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I don’t think deck of wonders counts for played spell effects.
It works like Yogg as he is casting the spells not you directly so it doesn’t count to your total spells cast.
It's not the random spell cast. The tokens are casted as they are drawn for no mana but they "cost" 5 mana. Drawing them would get you another 5/5 from this legendary.
I think you're right but it's confusing when there are 2 triggers when it comes to minions, 'Play' and 'Summon'.
But neither the Deck nor the Scrolls specify that they cast themselves, they say "Cast this when drawn."
Yogg, Servant, Primalist, and Grand Archivist (And probably something I've missed.) are thematically the minions casting the spells, but we don't know how it works for a spell being "cast" by it's own text. Since you aren't paying the cost of the scroll (Presumably.) we're slightly more inclined to think that you aren't casting it, but at the same time, I would think that you would be purely based on the power level of the two cards. (How I would expect the scrolls to interact with Counterspell, as well.) It's not necessarily clear.
I didn't properly convey the "thematically the minions casting the spells" thing, what I mean to say is that if there isn't a minion involved then it's either you casting the spell, or the spell casting itself. It could easily be the latter, but unlike with a minion, we don't know for sure. Likewise, the cost of the scrolls could just be a reference to the fact the in general the token of something is the same cost as the initial card, unless that doesn't make sense. (Like a very expensive card summoning a lot of very small tokens.) That being said, since the scrolls never get played, and if they somehow did they would do nothing but proc spell synergy, Blizz would have no problem reducing the cost to 4, eliminating all confusion in the matter.
Even if it doesn't work, since Deck is a 5 drop it still innately has synergy, just not the synergy we deserve. :P
So the recent final reveal stream naturally revealed a lot of things, one of which being that the Scrolls do, in fact, not synergise with Alanna beyond the basic Deck synergy.
kewl
If the spells that cost more than 5 but somehow got their cost reduced to be less than 5, will those spells count toward her battlecry?
I assume not. If they do work with her, then it's a unique interaction for her.
I think they will, just like how Hemet, Jungle Hunter can't destroy minions that got their costs reduced by the druid quest, and how Skulking Geist can't destroy 2 mana spells with Sorcerer's Apprentice on the board
But Atiesh summons the cost you spent regardless of original cost of spell, Forbidden Shaping doesn't summon a bigger minion even if your opponent has Nerubian Unraveler on board, etc.
Something that cares about you casting a spell with a cost cares about the cost you pay, not the spell. Alternatively, as you've recalled, cards that care about the cost that spells *are*, irrelevantly to actually playing them, seem to look into Hearthstone's theoretical database and check cards marked with the base card's specific requirements, without caring about whether or not the specific in-game instance of that card actually qualifies.
This one cares about your actually playing cards, so I assume it would count AI against an Unraveler or Pyro with the help of a Witch. That being said, unlike Atiesh, this doesn't care about the spell as you're playing it, it's caring about spells that you've cast, and so while I think it's more likely that it's mark the act of spending 5 mana on a spell than the act of casting one of the spells hearthstone has that cost 5 or more, that's certainly more likely than if it acted immediately on spell cast, so it could reasonably go either way, which I didn't consider at the time of commenting.
Pfft. EZ clear with Dragonfire Potion
I see what you did there
Ya you summon DRAGONS....
More good than Medivh. No random minions and 5/5 good stats and stable.
Ah yes, I dub thee...
Living spells.
Obviously meant for the same deck as arcane tyrant. Sort of a late game mage, big easy big spell kind of mage.
Have to run counterspell or else you will just get aoed
one of those cards that are just ok or "meh" but if they are a bit stronger start being really unfair
All KaC set - Evolve nerf
I mean.. why? Man this card looks so boring.. just who would ever thought about smth like that in mage. Of course you can have some 5-more-mana spells in your deck and then -- unleash your dragons... But It still looks awfull too me. Even If it's not that bad and can see some play.
Just generating stats on the board WOW Blizzard GJ.. as if we hadn't something like that before.