Illuminate is only broken when it hits shadow essence, otherwise it's a pretty bad card to be honest. Palm reading is basically the same, if shadow essence is in hand or if it discovers another shadow essence, broken, otherwise trash card, overall they are pretty balanced, but they are extremely polarizing and don't feel good to play against, I agree. But keep in mind when they don't hit shadow essence, they feel bad for your opponent too.
You never feel bad when playing Vile library, even on empty board, you can easily refill your board the next turn and get a huge buff for free.
Another proof I can give you that Vile library is a better card in a vacuum is that it just got nerfed, illuminate didn't. Actually I think Illuminate should be banned from Wild, not nerfed. Palm reading is just fine at the power level of Wild format.
In Standard yes, in Wild no. There are many stronger standalone cards, for example Zephrys.
Weird choice, Zephrys is highly conditional and reactive, and can only generate classic cards which are fairly weak compared to new cards, especially since you must add the 2 mana from Zephrys. He rarely wins games, often just stops you from losing next turn. But I guess he is in the league of strongest cards in the game.
I read what you wrote but I do not agree with it. You Rez priest example stated they need resurrect. That’s how the deck works. Maybe you are right about the pirate rouge and probably you are about the alignment matchup. But - and that’s big - implock is extremely vulnerable to removal/control decks especially warlock ones and it lacks recovery if it loses early board.
Ok so if you read what I wrote, what is a better card than vile library ? You still talking about deck matchups..
I didn't expect it this strong during the reveal. I read it as +1/+1 for each Imp in control, so if we control 0 Imps, it shouldn't buff 1/1 to any minion without the condition...
For nerf suggestions, I think it should work like that and maybe should change the condition to each Other Imp in control (not counting the one being buffed)
That's essentially -2/-2 from the current buff, I don't think that's enough of a nerf, it's still up to +5/+5 for 2 mana, twice, so +10/+10. A good old 2 mana nerf will do the trick.
Abuse what ? I just destroyed a pirate rogue and a big priest back to back thanks to the Vile Library, it's ironic.
The 3 decks you mentionned are weak to imp warlock imo, they don't have the early removal to deal with it. Of course if they draw better they will win, nobody said imp warlock has 100% winrate.
Strongest card in pirate rogue is Swordfish, it's 3 mana 6-12 damage over 3 turns. Vile Library is 2 mana up to 14 damage over 2 separate turns.
Strongest card in big priest is I guess Shadow Essence into Neptulon the Tidehunter, generally comes on turn 5, yes it can compete with the pressure of imp warlock but only if the priest can follow up with rez/copy effects, they need to have a lucky draw order, imp warlock doesn't.
Strongest card in celestial druid is Celestial Alignment into OTK next turn, imp warlock can kill the druid before that happens unless druid gets all the ramp and armor cards early.
Also this thread is about the strongest card specifically, not the strongest deck, which I'll admit all 4 decks are close in terms of power.
Illuminate is only broken when it hits shadow essence, otherwise it's a pretty bad card to be honest. Palm reading is basically the same, if shadow essence is in hand or if it discovers another shadow essence, broken, otherwise trash card, overall they are pretty balanced, but they are extremely polarizing and don't feel good to play against, I agree. But keep in mind when they don't hit shadow essence, they feel bad for your opponent too.
You never feel bad when playing Vile library, even on empty board, you can easily refill your board the next turn and get a huge buff for free.
Another proof I can give you that Vile library is a better card in a vacuum is that it just got nerfed, illuminate didn't. Actually I think Illuminate should be banned from Wild, not nerfed. Palm reading is just fine at the power level of Wild format.
Agreed, but maybe the buffs will help ?
Weird choice, Zephrys is highly conditional and reactive, and can only generate classic cards which are fairly weak compared to new cards, especially since you must add the 2 mana from Zephrys. He rarely wins games, often just stops you from losing next turn. But I guess he is in the league of strongest cards in the game.
Ok so if you read what I wrote, what is a better card than vile library ? You still talking about deck matchups..
Learn to read.
That's essentially -2/-2 from the current buff, I don't think that's enough of a nerf, it's still up to +5/+5 for 2 mana, twice, so +10/+10. A good old 2 mana nerf will do the trick.
Abuse what ? I just destroyed a pirate rogue and a big priest back to back thanks to the Vile Library, it's ironic.
The 3 decks you mentionned are weak to imp warlock imo, they don't have the early removal to deal with it. Of course if they draw better they will win, nobody said imp warlock has 100% winrate.
Strongest card in pirate rogue is Swordfish, it's 3 mana 6-12 damage over 3 turns. Vile Library is 2 mana up to 14 damage over 2 separate turns.
Strongest card in big priest is I guess Shadow Essence into Neptulon the Tidehunter, generally comes on turn 5, yes it can compete with the pressure of imp warlock but only if the priest can follow up with rez/copy effects, they need to have a lucky draw order, imp warlock doesn't.
Strongest card in celestial druid is Celestial Alignment into OTK next turn, imp warlock can kill the druid before that happens unless druid gets all the ramp and armor cards early.
Also this thread is about the strongest card specifically, not the strongest deck, which I'll admit all 4 decks are close in terms of power.
Change my mind. What do the statistics say ? Do we know the played winrate and drawn winrate yet ?
I'll be honest I didn't see this coming. I don't think many people realised in the reveal season that we could have a whole deck made of imps.