New Priest Card Revealed: Devour Mind
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Priest version of nourish/cabalist tome
Priest is bringing back eveything that made Priest both a terribly bad class and a super annoying class from the original game. Steal a bunch of random cards and pray they amount to something,
great now playing priests will be even more annoying. In before every time this card is used they get my 2 fireballs and medivh
You are implying playing tumor priest is better, smh
If you think of value this can be compared to Cabalist Tome. Only decks that really need it's effect like quest mage use it, because it is too slow. So i believe is a great card in arena where value matters, but for constructed is too slow like Cabalist Tome. And yes it's a good comparison since cabalist can give you 3 shatters or 3 flamestrikes, this card can give you a bunch of useless 1/1 or tirions, 4/8 dragons etc...
Well would you look at that they upgraded thoughtsteal. Man they call rouges thief, look at the priest he steals your cards, on board as well, he steals your cards from hand and he steals your whole deck and does some heavy sadism with you toying around, ho boy rouge is just a fast warrior compared to priest kleptomania personality.
"We don't really like the priest class, and we belive the players also feel that way. So we managed to create cards, which give you the option to play priest, without playing priest cards" - Blizzard, 2017 Kappa
Devour Mind has very real potential to be powerful.
A number of people here have argued that it's somewhere between bad and unplayable. The gist of that argument reminds me of the comparisons made between Mimic Pod and Thistle Tea. When the latter was released, everyone said it was great despite the fact that the former had been bad because the value of the effect suited the cost (i.e. "3 mana draw 2" is seen as very fair thanks to card like Arcane Intellect). This is viewed as the opposite problem, where Thoughtsteal - the "3 mana draw 2" version - is already bad, so why would I run the bigger, slower version?
Well, for starters, "5 mana draw 3" is a pretty reasonable cost/value ratio based on card likes Cabalist's Tome and Nourish - a fact which stands in stark contrast to the Thistle Tea comparison. But where this card shines above Thoughtsteal is consistency. Getting 2 cards from your opponent can often mean getting cards you can't work with, but with 3 you have higher odds of getting cards which synergize well together and provide you with useful plays. Consistency is a big part of why the "5 mana draw 3" effect can be good (3 cards from your deck will likely synergize, 3 mage spells can easily synergize in a mage deck).
Now, all of this assumes a slow enough meta to play cards like this and spend midgame turns generating card advantage, but the potential is significant.
at this point they're not even trying to be creative anymore.
Thieve minions, thieve cards, thieve whole deck. Most hated class in game for me.
Realy? not jades? not pirates?
At least vs thieves cards u have a shoot
He/she said priest is his/her most hated CLASS, not that a specific priest deck is his/her most hated. Theres nothing fundamentally wrong wjth druid or warrior. It just turned out they have some objectively annoying decks(that arent even the only strategy they use). However playing vs priest is an rng fueled shitfest...
Cabalist's Tome Devour Mind
See any difference here? I don't. Feels fine.
Seems on par with Cabalist Tome as far as card generation is concerned. If you manage to decrease the cost by 1 or 2, it is a very nice value card. I imagine it is playable if the meta slows down. As is though, paying the full mana cost, in the current meta. I think it's bad, but worse than that, I think it is very uncreative.
Ty Blizzard, now priest will be the best rouge... Really?
Hearthstone community a few years ago: Priest sucks. Blizzard hates priest. Where's the priest love blizzard?
hearthstone community today: priest got another OP card? I hate playing against priests. Why do priest keep getting powerful cards? Priest is broken right now.
Feels priest :(