New Mage Secret Reveal: Explosive Runes
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Explosive Rune
Skyrim reference... love it!
hard to say if it's good at this point . depend on meta and need testing
Definitely fits into current secret mage deck. Question is whether secret mage is still good in new meta.
I patiently await the Jungle Moonkin into Fire Rune Trolden video.
well it might work like Arcane Missiles, then just overall 1 extra damage, or might be 2 separate hits like Greater Arcane Missiles, then extra 2 damage.
Based on how spell damage is bugged with Bolf Ramshield where a redirection in the damage causes him to take an extra 2 damage per spell damage, at least when K&C hits this will also deal 1 extra damage to the enemy hero is my guess.
Nah, Rogues will get Ice Block... At least rogue secrets are not compatible with Prince Keleseth
Mage always get love every single expansion. its kinda stupid.
Testing for secrets is now a lot harder with this card, as it plays against the regular methodology of playing around Mage secrets (playing small cards/minions).
It's a great card. Having a secret that requires playing around in a different way makes the other Mage secrets stronger, as players will want to play around this one and guess wrong. Of course provided that this card sees play, which it probably will.
Oh. Another mage secret that gets countered by shit minion? That's right.
I wouldn't say a shit (I'm assuming you mean small) minion counters this. That's because any excess damage goes face, which is more burn. And being a Warlock player, I really want to be able to control how much face damage I take. But with this, it's a lot harder.
Its literally the contrary lets say you play a 1/2 and you trigger this, you are getting 1 mana wasted and taking 4 damage, also losing a card, for 3 mana i think its quite good, doing 4 damage to the face for 3 mana lets say and killing a 1 mana 1/2 in the proccess is worth, the best counter i see for this card would be something like tortolian scout or lone champion
Devilsaur egg Buff;-)
It's so FLUFFFYYYYY!!!! (its named 'Fluffy Fire Rune' atm)
Interesting secret. Mage version of Snipe for an extra mana but extra added effect.
Gets countered easily though as people already play around getting the sheep, and getting copied. This just gives it a higher chance that they can play a junk minion and not feel crushed.
Well "countered"... Maybe getting extra 4-5 damage to face is what mage actually wanted. So I wouldn't call that a counter.
Nice addition to Mirror Entity.
In russian it says "Взрывающиеся Руны" which translates as Exploding runes, as in plural. Which makes me think... does it work like Fireball, or like double Arcane Missiles, because if latter then Divine Shield won't work.
Probabbly like fireball becoue of the wording it does the entire damage at once, what we gotta see is how it interacts with divine shield maybe it does 0 damage to the divine shield breaks it and does 6 to face? kinda op