do you remember echo giants using Echo of Medivh and Duplicate?, well this might increase that deck's power vback into slightly viable in wild, i'm not too sure how to evaluate this in standard though
Even if you don't have a good opportunity to use this secret with a really powerful minion, it makes your opponent think before trying to trade against your Lich King and may force them to waste an attack on a less dangerous minion.
This fits really well into a midrange or control deck. I think that since all of the Mage cards have been pushing towards those types of decks, this will be really good. I think we'll spend a lot of time cursing this secret when we don't have the spell removal to completely deal with those large bodies.
Also a huge this is huge for playing Doomsayer against zoo. This card means they'll need to spend 14 damage to get through it, or waste most of their spell based removal
Why is the wording of the card so different all of the sudden? Shouldn't it be "When a friendly minion..." like always and not "When one of your minions..."?
Why is the wording of the card so different all of the sudden? Shouldn't it be "When a friendly minion..." like always and not "When one of your minions..."?
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I disagree... I definitely think this will see play...
I'm not saying the card is bad nor am I saying it's not a cool effect, but would you really play it? If you are playing a control mage, you'll definately prioritize 30 other cards above this one, even if you are running secrets in a control deck, you are still playing Counterspell and Ice Barrier above this. In big spell mage this will be an inconsistensy. You might run it in big hand mage or odd mage, but I don't think it's likely. You might run a single copy in secret mage, even though Explosive Runes and Mirror Entity are way better in that archetype as they are much faster. I also think people overestimate how hard this is to play around, as Control Deck usually can just kill your big minion with removal and aggro decks will just ignore it.
TL:DR This card is cool but too inconsistent and all in all you probably have 30 other cards which are better for your mage archetype. The main problem is that you can't play it the same turn as your lich king. It's a good spell to discover though.
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do you remember echo giants using Echo of Medivh and Duplicate?, well this might increase that deck's power vback into slightly viable in wild, i'm not too sure how to evaluate this in standard though
Really nice art
Oh wow. Now this is a cool secret! Waitaminute...
Drop Lich King. Hex'd. Two frogs.
This secret is very good.
Wow, they sent mirror entity into the abyss so it will never return.
This card is INSANE--here are some of the top minions to synergize with this card (ordered most powerful to least):
The Lich King (big body with taunt)
Ragnaros the Firelord (welcome back to standard)
Alexstrasza (to set up a kill next turn, even if they kill your first Alex)
Archmage Antonidas (self-explanatory)
Pyros (good to generate value in the early game)
Even if you don't have a good opportunity to use this secret with a really powerful minion, it makes your opponent think before trying to trade against your Lich King and may force them to waste an attack on a less dangerous minion.
Cauldron Elemental just got less bad!
Arena card, of course!
Better version of Effigy. Unfortunatly, I don't think it is good enough.
I disagree... I definitely think this will see play...
Put this in a deck with counterspell and watch your opponent break his keyboard trying to guess which secret to play around.
This looks quite annoying haha
Big Mage? :D
But seriously, this is a card for a mage deck with bunch of high-cost minions.
This fits really well into a midrange or control deck. I think that since all of the Mage cards have been pushing towards those types of decks, this will be really good. I think we'll spend a lot of time cursing this secret when we don't have the spell removal to completely deal with those large bodies.
Also a huge this is huge for playing Doomsayer against zoo. This card means they'll need to spend 14 damage to get through it, or waste most of their spell based removal
I have a dumb question:
Why is the wording of the card so different all of the sudden? Shouldn't it be "When a friendly minion..." like always and not "When one of your minions..."?
God damn ridiculous value. I hate mage secrets.
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Looks OP to me
I'm not saying the card is bad nor am I saying it's not a cool effect, but would you really play it? If you are playing a control mage, you'll definately prioritize 30 other cards above this one, even if you are running secrets in a control deck, you are still playing Counterspell and Ice Barrier above this. In big spell mage this will be an inconsistensy. You might run it in big hand mage or odd mage, but I don't think it's likely. You might run a single copy in secret mage, even though Explosive Runes and Mirror Entity are way better in that archetype as they are much faster. I also think people overestimate how hard this is to play around, as Control Deck usually can just kill your big minion with removal and aggro decks will just ignore it.
TL:DR This card is cool but too inconsistent and all in all you probably have 30 other cards which are better for your mage archetype. The main problem is that you can't play it the same turn as your lich king. It's a good spell to discover though.