I couldn't find an answer, so I have to ask: why won't it work?
I suppose he/she is talking about Baku only working with the initial Mage hero power, but not with the one you get from Jaina (which doesn't really matter, but still^^).
If baku work with jaina then odd mage will be great. But it doesnt, so it can not compensate for the lost of all great even cards mage has. No way team 5 can print enough odd replacement for frost bolt, fireball, polymorph, blizzard, meotor in just 1 expansion
Exactly, this is probably the first time the whole community agrees that this is a good/great card. But to skip on the most powerful cards in Mages and Hearthstone generally,(like I mentioned earlier probably also Mana Wyrm,because you don’t have follow up) makes the whole "odd" archetype unviable.
This is a tricky card, if you satisfy the conditions you have a better Azure Drake, but if you build a deck with only odd cost cards, you won't have cards like Frostbolt, Fireball, Polymorph, Water Elemental and lots of useful mage cards.
Assuming Baku style decks are going to be good- I really like this little kitty. It is a mini beast Azure Drake. It's just value value value... and if the emote is any sort of crazy cat meow, I will have to play this... like all the time. Very good
Mage loses SO MUCH with this restriction. What will be the win condition of a deck running this? Arcanologist screws up any deck running secrets, Sorcerer's Apprentice screws up exodia combos, Big spell loses Blizzard, tempo mage loses too much burn and removal, Firelands Portal is rotating...
It need some seriously broken support cards from the rest of the set, or this will be another failed deck concept.
You would also have to wait until you draw the second cat. And like you said, the heropower wouldn’t be upgraded cause the Legendarys trigger at the start of the game.
Is this a joke lol: Thalnos is a 2 mana 1/1, and u can only have 1 copy of it.
The cat is not legendary so u can have 2 of them, it has better stats (3 mana 3/3) and it has a battlecry instead of an deathrattle (which is arguably always better)
That's because the Mage hero power is less valuable in the late game for maintaining board dominance, even at 2 damage. When you get it right off the bat, it's a whole different ballgame.
And it bears repeating for the gazillionth time -- it doesn't matter how many current archetypes you list where the new card won't fit. Totally irrelevant. Not worth mentioning. Excruciatingly beside the point.
There hasn't been a single expansion since Standard began -- not a single one -- in which we didn't see new archetypes (or radically different versions of old archetypes) appear.
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So many ppl voted for meta-defining and very good...
I mean, why would you sacrifice Frost Bolt, Fireball, Polymorph, Blizzard (Meteor) or Pyroblast?
Jaina is cool and all but going in without these premium removals is kinda stupid. An upgraded hero power is not that important as a mage.
"Rogue will never give up Eviscerate just for +1/+1 on minions."
"No class can give up valuable duplicates just for one big heal."
"No minions in hunter? Are you mad?"
Rogue ended up not so good after all. Who uses keleseth now? It’s just good in that weak 2 drops meta. If you get anything good in 2 slot you will not use it any more. I found Reno very good in the first place. Spell hunter is merely viable in the meta.
This cat without tons of support will not see play in constructed. You should ask yourself. You give up a lot for upgraded hp. Why? I don’t see any point there.
Mage loses SO MUCH with this restriction. What will be the win condition of a deck running this? Arcanologist screws up any deck running secrets, Sorcerer's Apprentice screws up exodia combos, Big spell loses Blizzard, tempo mage loses too much burn and removal, Firelands Portal is rotating...
It need some seriously broken support cards from the rest of the set, or this will be another failed deck concept.
Mage loses SO MUCH with this restriction. What will be the win condition of a deck running this? Arcanologist screws up any deck running secrets, Sorcerer's Apprentice screws up exodia combos, Big spell loses Blizzard, tempo mage loses too much burn and removal, Firelands Portal is rotating...
It need some seriously broken support cards from the rest of the set, or this will be another failed deck concept.
Obviously it's not top tear yet, but with some more support with the expansion could have potential
My point still stands, that deck is all-in on winning with Jaina and Alanna, which is not enough.
Honestly Jaina is strong enough that relying on her alone to win is good enough for control mages. Of course the deck could use some more healing or taunts to stall and maybe a little more value but for the most part a baku mage seems very viable assuming they get another couple cards that support it. The only issue is that Polymorph can't be run which makes it iffy against control warlock but maybe Witchwood has something to fill that gap.
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Meow that's an odd card =3
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This is a tricky card, if you satisfy the conditions you have a better Azure Drake, but if you build a deck with only odd cost cards, you won't have cards like Frostbolt, Fireball, Polymorph, Water Elemental and lots of useful mage cards.
You could build a tempo mage deck with Mana Wyrm, Arcane Missiles, Breath of Sindragosa, Mirror Image, secrets with kirin tor mage, with Baku the mooneater, as a way of conserving your cards.
Or most likely it will be a 3 mana 3/3 spell damage, that after you've drawn your 2 Frostbolts draws a card in a deck without baku.
Big spells for mage are also odd costed (but firelands portal is rotating), exception of pyroblast of course.
Assuming Baku style decks are going to be good- I really like this little kitty. It is a mini beast Azure Drake. It's just value value value... and if the emote is any sort of crazy cat meow, I will have to play this... like all the time. Very good
I really wish these cards read "...If your deck has only Odd-cost or Even-cost cards..." so these can be used in both archetypes
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So many ppl voted for meta-defining and very good...
I mean, why would you sacrifice Frost Bolt, Fireball, Polymorph, Blizzard (Meteor) or Pyroblast?
Jaina is cool and all but going in without these premium removals is kinda stupid. An upgraded hero power is not that important as a mage.
You would also have to wait until you draw the second cat. And like you said, the heropower wouldn’t be upgraded cause the Legendarys trigger at the start of the game.
Worse Thalnos
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