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So what you're saying with Inner Fire being reason for Skulking Geist is basically: We are now in phase where our design is so great, we need to use cards of new sets to counter vanilla cards. Oh, the design space freedom !
Also, I am not sure if you noticed the difference - how many cards can 1 The Black Knight kill ? How much does it ruin game plan for a deck with "lot of big taunts" ? In short, there are uses for it, but it is not worth it - because of the ratio between:
impact * (when it is useful) : (when it isn't useful)
Compare to, hmm, ... can you guess ?
Guys you are all missing the mega anti exodia mage combo. Turn 10, Millhouse Manastorm > Doomed Apprentice > The Coin > Skulking Geist!
Kappa...just in case anyone thought I was serious.
I can't believe they would nerf weasel tunneler like this!
Disgusting card. Disgusting idea. They could nerf jade druid some other way.
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I mean, it destroys Jade, but why would you EVER run this otherwise? I feel like tech cards that are so devastating against the things they tech against are absolute terrible card design, but Blizzard seems to embrace it. Why.
Are you going to run this hoping you play Jade? If so the joke will be on you.
Shit, this is completely nuts!!!!!!
Well, Eater of Secrets shows up fairly often these days, and we still see plenty of Secret Mages, Burn Mages, and Exodia Mages around. I don't think this will kill Jade Druid or Inner Fire Priest by itself. As others have noted, it costs 6, so you're well into the game before you can play it and Inner Fire Priest could very well have won. You won't run more than one of these, and it essentially does nothing the turn you play it - it buys you an increased win chance down the road. So it's a low tempo, high value play that will get you killed against a lot of decks, but will give you much stronger odds against specifically Jade Druid and other decks that rely on 1 mana spells for combos.
I'm not too worried about it in wild either. A tech card like is this is only going to be playable if the meta is saturated with decks that it is good against. There is a lot of variety in wild, so the amount of games this will win for you there, vs. the amount of time it will be a dead card or super weak play is not going to favor running it. But if Jade Druid started to dominate wild format, I'll be happy to have this.
I think it's a good tech card, and definitely meta defining (with regard to the current standard meta). Control decks that have no chance to win against jade druid will run this and improve the matchup, which is the point of a tech card. That will weaken Jade Druid, but I think and hope they'll just find other tools. The Auctioneer/Infinite Jades thing is ridiculous. I don't dislike the jade mechanic, and I play Jade Rogue and Jade Shaman decks. I'd like to see Jade Druid stay strong, but be less polarizing. This might do it.
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This reminds me of Eater of Secrets, both of who seem printed to screw over exactly one deck. Less thorough a counter though. (Though amusingly, this card also destroys Secret Paladin if you can cast it before their Mysterious Challenger)
So yeah, this negates the worst of Jade Druid's ultra-lategame, but you still need to survive till the lategame, they can still summon a decent number of huge Jade Golems without Jade Idols. Taking out their Earthen Scales is a nice bonus, admittedly.
For this to see play, it will also have to see some use against other decks. What other decks have significant 1-cost spells?
Evolve Shaman? They now have a Hero card as plan B, so it doesn't hurt them as much, plus they might pull off their evolve turn the turn before you have enough mana to cast this. Still, not useless.
Inner Fire Priest maybe, but they can refill with Lyra the Sunshard... though missing their Power Word: Shields and Potion of Madnesses might make that harder. The real problem is that they can go off before turn 6. Not useless, but meh nonetheless.
Conceal is gone nowadays as is Power Overwhelming, which would have been good decks to use this against to shut down Auctioneer and Leeroy combos respectively. A while back control warrior would have been vulnerable as it used to run Shield Slam and Execute, but Shield Slam isn't used much anymore and Execute is now 2 mana, so the best you could hope for nowadays is hitting your opponent's Whirlwinds. And plenty of 1 mana spells are only relevant earlygame... Lost in the Jungle, Mark of the Lotus, etc. Quests are always cast before turn 6...
It doesn't necessarily win you the game against Jade Druid, and I don't think it is useful enough against other decks, but it has potential.
(Some last thoughts... would Nerubian Unraveler protect against this card? What if you had an Emperor Thaurissan-discounted Jade Idol in your hand?)
I don't like counter cards like this. Same with the pirate-eating crab.
One, they're only released during content expansions, which means that they are very slow to happen and you have to buy/open/craft them.
Two, instead of fixing the issue, they can now ignore player feedback by saying "Well we made a counter card, it's up to you to use it."
In the case of the pirate-crab, the focus is so narrow it's a liability if you DON'T fight pirates. This one at least have very, very (very) slight use outside of that, but it still "feelsbadman" if I am memeing correctly. Not a fun card to have played against you, not a fun card to have had to play or put in your deck.
Also this doesn't *only* counter a single deck, nor does it *only* counter. Many classes make use of 1-cost spells, and you could make the point that by removing your own 1-cost spells on turn 6, you're increasing the likelihood you draw something useful on future turns (same thing for the opponent, but still....just want to encourage you all to look at this from a perspective other than "this card exists exclusively to ruin Jade Druid").
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