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Forbidden Lock: use all your mana.You get overload equilavente to the cost.
Its not the same to the mtg x mana mechanic. In mtg you can decide how much mana you want to spend right off the bat. Here you have to play it as your last card in that turn which can be bad in some scenarios.
I'm surprised with all the comparisons to other mage spells... isn't it obvious that this is the Mage's Shield Slam? This will serve the exact same function, only based around available mana instead of available armor. In that way, it's definitely more flexible and can be as expensive or cheap as you need it to be.
As for the comparisons to Flame Lance, sure if you are trying to do 8 damage to a minion, 5 mana is cheaper than 8 Mana... but for most situations you can take your turn as normal, but if you have 2 mana left over, you can remove one of their 2 drops or trip a divine shield. It cost you only what you decide to put into it and you can use it for a lot of different things, even as "expensive removal".
Except shield slam is 10x better.
lol, well obviously - I never said this card was "better" haha
If it could target face it would be just strictly better (more flexible) version of Pyroblast and it would be OP; on the other hand current version is pretty useless. Not bad but useless. Maybe in Fatigue Mage it will be useful.
I really like this card, it is good in early game and good in late game.
I think that this is one of the best ideas, to use all available mana crystals and get balanced effect for it, it is weaker and not synergistic but it is something you can always play.
I'd guess if you have overloaded mana via unstable portal (or something else), they do not count towards the damage?
It's a better pyroblast with huge versitility... Except it only targets minions so it sucks and the only redeming factor is that it is a spell that can be cast for zero mana. Mage already has enough removal spells so it's versitility really means nothing.
I think its balanced
even if that was X + 1 it would be OP
The only thing this card has going for it is the golden card art...This spell really should not be in the game at this time...Maybe when Arcane Blast is pushed out of standard then they should release a card like this.
This is the best "Spend X mana, deal X damage" card we're gonna get. You can't choose X aside from using some of your mana up, but other than that, you get full control of the damage. That's amazing. A solid "any time" removal card. Not to mention it fits tempo whenever you play it.
Unless you have a couple minions on the board all ready this card is a tempo loss..what would you rather do on 4-7 mana play a minion or spend your turn loosing all your mana and giving board initiative back to your opponent.
You can play a minion AND this card. It fits any remaining mana you have, so no matter what you play, you can fill in the gaps if you need to
Gotta give props to blizz for that amazing golden animation.
this card has so much reliability that i would use it over frost bolt anyday
Wouldn't say that. Frost bolt can hit face. Plus, frost bolt works well in conjunction with this card. You can deal 3 damage (and freeze) and remove 2 damage from this card and put that somewhere else
i don't know bromanov91 wouldn't you like it if your 3 dmg spell turned into a 7 mana 7 dmg in the lategame?
I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying you can't exclude frostbolt. It's like your best spell.
I think it´s a tech choice. As usual I comment this via youtube-Video
https://youtu.be/tz8LwZvhbw8
my opinion: can be nice according to the neccessarity of just casting a spell