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Guaranteed Ice Block.
Secret Mage getting strong in wild..
Not as broken as Mad Scientist though.
its better if you want iceblock, worse for every other secret
Good card, good card. Allows Mage to draw into something that will give them options against potential cards that the enemy will play, even if there is a tinge of RNG involved in the process. It's also nice that it's a 2 drop you can play leading up to a secret, which is what annoyed me about Medivh's Valet-you couldn't get the full value out of the card unless you already had a secret up. It'll see play somewhere, no doubt, even if it doesn't give Mage what it needs to go up the ladder.
this is crazy, it's like a 2 mana Drakonid Operative
Doesn't even require synergy like Drakonid Operative does
2mana 2-3 draw a card. Seems good
well I'm glad they at least waited until Reno rotated out to print this atrocity. Still broken, though. Could also enable that tempo-secret mage they've been trying to push for the last couple expansions. Could've at least made this an epic, but who cares about balancing arena, right?
Secret mage was able to crush your cancer Reno decks, and all other control archetypes even before Gadgetzan release. But who cares about secret mage when you can just play any of cancer tier-1 decks, right?
mad scientist wasn't that much better. yes, you get a free secret, but your opponent dictates when it's put into to play and the secret that's pulled is random, often resulted in the secret getting minimum value (pulling a freezing trap when your opponent has a 1/1 in play for example). your opponent could also prevent the deathrattle via silence, shadow madness, mc tech or other shenanigans. and in the cases where there are no secrets in the deck left to play this is just a better stat minion. But most importantly there wasn't a Medivh's Valet or Kabal Crystal Runner when scientist was around.
But mostly my complaint is that this is yet another top-tier common card for mage in arena. Which means one of two things: the rare and epic cards mage are getting are even more insane; or (more likely) Blizzard still hasn't figured out how to use their own rarity system.
Broken
Its just not the same as Mad Scientist you still have to pay 3 mana for it
Battlecry: Draws an Ice Block.
Battlecry: Draw Ice Block
Secret mage will be a thing. Maybe not this expansion, but secret mage will eventually exist. Blizzard really wants it to happen