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You spend all of your mana on antonidas, and then have zero mana remaining, that you convert into zero damage when playing this spell, that will effectively do nothing except trigger Antonidas.
The "spend all your mana" is part of the effect, not a prerequisite to use the spell so it can deal that amount.
Round 7 you play antonidas and you play this card for zero damage, but you do get a fireball
garbage card, mage really got the worst of the pack, the paladin one is bad and the priest one is sub par as well, but the mage one is utter crap
i play mage since the begin of HS and its my main hero and i find it a better version of Arcane Blase & Flamecannon actually, cuz u have no longer RNG & u dont need spell damage minions to double the dmg but MOSTLY you can drop Archmage Antonidas and kill something with 7 health and get a Fireball, i mean, i sostituite this one in my reno mage with Flamecannon for sure! :D
yeah i read it better...very bad card :( if it was ANY opponent was very op or if only minion at least double it like for paladin (i mean if pala is in trouble at turn 10 u get fucking TWENTY HEALTH) not deserve even be an EPIC card hope bliz sneaking this cards because they watching the reaction of community so the can change them before the official release
I don't believe they will change the card, just remember what happen with Justicar, they dont changed the horrible "enhanced" HP of some classes.
i guess we just have to hope :(
Nothing better than seeing mage get trash cards. In fact, I hope mage get nothing but trash tier this whole expansion to make them suffer for having the audacity to ever play freeze mage...Like seriously, have some self respect. Okay sorry.
with meta of only secret pala, control wa, control & dragon priest, aggro shaman & hunter and bs combo druid freeze mage is mostly SHIT. so dunno why that complain :(
Reno Mage otherwise... ^^
To be fair, Pyroblast can't kill a full-health Ysera either...although at least Pyroblast can be targeted at the enemy hero.
When was the last time you used pyroblast on minion?
Completely useless card, unlike the ones from other two classes. Why mage always gets something useless like this.
I don't think is useless card. I think is good card for killing big minion like C'Thuns
Except mage has many other cards that can do the same much cheaper and most of them can also target enemy.
This card has a use, and that's as a filler card used when you play your turn and still have some leftover mana, you can use it to damage/kill off an enemy minion. Is it a good one? Not really, Flame Lance is better, but kind of as a finisher, it's not bad. Will it see play? I think it will at least see some experimentation in Tempo Mage as it IS a spell (Flamewaker loves that), but like most people here are saying, it probably won't stick.
I like the idea of this in a spell damage deck, could end up as a fireball for free if your opponent couldn't remove your minions
I don't even know why this card is going to exist.
Flamelance is 5 mana to deal 8 damage to a minion, you would have to spend 8 mana for the same effect with this card.
Frostbolt is 2 mana for 3 damage (and freeze effect), Fireball is 4 mana for 6 damage, Arcane blast is 1 mana for 2 damage with double spell power scaling, Forgotten Torch is 3 mana for 3 damage/6 damage - and all of these can be used to hit face as well as minions.
They do more damage for less mana, have extra effects (most of the time), and have more target freedom.
Even Pyroblast is 10 damage for 10 mana but it can also be used to hit face. Forbidden Flame is pretty much entirely useless.
Edit: And it's not as if this can even be combo'd with hero power, because that would actually be an overall damage loss, and it doesn't really plug holes in mage removal because a frostbolt + hero power is 4 damage for 4 mana just as this card would be. 5 health minions is maybe the only exception but there are still plenty of alternatives, like 2 spells, or dragon's breath/flame cannon + hero power.
trash card