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New Mage Card Reveals: Kabal Lackey & Inkmaster Solia
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Card design seems bizarre (why would you want a mage secret on T1?), but the answer is Medivh's Valet - this card is designed almost specifically to make him playable.
You don't. Just because he's a 1-drop doesn't mean you have to play him on turn 1.
Might get a new secret, pallies and hunters have been getting new ones recently. This can work in some kind of tempo mage that uses secrets me thinks. Just a shame with its 1 defense tho.
And its a common. Thank god mage received this card they were in such a tough place in arena...
I guess i'll explain myself. This card is an indirect buff to secrets which weren't always good picks and then in part buffs another mage common being valet. It is just more huge tempo swings for mages in arena and thats not very good considering the current state.
I think this is completely useless. Mage already has 2 good 1-drops better than this. And mage secrets are not widely played these days. Unless some great secret is still comming in this expansion, i think this will not see any play at all.
sadly with the secrets we currently have this card isnt that good :(
On the one hand, it's hard to call this good. It's essentially a smaller Kirin Tor Mage and KTM doesn't see play.
On the other hand, with KTM, your secret still costs 3 mana, you just get a free 4/3. With this, your secret now costs 1 mana, which makes it a lot easier to combo with spell procs like Flamewaker, or to squeeze in a defensive secret while building board or burning things. Additionally, having repeated effects is good for consistency. The spell Resurrect for Priest works a lot better now with Onyx Bishop also providing the effect. Perhaps Kabal Lackey and Kirin Tor Mage will go into the same Secret Mage deck, so that you now have 4 free secrets, instead of just 2.
Niceee
But why would you NEED Ice Block turn 1.
Unless you're playing around turn 2 lethal.
Maybe into some heavy secret deck with "excuse me sir, you are on fire" Medivh's Valet and Ethereal Arcanist. Hard to remove secret + putting pressure on your opponent who will try to play around and defuse copy with something crappy.
Small Cloacked Huntress for mage with reduced effect. If we see Huntress in play now, then we will definitely see and this small badass playable in future. Especially if they'll introduce another one secret and it will be good to be played on turn 1-2.
Not bad. Like Kirin Tor mage, but without decent body, but you get 2 excess mana.
Better for freeze mage worse for Reno (Kazakus) or control mage.
P.S. it's turtle? If yes, why he is not a beast?
He isnt a turtle hes a gorgon (I think thats the word)
Guys they already explained that they intend for Mage, Warlock and priest to play Reno this expansion. In that case Mage might run all kinds of secrets. Ice Armor. Vaporize. Spellbender. Don't think of Kabal Lackey as a 2 of in a tight fit deck. Think of it as a second Kirin Tor Mage in a deck where you're not allowed to run two copies of Kirin Tor Mage.
Could this mean Reno gets a pass to the Classic set ? 'Cause else all this cards will be useless after 1 expansion, when LOE rotates out.
This is broken
The freeze mage buff is insane :O
Tell me the card in Freeze mage deck, that you will sacrifice to include this one?
Well, this could fit in the more aggressive variant of freeze mage. Dream opener, this into ice block into Medivh's Valet for 5 face damage turn 2 or 2 face and clear away most early game minions or even clear away your opponent's turn 1 and 2 drop. In the long run I'm sure someone will squeeze this into the aggro freeze mage since it provides Medivh's Valet with a way to activate on curve which would almost always guarantee you have the board for long enough to get your combo together.