Not as good as people think. Mage secrets are generally not very good and with Mad Scientist being a wild card, you can't justify running them in any Mage deck that isn't freeze.
You have to play 2 secrets for it to have very good value, a 4 mana 5/5 isn't insane as everybody seems to think. 1 attack off Chillwind Yeti stats.
Even if you get the reduction to 2 mana, at that point a 5/5 for 2 after sacrificing tempo and board presence is just bad. You would've have had to play 2 secrets turn 3 and 4 or 2 secrets turn 2 and 3 with the coin. Playing secrets back to back in itself is slow.
The dream set up for this card is to play 2 Kabal Lackeys turn 1 with 2 secrets and then to top deck Kabal Crystal Runner. This would have 2 2/1 and 1 5/5 with 2 secrets in play. But even with this play, you've just depleted your whole hand as a Mage.
The reason Thing from Below was played because you would still play your standard Shaman cards without having to play abnormally. The Thing from Below would be just a huge plus for playing normally. With Kabal Crystal Runner, you have to play in a way which is sub optimal for what is even a worse card because Thing from Below has taunt.
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It's very good if you get the effect off, similar to what Ancient of Lore was before it's nerf. It's cost is fine for what the effect is.
Only problem is that it's conditional and you can't drop it on an empty board.
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No fuck you leather man. Maybe you and I should settle it here in the ring if you think you're that tough ♂
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Not as good as people think. Mage secrets are generally not very good and with Mad Scientist being a wild card, you can't justify running them in any Mage deck that isn't freeze.
You have to play 2 secrets for it to have very good value, a 4 mana 5/5 isn't insane as everybody seems to think. 1 attack off Chillwind Yeti stats.
Even if you get the reduction to 2 mana, at that point a 5/5 for 2 after sacrificing tempo and board presence is just bad. You would've have had to play 2 secrets turn 3 and 4 or 2 secrets turn 2 and 3 with the coin. Playing secrets back to back in itself is slow.
The dream set up for this card is to play 2 Kabal Lackeys turn 1 with 2 secrets and then to top deck Kabal Crystal Runner. This would have 2 2/1 and 1 5/5 with 2 secrets in play. But even with this play, you've just depleted your whole hand as a Mage.
The reason Thing from Below was played because you would still play your standard Shaman cards without having to play abnormally. The Thing from Below would be just a huge plus for playing normally. With Kabal Crystal Runner, you have to play in a way which is sub optimal for what is even a worse card because Thing from Below has taunt.
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It's pretty irreplaceable since it's effect is so strong and unique. It can auto win games if your opponent can't answer it.
You could run a Earthen Ring Farseer or a Violet Teacher or even a Leeroy Jenkins if you want a finisher.
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Got it first time, ended game on turn 5. Mulliganed into double Inner Fire, drew Divine Spirit turn 2.
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Yep, done it a couple times in game.
It also summons a non-golden copy if you have a non-golden Barnes regardless if the copied card is golden or not.
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Old Murk-Eye will rotate out of standard.
I doubt any decent Murloc deck will survive in Standard unless there are new Murloc cards in WotOG
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This deck is SO satisfying when you pull it off. My favourite deck by far.
Just seeing their Archmage Antonidas and their Dr. Boom get burnt... Kreygasm
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This can be so powerful in tempo Mage decks because everyone would expect the secrets to be either Duplicate or Mirror Entity.
I've won so many games when my opponent uses big AoE removal only to have it counted c: