Certainly not as good as flame waker but flamewaker is really good. If this avoids targets that are already frozen, it could be pretty good as there is no way to continue to freeze board right now. Bad in arena but might see play in some kind of tempo freezer burn deck?
As has been mentioned by others, I really wish the card said "After you cast a spell, this minion will cast ice Lance on a random enemy". That way you're not penalized if it keeps hitting the same enemy over and over. It would also synergize nicely with Frost Nova and Cone of Cold to create a more tempo oriented freeze Mage, which I would love after playing a frost Mage in WoW for years.
As it stands I think it's a little too weak for regular play, but maybe it'll surprise.
1. Cone of cold is better in everyway. You will have to spend 4 mana and more for unreliable freeze while CoC can also ping 3 minions.
2. Freeze mage don't run cheap spells. The only 1/2 mana they run are they combo pieces icelance/frostbolt and you dont want to throw it out early.
3. It is not even synergy with icelance, flamewaker has same wording and effect is after casting. So it won't deal 4 damage even you freeze the same target.
4. It's a minion, minion is not good for doomsayer.
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This is a "good" card that becomes unplayable because you can't play it on curve. Flamewaker is great on turns 5+ when you can drop it, and unload 4-6 random damage, but sometimes you drop it against aggro on turn 3, and the 2/4 body with no spell procs is enough to not fall behind. This card only works in the late game, and then you're paying 4 mana for the effect, and not really the body. It's horribly inefficient, but it is powerful. I could see some kind of fatigue/Reno mage using 1x of this, but I think it's just going to be too much of a dead card in hand too much of the time.
I will cast this with 3 spells and it will freeze the same minion 3 times. At least the damage from flamewaker was OK to hit the same target multiple times.
But that's not right since Flamewaker will be rotating out next year heheh Elegiggle
At that point this card will be sooo meta
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Certainly not as good as flame waker but flamewaker is really good. If this avoids targets that are already frozen, it could be pretty good as there is no way to continue to freeze board right now. Bad in arena but might see play in some kind of tempo freezer burn deck?
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As has been mentioned by others, I really wish the card said "After you cast a spell, this minion will cast ice Lance on a random enemy". That way you're not penalized if it keeps hitting the same enemy over and over. It would also synergize nicely with Frost Nova and Cone of Cold to create a more tempo oriented freeze Mage, which I would love after playing a frost Mage in WoW for years.
As it stands I think it's a little too weak for regular play, but maybe it'll surprise.
If it were "Cast Ice Lance" it would be OP.
Freezemage dont want this.
1. Cone of cold is better in everyway. You will have to spend 4 mana and more for unreliable freeze while CoC can also ping 3 minions.
2. Freeze mage don't run cheap spells. The only 1/2 mana they run are they combo pieces icelance/frostbolt and you dont want to throw it out early.
3. It is not even synergy with icelance, flamewaker has same wording and effect is after casting. So it won't deal 4 damage even you freeze the same target.
4. It's a minion, minion is not good for doomsayer.
Probably already asked, anyway
can a frozen character be targetted again by mad mage? reasonably yes, hopefully not.
That's the fact that will determine its playability i believe.
Flamewaker / freeze tempo
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This is a "good" card that becomes unplayable because you can't play it on curve. Flamewaker is great on turns 5+ when you can drop it, and unload 4-6 random damage, but sometimes you drop it against aggro on turn 3, and the 2/4 body with no spell procs is enough to not fall behind. This card only works in the late game, and then you're paying 4 mana for the effect, and not really the body. It's horribly inefficient, but it is powerful. I could see some kind of fatigue/Reno mage using 1x of this, but I think it's just going to be too much of a dead card in hand too much of the time.
Cool idea. Too bad the stats are shit.
medicore for me bu time will show hope i was wrong
This guy should be buffed as splitting Ice Lance to random target.
I will cast this with 3 spells and it will freeze the same minion 3 times. At least the damage from flamewaker was OK to hit the same target multiple times.
No thanks. I'll run water elemental.
This card is probably extra dust untill Flamewaker rotates
It's probably really good in Arena, if the decks are still tempo-meta
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Everybody is comparing to Flamewaker...
But that's not right since Flamewaker will be rotating out next year heheh Elegiggle
At that point this card will be sooo meta
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the extra mana cost is kinda worth it, if you can get the right characters frozen that is
8/10
poor stat, good artwork, great ability
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3/5 instead 2/4 and maybe see play, 2/4 for 4 is crap.
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you will see... most cards that people say its shitty, its because they have no idea how it will perform.
so many cards i heard was bad, and after the launch became really good.