From all the possible uses of this card, how copying Ironbeak Owl is the most obvious to you? If you are trolling you sure bothered to make a pretty big comment. Rouge doesn't even play a single Ironbeak Owl if you play two (for a reason i cannot undertand) and you need more (I still can't understand why) why don't you just play Spellbreaker?
-> Shadowcaster is all about cards where you don't give a [insert profanity of your own choice] about the initial body. This is abattlecry/deathrattle/end of turn ability cloner.
I am sorry but that part above is the only thing you got right about this card (along with some of the cards you listed).
I think you slightly missed the point. If you only play one owl then if you need a 2nd owl you have it thanks to this card. If you do not need it, you can clone one of many other things. I just gave a few examples of what you might clone. Owl is just one of many. My point is, don't just thisk cloning the 7+ mana cards. There are a lot of lower cost cards worth cloning too.
I don´t think the8thark mentioned about playing 2 copies of Ironbeak Owl or whatsoever. Also the example given by you for usage of Spellbreaker doesn´t make alot of sense since it´s contesting with 4 cost cards such as Tomb Pillager, Xaril, Poisoned Mind, Defender of Argus and so forth, so Spellbreaker wouldn´t be an Obvious choice.
What I think he is trying to tell is that Shadowcaster is an all-purpose card. It doesn't only allow you to enable combo-plays but you can also re-use cards in emergency cases. For example Ironbeak Owl as mentioned before: If you play 1 copy of it then it is a valuable card, since it is your only silence. What if you already played it but you need the silence badly. In this case Shadowcaster offers the sollution to get that silence you need. This scenario even applies when you play 2 copies of a certain card. Since drawing is problem for some classes there's no garantee you'll draw into your 2nd copy of the card, And again Shadowcaster will solve that problem for you on the spot. This goes for utillitycards he mentioned in his post.
The bottomline is Shadowcaster offers you the following:
1. Enabling powerfull combo-plays.
2. Giving alot of value from certain cards for a minimum cost.
3. Offering more tools to problems given by your opponent.
4. Allowing you to be more flexible in both deckconstruction and gameplay by playing one-of's which theoretical translates into 3 copies of that card.
This person gets me totally. This card is even better if you only play one owl. Then you can get a second silence for when you need it. But it's not just about silence. It's avout being versatile. You can clone a lot of things and most of them are useful. I just game a few options of the good uses of the card. Everyone is saying clone 7+ mana cards. I am saying sure but there are a lot of lower cost cards worthy of cloning too.
People are forgetting the obvious. This is going to make silence way more powerful for rogues. Cloning the Ironbeak Owl. Also anything with a decent deathrattle wins here as well. Don't think Ysera or Yogg-Saron, Hope's End or similarily priced fat cards. Shadowcaster is better for the lower mana cards that you don't care for the body. This is better as rogues are not really known for going long game control.
Shadowcaster is all about cards where you don't give a [insert profanity of your own choice] about the initial body. This is a battlecry/deathrattle/end of turn ability cloner.
If I were to play Devils Advocate. Personally, I couldn't care less. Good for Blizzard in participating in a charity. (I have the Samsung Cardback, and it is my favorite. Mobil3 is the only way I can play Hearthstone, so it's good for iOS to get something of there'should as well)
Vanity content = Vanity content though. Yes they are different. Different kinds of content you do not need to play the game.
I do think both should have had the same kind of vanity content though, just to be fair. But this is not equality we are talking about, it's Blizzard.
Cardbacks and heroes are all vanity content. We should not have to run an android emulator for that card back. We all should have access to this new mage hero. Blizzard said no. Samsung got the cardback and iOS gets the Mage hero. That's the way the cooke crumbles. I'd rather everyone be able to get them all but Blizzard disagrees with me.
People saying the cardback was easy to get totally miss the point. Both are device exclusives.
If you are all ok with this cardback existing then you are a hypocrite for hating on the iOS promotion. Many of you are ok with a Samsung only promotion but hate an iOS only promotion. Looks like this more more about being anti Apple then it is about equality for access to all promotions.
This just prevents being forced to use Auchenai Soulpriest to do the Circle of Healing board clear. Also this now allows a T2 priest board clear. Totally an anti aggro card.
My point is once it's silenced by them but not killed, you are free to buff it hard.
Also yes you are corrrect in saying Sunfury Protector and Defender of Argus are the way every single class can reapply the taunt to this once it's silenced. But then the card can be spelled to death. Still by then they have spent a silence and at least one other card to kill it. That's a win for you if you still have some board tempo after it all.
That's exactly why not all classes excell every meta. The ones good at spell damage will be better if this card becomes a thing. It's up to the player to choose the better classes each meta.
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What if they are all frozen (enemy hero included)?
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People are forgetting the obvious. This is going to make silence way more powerful for rogues. Cloning the Ironbeak Owl.
Also anything with a decent deathrattle wins here as well.
Don't think Ysera or Yogg-Saron, Hope's End or similarily priced fat cards. Shadowcaster is better for the lower mana cards that you don't care for the body. This is better as rogues are not really known for going long game control.
Good cards to clone with Shadowcaster are:
Ironbeak Owl for more silence
Patient Assassin for more kill cards
Edwin VanCleef at only a 1/1 penalty
Xaril, Poisoned Mind for more cheap toxins
Sunfury Protector for more taunt
Acidic Swamp Ooze vs weapon users
Big Game Hunter for obvious reasons
Saboteur good vs control warriors and other HP heavy decks
Defender of Argus for obvious reasons
Master of Disguise very situational to clone this but it might be useful
Loatheb vs certain classes this would a great card to clone
Shattered Sun Cleric Nice cheap small boost to another minion
Reno Jackson this kind of end game cancer is enabled again by Shadowcaster unfortunately
The Black Knight for taunt heavey metas
Cairne Bloodhoof for a nice cheap Yeti
Sylvanas Windrunner for obsious reasons. Just watch out the clone is not priest stolen
Ragnaros the Firelord for obvious reasons
Shadowcaster is all about cards where you don't give a [insert profanity of your own choice] about the initial body. This is a battlecry/deathrattle/end of turn ability cloner.
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Yes they are different. Different kinds of content you do not need to play the game.
I do think both should have had the same kind of vanity content though, just to be fair. But this is not equality we are talking about, it's Blizzard.
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Both are just vanity content. You need neither to have a full game experience.
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Cardbacks and heroes are all vanity content. We should not have to run an android emulator for that card back. We all should have access to this new mage hero. Blizzard said no. Samsung got the cardback and iOS gets the Mage hero. That's the way the cooke crumbles. I'd rather everyone be able to get them all but Blizzard disagrees with me.
People saying the cardback was easy to get totally miss the point. Both are device exclusives.
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If you are all ok with this cardback existing then you are a hypocrite for hating on the iOS promotion.
Many of you are ok with a Samsung only promotion but hate an iOS only promotion.
Looks like this more more about being anti Apple then it is about equality for access to all promotions.
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Nah, It'll be worse than this.
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Love the throw back to the Faceless Manipulator using a 3 cost minion to remind us of the base 3/3 that Faceless Manipulator is.
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T2: Mind Blast
T3: Mind Blast
T4: 2x Zombie Chow
T5: Embrace the Shadow + Flash Heal + Hero Power + Kill the Zombie Chows
T6: Embrace the Shadow + Flash Heal + Earthen Ring Farseer
That is a a total of (this turn damage / total damage)
T3: Mind Blast
T4: 2x Zombie Chow
T5: Embrace the Shadow + Flash Heal + Hero Power + Kill the Zombie Chows
T6: Embrace the Shadow + Flash Heal + Earthen Ring Farseer
That is a a total of (this turn damage / total damage)
T2: 5/5
T3: 5/10
T4: 0/10
T5: 17/27
T6: 8/35
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This just prevents being forced to use Auchenai Soulpriest to do the Circle of Healing board clear. Also this now allows a T2 priest board clear. Totally an anti aggro card.
Also it allows a player to use Flash Heal, Zombie Chow, Corrupted Healbot and others for even more damage when on your turn.
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Have many BGHable targets and need one more to bait out BGH to protect your fatter minions?
Then you use Skeram Cultist.
Don't have many or no BGHable targets?
Then you use Boulderfist Ogre.
The one point of note is the ogre will survive things like a fireball. That is a good thing to note.
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My point is once it's silenced by them but not killed, you are free to buff it hard.
Also yes you are corrrect in saying Sunfury Protector and Defender of Argus are the way every single class can reapply the taunt to this once it's silenced. But then the card can be spelled to death. Still by then they have spent a silence and at least one other card to kill it. That's a win for you if you still have some board tempo after it all.
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That's exactly why not all classes excell every meta. The ones good at spell damage will be better if this card becomes a thing. It's up to the player to choose the better classes each meta.
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Obvious replacement to the Spider Tank. Power creep as it has a decent ability you can use in C'Thun decks.