New Mage Minion - Arcane Luminary

Casino mage loves this card

Will HAVE to be played with Deck of Lunacy to make it good.  I don't see someone splashing this into a deck for C'Thun, the Shattered

Casino mage card for sure.

Casino Mage, but this is only really good after your invocation

great in combination with Evocation, and it also has a decent body

I really love its potential. 5 Stars cause even if its not played this expansion, it will certainly be a great card in the future!

I know why they put the limiter there but it really hampers what you can do with it. It's good with Evocation and pretty much nothing else.

Can't even use it to for tempo with The Sugar Elementals.

I only see this being useful if it manages to stick for a turn, which is unlikely.

Seems really good for Casino mage (My favorite deck, so i'm hyped for it!), AND it's also good for C'Thun, the Shattered, because it let's you play 2 c'thun pieces + this for 9 mana, so that cheats 1 mana, and you can cheat even more mana/play more C'thun Pieces if you have some Conjure Mana Biscuits biscuits saved up. Seems like a card with a lot of potential, and might hint towards more casino mage stuff in upcoming sets?

I always liked [Hearthstone Card (layline manipulator) Not Found] in my casino mage, this looks a lot better and more playable in real decks. This combos very well with Evocation, and if you happen to have a lot of resource generation anyways this can easily save you mana. Though I am not sure if any deck that has enough resource generation to reliably take advantage of this card will be reliable enough in other ways to actually be good.

I could see this being played. You just toss it out, get a discount or two and have a solid body left behind.

hmmm a little bit too expensive. Also it can't reduce card costs to 0, so much less useful than apprentice. 

Nice balanced card

Good for a casino mage, but limits the cycle potential with the not less than 1 text. 

Duels Treasure on a stick. This could find its place in Wild.

3 mana up front cost makes this not broken just good

Nice that it's for cards and not just spells

good card

there will be way to abuse this card

Interesting. Will be very useful in quest mage in wild

since sorcerer is gone im happy with this card

Freeze combo mage, I can already see it coming

Boopity bop. 

Well we already know this elemental is bonkers with Evocation. And looks like mage is getting more discover options this expansion, so this card will be insane value. Not so sure it'll be included in elemental mage though. 

Meh, but okay.

This will make me craft deck of lunacy for more memier memes!

Sorcerer's Apprentice died for this.

Not the ideal way to discount Heart of C'Thun, that's for sure.

Won't be a staple in every deck, but there are definitely some build-arounds that will love it.

blizzard wants you to recraft Evocation :D

Along with cost reduction, draw, and Madness card, Casino's making bank.

Nice

Mana cheat is almost always good, but this one might just be a bit too fair.

Now that Mana Giant and Mana Cyclone is off the charts for standard, what does this card actually aims to do? It can cheapen cthun cards but you need to first draw it for the effect to take place, and the fact is that its not an added effect but rather an aura. So kill this and suddenly all that mana cheats gone.

Even with Evocation, you're essentially trading away 5 mana to get it started and you can't even play everything since there's a limiter to this card. The best you can do is to play this, play something like Flurry (Rank 1) and start praying.

This with Evocation is incredible

Maybe elemental Mage would want it, depending on the build. But otherwise, not worth it

If this card is abused.. could cause disgusting effects

I think I like what this card does, but I have a sneaking suspicion that in about a month we're all going to hate the kinds of strategies it enables. A decent replacement for Sorcerer's Apprentice without being as universally useful as she was.

kind of sick with Evocation

Very good mana cheating tool for burst damage

Ok stats with a lot of potential. I have some hope for this card

5/5 great card even great when you use evocation .

casino mage card nothing else

Good card. Lost a lot of generation though

Ahhh, I dislike the ease of playing way more than 30 cards in a game. But, for that playstyle, this is great. 

Good card, very strong. Mage can generate a ton of spells. This just makes them have explosive turns. Very good!

i dont even remember what mage cards and more cards to the deck, but i still love this 

Quote From Alfi

Casino mage loves this card

And might also support elemental mage, 2 for one

my cassino mage will love this

Good with evocation, deck of lunacy - but doesn't seem solid enough to form an entire deck around this concept. Elemental tag could be useful

Agreed !

Maybe this will work well with Deck of Lunacy, I want to find a use for it.

Leyline Elemental 2.0

this with Evocation is danger

I don't have high hopes for this one. Strong effect, but I just don't see where this could fit. Leyline Manipulator is better as a battlecry.

Yeah, Leyline Manipulator is much better, as it can drop mana cost to 0.

Good in some situations

Interesting Card - but i guess mostly for Meme Decks. Sure it could be good with Evocation but i guess it is to situational. 

Mage has an elemental that does similar thing with a battlecry and without cost restriction.

That one is worse, but will se play for sure because Evocation still in standar.

Elemental mage incoming? Good stats and effect.

Good card, goes into Casino Mage.

So... It's another way to say "mage, you fill your hand with RANDOM, then since we took away Sorcerer's Apprentice, use this to have, kind of, the same effect."

Wild Open the Waygate Quest Mage is mildly interested in this.

Good card but, they build two archetypes: hero power and frost. Why adding this single card we not other support? It feels like a filler card

meh, just meh

Does evocation rotate out?

I hope this is mediocre as i think it is, because created by meta is awful...

The effect is pretty good, but it has to be played the turn you go in with stuff like Evocation.

Thank God Sorcerer's Apprentice rotates! Otherwise, this would probably be busted.

Nice for decks with spell generation. Note that it's effect doesn't last when killed, so this is a combo piece that requires some setup.

All we need is  Evocation and this will be insane. Hero power mage doesn't want this tho.

Vanilla stats and cost reduction are a good pair, so this should be a good card, but I'm not sure it's good enough to build a deck around.

Mage embracing the random casino fiesta that it is.

good whit aprentice

Good with evocation and c'thun, but other than that... not that great

Unluckily Mana Cyclone is rotating out, so the main combo are Evocation and Deck of Lunacy. The effect is good but it need some support with the next expansion to be playble/strong in standard

I like the cost reducer

This should be pretty nice with anything that adds stuff to your hand. It says cards, not spells, not sure Jaina is adding many random minions to her hand, though.

Leyline Manipulator created some great tempo plays, and with all the small-spell generation in Mage, I can see this being similar. With Sorcerer's Apprentice rotating, mage is going to miss those spell discounts, so this might be their best replacement.

At least it has a cap of 1. Still super strong even as it is

For sure in casino mage. 

Good with Evocation, but not really any other application.

Great card, even with them having learnt their lesson about letting mage cards be played for 0.  Might finally be able to do evocation into pyroblast! Or is Pyroblast rotating?  Regardless, solid card.  (I'm just bitter cause it feels like every time I play evocation and have no ability to generate mana, it gives me a pyroblast that represents lethal).  

Leyline Manipulator had a better body and was a battlecry, so its effect could stick even after death. He was much better than this guy and still didn't see play. And aside from maybe comboing this with Evocation, I just don't see a way to abuse Arcane Luminary's effect.

I like this card could work well with Evocation

Probably too fair to see a lot of play, best combo is obviously with Evocation.

good card

This could be fun with the casino mage archetype. More burst from Mozaki?

Magical 

I think this is a solid card, with some fun usage. I don't think it's overpowered as it's limitation and cost prevent too much insanity. 

There is some synergy between this and existing cards, but probably too niche. you want to play this in spell mage, but you can't

Good combo with Evocation and nice in some meme Mage decks but other than that I don't see a use for this.

Deck of Lunacy only

did we really need this?

sad its effect is not a battlecry

If this is only good with a Legendary card that isn't even that great (anymore), then I don't get why this exists. I just hope we won't get more full-rng decks.

Sorcerer's Apprentice died for this.

It's balanced. But, you need loads of other cards to make this work. Prefer Sorcerer's Apprentice, but I guess this is a thing.  Maybe if you can get Grand Finale this could be fun.

Synergy with Deck of Lunacy and Cthun.

It's a good spell budget!

As my late grandfather used to say, "put me down for a dozen!"  I'm glad it doesn't lower the cost to (0), because that would be a little too crazy.  But in any mage deck with a decent amount of card generation, this is a staple.

I'm not very impressed with this card, honestly. Standard has more interesting things for Mage to do, so unless you're cheesing a Deck of Lunacy build I don't anticipate this seeing much play. Wild at least has memey Casino builds that this could be fun for.

Not reducing seems like a problem. Prolly wont see any play sadly.

A more balanced version of Sorcerer's Apprentice, which probably means this won't see much play. Arcane Luminary has the issue of only discounting spells you generate rather than all of your spells, making it harder to consistently take advantage of the effect. The only way I see this being played is in a Mage deck with elemental synergies, which is losing a key card in Elemental Allies, so that deck is probably going to become fringe competitive this expansion.