New Mage Location - Nightcloak Sanctum

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A new Rare Mage Location, Nightcloak Sanctum, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 2 years, 5 months ago

    A new Rare Mage Location, Nightcloak Sanctum, has been revealed!

    Nightcloak Sanctum Card Image

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 5 months ago

    It'll see play because its another way to generate more skeletons.

    Outside of that its just a so much weaker Ray of Frost in my opinion. But you do get a 2/2 each shot, so maybe the mana cost is justified.

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  • sense124's Avatar
    Mavka 460 446 Posts Joined 07/22/2019
    Posted 2 years, 5 months ago

    This is Mage's Wildpaw Cavern. I would rate the singular effect around 1.5 mana. With this card for 3 mana you get 3 uses. What a Steal!

    Also being a location, you can use it whenever you want AND you can have two of them on board. You do need a minion to target with, but it's a small drawback since the Volatile Skeleton archetype is more like some sort of a freeze minion mage deck.

    I eat your fast food spare changes when you sleep.

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  • NegativeNemsy's Avatar
    405 206 Posts Joined 07/10/2019
    Posted 2 years, 5 months ago

    I hope they can make a mage minion that benefits from being frozen as it can target friendlies also.  Maybe a minion that gives you hero armor, gives adjacent minions lifesteal, or gains taunt when frozen.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 2 years, 5 months ago

    Depends on whether Skeleton Mage works out, but since the things have cooldowns it's probably not as strong as it looks, since you can't chain freeze.

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • theo333's Avatar
    Outlandish Rager 975 889 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 5 months ago

    It's an early spell-like that's not an actual spell.

    So it can't be countered by anything. Good.

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  • GoddammitDontShootMe's Avatar
    Relaxed 2195 2055 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 2 years, 5 months ago

    Three freezes and three 2/2s for 3 mana doesn't seem bad. Of course the weakness is that it has to be spread over five turns, and I'm expecting some location removal to be revealed sometime in the future.

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 2 years, 5 months ago

    A lingering Ray of Frost and get an exploding minion out of it?  This will be used in or out of this deck that they are pushing. 

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 5 months ago

    Mages Wildpaw Cavern like card, but it's only every few turns. This seems kinda slow, but freeze effects are very strong so lets not underestimate that. This will see play in the Volatile Skeleton deck, but outside that i'm not sure.

    RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2225 2544 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 2 years, 5 months ago

    If the Volatile Skeleton archetype takes off, it's due to this location. The opportunity to freeze any minion and summon and Volatile Skeleton 3 times for 3 mana is insane. This location is basically 6 mana worth cut in half. 

    I'd even wage that this location makes it into non KT decks

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  • FortyDust's Avatar
    Pumpkin 1205 1912 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 5 months ago

    Another 4 stars I have to hand out because this whole archetype is just re-donkulous. I guess they didn't want to have to buff as many cards as they did last time.

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    I don't know how I feel about those Volatile Skeleton, I'm kinda dreading that they will be all over the place ..

    Struggle with Heroic Galakrond's Awakening? I got your back : 

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  • SilverWolf's Avatar
    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Very powerful just for the effect, summoning and freezing are just to powerful, and you can play it twice! Nice card imho

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  • Geno9999's Avatar
    Metrognome 1620 1217 Posts Joined 11/10/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Yet another Skeleton Mage card that probably sees play in every Mage deck.

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1570 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 2 years, 4 months ago

    Quite a strong tool. It has the potential to stall, and has the skeleton token on top. Good stuff!

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