Hearthpwn

Running this card in my current rogue deck. Most commonly copied card? Azure Drake

It's so obvious, I wonder why that didn't dawn on me before!?

This card is bar none my favorite of the expansion and seemingly always gets great value.  The flexibility it provides is magical!  And that's where it derives most of its power from - it's not that you're copying a yogg, sylvanas, or Xaril every single game, as much as you'd like to.  It's the ability to use it for what you need it for when the situation calls for it

Need that 1 extra spell damage so that your evis can kill off veklor?  Copy a bloodmage or an azure drake!  Need just that little bit of extra time to survive against a face deck?  Copy your earthen ring!  Even if you're not copying something premium every game, my shadowcaster always seems to find a way to help me each game, even if I've got an empty board and I'm just copying something small that I'm playing before the shadowcaster.  I've found copying a skulker really powerful as well, since he usually lives a turn after clearing a board and serves as nice insurance against tokens.

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This card is bar none my favorite of the expansion and seemingly always gets great value.  The flexibility it provides is magical!  And that's where it derives most of its power from - it's not that you're copying a yogg, sylvanas, or Xaril every single game, as much as you'd like to.  It's the ability to use it for what you need it for when the situation calls for it

Need that 1 extra spell damage so that your evis can kill off veklor?  Copy a bloodmage or an azure drake!  Need just that little bit of extra time to survive against a face deck?  Copy your earthen ring!  Even if you're not copying something premium every game, my shadowcaster always seems to find a way to help me each game, even if I've got an empty board and I'm just copying something small that I'm playing before the shadowcaster.

My favorite card to use this on thus far is Defender of Argus, this combo has one put me ahead in a few late game situations already.

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Heed my warning....after all the interactions that evolve from this card it will get nerfed. Reducing its cost to one on so many powerful minions will end up in "interactions that we found too powerful and not fun"(blizzards words) when it is. I envision the Ragnaros combo causing tears.

 I agree until that last sentence.

You cannot play this until the turn after Ragnaros the Firelord. If your opponent cannot deal with a Ragnaros the Firelord immediately, you've already won the game.

Shadowcaster will have more impact when played on cheaper minions that have big effects.

i used it on a coldnight oracle..... turn 8 was not pretty.

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Heed my warning....after all the interactions that evolve from this card it will get nerfed. Reducing its cost to one on so many powerful minions will end up in "interactions that we found too powerful and not fun"(blizzards words) when it is. I envision the Ragnaros combo causing tears.

 I agree until that last sentence.

You cannot play this until the turn after Ragnaros the Firelord. If your opponent cannot deal with a Ragnaros the Firelord immediately, you've already won the game.

Shadowcaster will have more impact when played on cheaper minions that have big effects.

 I'm sorry but comments like this just frustrate me. I've played games where I couldn't deal with rag so I dropped a ton of low cost minions and won because rag slowly picked off (for example) a totem each turn instead of doing something useful. Sure if Rag survives a turn you'll be in a really good spot but he doesn't win the game automatically so you still have a chance of comboing shadowcaster with it.

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 I will grant that that can happen once in a blue moon, and it's a great feeling to come back from something like that.

However, in a situation where you couldn't deal with the first Rag, and the opponent Shadowcasted out a second one, you wouldn't run to the message boards and start calling for nerfs. The calls for nerfs will come from situations that happen more frequently -- plays that turn cheap, easy-to-play minions into monstrously overpowered nightmares.

Why I love Shadowcaster

Brann + Shadowcaster into Brann = Brann Brann Shadowcaster. Brann + Shadowcaster into shadowcaster. Basically this card is amazing.

For Standard I've been running a Reno Rogue deck with C'thun and N'zoth with really good results. And Shadowcaster onto Reno has won me more than one game. Not hard to play them on the same turn as you can get a coin from Tomb Pillager or get one of the cards reduced by Emp.

Even better with Brann out, and with the right toxin from Xaril, you can play Reno Jackson a ridiculous amount during a match.