Don't know if this card is going to be good/ competitive but it looks like RNG fun to be had. It was only a matter of time until blizzard offered this effect... and this one seems very fair.
Edit: Would have loved this card A LOT more if it had a discover effect, instead of a random effect.
Blizzard should stop with this boring RNG design, especially with Class Legendarys. So many cool artworks and Characters wasted on so much Meme in this set.
Yes negative Powercreep im absolutely on it but that doesnt mean you have to make everycard Meme and RNG dependant.
Add a random Legendary to your hand hasn't been the most legendary thing. Wild has a lot of decent Legendary but some of them are game loosing.
I don't understand Blizzard's obsession with giving Mage random card generation mechanism. It's the way to a soul crushing win or an easy defeat if you get a bad card. If the random aspect was done a few times, it was ok. Mage has become too dependent on random outcomes. The design is too stupid, it needs to be changed.
This card will not see much play competitively, but will be added in decks just for value purpose and to generate a random win condition.
Talk about a unique effect. I was wondering when blizzard was going to make a card that would allow you to play wild cards in standard. Now you may have to play around wild cards in standard. Pity its only available to one class.
From the release, in case anyone wants clarification:
Reveal season for The Witchwood – the next Hearthstone set – is in full swing, and as always it’s an exciting time. This spookily-themed collection of 135 cards is introducing several new build-around concepts, such as decks with only odd cost cards and decks with only even cost cards, not to mention new mechanics like Echo and Rush. And a whole lot of random Shaman spells.
Since this is the first set of the year, the introduction of The Witchwood also means a new Standard rotation, so we’ll be saying goodbye to Whispers of the Old Gods, One Night in Karazhan and Mean Streets of Gadgetzan. All those cards will still be playable in Wild, of course, but in Standard it means big changes - there'll be no more Jade and no more Old Gods, for instance. It’s going to be a whole new world, and the drastically reduced card pool means that the new cards will have a chance to really shine.
Speaking of which, IGN has a new card to reveal – one of the two Mage legendaries in the set – Toki, Time-Tinker:
As you can see, Toki is a 6 mana 5/5 with the battlecry “Add a random legendary minion from the past to your hand.” What does that mean? It means she’ll only pull legendaries that are exclusive to Wild – even if you’re playing inWild. Those legendaries can be from any class too.
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Toki is a time traveller... and tinkers with bending time and alternate timelines.
In terms of lore, Team 5 has told me that Toki is a time traveller - she's friends with Chromie and tinkers with bending time and alternate timelines. I'm not sure why she's a tinker as opposed to a tinkerer, but the idea is that she creates a portal to the past and calls for help from legendaries whose time in the sun has passed.
It’s a very cool idea, but to be honest, this is not likely to be a card that sees much competitive play, as Chromie’s base stats aren’t strong enough to justify the insane variance on what you could potentially get from her battlecry. Sure, if you high roll you might get Sylvanas Windrunner, Ragnaros the Firelord, Loatheb, Dr. Boom or Emperor Thaurissan, but even then you’ll still need to pay the mana to play the card.
Best case scenario.
If you low roll, you might end up with Wilfred Fizzlebang, Rend Blackhand, Majordomo Executus, Nat, the Darkfisher, C’Thun, Finja, Madam Goya or Mayor Noggenfogger. (Not that the appearance of The Mayor could ever really be considered a low roll.)
Not quite as good.
That said, if your whole strategy is grinding your opponent out, and your deck is full of cards that generate value, I think that on balance the card you get will likely be playable. The meta would have to be super slow to allow that, however, and it’s questionable whether you’d ever want this kind of randomness in a deck like that. I guess that the sort of deck that would run something like Cabalist’s Tome (which won’t be in Standard after the rotation, but gives you three random Mage spells for five mana) might think about including this. The difference being, of course, that Cabalist’s Tome had the potential to save you from being killed (Ice Block, Frost Nova etc) or give you lethal via burn. Very few of the cards you can get with Toki really offer you those possibilities.
We’ve also seen a similar card revealed for this set – the Rogue legendary: Face Collector, which, while pulling from the format you’re playing in, as opposed to only pulling from Wild, seems a little stronger, as the Echo keyword – and its low cost – means it can effectively give you two or three shots at a good random legendary minion. Toki requires you to bounce it or use a copy or Brann-like effect, and that’s not something you’re likely to do. On the other hand, Face Collector doesn’t really fit the usual Rogue tempo gameplan, whereas a more controlling Mage is much more able to take the tempo loss from Toki.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, but at first blush Toki feels like a spicy meme creation machine first and foremost. She’ll go in decks that are hoping to high roll into something insane and broken... and that's its own kind of fun.
Want to know what's up with The Witchwood? You can see which cards have been revealed to date here, and be sure to check out the hilarious initial reveal video from Team 5 if you haven’t already seen it:
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Either means wild or a legendary minioin already played. Seems like fun
On one hand, it's bad.
On the other hand, CASINO MAGE BABYYYY
THEY WENT THERE!
Oh if this was a discover it would be way more op. Like this it can easily be Yogg to patches. Wow rng huh?
Fun meme card, been waiting for this effect for a while! Dr Boom meta incoming.
Don't know if this card is going to be good/ competitive but it looks like RNG fun to be had. It was only a matter of time until blizzard offered this effect... and this one seems very fair.
Edit: Would have loved this card A LOT more if it had a discover effect, instead of a random effect.
Blizzard should stop with this boring RNG design, especially with Class Legendarys. So many cool artworks and Characters wasted on so much Meme in this set.
Yes negative Powercreep im absolutely on it but that doesnt mean you have to make everycard Meme and RNG dependant.
I love it 😍, I’ll be crafting a golden one!
So awful, yet so cool.
I wish it were discover.
I don't care what anyone else says i'm absolutely loving this card. :D
Then again it could bring back some legendaries we were really hoping to see the back of. lol
But blizzard have hinted in the past about bringing some wild content back into standard and I guess this card is the start of that.
Rumors are carried by haters, spread by fools, and accepted by idiots.
not very strong but very cool mechanic!!
Want. Will craft. Lulz Boombot DK.
I absolutely love that we can once again have wild cards in standard. Last time we had this was Ball of Spiders before TGT rotated.
On the third day before Witchwood, Blizzard gave to me,
three Handlock decks,
two Molten Giants
and a winstreak to Legend Rank #3
Disclaimer: This is a fictional poem and this didn't actually happen to me.
6 mana 5/5 "draw" a 1/1 pirate
Pretty bad, the older sets tend to have weaker legendaries than the more recent ones. You also lose a little bit of tempo.
Add a random Legendary to your hand hasn't been the most legendary thing. Wild has a lot of decent Legendary but some of them are game loosing.
I don't understand Blizzard's obsession with giving Mage random card generation mechanism. It's the way to a soul crushing win or an easy defeat if you get a bad card. If the random aspect was done a few times, it was ok. Mage has become too dependent on random outcomes. The design is too stupid, it needs to be changed.
This card will not see much play competitively, but will be added in decks just for value purpose and to generate a random win condition.
Another addition to casino mage. Blizzards, you do not dissapoint! Love it.
Talk about a unique effect. I was wondering when blizzard was going to make a card that would allow you to play wild cards in standard. Now you may have to play around wild cards in standard. Pity its only available to one class.
From the release, in case anyone wants clarification:
Reveal season for The Witchwood – the next Hearthstone set – is in full swing, and as always it’s an exciting time. This spookily-themed collection of 135 cards is introducing several new build-around concepts, such as decks with only odd cost cards and decks with only even cost cards, not to mention new mechanics like Echo and Rush. And a whole lot of random Shaman spells.
Since this is the first set of the year, the introduction of The Witchwood also means a new Standard rotation, so we’ll be saying goodbye to Whispers of the Old Gods, One Night in Karazhan and Mean Streets of Gadgetzan. All those cards will still be playable in Wild, of course, but in Standard it means big changes - there'll be no more Jade and no more Old Gods, for instance. It’s going to be a whole new world, and the drastically reduced card pool means that the new cards will have a chance to really shine.
Speaking of which, IGN has a new card to reveal – one of the two Mage legendaries in the set – Toki, Time-Tinker:
As you can see, Toki is a 6 mana 5/5 with the battlecry “Add a random legendary minion from the past to your hand.” What does that mean? It means she’ll only pull legendaries that are exclusive to Wild – even if you’re playing inWild. Those legendaries can be from any class too.
Toki is a time traveller... and tinkers with bending time and alternate timelines.
In terms of lore, Team 5 has told me that Toki is a time traveller - she's friends with Chromie and tinkers with bending time and alternate timelines. I'm not sure why she's a tinker as opposed to a tinkerer, but the idea is that she creates a portal to the past and calls for help from legendaries whose time in the sun has passed.
It’s a very cool idea, but to be honest, this is not likely to be a card that sees much competitive play, as Chromie’s base stats aren’t strong enough to justify the insane variance on what you could potentially get from her battlecry. Sure, if you high roll you might get Sylvanas Windrunner, Ragnaros the Firelord, Loatheb, Dr. Boom or Emperor Thaurissan, but even then you’ll still need to pay the mana to play the card.
Best case scenario.
If you low roll, you might end up with Wilfred Fizzlebang, Rend Blackhand, Majordomo Executus, Nat, the Darkfisher, C’Thun, Finja, Madam Goya or Mayor Noggenfogger. (Not that the appearance of The Mayor could ever really be considered a low roll.)
Not quite as good.
That said, if your whole strategy is grinding your opponent out, and your deck is full of cards that generate value, I think that on balance the card you get will likely be playable. The meta would have to be super slow to allow that, however, and it’s questionable whether you’d ever want this kind of randomness in a deck like that. I guess that the sort of deck that would run something like Cabalist’s Tome (which won’t be in Standard after the rotation, but gives you three random Mage spells for five mana) might think about including this. The difference being, of course, that Cabalist’s Tome had the potential to save you from being killed (Ice Block, Frost Nova etc) or give you lethal via burn. Very few of the cards you can get with Toki really offer you those possibilities.
We’ve also seen a similar card revealed for this set – the Rogue legendary: Face Collector, which, while pulling from the format you’re playing in, as opposed to only pulling from Wild, seems a little stronger, as the Echo keyword – and its low cost – means it can effectively give you two or three shots at a good random legendary minion. Toki requires you to bounce it or use a copy or Brann-like effect, and that’s not something you’re likely to do. On the other hand, Face Collector doesn’t really fit the usual Rogue tempo gameplan, whereas a more controlling Mage is much more able to take the tempo loss from Toki.
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see, but at first blush Toki feels like a spicy meme creation machine first and foremost. She’ll go in decks that are hoping to high roll into something insane and broken... and that's its own kind of fun.
Want to know what's up with The Witchwood? You can see which cards have been revealed to date here, and be sure to check out the hilarious initial reveal video from Team 5 if you haven’t already seen it:
-It's better to have something you don't need, than to need something you don't have