I spent a while trying to figure out why people like the effect, and then I remembered back to all those miracle games I've had when you haven't drawn auctioneer and your hand was 2x conceal 2x prep and 2x shadowstep. Hopefully this can help those situations.
I made the Rogue quest, not expecting it to be good, because I had the extra dust and don't play Hearthstone much anymore. I figured that if it was bad I wouldn't care. Pleasantly surprised though
This card seems kinda bad. Let me explain my reasoning:
1. There are very few decks that play high-cost, high-value spells. I'll expand on this a bit more below.
2. How often do people play high-value spells into a mage secret? They don't, not with cards like Counterspell and Spellbender. You'll be getting the scraps that people will use to proc your spell: Things like Mortal Coil or Upgrade!. Doesn't a 3-mana 1/3 weapon seem good? Tack an extra mana on there and Blizzard might just think it's not broken enough for Rogue. (*Cough* Poisoned Blade)
3. Out of the popular decks that run high-value spells (pretty much only Renolock), they have no reason to play a high-cost, high value spell first. Even if you get them to play Twisting Nether, what do you do? Your board is clear and you have a 0-cost Twisting Nether. Yeah, it's a free board clear, but your opponent knows that you have it. They're not going to play into it unless they know they can get minions on afterwards.
4. If they do proc the secret with a low cost spell, you're not gaining any net-value, and you might be losing some. If they use something like Maelstrom Portal to portal to proc your secret, you've lost a turn and 1 mana to get a spell.
I haven't played Hearthstone a lot recently, I haven't payed attention to the card reveals, and I haven't considered any other cards in this set. But from my viewpoint right now, this card seems like it would be easy to play around. I think that's its still worse than Mirror Entity because Mirror Entity plays the minion right away. Of course both are bad when the card you copy is a lower cost then each respective secret, but In the current state of Hearthstone I'd prefer a minion in any incarnation rather than what might potentially be a bad spell, especially some of the common ones that Mages wouldn't even be able to use under most circumstances (Deadly Poison, for example).
That being said, the card is insane if you somehow manage to get something good off of it (Flamestrike, Siphon Soul, etc.,).
If you have a very well-tuned deck then this could actually be better than Arcane Intellect. I think, in terms of the cards Rogue has gotten in the past few expansions, this is definitely above average.
Sorry But only thing Blizzard is doing with those changes is printing Money
There is noch Chance in f2p with 3 expansions a year .
I keep seeing this type of comment. Here's the simple math on it, assuming 400 gold earned per week with Quests and wins. That's actually a very reachable target. 400 x 52 (weeks per year) = 20,800 gold. That's 208 packs which is ~70 packs per expansion. How exactly is that "no chance" for F2P?
That requires you to play every single day of the year for varying lengths of time. Not everyone can do that.
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I spent a while trying to figure out why people like the effect, and then I remembered back to all those miracle games I've had when you haven't drawn auctioneer and your hand was 2x conceal 2x prep and 2x shadowstep. Hopefully this can help those situations.
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Everyone thought it was bad for two reasons:
1. They thought it would be harder to play four minions with the same name then it turned out to be; and,
2. The card was 5 mana. People thought that you couldn't play a bunch of small minions and then a 5 mana card when the meta was so aggressive
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I made the Rogue quest, not expecting it to be good, because I had the extra dust and don't play Hearthstone much anymore. I figured that if it was bad I wouldn't care. Pleasantly surprised though
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The sunwell cardback is pretty nice
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Powershot
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This card seems kinda bad. Let me explain my reasoning:
1. There are very few decks that play high-cost, high-value spells. I'll expand on this a bit more below.
2. How often do people play high-value spells into a mage secret? They don't, not with cards like Counterspell and Spellbender. You'll be getting the scraps that people will use to proc your spell: Things like Mortal Coil or Upgrade!. Doesn't a 3-mana 1/3 weapon seem good? Tack an extra mana on there and Blizzard might just think it's not broken enough for Rogue. (*Cough* Poisoned Blade)
3. Out of the popular decks that run high-value spells (pretty much only Renolock), they have no reason to play a high-cost, high value spell first. Even if you get them to play Twisting Nether, what do you do? Your board is clear and you have a 0-cost Twisting Nether. Yeah, it's a free board clear, but your opponent knows that you have it. They're not going to play into it unless they know they can get minions on afterwards.
4. If they do proc the secret with a low cost spell, you're not gaining any net-value, and you might be losing some. If they use something like Maelstrom Portal to portal to proc your secret, you've lost a turn and 1 mana to get a spell.
I haven't played Hearthstone a lot recently, I haven't payed attention to the card reveals, and I haven't considered any other cards in this set. But from my viewpoint right now, this card seems like it would be easy to play around. I think that's its still worse than Mirror Entity because Mirror Entity plays the minion right away. Of course both are bad when the card you copy is a lower cost then each respective secret, but In the current state of Hearthstone I'd prefer a minion in any incarnation rather than what might potentially be a bad spell, especially some of the common ones that Mages wouldn't even be able to use under most circumstances (Deadly Poison, for example).
That being said, the card is insane if you somehow manage to get something good off of it (Flamestrike, Siphon Soul, etc.,).
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If you have a very well-tuned deck then this could actually be better than Arcane Intellect. I think, in terms of the cards Rogue has gotten in the past few expansions, this is definitely above average.
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If you have a choice: It could be decent
If you don't have a choice: Probably bad
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Capitalismstone®
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Probably Gadgetzan. RIP in pieces sweet prince.
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I wonder who's going to draft the first 15 flamestrike deck
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Since when is Miracle a tech deck? I always considered it combo
I just voted Combo
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Blizzard is talking to us so much now that it's kind of overwhelming, to be honest
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No deck will be honourable in the eyes of the masses.