This card is overrated af. Hunter secrets are highly situational and very low value, add to that the lack of card draw and you can see why this will only be any good in a Yogg'n'Load deck.
2 mana for a 3/3 taunt, 2 mana for a 4/2 stealth, 2 mana for a double arcane explosion, and 2 mana for a better Sap. They're not as good as Mage's secrets maybe, but they're good.
This card is basically a soft taunt 3/4 since you have to have multiple secrets in hand for this to shine.
Now, if they give hunter a trap tutor, this card becomes a vital part of a t1 OP deck which will cause everyone here to take a break from crying about priest and start crying for nerfs. But, alas, no such card exists.
Cloaked Huntress will definitely see play. Everyone is thinking about dumping you whole hand of secrets when you play this card, but it wont work that way.
Its a reprinted Mad Scientist for hunter, better stats but a worse effect, bc you need to have the secret in your hand. If you just have 1 secret, you already got a lot of value, and 3/4 for 3 mana are premium stats. Hunter was previously using Freezing Trap, Bear Trap and Explosive Trap with Mad Scientist, and they become usable again with this card. You just need to have 1 secret in hand when you play this and the value is awesome.
Face and Midrange hunter were using 1-2 secrets already when they had Mad Scientist. This is the card they needed to use them again.
2 mana for a 3/3 taunt, 2 mana for a 4/2 stealth, 2 mana for a double arcane explosion, and 2 mana for a better Sap. They're not as good as Mage's secrets maybe, but they're good.
Yea' let's just describe things in a vacuum, because no one will ever play around them. Sapping a 1/1 is really good. *rolls eyes*
2 mana for a 3/3 taunt, 2 mana for a 4/2 stealth, 2 mana for a double arcane explosion, and 2 mana for a better Sap. They're not as good as Mage's secrets maybe, but they're good.
Yea' let's just describe things in a vacuum, because no one will ever play around them. Sapping a 1/1 is really good. *rolls eyes*
Don't play Freeze Trap against a bunch of 1/1s maybe? Maybe use the Explosive Trap for that one.
Definitely going to be making a Secret Yogg N' Load deck, but I don't think Auctioneer will make the cut. Adding the 3 secrets that generate beasts will be essential though.
2 mana for a 3/3 taunt, 2 mana for a 4/2 stealth, 2 mana for a double arcane explosion, and 2 mana for a better Sap. They're not as good as Mage's secrets maybe, but they're good.
Yea' let's just describe things in a vacuum, because no one will ever play around them. Sapping a 1/1 is really good. *rolls eyes*
Feel free to play around them and slow your gameplan to a crawl to let hunter get to call of the wild.
2 mana for a 3/3 taunt, 2 mana for a 4/2 stealth, 2 mana for a double arcane explosion, and 2 mana for a better Sap. They're not as good as Mage's secrets maybe, but they're good.
Yea' let's just describe things in a vacuum, because no one will ever play around them. Sapping a 1/1 is really good. *rolls eyes*
Feel free to play around them and slow your gameplan to a crawl to let hunter get to call of the wild.
Hoping this allows Control Secret Hunter to be more viable.
This is Kirin Tor Mage for hunter, the discount is 2 instead 3 if you have only 1 secret, what is more likely to happen, the upside is 3/4 is better than 4/3 in most cases.
What Kirin never see play? It is a decent card, decent cards never can compete with OP cards like mad scientist...
This. A lot of people on this thread who are saying OP and lock and load meta have obviously never tried secret mage. What tends to happen is that most often you have zero secrets in hand, or a secret you don't want to use (Freezing Trap). Then the card is just an overpriced minion. You can play secret mage right now and find out how OP a free secret is, and how seldom you would get more than 1, if you even got 1.
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I can confirm from my steady rise through the ranks that very few players are prepared for Doctor Three.
If you can manage to squeeze a few excellent draws into those first few turns and get two or three secrets into your hand, then this card dominates the early game.
This card makes Kirin Tor Mage really sad and worthless.The guilt and shame was unbearable so she had to eventually join a therapy group for victims of power creeping abuse. Sharing the pain and hearing the stories she could relate to like those of Frostwolf Grunt and War Golem espacially, she could put this behind and get on with her life. After all she had something going for her that most didn't, she still is a classy, strong, beautiful MAGE card and nothing could take that away from her.
(btw no disrespected intended to real victims out there)
I wonder how much better than Kirin tor mage this realy is. with 1 secret kirin tor brings 1 more mana value with 2 this brings 1 more...but how likely is it to have 3 secrets (different ones) turn 3...and the other question is, is that even any good?!
I dunno about meta-defining and I need to see how the meta shapes when all of Karazhan is out, but Cloaked Huntress to me is definitely something I have wanted for years now. A card that makes playing secrets in hunter more interesting.
Yeah this card is pretty awesome! I imagine I might be sick of it if it gets to be as omnipresent as Mysterious Challenger was, but so far it's a pretty challenging deck to come up against and it's hilarious to drop the unexpected Eater of Secrets against unexpecting Secret Hunters. Not that I think Eater of Secrets will be viable long-term, mind you, but it's fun to make use of this card when everyone's trying to use Secret Hunters.
As shown with mad scientists, any card that can manipulate secrets a ton and has good stats will be op.
Kirin tor doesn't do enough and the stats aren't great, Besides you don't feel to bad playing hunter secrets if if you pay 2 mana.
For mage the story is different. As I have always hated hunter I don't like this card.
If you dont put it with more than one secret this is a straight worse Kirin tor. Also hunter secrets are so bad that most lists only run 1 freezing trap atm.
You cant compare this with mad/MC because those cheated secrets out of your deck this is from hand which is a complete different storry since hunter draw is verrypoor.
I tried this and found that its pretty handy, but hunter has a hard time recovering from having an empty hand early if you play her early with a bunch of secrets. Also hunter has a hard time surviving until late game if you wait to play the lock and load combo late game.
Anyone else feeling like a deck full of secrets is awkward for hunter?
I wonder how much better than Kirin tor mage this realy is. with 1 secret kirin tor brings 1 more mana value with 2 this brings 1 more...but how likely is it to have 3 secrets (different ones) turn 3...and the other question is, is that even any good?!
It has superior stat distribution to kirin tor, so I would say it is better. Kirin's problem is that there are too many bad trades, and too much 3-damage removal.
This card is overrated af. Hunter secrets are highly situational and very low value, add to that the lack of card draw and you can see why this will only be any good in a Yogg'n'Load deck.
2 mana for a 3/3 taunt, 2 mana for a 4/2 stealth, 2 mana for a double arcane explosion, and 2 mana for a better Sap. They're not as good as Mage's secrets maybe, but they're good.
This card is basically a soft taunt 3/4 since you have to have multiple secrets in hand for this to shine.
Now, if they give hunter a trap tutor, this card becomes a vital part of a t1 OP deck which will cause everyone here to take a break from crying about priest and start crying for nerfs. But, alas, no such card exists.
Turn 5: Have this and lock and load in hand
Play it
Play lock and load
Dump all your secrets from your hand into the battlefield for free
Gain your entire hand back.
PLS BLIZZ THIS CARD IS WORSE THAN PURIFY I CAN'T ACTIVATE MY CORE RAGER!!
Rip Core rager 2k16
Cloaked Huntress will definitely see play. Everyone is thinking about dumping you whole hand of secrets when you play this card, but it wont work that way.
Its a reprinted Mad Scientist for hunter, better stats but a worse effect, bc you need to have the secret in your hand. If you just have 1 secret, you already got a lot of value, and 3/4 for 3 mana are premium stats. Hunter was previously using Freezing Trap, Bear Trap and Explosive Trap with Mad Scientist, and they become usable again with this card. You just need to have 1 secret in hand when you play this and the value is awesome.
Face and Midrange hunter were using 1-2 secrets already when they had Mad Scientist. This is the card they needed to use them again.
Definitely going to be making a Secret Yogg N' Load deck, but I don't think Auctioneer will make the cut. Adding the 3 secrets that generate beasts will be essential though.
Free to try and find a game, dealing cards for sorrow, cards for pain.
I can confirm from my steady rise through the ranks that very few players are prepared for Doctor Three.
If you can manage to squeeze a few excellent draws into those first few turns and get two or three secrets into your hand, then this card dominates the early game.
This card makes Kirin Tor Mage really sad and worthless.The guilt and shame was unbearable so she had to eventually join a therapy group for victims of power creeping abuse. Sharing the pain and hearing the stories she could relate to like those of Frostwolf Grunt and War Golem espacially, she could put this behind and get on with her life. After all she had something going for her that most didn't, she still is a classy, strong, beautiful MAGE card and nothing could take that away from her.
(btw no disrespected intended to real victims out there)
I wonder how much better than Kirin tor mage this realy is. with 1 secret kirin tor brings 1 more mana value with 2 this brings 1 more...but how likely is it to have 3 secrets (different ones) turn 3...and the other question is, is that even any good?!
I dunno about meta-defining and I need to see how the meta shapes when all of Karazhan is out, but Cloaked Huntress to me is definitely something I have wanted for years now. A card that makes playing secrets in hunter more interesting.
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Yeah this card is pretty awesome! I imagine I might be sick of it if it gets to be as omnipresent as Mysterious Challenger was, but so far it's a pretty challenging deck to come up against and it's hilarious to drop the unexpected Eater of Secrets against unexpecting Secret Hunters. Not that I think Eater of Secrets will be viable long-term, mind you, but it's fun to make use of this card when everyone's trying to use Secret Hunters.
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I tried this and found that its pretty handy, but hunter has a hard time recovering from having an empty hand early if you play her early with a bunch of secrets. Also hunter has a hard time surviving until late game if you wait to play the lock and load combo late game.
Anyone else feeling like a deck full of secrets is awkward for hunter?