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If your board is full there is no space for the defender to be summoned and the secret will not trigger.

To help you with questions like these in the future, you can always check out the "meta" page on HSReplay here. You can click on any of the listed meta decks and go to the "Matchups" tab to find decks which beat them. Murloc Paladin is certainly hard to counter, with a pretty high winrate across the field. As mentioned above, your best bet seems to be a Control Warlock list like this one which features lots of healing and AoE. Sadly, this list loses hard to the Secret Mages you're seeing.

The matchups screen is another valuable tool. You can "pin" decks to the top of the list by setting them as favourites, which makes it easy to hunt for decks which counter multiple archetypes at once. Unfortunately, I don't think there are any popular meta lists which counter both decks at once, but Aggro Druid is slightly favoured against both so you could give that a go.

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This is my first time creating custom cards, so these cards are probably horrendously unbalanced, but here goes nothing!

Dance: When you control two or more minions with this keyword, all of their Dance effects activate at the end of your turn.

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And lets say for 150 packs I've got 5 legendaries

 

 Maybe I';m missing something - if you've had 5 legs in 150 packs, that's 1 every 30. Which is better than the pity timer average?

I'm fairly convinced that the "optimal" Zoo list would cut the Glacial Shards. That said, having played a lot of the variant that contains them, the card does suit the playstyle of Zoo quite well. As you've said, you can use it to stop a lethal push to try to race your opponent, but I find the more prevalent use is when your opponent plays an annoying minion that threatens to trade favourably with the ones you currently have on the board. Being able to lock that minion down and develop a more efficient counter really helps Zoo because the deck is all about making high-value trades to keep the board.

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Why there should be seconds considerably less crippled than others?

Anyway, i am either not explaining myself, or you are deaf to my points.

Nevermind.

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But if your argument for the coin to stay a spell is that 2p is at disadvantage (arguable)

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People who go second already have a disadvantage, you want to make it bigger?

I think the disadvantage gets compensated by the extra mana; making it a free spell may be unfair since it benefits only particular decks: it has synergy with Gadgetzan Auctioneer, Auctionmaster Beardo, Mana Wyrm, Shadowreaper Anduin.

I am not saying "do not give them a coin" nor "do not give them mana" only "do not give them a free spell" which is in my opinion fair.

I actually think Vorpal Dagger is much stronger than you give it credit for, and I think you're misunderstanding its ideal use. You don't want to play the dagger late game and use it as a board clear - as you point out the wand of disintegration is far superior for this purpose. Instead, you equip the dagger and it guarantees that your opponent simply cannot play curvestone for the next 4 minions they play. You build a commanding board, trading with any small minions and using your dagger to clear the more troublesome ones, and win off the fact you practically forced your opponent to skip 3-4 turns. Of course it's also fairly situational, mostly being useful on bosses that try to curve out (I'm thinking Xol the Unscathed, for example), but it has turned some matches into an absolute stomp in my runs.

I'd suggest replacing it in your list with the Aleatoric Cube. This is the one treasure that I have literally never found a compelling reason to pick over the others if we're talking about gaining an edge rather than having fun. It's situationally good against Azari I suppose, and certainly leads to some hilarious games, but as far as competitive advantage goes it's near the bottom of my list.

Looking at the stats for the most popular secret mage build including Aluneth on hsreplay, Aluneth is an interesting card. I thought it would be awful if it ended up in your opening hand, but the stats suggest that this has almost no effect on win rate. Drawing it later than this, however, has a pronounced negative effect on win rate, and playing it bumps the win rate up a fair bit. From this, I'd conclude a few things.

1. Aluneth is good, but not incredibly so, when you can plan around it in advance (e.g. dumping your hand and trading efficiently so you can spend 6 mana to do nothing to affect the board). If you survive after playing Aluneth your win rate increases but not dramatically.
2. Aluneth is bad as a surprise topdeck in most situations. Presumably, this is because when in "topdeck mode" you often cannot afford to do absolutely nothing but refuel for a turn. Contrast this to Arcane Intellect. This makes a good topdeck because it immediately gives you more options to do on the turn you play it, but if you survive after playing it you'd have been better off drawing Aluneth for the repeatable draw.

I'd definitely say that Aluneth falls into the "nice option" category. It will single-handedly win you slower matchups with less pressure, but if you can play it in an aggressive or tempo matchup without sacrificing the board and losing the game, then you were probably going to win without it. It certainly isn't as impactful as Keleseth, which increases your win rate by something like 15 percentage points if he ends up in your opening hand.

EDIT: In this version of Secret Mage, which runs a lower curve, Aluneth has a more positive effect. This list really relies on finding its burn and its synergies to close out the game compared to the one above, which can rely on Firelands Portal and Medivh to create strong threats in the late game. In this list, the card is quite a bit more impactful. Still not on the level of Keleseth, but it can certainly be the difference between winning and losing a lot of games.