New Warlock Card Revealed: Gnomeferatu
A new card, Gnomeferatu, has been revealed by Zhihu!
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I's not a good aggro card, but wow. Imagine the scenes where you remove your opponents N'zoth, Yogg, Auctioneer, Arcanite Reaper etc.
May be a staple card in renolock in wild?
vs. Control/Combo: Excellent, great way to kill an important card for the opponent that you don't have to play around.
vs. Aggro/Midrange: Just ok, because the body is average for the stats, but again, at least you get to know one card you don't have to play around.
Conclusion: Must have for most Warlock decks going forward.
I get why some people think this card isn't good, but the way I like to look at it is that it is a 2/3 that destroys a minion / spell. It may not be THE spell or minion you wish to destroy, but it still gets rid of it (plus giving you a 2/3 body). Definitely an auto include for my Zoo decks.
That's not really what it does though, any more than not drawing that minion or spell is "destroying" it. The only time it actually matters is if it's an important combo piece (in which case it's also no different than just not drawing it) or it goes to fatigue.
The new name makes me cringe.
Still no demons. sad warlock
The card is awesome lol. Yeah, ofc it won't make it in any top tier deck, but at least it should be fun to play.
well, if it's a vampire..
might as well rub it in your opponent's face and gain additional lifegain equal to the destroyed card's mana cost
'cuz that's fun, right?
I love it!
It just comes down to the fact that many people don't understand how digital card games work and still think of them like a physical game.
Hearthstone does not set your deck order at the beginning of a match. There is no top or bottom card. Every draw is RNG and is actually drawing a random card that's left in your deck. That's why this card and fel rever don't matter unless a game goes to fatigue. You aren't drawing a top card but a random one. So you just have to think of it as being a bottom card that you never would have drawn anyway even though there is no real bottom card but only what's left. So it's just mind games because top is the same thing as random.
This is actually a garbage card because it's not a beast like river croc and it gives your opponent info about which card they wouldn't have drawn while getting them through their deck faster.
The first point doesn't make sense, it being physical or digital makes no difference. What would make a difference would be if there were any cards that allowed you to change the order of your cards, set cards on the top or bottom of your deck, etc.
Also, decks indeed have an order, it has been confirmed by Ben Brode.
Ok I'm wrong then but either way it still doesn't matter unless you go to fatigue. You're just as likely to get them closer to drawing a card they need as you are too discard the one they need. How many games do you actually draw all your cards?
You still need to look at the discard as the same as being at the bottom of your deck that never would have been played.
The effect actually does matter. Consider it as a card that says "Reveal the top card of your opponent's deck and put it at the bottom". That matters because you now know what card they won't get to draw. It could be something like consecration or flamestrike that you now no longer have to play around or it could be a key card in their deck like Alex in freeze mage. So for a card that doesn't lose any stats for this effect, it certainly isn't unplayable or as bad as people seem to think.
But your opponent also knows a card they won't be drawing. And you could have just gotten them closer to drawing a consecration or flamestrike a turn earlier.
Yes, I know I won't be drawing Tony in combo mage so my chances of winnings are exactly the same as they were before. Not but seriously, if something like that happens it's just a good tilting card which can get you concedes, maybe every 1 in 100 games.
Because the card states "remove the top card from your opponent's deck", as of now, it doesn't matter and you can think of it as discarding a random card from your opponent's deck, but, if they do end up adding effects that allow you to manipulate the order of decks, then it'll have more value as a card.
There's really not too much to say about this card aside from that, it's clearly far from being an insane card, I'm just happy to see that they are experimenting with more interesting effects.
Them drawing consecration or flamestrike a turn earlier is actually not that relevant to you because you would always be playing as if they had those cards already in their hand. But them discarding the card is relevant because now you know what you don't need to play around. Your opponent also knowing that they won't be drawing their flamestrike doesn't help them as much as it helps you.
People are too busy boasting of their complete ignorance in mathematics, so nobody had time to write that this gnome girl is a cutie.
Guys I did some math about this card's value. It's not that OP as it seems but also it is not that bad too. Firstly you need to know whenever you draw a card, your deck is randomized. Your 30 cards' order is not determined by start. My value calculations were made according to "ability to increase your opponents chance to draw no high value cards during the game". Correct me if I made any mistake.
1) Aggro matchups: Does not impact the game since every card has almost same value.
2) Control matchups:
Assumption: 30 cards present and 4 of them are high value cards, when game ended 20 were drawn.
Card's value = (With playing this card, destroying a high value card and chance to draw no high value card) - (Without playing this card, chance to draw no high value card)
Card's value = (4/30) x [ C(26,20) / C(29-20) ] - [ C(26,20) / C(30,20) ] = nearly 5%
So in conclusion you lowered your opponent's top deck chance by 5% overall which seems ok. The value changes according to how many cards are drawn and peaks at fatique.
3) Combo matchups:
Assumption: 5 combo pieces in 30 cards (quest mage). %17 chance to win the game automatically by playing this card.
Overall: Seems good enough for a 2-drop. But it is rather a tech card against combo decks and even for that it less strong than Dirty Rat. I would prefer dirty rat since it also has a combo potential with board clears.
Dust, dust everywhere