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Good indeed, another excellent mass removal. Let's finally hope in the death of aggro decks.

You don't even have to play with only super expensive spells to make this work. At 3 damage this is great, and that just requires taking out Frostbolt and Glyph. Or maybe you can accept the risk of it dealing 2 damage and run those cards anyway, similar to how Big Priest runs Barnes for the high roll. As long as you have maybe 70-80% 3+ spells in your deck, it should be decent.

However, clearing the board has never been a weakness of Mage (excluding oversized boards, like from Doppel + Evolve), what Control Mage has been lacking is healing. You end up taking chip damage over time and it becomes really hard to stabilize. You might draw Frost Lich or Alex on turn 9, but if your opponent has a decently sized board, that's not going to save you. Or you might be facing an OTK deck like Razakus, in which case they'll bring you down to 1-ish health, popping the ice block, and forcing you to heal on the next turn. But you can't do that efficiently enough while also removing their Velen from the board. This card is strong, but it's not going to make or break Control Mage.

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Remember when one of Warlock's unique trait was that it has "Deal damage to ALL minions removal"? Yeah, that's gone now. Priest has a better Twisting Nether and Mage and Warrior have better Hellfire / Felfire Potion...

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Pretty gud but mage already has so many AoE spells. I doubt this will see that much play.

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So, they are really pushing mage to only run expensive spells. It is just too bad Frostbolt, Primordial Glyph and secrets like Ice Block are the best cards the class has. I am not sold on this...

Guys why are you saying it's bad? Yeah it's a shame you cant run frost bolt and glyph to be consistently good. But even if you get ice block, 5 mana deal 3 is still pretty good since 5 mana Kazakus deal 4 is picked quite often. Yeah it's not as strong as Kazakus potion but you can run two and it's not RNG potion ingredient and doesnt require prior Kazakus play.

It also has synergy with big spell archetype they're trying to push. With all new armor gain from spell card, board clears and good mage minions revealed so far, it's quite viable control tools after ice block rotates.

I will still run x1 Glyph and x1 Frostbolt in my Highlander mage, I take the odds because I always will keep any of them in mulligan and will run Meteor, Blizzard, Firelands Portal, Flamestrike, Polymorf, Fireball and Tome.

Holy Wrath is crying

They seem to be really pushing control decks.

Mage gets this... Priests are, well Priests... Warriors now have a great board clear spell... 

I wonder how this all plays out...

Ideally, it would hit at least 5 around 65% of the time so you can kill a Cobalt Scalebane that was played on curve. Really powerful card for control mage though. The AOE introduced in this expansion is on a rather high power level.

Idk why everyone thinks the card requires only hight cost. Even hitting a secret is better than excavated evil was. I think the card will definetely see play and will be the bane of aggro. But if it is good enough to push aggro away from the meta, in control vs control matches, people will learn to play around it and just wait for the card to lose value. 

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Extremely powerful board clear, fits perfectly with Dragoncaller Alanna and lately Scroll of Wonder .

From all class card we saw I'm pretty sure there will be a new archetypal Dragon Mage, quite good, at least Tier 2 in my opinion.

Big Ez Mage!

I theorycrafted this big spells deck. What do you guys think?

Worst case scenario is a 5 mana deal 2 damage... a little bit worse than Consecration and Holy Nova. If you roll a secret you'll have an Excavated Evil. This card is super solid, even if you play a big mage with Frostbolt and Primordial Glyph

Good card, now Big Dragon Mage Deck comes in this new Expansion

While I'm happy they're really trying to kill aggro, they need to add better rewards for trying to ladder with control. 

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So, they are really pushing mage to only run expensive spells. It is just too bad Frostbolt, Primordial Glyph and secrets like Ice Block are the best cards the class has. I am not sold on this...

 eh i don't know man 5 mana deal 3 to all is pretty decent, i think you still run either frostbolt or glyph based on preference but not both together, also, Deck of Wonders gives you 5 copies of Scroll of Wonder so it makes it easier to have this being more damaging, overall a great card, and here i thought that once gadget rotated in April most classes were going back to being trololol facesmorced by aggro like in old-gods and kharazan's vomit-hand faster than opponent cuz no AoE Metas

This is good from 3 damage up. All Mage has to really cut is Frostbolt. Deck of Wonders has great synergy with this