New Legendary Card Reveal - Chameleos
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First impresion: oh shit, this is fucking OP... Then I remember Shifter Zerus
This card is nowhere near comparable to Shifter Zerus. This legendary minion actually gives you a little insight into what your opponent may have in their hand at any given time. While, sure, some of their cards may not be particularly useful to the archetype you're playing, you're going to get a lot more information from your opponent's hand, which I'd argue is a lot more valuable.
If you're going to compare this card to any other, it would be a more controlled version of Mind Vision which actually does see play in a few Priest decks
Problem with Zerus was the variety of power level that legendary minions have. Generally, your opponent's hand and deck are going to be better than average cards, since constructed relies on that high power level. Maybe not so good in arena but in constructed its something to think about playing.
This one is better, because it won't turn into one of the hundreds of bad cards unless your opponent has it in their hand, in which case your opponent has a bad card in their hand.
While a lot of cards are highly situational or synergistic, the information is always nice even if you don't play the card it turns into. Knowing for sure that your opponent has a certain removal tool or combo piece can help you make the best play. It also allows you to copy some of their power cards in control matchups, or even steal burn to help close out a game.
Ravencaller synergy!!!
It's a good thing Dirty Rat is going out of standard. In wild this would be a good combo.
I also wonder what happens if your opponent also happens to be holding this card. Then it would be possible you get false information and just see a card you are holding.
You are asking the real questions here.
Not in a priest mirror you wouldn't. You could get a card that you're holding and be unsure if it's a normal version or not.
That really doesn't make any sense. Am i missing something?
but Chameleos has 4 legs.
The value of this card is in the information.
The likelihood that it turns into something you want to play on the turn you want to play is tough to say. My guess is that in most cases it'll turn into a card that isn't that great in value. If the opponent is holding it, it means he 1. can't play it (mana too high) or is 2. sub-optimal to play. Yeah, for #2 it could be optimal for you to play (a board clear when you are behind), but it also could just be a bad card.
Basically, the cards in your deck are generally better for you than the cards in the opponent's deck. Not always, but it's a general rule. When you play aggro for instance, you want your board clears and taunts, which you won't get from the opponent. Also, Priest stealing opponent's cards is fine when it doesn't cost them a card (via deathrattle), or you pay a card to get 2+ cards (Thoughtsteal). You also get to choose when to play the cards in those cases. Here it is costing you a card, and you may get the right card at the wrong time.
Whether this really sees play is when you consider the snipe angle on it. How much value is knowing some of the cards the opponent has? You can't compare that to mana and stats and card advantage. Would you pay one card to have the ability to know what's in the opponent's hand? Tough to say. Generally, when you're high in the meta, you know what they have their deck: it's all netdecked. What you want to know what the opponent /doesn't/ have in his hand. A warlock holding a Voidlord isn't useful information. A warlock who doesn't have Hellfire or Defile is very useful information. You don't get that from this card, unfortunately.
I love the design though. Wish it was a neutral card like Zerus. Would be fun for all of Hearthstone classes.
This is what shifter zerus should have been
With that art I thought it was going to be a hunter card
So cool.
I don't think people quite understand this card. It screams to me Shifter Zerus if Zerus could transform into random spells. There's no archetype that this logically fits in and does well in; Control doesn't want this because A) good players can already know or guess what's in their opponents' hands and B) Control doesn't want to get cards from more aggressive decks because generally those cards don't do much against aggro alone. Aggro doesn't want this because it doesn't consistently help them do anything. Combo definitely doesn't want this because it isn't a combo piece, it's not card draw or deck thinning, and it's super inconsistent.
Look up a card from Magic the Gathering called Telepathy. Then take into account that it was never at any point a competitive card because higher level players already generally know what they're going to have to deal with or respond to and there's just better cards that interact with the opponent's hand. I've been hoping that Priest would get a Thoughtseize or Inquistion of Kozilek (two other MTG cards) type card and thought it'd be reasonable to handicap it and say something like "Discover a card from your opponent's hand to destroy." or something, so you can't just hit that one card you need to take out every time, or put it at Legendary, which this could have been. But this card is just arguably worse than Telepathy and for that reason I don't see this being played at all. For players who are all about having fun and wacky experiences, I guess this could be kinda fun? But most of the time I'm going to say it's another Shifter Zerus and you can't cast what you get to look at, and the information won't matter at all.