New Mage Card Reveal: Raven Familiar
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Not everything needs to be a surprise. Do Reno Priests play worse when their opponents know that they have Amara or a Kazakus potion in hand? Knowing that your opponent has something doesn't mean you can do much, or anything at all, to stop it.
Just because your opponent isn't surprised doesn't mean they're not dead.
Honestly, who doesn't assume the mage they are playing against has a Pyroblast? Especially with random spell generation.
Well mage has arcanologist way better, and Medivh's valet till the end of this year.. plus frostbolt pyros and even shimmering tempest
why should I replace these 2-mana slots with this mediocre beast?
BTW the art is dope as f**k and I hope to pull 1 golden copy for my collection.
In its defense, frostbolt, arcanologist, and medivh's valet are really good so it's not a fair comparison.
King's Elekk had seen play, sure it will too. Joust weren't popular you 're right but only King's Elekk sees most play.
Draw integrated joust is nice for community it seems. So Raven Familiar is quite well when you think about all spells in current meta. Just bad against big priest spells and druid's Ultimate Infestation.
There is another drawback for this card aswell. If it fits the meta quite well, it might force other classes to have big spells, like hunter's Call of the Wild becuase you don't want your opponent draw cards as much as he/she wants. Probably, the decks which is using Raven Familiar will need just card draws. It is just a predict like when you dont want them draw more cards from Acolyte of Pain so you don't ping him.
I'm wondering if it happens and we will see more big spells in future meta.
I would love joust mechanic if it was cards from your hand instead of cards from your deck, by this way, you would have much more control and more chances to win and if you lost you would at least see a card from your opponent's hand.
how would you draw it if it's already in your hand?
Instead of draw it, draw a card.
Finally, some anti-synergy for Spiteful Summoner kappa!
Seriously though, this card actually seems like it could be very good depending on the meta. We know that people are more than willing to play a 2 mana 1/1 with battlecry "draw a card" in the form of Novice Engineer if their decks call for combos. As long as you tend to use more expensive spells in your deck, this becomes a much better version of Novice Engineer (can't be killed off trivially by hero power or mild AOEs). On ladder today, many of the popular decks are tempo decks that don't run expensive spells (Keleseth Rogue only uses Shadowstep and Backstab, Zoolock only really uses Soulfire and Mortal Coil, and Razakus Priest skews low thanks to the myriad low cost spells they use to combo). Depending on how the meta shifts, this could be a very reliable draw effect.
Alternatively, if you're in the late game and know you have expensive spells in your deck, this could be like slightly more expensive but much more consistent Babbling Book.
People used the same arguments when the Joust mechanic was announced. However, as long as you still lose the 'joust' when it's a draw I don't think this card will be any good.
I believe they said they are going to rework jousts to make ties win for the person that initiated it.
I appreciate your points about joust, but I think this is meaningfully different from joust because it's a mage card that cares about spells rather than minions. On average, mage spells are the most expensive spells in the game, especially with popular AOEs like Meteor and Blizzard and Flamestrike. Compare that to the many decks which run mostly cheap spells and this starts to look like a joust that actually tends to win more than it loses.
Frankly, I think Blizzard understands that joust wasn't fun - they explicitly said that if they were going to do it again, they'd have made ties win - and I think they were mindful of that past mistake here. Very few decks run a majority cheap minions (maybe just Zoolock), which is why joust saw so many draws. If everyone has a wide array of costs across their minions, you're going to draw a lot. This doesn't fix the issue that draws lose, but in a deck where you're likely to have more expensive spells than your opponent, it does alter the chances of a draw, which is basically the same thing.
Priest: Dragonfire, Holy nova, free from amber, greater healing potion etc.
Druid: Nourish, Moonglade portal, Spreading plague, Ultimate infestation
Warlock: hellfire, shadowflame, Siphon soul, twisting nether.
Beast Mage confirmed!
I want to see Beast Mage happen!
Joust.... Yaaaaaaay......