And yes, I think it will end up in some deck with Aluneth and Stargazer Luna that just vomits cheap spells until the opponent is dead. But there are other uses for it as well, for example with Lesser Ruby Spellstone, either to upgrade it or to boost otherwise underwhelming random spells.
well most times you play a spell damage minion (except malygos) you generally play 1 spell after you play a spell power minion.. unless you specifically play an aoe or the new card it's generally not worth it.
The first time I see Kingsbane I think is a completely unplayable garbage but after the 3/1 minion the card looks so much better.
Same here, this minion make this card much more playable, 2 random 4 cost minion for 4 manas is nice and in turn 8 if you play two of them you can summon x2 random 6 minion for 4 manas.
I primarily play mage, and I don't see this card making the cut. Unless a new archetype is born with this expansion that is specifically built around Spell Damage synergy, this card will be forgotten. Neither Big Spell nor Burn Mage have a slot for this in their decks. Chances are that some other spell/minion will be released in this expansion that would be preferable to run over this card in almost every scenario.
simulacrum x2 into emissary, into leylane, next turn emissary x3 into greater arcane missiles for 27 damage!=O
On an empty board that's good, but you'll still only get 3 missiles, so if your opponent has any minions, you might lose a lot of that damage on minion overkill. Given the amount of setup needed, I think there are scarier combos in Mage.
Not sure about this, feel like maybe it's too expensive for a tempo deck? Good with an elemental control deck though, fully expect this to see some play.
This is a pretty flexible card, you can fit this into a number of decks, it could fit into a burn/face mage deck making that frostbolt or fireball to face do even more damage, could easily go in an elemental mage deck because of the tag (obviously) and can also find a home in big spells mage because of combo'ing this with lets say flamestrike for example for a big board clear. :) so ye I can certainly see this finding a home somewhere.
Yeah you get to it at the end...mage combos this with burn spell, not spells. It’s kinda like running flame geyser in your deck, same amount of damage in a burn situation. Sooo I’m going to say it fits better in a control mage than aggro and I think that was blizzards plan.
Well, this card is nuts.Almost 4 mana flamestrike with Arcane Explosion ; 5 dmg Frostbolt, 8 dmg Fireball . And i dont even count cards from Boomsday. This little guy definetly will take a slot in most of my mage decks, and i dont even play tempo mage. Cant imagine how excited about this guy tempo mage players. 8/10, craft gold because how flexible Celestial emissay is.
If you don’t play tempo why would you speculate on how good a card is in the deck. Seems like a control card to me. Weak body, only one spell, only really good with aoe... I would rather run flame geyser...
Seems nice for Control Mage decks for boosting AOE. It probably works best with something like Volcanic Potion having the option to boost it mid game. Arcane Explosion seems like a little bit of a stretch to me. Also, it's a nice Water Elemental late game.
Another good synergy in Wild is Arcane Blast.
And yes, I think it will end up in some deck with Aluneth and Stargazer Luna that just vomits cheap spells until the opponent is dead. But there are other uses for it as well, for example with Lesser Ruby Spellstone, either to upgrade it or to boost otherwise underwhelming random spells.
I really like this card and all the new options and play potentials it opens up. It’s gonna be a lot harder to play around face damage now.
well most times you play a spell damage minion (except malygos) you generally play 1 spell after you play a spell power minion.. unless you specifically play an aoe or the new card it's generally not worth it.
Looking forward to seeing the GOLDEN version of this art!
I enjoy.
The first time I see Kingsbane I think is a completely unplayable garbage but after the 3/1 minion the card looks so much better.
Same here, this minion make this card much more playable, 2 random 4 cost minion for 4 manas is nice and in turn 8 if you play two of them you can summon x2 random 6 minion for 4 manas.
Nice thing about this is that it isn't a spell. So you can play two in a row (or more, with Simulacrum for example) and reap the benefits :)
I primarily play mage, and I don't see this card making the cut. Unless a new archetype is born with this expansion that is specifically built around Spell Damage synergy, this card will be forgotten. Neither Big Spell nor Burn Mage have a slot for this in their decks. Chances are that some other spell/minion will be released in this expansion that would be preferable to run over this card in almost every scenario.
Forced synergy for unexpected results. Not viable for burn since it's only one spell.
Nice with greater arcane missiles in wild.
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On an empty board that's good, but you'll still only get 3 missiles, so if your opponent has any minions, you might lose a lot of that damage on minion overkill. Given the amount of setup needed, I think there are scarier combos in Mage.
Most spell damage +x minion stay no longer than a turn anyway.
This is on point
Not sure about this, feel like maybe it's too expensive for a tempo deck? Good with an elemental control deck though, fully expect this to see some play.
This is a pretty flexible card, you can fit this into a number of decks, it could fit into a burn/face mage deck making that frostbolt or fireball to face do even more damage, could easily go in an elemental mage deck because of the tag (obviously) and can also find a home in big spells mage because of combo'ing this with lets say flamestrike for example for a big board clear. :) so ye I can certainly see this finding a home somewhere.
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Yeah you get to it at the end...mage combos this with burn spell, not spells. It’s kinda like running flame geyser in your deck, same amount of damage in a burn situation. Sooo I’m going to say it fits better in a control mage than aggro and I think that was blizzards plan.
If you don’t play tempo why would you speculate on how good a card is in the deck. Seems like a control card to me. Weak body, only one spell, only really good with aoe... I would rather run flame geyser...
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this and 2 fireballs
x2 Fireball = 6 mana
x2 This = 2 mana
xFrostbolt = 2 mana
= 22
could be 30 if u played ice lance with them.
This card is not good and i am surprised of the positive hype here
Should read "For the rest of this turn, your spells have Spell Damage +2" else Face Mage could actually become a weak deck Kappa
Does the effect stack, or does it just sets the value of your next spell to have +2 spell damage?
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Seems nice for Control Mage decks for boosting AOE. It probably works best with something like Volcanic Potion having the option to boost it mid game. Arcane Explosion seems like a little bit of a stretch to me. Also, it's a nice Water Elemental late game.
That card will make every AoE very strong as well as the other new mage spell.
I can see a lot of people using this minion.