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The card is very good. First of all, this is 2 mana 2-2 which is decent. It almost certainly draws you a card against aggro decks and 2 mana 2-2 is enough tempo against control decks(druid and paladin for example). Moreover, it reveals useful info about the deck you're playing against. Overall, very good in tempo mage, kazakus mage and even in some heavy spell based decks.

It's just crap, you have too many cheap spells for it to do anything good. 50% of the time you'll just be playing a 2-cost minion in the start of the game, and in long games you probably don't even want to draw.

+ mage already has 2 very strong 2-cost minions.

Trash tier.

Why not both. Arcanologist gets the 3 mana spells drawn before playing raven, have a higher chance to hit strike or portal.

You can go pretty low against most aggro decks, and even against some control decks. Razakus for example runs a ton of spells that cost very little. I think it's actually safe to run cards as cheap as Fireball and still have decent consistency from this.

But the question is, what's the point? Why would you want to draw expensive spells on turn 2? You'd need some way to cheat out those cards, otherwise you'd just have a useless Flamestrike in your hand for 5 more turns. Cards like Arcanologist (granted, that card is busted) will give you a card that's playable as early as turn 3, and it thins your deck so you are more likely to draw those expensive Flamestrikes for when you need them, and when you have the mana to cast them. A 2/2 that draws you a card that you can't even use also is suicide against any tempo deck. Why not just run cards like Arcane Intellect if you want to draw your expensive spells faster?

I think this card will only see play if there is a deck with serious synergy with high-cost spells. You want cards like Medivh, Solia, etc.

OK, another rubbish card for mages ... And there are already two of them for the new expansion ...

My suggestion attached:

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OK, another rubbish card for mages ... And there are already two of them for the new expansion ...

My suggestion:

 

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 This is almost strictly worse. It doesn't do anything for you, the other one draws a card at least.

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 This is almost strictly worse. It doesn't do anything for you, the other one draws a card at least.

 Well, basically my suggestion reveals the spells from the player's HANDS, so it gives you more control...

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Very very good in burn mage.  Raven Familiar,  The Curator,  Alexstrasza.  In this way Burn mage doesn't need Arcane Intellect.

Raven Familiar has also a crazy synergy with Spiteful Summoner. It will be a crazy card for burn mage. 

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Very very good in burn mage.  Raven Familiar,  The Curator,  Alexstrasza.  In this way Burn mage doesn't need Arcane Intellect.

Raven Familiar has also a crazy synergy with Spiteful Summoner. It will be a crazy card for burn mage. 

 Nope, its garbage! A lot of low cost mage spells are way too good to pass on.

Try to win the joust vs Priest or Druid for example.

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Very very good in burn mage.  Raven Familiar,  The Curator,  Alexstrasza.  In this way Burn mage doesn't need Arcane Intellect.

Raven Familiar has also a crazy synergy with Spiteful Summoner. It will be a crazy card for burn mage. 

 Nope, its garbage! A lot of low cost mage spells are way too good to pass on.

Try to win the joust vs Priest or Druid for example.

You underestimate how many 1-2 cost spells priest and druid run.  Mage runs 4 spells that cost 2, it has 4-5 at cost 3, 2 at cost 4, 2-3 at cost 6, 2-4 at cost 7, 1-2 at cost 10.

On top of this mage keeps its cheap spells in their opening hands more often than priest and druid with the exception of wild growth and sometimes jade idol.

This is an interesting card. I think it could be useful for Tempo Mages or if you really need that one board clear...

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Very very good in burn mage.  Raven Familiar,  The Curator,  Alexstrasza.  In this way Burn mage doesn't need Arcane Intellect.

Raven Familiar has also a crazy synergy with Spiteful Summoner. It will be a crazy card for burn mage. 

 Nope, its garbage! A lot of low cost mage spells are way too good to pass on.

Try to win the joust vs Priest or Druid for example.

You underestimate how many 1-2 cost spells priest and druid run.  Mage runs 4 spells that cost 2, it has 4-5 at cost 3, 2 at cost 4, 2-3 at cost 6, 2-4 at cost 7, 1-2 at cost 10.

On top of this mage keeps its cheap spells in their opening hands more often than priest and druid with the exception of wild growth and sometimes jade idol.

 Druid will keep his low cost spells in hand - wrath/jade idol/wild growth
Priest will keep most of the used 1mana spells as well.

There is a reason why most joust minions werent played. Only if a minion is good enough without the joust (Elekk for example with 3/2 stats AND Beast tag).

Id rather run Loot Hoarder than this garbage.

BTW, we are not only talking about 2mana spells, 3 and 4 mana are usually not good enough as well in a joust. Remember, that you have to win with +1! 
Polymorph, Fireball, Arcane Intellect, Ice Block, Counter Spell, Ice Barrier, PRIMORDIAL GLYPH, Frostbolt, Falme Geyser, Volcanic Potion are all used in Mage decks.

And seriously, even if you win the joust 50% of the time (which is not that likely due to draws), its not worth it! 

In a world where Arcanologist, Druid of the Swarm, Hydrogolist or Radiant Elemental (and so on) exist, this minion would be maybe playable with 3/2 stats.

 

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Very very good in burn mage.  Raven Familiar,  The Curator,  Alexstrasza.  In this way Burn mage doesn't need Arcane Intellect.

Raven Familiar has also a crazy synergy with Spiteful Summoner. It will be a crazy card for burn mage. 

 Nope, its garbage! A lot of low cost mage spells are way too good to pass on.

Try to win the joust vs Priest or Druid for example.

You underestimate how many 1-2 cost spells priest and druid run.  Mage runs 4 spells that cost 2, it has 4-5 at cost 3, 2 at cost 4, 2-3 at cost 6, 2-4 at cost 7, 1-2 at cost 10.

On top of this mage keeps its cheap spells in their opening hands more often than priest and druid with the exception of wild growth and sometimes jade idol.

 Druid will keep his low cost spells in hand - wrath/jade idol/wild growth
Priest will keep most of the used 1mana spells as well.

There is a reason why most joust minions werent played. Only if a minion is good enough without the joust (Elekk for example with 3/2 stats AND Beast tag).

Id rather run Loot Hoarder than this garbage.

BTW, we are not only talking about 2mana spells, 3 and 4 mana are usually not good enough as well in a joust. Remember, that you have to win with +1! 
Polymorph, Fireball, Arcane Intellect, Ice Block, Counter Spell, Ice Barrier, PRIMORDIAL GLYPH, Frostbolt, Falme Geyser, Volcanic Potion are all used in Mage decks.

And seriously, even if you win the joust 50% of the time (which is not that likely due to draws), its not worth it! 

In a world where Arcanologist, Druid of the Swarm, Hydrogolist or Radiant Elemental (and so on) exist, this minion would be maybe playable with 3/2 stats.

 

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Very very good in burn mage.  Raven Familiar,  The Curator,  Alexstrasza.  In this way Burn mage doesn't need Arcane Intellect.

Raven Familiar has also a crazy synergy with Spiteful Summoner. It will be a crazy card for burn mage. 

 Nope, its garbage! A lot of low cost mage spells are way too good to pass on.

Try to win the joust vs Priest or Druid for example.

You underestimate how many 1-2 cost spells priest and druid run.  Mage runs 4 spells that cost 2, it has 4-5 at cost 3, 2 at cost 4, 2-3 at cost 6, 2-4 at cost 7, 1-2 at cost 10.

On top of this mage keeps its cheap spells in their opening hands more often than priest and druid with the exception of wild growth and sometimes jade idol.

 Druid will keep his low cost spells in hand - wrath/jade idol/wild growth
Priest will keep most of the used 1mana spells as well.

There is a reason why most joust minions werent played. Only if a minion is good enough without the joust (Elekk for example with 3/2 stats AND Beast tag).

Id rather run Loot Hoarder than this garbage.

BTW, we are not only talking about 2mana spells, 3 and 4 mana are usually not good enough as well in a joust. Remember, that you have to win with +1! 
Polymorph, Fireball, Arcane Intellect, Ice Block, Counter Spell, Ice Barrier, PRIMORDIAL GLYPH, Frostbolt, Falme Geyser, Volcanic Potion are all used in Mage decks.

And seriously, even if you win the joust 50% of the time (which is not that likely due to draws), its not worth it! 

In a world where Arcanologist, Druid of the Swarm, Hydrogolist or Radiant Elemental (and so on) exist, this minion would be maybe playable with 3/2 stats.

 

Why didnt they make this an elemental?

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Very very good in burn mage.  Raven Familiar,  The Curator,  Alexstrasza.  In this way Burn mage doesn't need Arcane Intellect.

Raven Familiar has also a crazy synergy with Spiteful Summoner. It will be a crazy card for burn mage. 

 Nope, its garbage! A lot of low cost mage spells are way too good to pass on.

Try to win the joust vs Priest or Druid for example.

You underestimate how many 1-2 cost spells priest and druid run.  Mage runs 4 spells that cost 2, it has 4-5 at cost 3, 2 at cost 4, 2-3 at cost 6, 2-4 at cost 7, 1-2 at cost 10.

On top of this mage keeps its cheap spells in their opening hands more often than priest and druid with the exception of wild growth and sometimes jade idol.

 Druid will keep his low cost spells in hand - wrath/jade idol/wild growth
Priest will keep most of the used 1mana spells as well.

There is a reason why most joust minions werent played. Only if a minion is good enough without the joust (Elekk for example with 3/2 stats AND Beast tag).

Id rather run Loot Hoarder than this garbage.

BTW, we are not only talking about 2mana spells, 3 and 4 mana are usually not good enough as well in a joust. Remember, that you have to win with +1! 
Polymorph, Fireball, Arcane Intellect, Ice Block, Counter Spell, Ice Barrier, PRIMORDIAL GLYPH, Frostbolt, Falme Geyser, Volcanic Potion are all used in Mage decks.

And seriously, even if you win the joust 50% of the time (which is not that likely due to draws), its not worth it! 

In a world where Arcanologist, Druid of the Swarm, Hydrogolist or Radiant Elemental (and so on) exist, this minion would be maybe playable with 3/2 stats.

 

 

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Very very good in burn mage.  Raven Familiar,  The Curator,  Alexstrasza.  In this way Burn mage doesn't need Arcane Intellect.

Raven Familiar has also a crazy synergy with Spiteful Summoner. It will be a crazy card for burn mage. 

 Nope, its garbage! A lot of low cost mage spells are way too good to pass on.

Try to win the joust vs Priest or Druid for example.

You underestimate how many 1-2 cost spells priest and druid run.  Mage runs 4 spells that cost 2, it has 4-5 at cost 3, 2 at cost 4, 2-3 at cost 6, 2-4 at cost 7, 1-2 at cost 10.

On top of this mage keeps its cheap spells in their opening hands more often than priest and druid with the exception of wild growth and sometimes jade idol.

 Druid will keep his low cost spells in hand - wrath/jade idol/wild growth
Priest will keep most of the used 1mana spells as well.

There is a reason why most joust minions werent played. Only if a minion is good enough without the joust (Elekk for example with 3/2 stats AND Beast tag).

Id rather run Loot Hoarder than this garbage.

BTW, we are not only talking about 2mana spells, 3 and 4 mana are usually not good enough as well in a joust. Remember, that you have to win with +1! 
Polymorph, Fireball, Arcane Intellect, Ice Block, Counter Spell, Ice Barrier, PRIMORDIAL GLYPH, Frostbolt, Falme Geyser, Volcanic Potion are all used in Mage decks.

And seriously, even if you win the joust 50% of the time (which is not that likely due to draws), its not worth it! 

In a world where Arcanologist, Druid of the Swarm, Hydrogolist or Radiant Elemental (and so on) exist, this minion would be maybe playable with 3/2 stats.

 

 

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Very very good in burn mage.  Raven Familiar,  The Curator,  Alexstrasza.  In this way Burn mage doesn't need Arcane Intellect.

Raven Familiar has also a crazy synergy with Spiteful Summoner. It will be a crazy card for burn mage. 

 Nope, its garbage! A lot of low cost mage spells are way too good to pass on.

Try to win the joust vs Priest or Druid for example.

You underestimate how many 1-2 cost spells priest and druid run.  Mage runs 4 spells that cost 2, it has 4-5 at cost 3, 2 at cost 4, 2-3 at cost 6, 2-4 at cost 7, 1-2 at cost 10.

On top of this mage keeps its cheap spells in their opening hands more often than priest and druid with the exception of wild growth and sometimes jade idol.

 Druid will keep his low cost spells in hand - wrath/jade idol/wild growth
Priest will keep most of the used 1mana spells as well.

There is a reason why most joust minions werent played. Only if a minion is good enough without the joust (Elekk for example with 3/2 stats AND Beast tag).

Id rather run Loot Hoarder than this garbage.

BTW, we are not only talking about 2mana spells, 3 and 4 mana are usually not good enough as well in a joust. Remember, that you have to win with +1! 
Polymorph, Fireball, Arcane Intellect, Ice Block, Counter Spell, Ice Barrier, PRIMORDIAL GLYPH, Frostbolt, Falme Geyser, Volcanic Potion are all used in Mage decks.

And seriously, even if you win the joust 50% of the time (which is not that likely due to draws), its not worth it! 

In a world where Arcanologist, Druid of the Swarm, Hydrogolist or Radiant Elemental (and so on) exist, this minion would be maybe playable with 3/2 stats.

 

 I don't know if you play druid or priest vs mage, but you do not keep cheap spells verse mage.  Druid will keep wild growth and maybe jade idol, and priest will dump them all.  Priest doesn't want cheap spells verse mage they want their combo pieces and cycle.

Also mages don't play flame geyser, counter spell, or even polymorph very often.  

In burn mage, where this card fits best, you only run 2 primordial glyph, 2 ice block, 1 ice barrier, 2 frostbolt, maybe 1 volcanic potion, and 2 arcane intellect of the cards you mentioned.  

Additionally the reason this is better than loot hoarder is twofold. One, this is a battlecry which means it is more relevant in the late game and is a higher tempo card. Two, this is 2/2 which means this requires an actual card to kill it where as loot hoarder dies to mage/rogue/druid heropower.

Another boon for the raven is that it is really good verse aggro because all of their spells are generally cheap at around 1-3 mana.

Finally, in the rogue matchup in particular it always draws a card because rogues only use 0-cost spells.

In summation you are absolutely activating this card over all your matchups more than 50%. The meta always is filled with aggro decks. If I had to estimate I'd say it hits 70-80% of the time over a large sample of games.

 

Keleseth Rogues do not use fan of knives and at the moment it is the most popular rogue deck if not the most popular deck in the game.

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Why didnt they make this an elemental?

 

Change my mind, in the right deck never fails to draw a card, more than 10 times in a row I draw one of my big spells.

This card don't compete for slot with arcanologist, both are very good depend what you want, secret or big.