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This ability existed in MtG as something called "Ingest", and it never saw standard play at all.
Realize that this is much less impactful than forcing your opponent to discard a card from hand, and the number of decks it would really impact is slim.
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Card Design ChampionThis card is extremely polarized. When it's bad, it's really bad. Essentially just a River Crockalisk without the beast tag. When it's good, it's really good. Removing that mage's Archmage Antonidas is game winning.
However, due to the RNG aspect and the simple fact that the odds of actually removing a key component of your opponent's deck is so low, I'm going to say it's not a good card. Let's face it, even though it's never been spelled out so directly in a single card before, this isn't exactly a new mechanic. Players have been milling opponents for almost as long as the game has been played. And how many times have you been on the receiving end of being milled and simply thought to yourself, "Well, so long as X isn't milled, I'm good". I know I've been there. And sure, there's been a few unlucky times where the exact card I didn't want to be milled is the one that got burned. But statistically speaking using simple math as well as personal experience, most of the time it just burns something you can do without.
So, the only way this card becomes a problem is if there's synergy cards built around it. Bouncing this guy back repeatedly or otherwise re-triggering the effect to mill more and more cards could become an issue. Milling a single card or two is generally not too detrimental for most decks. Milling more than that and things start getting dicey. Fortunately, warlocks are not (currently) a primary milling class. In Rogue, this card would be sick. In warlock, I think it's going to sit in your collection rarely seeing play. At least, not outside a gimmick deck that tries too hard to make it work and I'm calling it now, such a deck would be Tier 3 at best. Though, I've been wrong before.
So, I'm voting bad. It's just too luck based and unreliable to see constructed play where cards have to be really good and reliable to see play. Just my 2 cents.
People that think this card is bad don't understand Hearthstone, it will always get value. It will always 1 for 1. Sometimes it will 2 for 1 with the possibility to kill ANYTHING, not just a minion, but a spell! How often do you lose to such high roll random effects while playing lotterystone? Mark my words..."You're going to hate this card." If your on the receiving end of it. Bounce effects in combination with this simple 2 drop can wreck your decks ability to function properly. At least with a Mill deck they had to fill your hand first. This thing trashes Alexstrasza on turn two. Or your precious; shiny; new Hero card.
Will you be tempted to NOT mulligan that high cost; valuable card away when you see you're up against a Warlock?
On the flip side, this effect gives me hope that we may eventually get to see a spell that lets us look at the top 3 cards of our deck. Place them in any order, then draw the top card. I'm glad that the code for the game is getting more complex, allowing for more complex card designs.
Will we one day see a Hearthstone version of Demonic Tutor?
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
This card is actually named Gnomeferatu.
Maybe Fellreaver is a bad comparison. After all, Fellreaver actually saw competitive play.
It's a funny meme card for sure. Unplayable in any serious competitive deck.
I'd rather see something like a modified dirty rat: 2 mana 2/6 taunt your opponent draws 2 cards. Much prefer the ones that can theoretically give your opponents an advantage but give you a great body.
It's bad. Think that the card gets placed to the bottom of the deck. Opponent would still draw that card next turn, so it's not that it breaks search cards. If it'd be a "random card from the deck" it might be a lot better.
Mike Donais says that the official name for this card is Gnomeferatu, said on Savjz's stream. Also he's pretty sure it reveals the card.
Gnomish Troggzor, you heard it here first folks. The battlecry more often than not will not matter unless you to fatigue, which Warlock doesn't or if you're playing against combo decks which aren't too common.
It's basically a shitty dirty rat.
A glorious bundle of salt.
At first I thought, well, hopefullly this just never see's play, cuz we can all agree this is not a fun mechanic. But thinking more about it, it seem's this expansion will have a fair amount of control decks, so this card might actually be just a good 2 of in warlock decks, for two chances to really screw over the opponent in a control game, taking out one or two powerhouse cards off their opponents deck. Like why not run it in a control matchup? Damn... bummer card...