Have you read the flavor text for Icicle yet ...!? Some dad at Blizzard has been spouting off puns for over a year and the design team came to him, after months of being bothered to do so, and said "Fine [Greg], we'll use your joke in the game." That is why this card exists.
Unless mage get some legendary with effect like this: "Start of the game, your hero power freeze the target instead deal damage" this card never will see play, the 3/4 minion with similar effect is much better than this crap and never see play.
Have you read the flavor text for Icicle yet ...!? Some dad at Blizzard has been spouting off puns for over a year and the design team came to him, after months of being bothered to do so, and said "Fine [Greg], we'll use your joke in the game." That is why this card exists.
I understand intentionally mediocre.
What I don't understand is intentionally trash.
Since it does not go to face (which is wise in Mage), 3 damage would have made the card a fair removal, with conditional upside... Wrath.
But like this, it takes so much support to be barely playable, that nobody's gonna bother.
What a waste of a good art...
Unless mage get some legendary with effect like this: "Start of the game, your hero power freeze the target instead deal damage" this card never will see play, the 3/4 minion with similar effect is much better than this crap and never see play.
I understand that it would`ve been a little Op but this spell really should cost 1 mana instead of 2. Don`t think this card will see play at all :(
People compared this card with Frostbolt but is not accurate enough.
This card is actually Underpowered and i can prove it very simple:
Shiv Deals 1 Damage then Draws a card! (fair enough that 1 Damage can go Face!)
Which implies that for 2 Damage the card can only target minions see Icicle,but instead we also have a conditional effect on top.
Card was made intentionally Underpowered , it would be a shame to even open this card instead of a good epic.
Yes different classes get different stuff but Mage is supposed to have the best of spells!