
In my experience, expecting the opponent to play a spell is a bad bet in Hearthstone; moreso in wild.
There's some list that simply won't run any.
There's some list that will cast only one or two, as a finisher, so you will never get to copy it.
Even if they cast something, warrior is not priest or rogue thief, you can't expect nearly as much synergy out of that spell than your opponent will get.
The dev' probably expects that card to enable clever battles of the mind (probably in conjunction with Disruptive Spellbreaker). But it won't. Hearthstone is not suited for that kind of card. 99% of the time, the best way to deal with Asvedon will be to ignore it.
It feels like they had something crazy in mind at first, like "counter your opponent next spell. Add a copy of it to your hand that cost (0)". But relented while testing it.
That card will be better in Standard than in Wild; and it's not a good sign.
The most obvious synergy is Sketchy Information + 2 Rotten rodent.
T1 : Rotten rodent (assuming coin)
T2 : Rotten rodent
T3 : Sketchy Information => Draw and trigger Scourge Illusionist => Copy a 10-mana deathrattle, it now cost 4(!) (*)
T4 : Enjoy playing a 10-mana deathrattle "on curve".
What if your opponent silence/transform it ? Well, it was just a copy. Just actually play Scourge illusionist to tutor another big deathrattle copy.
(*) Or if you get "unlucky" and pull your second copy of scourge illusionist, play it that turn, as it's now a 0-mana card. Chances are that you will get to trigger its deathrattle before T4's end.
EDIT : If you find that T3 too slow, or want to tutor a non-deathrattle minion, you may consider putting Masked Reveler. You'll get to play it the same turn, it has rush to trade against aggro, and it will synergize nicely with itself, scourge illusionist, or any minion with a powerful non-battlecry effect you may want to cheat out early.
I faced implock once with my Lakkari pit list in wild. I won it, and it was a fair match where both player got to play efficiently.
Some of those card are straight up upgrade from some I currently run.
So yeah, the scale might tip in favor of discardlock.
It's already a solid archetype in wild. It's just unrepresented because it's bloody expensive.
It's a wild bet :
There's 6 chaman cards in wild (and two neutral) that can give deathrattle to minions.
Amongst them two are nature spell; one support murloc; and one support totem.
So that new deathrattle package may actually fit alongside some preexisting archetype.
Ancestral Spirit Big Bad Voodoo Soul of the Murloc Primal Talismans Spirit Echo Vivid Spores Rustsworn Cultist Corpse Raiser
also, depending on consistency Spirit Mount
I love that card design.
It synergize with a lot of old shaman which hardly saw play until now.
It's an synergistic undead card.
It has anti-synergy with shaman's evolve trope (which I despise).
It's not that easy to abuse : it needs to die to give its payoff, which either require your opponent's "cooperation", or to spend your own ressource onto. And it's hard countered by silence and polymorph effect.
4 synergies in card. (2 tribe + battlecry + the new deathrattle theme)
Okay-statted.
It's bound to see play at some point.
I like that kind of design.
Really weird card, which feels out of place in hunter.
(Is there a chance we might understand it wrong ?
Like : it does not just enhance the drawn spell damage by 1. But actually makes it a "give +1 spell damage until the end of game/turn" spell ?
Seems unlikely...)
Right now, it gives me a relic/libram kind of vibes : We may get some card that'll synergize with it that expansion. But we should not expect more support past that point.
In a vacuum, it's seems neither bad nor good : discovering a spell directly from your deck is an okay-ish effect; regardless of arcane synergy. Priest has been making use of such effect for years.
In the end, it may well prove to be just a fair and balanced cards (though unexciting) : another Thrive in the Shadows, but with a slight twist - sometimes -.
Friendly reminder that Wyrmrest Purifier exists. (in wild)
It's bad, but it exists.