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Wow, that is pretty great compared to Mirror Entity, and Mirror is frequently played. Mirror is terrible if they drop a small minion, and while this is not great either, I'd much rather have them take a bunch of damage and lose their minion, than me having a measly 1/1 that does nothing.

 if they play a 11into this, it’s a fireball to face. How is that not great.

really good in face mage, which I will be playing a lot of lol. I'm happy to see some good aggro cards, it's been awhile

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This is an incredibly powerful secret, and unlike so many of the other Mage secrets, this one never really gives you a bad outcome. Either you kill their mid-sized creature or you punch them in the head, both are positive outcomes for the kind of deck you want to put this in which is the same deck you'de want to slot Aluneth into. You can very easily play this in a very aggressive burn mage which shoots fireballs and lasers at your opponent until they fall over and die and in fact, this card is SO good that it makes all the other Mage secrets way more playable. Now your opponent MAY actually end up playing right into your Mirror Entity because they're too scared of taking 5 to the face if that secret ends up being Fire Rune. 

Thanks to this card you can now play a much bigger and more complete secret package with Counterspell, and Mirror Entity. Hell, you may even want to start playing Kirin Tor Mage and Kabal Crystal Runner because of this. Probably not Kabal Lackey because none of these secrets are that great on turn 1.

TLDR; this card may change the secret meta almost as much as Arcanologist did.

How do you play around this?  How do you stop this card from giving your opponent max value?  Does divine shield even eat all of the damage?

How would it interact with Divine Shield? Would you get no face damage, or 6 face damage?

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How do you play around this?  How do you stop this card from giving your opponent max value?  Does divine shield even eat all of the damage?

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This is an incredibly powerful secret, and unlike so many of the other Mage secrets, this one never really gives you a bad outcome. Either you kill their mid-sized creature or you punch them in the head, both are positive outcomes for the kind of deck you want to put this in which is the same deck you'de want to slot Aluneth into. You can very easily play this in a very aggressive burn mage which shoots fireballs and lasers at your opponent until they fall over and die and in fact, this card is SO good that it makes all the other Mage secrets way more playable. Now your opponent MAY actually end up playing right into your Mirror Entity because they're too scared of taking 5 to the face if that secret ends up being Fire Rune. 

Thanks to this card you can now play a much bigger and more complete secret package with Counterspell, and Mirror Entity. Hell, you may even want to start playing Kirin Tor Mage and Kabal Crystal Runner because of this. Probably not Kabal Lackey because none of these secrets are that great on turn 1.

TLDR; this card may change the secret meta almost as much as Arcanologist did.

Bad, won't see play.

People are heavily overevaluatingthe value of face damage against decks that run small minions.

I just want to play this against an exodia mage. Lol

How can people rate this as good ?

It's strictly worse than potion of poly / mirror entity .

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How can people rate this as good ?

It's strictly worse than potion of poly / mirror entity .

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Bad, won't see play.

People are heavily overevaluatingthe value of face damage against decks that run small minions.

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This is an incredibly powerful secret, and unlike so many of the other Mage secrets, this one never really gives you a bad outcome. Either you kill their mid-sized creature or you punch them in the head, both are positive outcomes for the kind of deck you want to put this in which is the same deck you'de want to slot Aluneth into. You can very easily play this in a very aggressive burn mage which shoots fireballs and lasers at your opponent until they fall over and die and in fact, this card is SO good that it makes all the other Mage secrets way more playable. Now your opponent MAY actually end up playing right into your Mirror Entity because they're too scared of taking 5 to the face if that secret ends up being Fire Rune. 

Thanks to this card you can now play a much bigger and more complete secret package with Counterspell, and Mirror Entity. Hell, you may even want to start playing Kirin Tor Mage and Kabal Crystal Runner because of this. Probably not Kabal Lackey because none of these secrets are that great on turn 1.

TLDR; this card may change the secret meta almost as much as Arcanologist did.

 Man, have you come on time machine from 2016? :D Secret mage with all those cards (except Lackey) is one of viable ladder deck for nearly 2 expansions.

Very creative, could definitely see some play in the right hands.

Secret Agro mage will play this at least as a 1 off.. The face damage realy matters there. However its totally possible that Spiteful Summoner will dominate Meta and this will not see play because of that.

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Bad, won't see play.

People are heavily overevaluatingthe value of face damage against decks that run small minions.

 People are overvaluing it, but it is still better than mirror entity when they play a crap minion. 

I expect it will see play in secret mage and possible in non-Secret based decks if more aggressive mage variants exist. 

One of the more interactive cards in the set.  Please remember this is the last 4 months before cards rotate out.  I expect to see a nice final sendoff for N'Zoth!  There will be more deathrattles revealed and I believe a class will get a tier 1 N'zoth deck.  I voted the secret as playable.  Could get better after rotation.

The first good offensive secret for mage, and its really good. 

It's basically fireball for 3 mana that's usually going to get a little bit of burn damage in. The only trick is you dont get to target who gets fireballed. 

Mage counter to quest mage.