Have great fun with this card in a OTK mage deck featuring Malygos, Alexstrasza, Archmage Antonidas etc. Works perfectly in combination with Galaxy spell.
I had some fun with that new card that duplicates one on board, put one in your deck and one in your hand. Well.
I put it in some OTK mage deck with lots of dragons like Malygos, Kalecgos, Alexstrasza. And facing some slow resurrect priest was able to use Galaxy spell, and suddenly I have a 1 mana Malygos and a 1 mana Sathrovarr and 2 frost bolts in hand.
Well. All of a sudden it was game over :) Priest never saw it coming.
In another game I was able to do the 3 dragon combo with a 9-mana Alex, 0-mana Kalecgos, a 1-mana Malygosand a Pyroblast that was free. That is a total of 38 mana that was discounted in various ways to 10 mana :). Nice. But needless to say, I also lost a lot of games against aggro.
I think they wrote it like this so the line breaking was better this way. The sentence "If you're holding a Dragon" is so long it would probably end up like
Give a minion +1/+2
If You're holding a dragon give
it Divine Shield
Which would be ugly. I strongly suspect something like this was the reason to use this wording in this case, and they did not want to have two half sentences on one line.
If you combine it with, say, a Shooting Star, you get some board control, a minion and a discover for 5 mana. Only thing I do not understand is how getting your spell books eaten improves their power, although maybe that is the dragon way to do it :)
Interesting card . I am sure someone will find a way to exploit the 3 copies for some OTK / infinite value loop. Some cards are nice to have multiplies of like [Hearthstone Card (Zephrys) Not Found] or Rag, but he will be leaving?
Well its twice as good as the original...which is in accordance with the overall feel of the upgrades in my opinion. But I miss some spells like Pyroblast? Why isn't that on the list. I want my 20 dmg nuke!
I am not sure I like this card. Because its effect is random and the stat-line of the minion is a bit underwhelming. If you need one specific spell your odds are only 33%. So this is a card played for value more than anything else. At the 5-mana turn it has serious competition with Zilliax.
But I have to admit, when combined with say a Kalecgos in hand, this will make your next 10 mana turn very strong indeed.
Well new run started @rank 8. First game: against a resurrect priest (in the left corner). I had brought my Thijs Kills All Shamans deck (in the right corner). An epic fight ensued. We removed stuff, refilled board, did some damage, healed some also, repeated those tactics until we both had 3 cards left in the deck when I finally still had some board he could not remove anymore. An epic struggle but I won.
Here is the link to his video: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/501571623 Its the one from yesterday on his twitch channel, I just manually added cards from a screen shot, I dont have a link to the deck, but maybe it can be found somewhere else. He intended to destroy all shaman's with it, although his first match with a shaman went...not so well :).
Used a recent mage deck of Thijs (anti Shaman deck) to play some games yesterday evening, got me from 5 to 4 again. Probably will not get a lot higher since there is not enough time left. But its a solid deck that can win any matchup given reasonable draw.
Or check it out at my decks, will add it there as well.
It is a hand mage with Mountain Giant , Conjurer's Calling and Khadgar etc. But also jan'alai, face manipulators and...lo and behold...star aligners and meteorologists and galaxy spell.
It's a joy to play, late game value is insane and something unusual for the opponent. Tried it out in casual but this morning unleashed it on ladder and it took me from 5 to 4 already. It can put pressure from turn 3/4 with giant, regain board with meteorologist and deliver my all time favorite combo with khadgar+faceless+jana'lai doing 32 dmg "Die insect!". It can win from any deck out there.
I reached rank 4 with a flamewaker deck including mecha'thun (which I only needed once). Then I started experimenting with some other decks since the deck is a bit of a one-trick pony, so I am still at 5 now.
Maybe we should be able to have a ban option before we queue? Where you can ban one class for instance. Just like those tournaments...but maybe that would be too OP for some decks which only have one bad matchup.
Have great fun with this card in a OTK mage deck featuring Malygos, Alexstrasza, Archmage Antonidas etc. Works perfectly in combination with Galaxy spell.
I had some fun with that new card that duplicates one on board, put one in your deck and one in your hand. Well.
I put it in some OTK mage deck with lots of dragons like Malygos, Kalecgos, Alexstrasza. And facing some slow resurrect priest was able to use Galaxy spell, and suddenly I have a 1 mana Malygos and a 1 mana Sathrovarr and 2 frost bolts in hand.
Well. All of a sudden it was game over :) Priest never saw it coming.
In another game I was able to do the 3 dragon combo with a 9-mana Alex, 0-mana Kalecgos, a 1-mana Malygosand a Pyroblast that was free. That is a total of 38 mana that was discounted in various ways to 10 mana :). Nice. But needless to say, I also lost a lot of games against aggro.
On PC when opponent has Sir Annoy-o animation is stuttering as well. At least on my PC...
But but but...where is your new Hero card? Nice to invoke stuff, but don't you also want the improved by invokers Hero Power card?
But maybe that is the one card you can not yet add since the site has no implementation yet? I count 29 cards in your deck.
I think they wrote it like this so the line breaking was better this way. The sentence "If you're holding a Dragon" is so long it would probably end up like
Give a minion +1/+2
If You're holding a dragon give
it Divine Shield
Which would be ugly. I strongly suspect something like this was the reason to use this wording in this case, and they did not want to have two half sentences on one line.
Love that pac man idea! I want a nice murloc pac-man happily eating away those nasty Desert Hares while shooting fireballs at nearby lackeys.
Well, if you are short on dragons it can come in handy.
If you combine it with, say, a Shooting Star, you get some board control, a minion and a discover for 5 mana. Only thing I do not understand is how getting your spell books eaten improves their power, although maybe that is the dragon way to do it :)
Interesting card . I am sure someone will find a way to exploit the 3 copies for some OTK / infinite value loop. Some cards are nice to have multiplies of like [Hearthstone Card (Zephrys) Not Found] or Rag, but he will be leaving?
So the E.V.I.L. classes get nice new hero powers but what do the good guys get to compensate for that?
Well its twice as good as the original...which is in accordance with the overall feel of the upgrades in my opinion. But I miss some spells like Pyroblast? Why isn't that on the list. I want my 20 dmg nuke!
I am not sure I like this card. Because its effect is random and the stat-line of the minion is a bit underwhelming. If you need one specific spell your odds are only 33%. So this is a card played for value more than anything else. At the 5-mana turn it has serious competition with Zilliax.
But I have to admit, when combined with say a Kalecgos in hand, this will make your next 10 mana turn very strong indeed.
Well new run started @rank 8. First game: against a resurrect priest (in the left corner). I had brought my Thijs Kills All Shamans deck (in the right corner). An epic fight ensued. We removed stuff, refilled board, did some damage, healed some also, repeated those tactics until we both had 3 cards left in the deck when I finally still had some board he could not remove anymore. An epic struggle but I won.
Here is the link to his video: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/501571623 Its the one from yesterday on his twitch channel, I just manually added cards from a screen shot, I dont have a link to the deck, but maybe it can be found somewhere else. He intended to destroy all shaman's with it, although his first match with a shaman went...not so well :).
Used a recent mage deck of Thijs (anti Shaman deck) to play some games yesterday evening, got me from 5 to 4 again. Probably will not get a lot higher since there is not enough time left. But its a solid deck that can win any matchup given reasonable draw.
I think current meta should be called "mana-cheat" meta. The person who gets its first mana cheat out without dying first wins.
Well I lost some joy but I got it back with this deck:
Deck code:
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Or check it out at my decks, will add it there as well.
It is a hand mage with Mountain Giant , Conjurer's Calling and Khadgar etc. But also jan'alai, face manipulators and...lo and behold...star aligners and meteorologists and galaxy spell.
It's a joy to play, late game value is insane and something unusual for the opponent. Tried it out in casual but this morning unleashed it on ladder and it took me from 5 to 4 already. It can put pressure from turn 3/4 with giant, regain board with meteorologist and deliver my all time favorite combo with khadgar+faceless+jana'lai doing 32 dmg "Die insect!". It can win from any deck out there.
So basically we have to face N'zoth walls and Evolved Hare's and Flamewakers for another month (except if they nerf something).
When will that be? Only trhing I read is "when the next major patch is released" but when will that be?
I reached rank 4 with a flamewaker deck including mecha'thun (which I only needed once). Then I started experimenting with some other decks since the deck is a bit of a one-trick pony, so I am still at 5 now.
Maybe we should be able to have a ban option before we queue? Where you can ban one class for instance. Just like those tournaments...but maybe that would be too OP for some decks which only have one bad matchup.