Old Elise was an auto-include in any control deck back them, x10 discovered cards is much better than replace cards in your hand and deck for random legendarys, don't see any reason to this card don't be included for the same purpose.
In terms of tempo it's just a war golem that costs 1 extra mana. If you draw this early on then most of the time it's dead in your hand until the very end of the game. It's really only good when it's against another control deck, but at that point it's amazing... or you could use it with Hakkar... Not sure there's any other card in standard that get's rid of the bloods anymore.
While it looks like a meme card at first, there might be some intresting applications like this + Hakkar, or this + fatigue, or this to counter bomb warrior (if it needs countering, which i don't think you'll need to)
That being said the average non specific discovered card is really bad, if explore ungoro as taught anyone anything, so I think it's still bad. (although the niche it has might still make it playable).
An Archbishop Benedictous for all classes is ludicrous. This is an auto include in every control deck, this patches up Control Paladin's and Control Warlock's weakness in winning the fatigue matches, but since other control decks will be playing this too control matches will just go to a stalemate.
If the meta slows down even a bit (which it's looking like it will) then this will likely be a candidate for a nerf. I like to play control vs control but not when games always just end up going to the turn limit.
EDIT: OH yeah btw, this deletes the corrupted bloods from Hakkar. Let that sink in.
Omegalul, if Benedictous is played, you know atleast kinda what kind of deck your opponent is running and which cards you could get (since its constructed, it should be quite a good deck). If you play Archivist, it is totally random what you get. What if 2 of the 5 cards are crap? 40% of your deck is crap then. It is not that strong, come on, think a bit. Golden Monkey was way stronger, because the game was like "who draws Elise into Map into Monkey first" and/or who gets the better legendaries. Dont get ur jimmies rustled, bro
In terms of tempo it's just a war golem that costs 1 extra mana. If you draw this early on then most of the time it's dead in your hand until the very end of the game. It's really only good when it's against another control deck, but at that point it's amazing... or you could use it with Hakkar... Not sure there's any other card in standard that get's rid of the bloods anymore.
Half of any control deck is dead in your hand until late in the game. That's why control decks emphasize value and card draw. It's not a big deal.
But yeah, in control vs. control, this makes up for the massive endgame value of the DKs that are rotating out.
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So many people are gonna waste 1600 dust on this bait card!
I've seen a comparison with Benidictus omg ! Benedictus adds a whole bunch of good cards into your deck, can be played at any time. This DESTROYS YOUR DECK then adds 2x5 randoms discovered cards into it.
You say this counters fatigue, have you forgotten that every expansion Blizzard introduce tools that specifically counter fatigue archetype through polarized mechanics and synergy? There is no fatigue in hearthstone anymore, almost ever.
Yeah, this expansion is value driven. But combo decks will keep value in check as they always did.
So what exactly does this card do to benefit your game plan, other than sitting in your hand for a longer time than Dr. Boom's Scheme?
What class do you play this in? I can only think of Rogue because of Myra's Unstable Element, or warlock. But rogue has Academic Espionage and Togwaggle's Scheme, they don't need to pay 8 mana to add crap cards in their deck. So Warlock? Tap tap tap then play this on turn 23 when your deck is empty? Nope, combo deck killed you 10 turns ago my dude.
Combo is gonna have it's wings clipped with all the counter mechanics currently added. Counters that will be in these greedy value decks.
This card exists for one purpose, to play against other value/control decks.
I think the thought here is this IF value/control is the meta because control will have it's wings clipped
this will NEED to be played because you will need to out value your opponent. Your opponent will also play this in order to out value you, and every deck is running this because value is the meta.
I think you are on to something though. This card is essentially useless drawn at any point but the hyper late game. Meaning drawing this early could be pretty bad if you face off against aggro or aggressive mid range decks that also have some value (DR hunter for example). Actually I don't see a lot of people talking about aggro. With all the board clears and other control tools being rotated and with so many of this sets cards being value cards, not really control cards, I think that aggro will be top shit for while.
Filling your deck with cards you choose is better than just random legendaries at any given point of the game.
I will start like this:
Why was Elise Starseeker frequently ran in control warrior and priest decks back in LoE? This was due to the fact, that the Golden Monkey allowed you to replace your situational techs and weak reactive cards with potentially big legendaries. Ofc the outcome was random, but those type of minions presented above-average quality and the decks played the 6/6 after having already used their most powerful AoEs and removals (Gorehowl). I used Arch-Villain Rafaam as a counter to your argument, that Elysiana will be used as a tool to destroy the Corrupted Bloods in warlock. And she won't. She is just not worth it. Not to mention, that as a 8 mana, she's a horrible draw in the early game and doesn't impact the board. Rafaam is 1 mana cheaper, but at least he can block the enemies' attack, if you are truly desperate and forced to play him.
About the Discovery outcome - Archivist Elysiana works almost like Explore Un'Goro in a way, that you get to choose your next draws, with the upside/downside of replacing your (empty) deck with 10 cards (2 copies of each discovery). I played that card in the past, I also saw some streamers run it in their decks and you can trust me, when I say, that you can find everything from it. And I mean EVERYTHING. From Wisps to Ancient Watchers to whatever you want to name. If the Archivist discovered only class specific cards, I would have rated her higher. But she doesn't.
Also we just got like what, 5 tech cards now for getting rid of combo pieces? Druid and for the most part Priest can't perform OTK's anymore, All we got is Mech'athun Warrior and Hakkar Paladin but most of tech cards ruin Mecha'thun and this card shits on Hakkar while funny enough also being a way for any deck to play a deck like Hakkar Paladin.
I specifically said Burn Freeze Mage. I didn't name other archtypes, because this deck is the least countered one in terms of techs. Not to mention, combo decks can and will play around the so called hate-cards by running many cycle minions or spells. This way they lower the chances of losing their combo tools (Hecklebot, saboteur).
Lastly - no, Plot Twist shenanigans won't "add more fuel to the fire that this card creates", because this legendary is extremely slow, unreliable (I have stated it multiples times in this post) and you are better off shuffling your own cards, which you can control. DMH Warriors took a lot of time to consider what they wanted to shuffle and when to stop shuffling removals. They didn't put crap into their deck, which they wanted to draw later. They were very picky and if the Plot Twist, Augmented Elekk combo allows players to go infinite, control warlocks will certainly prefer this, because they will increase the number of their powerful reactive tools and healing options in the deck. They wouldn't want to run a dead card, which can potentially fill their deck with understated or situational cards and ruin their next draws (if they decide to go infinite).
But doesn't change the fact that every other class besides Hunter is gonna run this.
As you can understand from my post, my answer to this sentence is "yes, it does":
Control Warrior will most likely run it, because its powerhouse comes from Year of the Raven and delaying fatigue will be another plus. Control Hunter won't exist => the class won't run it. Control Paladin has the tools, but it will most likely use Hakkar and the WW 5/5 legendary to delay their fatigue. Control Shaman probably won't exist, because it lacks powerful sustain tools and draws. I see aggro shaman popping up. Control Rogue, if this would exist, will use Academic Espionage instead or Heistbaron Togwaggle. Control Druid doesn't have AoEs and it's better off as a combo deck. Control Mage won't exist, because it doesn't have good sustain tools to survive. Control Priest can potentially run it. Control Warlock... {my entire post}.
Filling your deck with cards you choose is better than just random legendaries at any given point of the game.
I will start like this:
Why was Elise Starseeker frequently ran in control warrior and priest decks back in LoE? This was due to the fact, that the Golden Monkey allowed you to replace your situational techs and weak reactive cards with potentially big legendaries. Ofc the outcome was random, but those type of minions presented above-average quality and the decks played the 6/6 after having already used their most powerful AoEs and removals (Gorehowl). I used Arch-Villain Rafaam as a counter to your argument, that Elysiana will be used as a tool to destroy the Corrupted Bloods in warlock. And she won't. She is just not worth it. Not to mention, that as a 8 mana, she's a horrible draw in the early game and doesn't impact the board. Rafaam is 1 mana cheaper, but at least he can block the enemies attack, if you are truly desperate and forced to play him.
About the Discovery outcome - Archivist Elysiana works almost like Explore Un'Goro in a way, that you get to choose your next draws, with the upside/downside of replacing your deck with 10 cards (2 copies of each discovery). I played that card in the past, I also saw some streamers play it and you can trust me, when I say, that you can find everything from it. And I mean EVERYTHING. From whisps to Ancient Watchers to whatever you want to name. If the Archivist discovered only class specific cards, I would have rated her higher. But she doesn't.
Also we just got like what, 5 tech cards now for getting rid of combo pieces? Druid and for the most part Priest can't perform OTK's anymore, All we got is Mech'athun Warrior and Hakkar Paladin but most of tech cards ruin Mecha'thun and this card shits on Hakkar while funny enough also being a way for any deck to play a deck like Hakkar Paladin.
I specifically said Burn Freeze Mage. I didn't name other archtypes, because this deck is the least counterable one. Not to mention, combo decks can and will play around the so called techs by running many cycle minions. This way they lower the chances of losing their combo tools (Hecklebot).
Lastly - no, Plot Twist shenanigans won't "add more fuel to the fire that this card creates", because this legendary is extremely slow, unreliable (I have stated it multiples times in this post) and you are better off shuffling your own cards, which you can control. DMH Warriors took a lot of time to consider what they wanted to shuffle and when to stop. They didn't put crap into their deck, which they wanted to draw later. They were very picky and if the Plot TwistAugmented Elekk combo allows players to go infinite, control warlocks will certainly prefer this, because they will increase the number of their powerful reactive tools or healing options in the deck. They wouldn't want to run a dead card, which can potentially fill their deck with understated or situational cards and ruin their next draws.
But doesn't change the fact that every other class besides Hunter is gonna run this.
As you can understand from my post, my answer to this sentence is yes, it does:
Control Warrior will most likely run it, because its powerhouse comes from Year of the Raven and delaying fatigue will be another plus. Control Hunter won't exist => the class won't run it. Control Paladin has the tools, but it will most likely use Hakkar and the WW 5/5 legendary to delay their fatigue. Control Shaman probably won't exist, because it lacks powerful sustain tools and draws. I see aggro shaman popping up. Control Rogue, if this would exist, will use Academic Espionage. Control Druid doesn't have AoEs and it's better off as a combo deck. Control Mage won't exist, because it doesn't have good sustain tools to survive. Control Priest can potentially run it. Control Warlock... {my entire post}.
I mostly agree with this. This isn't going to be ubiquitous. Though I do think that if a "heal" druid pops up that it could potentially run this.
As far as playing around counters go, we'll have to wait and see. Most combo's require minions AND spells we now have counters to both in neutral. Paladin also has Duel!.
In the end though this is card is such a a hyper late game card not to many value decks even go for that much value most of the time. Or even can. Even most control decks have a win condition they are trying to get to. This cards most obvious purpose is the win condition of fatigue and not many classes can do that.
______________ is trash because it's horrible to draw in the early game, doesn't have taunt, does literally nothing when you play it, and doesn't do anything in control vs control games.
Archivist Elysiana fits this. As does Malygos, Velen, Hadronox, Ysera, Shrivala, Mechathun, Alexstraza, Bonemare, Sindragosa, etc.
Obviously this would be played in specific decks for a specific reason. This is a build around kind of card, or at worst, an extremely strong support card.
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______________ is trash because it's horrible to draw in the early game, doesn't have taunt, does literally nothing when you play it, and doesn't do anything in control vs control games.
Archivist Elysiana fits this. As does Malygos, Velen, Hadronox, Ysera, Shrivala, Mechathun, Alexstraza, Bonemare, Sindragosa, etc.
Obviously this would be played in specific decks for a specific reason. This is a build around kind of card, or at worst, an extremely strong support card.
Malygos is a combo card and does effect the board state when you play him. Mostly you win right after doing so somehow. Same with Velen. Hadronox was again combo'ed with naturalize to immediately effect the board state. Shirvala 100% does something when you play it, so does Alexstraza AND bone mare. Again Mechathun is a combo card that literally wins you the game when you play in in conjunction with a combo.
Ysera and Sindragos fit the point you are trying to make here though. I also agree. Not that you were debating me. This is a specific card made for a specific situation. I just think that that particular situation is more narrow in scope than some are saying.
That being said I fucking love this card. It's whacky and likely not just a meme, though it has PLENTY of potential for that as well.
______________ is trash because it's horrible to draw in the early game, doesn't have taunt, does literally nothing when you play it, and doesn't do anything in control vs control games.
Archivist Elysiana fits this. As does Malygos, Velen, Hadronox, Ysera, Shrivala, Mechathun, Alexstraza, Bonemare, Sindragosa, etc.
Obviously this would be played in specific decks for a specific reason. This is a build around kind of card, or at worst, an extremely strong support card.
Malygos is a combo card and does effect the board state when you play him. Mostly you win right after doing so somehow. Same with Velen. Hadronox was again combo'ed with naturalize to immediately effect the board state. Shirvala 100% does something when you play it, so does Alexstraza AND bone mare. Again Mechathun is a combo card that literally wins you the game when you play in in conjunction with a combo.
Ysera and Sindragos fit the point you are trying to make here though. I also agree. Not that you were debating me. This is a specific card made for a specific situation. I just think that that particular situation is more narrow in scope than some are saying.
That being said I fucking love this card. It's whacky and likely not just a meme, though it has PLENTY of potential for that as well.
Malygos does literally nothing when you play it and neither does Hadronox. You need to combo it with other cards, they are entirely reliant on deck synergy to be good.
So I don't know why that idea goes completely out the window when we look at a card like Archivist Elysiana. "Doesn't do anything when you play it, too slow, loses to aggro, doesn't have taunt, bad if you draw it early...." Yeah no shit, lots of incredibly strong build-around cards are like that.
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Why is everyone all over the place for this card btw? 8 mana 7/7 do nothing or even worse kill your deck the turn you play it since its a replace effect...you are unable to play this until you are in fatigue range and even than, you're shuffling random cards to your hand in general. Chef Nomi got bad reviews for its effect and this card is far worse than that.
Good tech card for a control meta or for digging yourself out of a hole in the late game, but probably too slow and situational to be consistently valuable. Also you'll probably need to pick your discoveries fast, bc they're gonna eat a lot of time on your turn.
______________ is trash because it's horrible to draw in the early game, doesn't have taunt, does literally nothing when you play it, and doesn't do anything in control vs control games.
Archivist Elysiana fits this. As does Malygos, Velen, Hadronox, Ysera, Shrivala, Mechathun, Alexstraza, Bonemare, Sindragosa, etc.
Obviously this would be played in specific decks for a specific reason. This is a build around kind of card, or at worst, an extremely strong support card.
Malygos is a combo card and does effect the board state when you play him. Mostly you win right after doing so somehow. Same with Velen. Hadronox was again combo'ed with naturalize to immediately effect the board state. Shirvala 100% does something when you play it, so does Alexstraza AND bone mare. Again Mechathun is a combo card that literally wins you the game when you play in in conjunction with a combo.
Ysera and Sindragos fit the point you are trying to make here though. I also agree. Not that you were debating me. This is a specific card made for a specific situation. I just think that that particular situation is more narrow in scope than some are saying.
That being said I fucking love this card. It's whacky and likely not just a meme, though it has PLENTY of potential for that as well.
Malygos does literally nothing when you play it and neither does Hadronox. You need to combo it with other cards, they are entirely reliant on deck synergy to be good.
So I don't know why that idea goes completely out the window when we look at a card like Archivist Elysiana. "Doesn't do anything when you play it, too slow, loses to aggro, doesn't have taunt, bad if you draw it early...." Yeah no shit, lots of incredibly strong build-around cards are like that.
Except you are comparing apples to oranges here and not fairly so. Those are combo cards, this is not. This does nothing inherently to allow you to win the same turn or a turn after, or at least not reliably. Those are win condition cards, this is not. Literally the only thing this card does reliably is keep you from going into fatigue sooner than your opponent. What makes it unreliable in even that arena is that it's neutral and playable in any control deck.
What you are saying isn't wrong in that many cards are slow and aren't good if drawn early, don't help you survive etc etc. The issue is with what those other cards do do that this one doesn't is create a win condition. This only prevents you from going into fatigue. It's there to keep you alive longer, not to defeat the other person. This card is nothing like those cards. It doesn't "end games", it does the very opposite.
Again I am not saying it's a bad card. And I agree it's a card you have to build your strategy around. However how many decks have there been whose win condition is to fatigue the other player by just outlasting them? How many will be able to support that archetype after rotation? Pretty much only warrior did it with any success.
My only real point here is this, this isn't going to a card every control deck will run. I am willing to bet most control decks will eschew this for a win condition that leave less room for opposing player to interact with.
In the control vs control you can afford the tempo loss. For other matchups (midrange and aggro, I'd be suprised if there are any combo decks) you should've already won with your removal a long time ago. Don't see how this wouldn't be an amazing card in warrior, warlock, and shaman. Delaying fatigue is pretty awesome.
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Old Elise was an auto-include in any control deck back them, x10 discovered cards is much better than replace cards in your hand and deck for random legendarys, don't see any reason to this card don't be included for the same purpose.
In terms of tempo it's just a war golem that costs 1 extra mana. If you draw this early on then most of the time it's dead in your hand until the very end of the game. It's really only good when it's against another control deck, but at that point it's amazing... or you could use it with Hakkar... Not sure there's any other card in standard that get's rid of the bloods anymore.
While it looks like a meme card at first, there might be some intresting applications like this + Hakkar, or this + fatigue, or this to counter bomb warrior (if it needs countering, which i don't think you'll need to)
That being said the average non specific discovered card is really bad, if explore ungoro as taught anyone anything, so I think it's still bad. (although the niche it has might still make it playable).
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Omegalul, if Benedictous is played, you know atleast kinda what kind of deck your opponent is running and which cards you could get (since its constructed, it should be quite a good deck). If you play Archivist, it is totally random what you get. What if 2 of the 5 cards are crap? 40% of your deck is crap then. It is not that strong, come on, think a bit. Golden Monkey was way stronger, because the game was like "who draws Elise into Map into Monkey first" and/or who gets the better legendaries. Dont get ur jimmies rustled, bro
Yeah, great way to increase the size of your deck. Also a great way to increase the length of a game. FIVE Discovers?
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Half of any control deck is dead in your hand until late in the game. That's why control decks emphasize value and card draw. It's not a big deal.
But yeah, in control vs. control, this makes up for the massive endgame value of the DKs that are rotating out.
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Combo is gonna have it's wings clipped with all the counter mechanics currently added. Counters that will be in these greedy value decks.
This card exists for one purpose, to play against other value/control decks.
I think the thought here is this IF value/control is the meta because control will have it's wings clipped
this will NEED to be played because you will need to out value your opponent. Your opponent will also play this in order to out value you, and every deck is running this because value is the meta.
I think you are on to something though. This card is essentially useless drawn at any point but the hyper late game. Meaning drawing this early could be pretty bad if you face off against aggro or aggressive mid range decks that also have some value (DR hunter for example). Actually I don't see a lot of people talking about aggro. With all the board clears and other control tools being rotated and with so many of this sets cards being value cards, not really control cards, I think that aggro will be top shit for while.
I will start like this:
Why was Elise Starseeker frequently ran in control warrior and priest decks back in LoE? This was due to the fact, that the Golden Monkey allowed you to replace your situational techs and weak reactive cards with potentially big legendaries. Ofc the outcome was random, but those type of minions presented above-average quality and the decks played the 6/6 after having already used their most powerful AoEs and removals (Gorehowl). I used Arch-Villain Rafaam as a counter to your argument, that Elysiana will be used as a tool to destroy the Corrupted Bloods in warlock. And she won't. She is just not worth it. Not to mention, that as a 8 mana, she's a horrible draw in the early game and doesn't impact the board. Rafaam is 1 mana cheaper, but at least he can block the enemies' attack, if you are truly desperate and forced to play him.
About the Discovery outcome - Archivist Elysiana works almost like Explore Un'Goro in a way, that you get to choose your next draws, with the upside/downside of replacing your (empty) deck with 10 cards (2 copies of each discovery). I played that card in the past, I also saw some streamers run it in their decks and you can trust me, when I say, that you can find everything from it. And I mean EVERYTHING. From Wisps to Ancient Watchers to whatever you want to name. If the Archivist discovered only class specific cards, I would have rated her higher. But she doesn't.
I specifically said Burn Freeze Mage. I didn't name other archtypes, because this deck is the least countered one in terms of techs. Not to mention, combo decks can and will play around the so called hate-cards by running many cycle minions or spells. This way they lower the chances of losing their combo tools (Hecklebot, saboteur).
Lastly - no, Plot Twist shenanigans won't "add more fuel to the fire that this card creates", because this legendary is extremely slow, unreliable (I have stated it multiples times in this post) and you are better off shuffling your own cards, which you can control. DMH Warriors took a lot of time to consider what they wanted to shuffle and when to stop shuffling removals. They didn't put crap into their deck, which they wanted to draw later. They were very picky and if the Plot Twist, Augmented Elekk combo allows players to go infinite, control warlocks will certainly prefer this, because they will increase the number of their powerful reactive tools and healing options in the deck. They wouldn't want to run a dead card, which can potentially fill their deck with understated or situational cards and ruin their next draws (if they decide to go infinite).
As you can understand from my post, my answer to this sentence is "yes, it does":
Control Warrior will most likely run it, because its powerhouse comes from Year of the Raven and delaying fatigue will be another plus.
Control Hunter won't exist => the class won't run it.
Control Paladin has the tools, but it will most likely use Hakkar and the WW 5/5 legendary to delay their fatigue.
Control Shaman probably won't exist, because it lacks powerful sustain tools and draws. I see aggro shaman popping up.
Control Rogue, if this would exist, will use Academic Espionage instead or Heistbaron Togwaggle.
Control Druid doesn't have AoEs and it's better off as a combo deck.
Control Mage won't exist, because it doesn't have good sustain tools to survive.
Control Priest can potentially run it.
Control Warlock... {my entire post}.
Strong effect, decent stats. Nice anti-fatigue card. If you need cleanse your deck it's nice too.
Will she become core card? Doubt it. But as tech card it's really strong.
My vote - very good.
I mostly agree with this. This isn't going to be ubiquitous. Though I do think that if a "heal" druid pops up that it could potentially run this.
As far as playing around counters go, we'll have to wait and see. Most combo's require minions AND spells we now have counters to both in neutral. Paladin also has Duel!.
In the end though this is card is such a a hyper late game card not to many value decks even go for that much value most of the time. Or even can. Even most control decks have a win condition they are trying to get to. This cards most obvious purpose is the win condition of fatigue and not many classes can do that.
______________ is trash because it's horrible to draw in the early game, doesn't have taunt, does literally nothing when you play it, and doesn't do anything in control vs control games.
Archivist Elysiana fits this. As does Malygos, Velen, Hadronox, Ysera, Shrivala, Mechathun, Alexstraza, Bonemare, Sindragosa, etc.
Obviously this would be played in specific decks for a specific reason. This is a build around kind of card, or at worst, an extremely strong support card.
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Malygos is a combo card and does effect the board state when you play him. Mostly you win right after doing so somehow. Same with Velen. Hadronox was again combo'ed with naturalize to immediately effect the board state. Shirvala 100% does something when you play it, so does Alexstraza AND bone mare. Again Mechathun is a combo card that literally wins you the game when you play in in conjunction with a combo.
Ysera and Sindragos fit the point you are trying to make here though. I also agree. Not that you were debating me. This is a specific card made for a specific situation. I just think that that particular situation is more narrow in scope than some are saying.
That being said I fucking love this card. It's whacky and likely not just a meme, though it has PLENTY of potential for that as well.
Malygos does literally nothing when you play it and neither does Hadronox. You need to combo it with other cards, they are entirely reliant on deck synergy to be good.
So I don't know why that idea goes completely out the window when we look at a card like Archivist Elysiana. "Doesn't do anything when you play it, too slow, loses to aggro, doesn't have taunt, bad if you draw it early...." Yeah no shit, lots of incredibly strong build-around cards are like that.
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Why is everyone all over the place for this card btw? 8 mana 7/7 do nothing or even worse kill your deck the turn you play it since its a replace effect...you are unable to play this until you are in fatigue range and even than, you're shuffling random cards to your hand in general. Chef Nomi got bad reviews for its effect and this card is far worse than that.
Good tech card for a control meta or for digging yourself out of a hole in the late game, but probably too slow and situational to be consistently valuable. Also you'll probably need to pick your discoveries fast, bc they're gonna eat a lot of time on your turn.
Fair card, 8/10 for design, but 6/10 on power
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Except you are comparing apples to oranges here and not fairly so. Those are combo cards, this is not. This does nothing inherently to allow you to win the same turn or a turn after, or at least not reliably. Those are win condition cards, this is not. Literally the only thing this card does reliably is keep you from going into fatigue sooner than your opponent. What makes it unreliable in even that arena is that it's neutral and playable in any control deck.
What you are saying isn't wrong in that many cards are slow and aren't good if drawn early, don't help you survive etc etc. The issue is with what those other cards do do that this one doesn't is create a win condition. This only prevents you from going into fatigue. It's there to keep you alive longer, not to defeat the other person. This card is nothing like those cards. It doesn't "end games", it does the very opposite.
Again I am not saying it's a bad card. And I agree it's a card you have to build your strategy around. However how many decks have there been whose win condition is to fatigue the other player by just outlasting them? How many will be able to support that archetype after rotation? Pretty much only warrior did it with any success.
My only real point here is this, this isn't going to a card every control deck will run. I am willing to bet most control decks will eschew this for a win condition that leave less room for opposing player to interact with.
In the control vs control you can afford the tempo loss. For other matchups (midrange and aggro, I'd be suprised if there are any combo decks) you should've already won with your removal a long time ago. Don't see how this wouldn't be an amazing card in warrior, warlock, and shaman. Delaying fatigue is pretty awesome.
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