New Warlock Card Revealed: Gnomeferatu
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I really don't get why so many people voted this card as Meta-Defining... I'm not out to get downvoted but I'm going to share my thoughts. Would you play this in an aggro deck? I think not. This card is mostly only good in control vs control matchups where you want to fatigue your opponent correct me if I'm wrong. But if we wanna play fatigue matchups, we mostly lose to druid and warrior(with their new card) unless we tech a bran or some pandas to mill them late game. It feels gimmicky. I feel that unless you are running a full on mill deck with cold light oracles OR if they release a card where u can choose cards from your opponent's deck and place them on top, this card would not be good at all. I'd very much rather run a sunfury protector in place of this depending on the deck. I see this card as a 1/27 chance (mostly cause hes likely to mulligan his high cost cards) of discarding your opponent's major win condition (e.g. Alexstraza, N'zoth, Bloodlust, Tony, maybe the new deathknight cards). Of course I might be wrong but I need to know why a majority of the community thinks this is a good card.
Mill Warlock? lol
Everyone who thinks this is going to help you against combo decks, you are wrong.
Don't play Gnomish Vampire? Then your opponent draws cards A through X by the end of the match. Play it? Then they draw B through Y. Unless you hit X=30 and fatigue them (very difficult for a Warlock), then the odds of them hitting their combo are exactly the same regardless of whether you milled a card or not.
There are three upsides to playing this card: you increase your chance of fatiguing your opponent, you get to see one of their cards, and you psyche them out (as demonstrated by many of the posts here). You do not, however, decrease the average quality of their remaining deck.
discard alexstrasza from a freeze mage deck and tell me you didnt decrease the average quality of the deck.
This card isn't an insta-win but the effect has power and that power varies with the card that is discarded. It's about removing resources that your opponent might otherwise rely on. It's not about fatiguing them. Warlocks are not a fatigue class and without some serious support that isn't what this card will be used for.
It's no different then if alexstrasza was at the bottom of your deck and you never drew it in the first place. Trying to explain this and fel rever to people is just sad.
Good lord so many people are talking about this card with such bad logic.
People are so butthurt about this card but noones even going to play it. Taking a crazy ass super low percentage dice roll to MAYBE burn an important card isn't worth playing a blank 2/3 when there are dozens of actually broken 2 drops in the game. This card is irrelevant and won't be played.
Now I know why I stopped playing this game. Most of the community is to dumb to understand why this card and fel rever only really matters if a game goes to fatigue.
It's no different then if a combo card was at the bottom of your deck and you never drew it.
So yes it still only matters if a game goes to fatigue. Why is this so hard for people to understand? It's a river crocolisk that just psychs people out.
Oh wow, the new name is awesome.
One step closer to the Old Skool all Black M:TG discard deck. I like this direction, as long as there is a way to bring back cards from the 'graveyard', so to speak.
Awww yeah, I can already feel this smell of the game being broken by river crocolisk, MUAHHAHHHAHHA
This card is nuts.
This is gonna be "That Card" in the expansion that everyone is going to want to get changed or removed. Players simply will hate the mere existence of this card played against them.
And for good reason.