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A lot of people are saying this card is insane but I just don’t see it personally.
Firstly, it costs 4 mana and that seems like way too high a cost to be played comfortably. You probably wouldn’t keep this in your mulligan unless you were playing a... control Rogue?
Secondly, it is also a combo effect and you’ll probably get it online on turn 5 most of the time... and then you play two 1 cost cards.
It just seems like the community is overreacting again. Thoughts?
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A lot of people are saying this card is insane but I just don’t see it personally.
Firstly, it costs 4 mana and that seems like way too high a cost to be played comfortably. You probably wouldn’t keep this in your mulligan unless you were playing a... control Rogue?
Secondly, it is also a combo effect and you’ll probably get it online on turn 5 most of the time... and then you play two 1 cost cards.
It just seems like the community is overreacting again. Thoughts?
I mean, if you use Preparation, you can cheat out 8 mana on t4.
It pays for itself plus more. You are spending 4 mana to get 6 mana in discounts.
Quote From KANSAS It pays for itself plus more. You are spending 4 mana to get 6 mana in discounts.
Right, but each card is discounted by less than the cost of Scabbs. So yes, you get to use more mana in 1 turn than you should be able to, but you cannot cheat anything out earlier than normal (without multi-turn shenanigans with things like Shadowstep or Potion of Illusion), which is very often where mana cheating becomes obnoxious.
Add in the fact that you quite often won't even use all 6 mana because of how cheap most rogue cards are, and you have to put a few asterisks on "get 6 mana in discounts".
Don't get me wrong, I think Scabbs is strong, but his ability to cheat mana cannot easily be compared to the cards of the the past which have taught us how broken mana cheating can be.
Its main use will be to vomit out as many cards as it can be done on 4.
You can actually just jam him into any rogue deck and get value somehow, and since rogue tends to draw cards like the wind, not to mention Secret Passage being very handy, its not entirely out of the picture to just play everything from hand in one turn. Most of the time if you manage that then your average midrange opponent can almost never catch up.
And of course there's the fact that he is a win condition himself with cards like prep -> into scabbs -> Alex/Oil rig ambusher -> Potion of Illusion, which will get you another 1 mana scabbs. So with Shadowstep and Potion of Illusion we're looking at somewhere around 16 damage at minimum on turn 8-10. Its hardly Edwin VanCleef, but rogue having lost nearly all its win conditions except for hanar, it'll have to take anything it can get.
It looks good to me. It definitely isn't a bad card but I won't call it insane yet.
Rogue just has so many ways to be efficient right now, so this card will probably not see much play. That said its still a strong effect.
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