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Quote From DoubleSummon

OTK enabler -> need The Coin or any discount on a combo piece that is a minion or [Hearthstone Card (potion of illusions) Not Found]

there are 2 ways both require a set up turn and an execution turn.. in wild it's even easier cause of [Hearthstone Card (emperor thaurisan) Not Found]

6 cards OTK The Coin, Archmage Antonidas, 2 Sorcerer's Apprentice, 2 [Hearthstone Card (potion of illusions) Not Found].

In standard you can get the coin via Licensed Adventurer (just play Elemental Allies without elementals in your deck).

So it's 8 slots in the deck to have the combo in your deck.

Path 1:

Setup:

play Archmage Antonidas +The Coin + Potion of Illusion

Execution:

play 2 Sorcerer's Apprentice (4 mana) + Potion of Illusion (2 mana) + 3 1 cost 1/1s (3 mana)  in total 9 mana. then you should have 2 fireballs from last turn or any 4 or less cost spell and you spam fireballs.

Path 2:

Setup:

play 2 Sorcerer's Apprentice (4 mana) and double Potion of Illusion (4 mana) = 8 mana

Execution(order is important if you don't have another 4 cost or less spell):

play Archmage Antonidas + The Coin + 4 1 cost Sorcerer's Apprentice, then blast away..

In conclusion:

HOF Sorcerer's Apprentice already.

while that sounds plausible you have to consider that:

a) Mage doesn't really draw as well as it once used to

b) any combo Mage is vulnerable to being bursted down since no more Ice Block (the main reason no real  combo deck has been a thing for a while

c) you're talking about a 7-card combo that needs at least 2 turns of set up: one for the Adventurer (the easier one) and one for the Antonidas one, which is essentially skipping a turn and leaving yourself open (which is extremely hard to do in the current meta seeing how even slamming down Alexstrasza is a chore these days)

Also, I don't get why you think Sorcerer's Apprentice is the issue. Mage has always been about discounting spells and throwing out lots of them. Archmage Antonidas is the real culprit because he provides infinite damage. Rework Antonidas (or replace him like Velen) and you won't have to worry about Exodia MAge in Standard ever again.

An interesting card. Not very useful in any deck that runs board wipes, so potential in res priest is probably limited.

Has potential, but requires both cheap enablers and large payoffs to be really strong, so this is unlikely to be a buildaround.

I could see this being run in a Paladin deck with 1-mana secrets such as Redemption as the spellburst activator to pull out the buffs.  Throw in some sticky minions with divine shield and there is value to be had.

I dont care that much to google what the actual words are. The fact that you understood what I said enough to arbitrarily correct me means the reference worked.

I like these stats on 4 mana minions!

So Paladin and Priest both have cheap spells that can be used to activate this minion's spellburst.

currently Paladin's are running the Libram package, with the Libram of Wisdom being so easily discounted and being able to return to hand it can be very easy for this minion to have this buff applied and then play either Libram of Justice or Libram of Hope for a massive swing turn.

Priests currently have Whispers of EVIL and Power word: Shield as a means to activate this minions effect on curve, and they're glut of buff spells means you can make this 3/6 into a 5/9 with life steal with Apotheosis, for example.

However, because this minion's text wants spells to be focused on her, you'll have to build your deck around her so she doesn't accidentally kill herself with say shadow word pain or subdue. Despite needing a deck built around her she will see home in Paladin and Priest decks in standard, I believe.

In the Arena it's not likely you'll get spells to activate her ability, but her stats aren't terrible

Loved that reveal video. <dries eyes>

Given the ability of Scholomance Paladin to krunk out the biggest of bois in the metahaus, I think it's possible to run this in a buff deck. You have to forgo spells like Subdue, but that's alright if you can slap down your buff cowboys before the other dude in LibRam Ranch does, right?

Quote From NegativeNemsy

This card will do better in aggro with Savage Roar as a board controller and finisher.  I think there will be better cards than this for non aggro decks.  This card reminds me of Wardruid Loti.  When Loti was revealed, it was thought to be a flexible swiss army knife that would go in any deck.  In reality it didn't find a home in that many decks.  I'm getting the same vibe here.  This seems like a bait card, but with interesting effects nonetheless.

Loti saw plenty of play in Quest Druid. The only reason she didn't before was because there was just no deck that needed her (and she was a bitt too flexible...as in you only ever played her in specific scenarios)

I'm Legend in Standard,

but only Bronze 1 in Wild. 

My usual rank in Wild is Diamond 5+, but in June I was only something like Platinum 8 and this month I played only 3 or 4 games.

Do you think I will lose a star this month?

For some reason I'm bored playing Wild, but there are 3-4 days left and maybe I can force myself playing it a bit to stop MMR decay. Is MMR decay a thing? Do I need to just win a bunch of games, or reach Diamond 5 to keep 10 stars bonus? Well, even if I lose a star, next time more effort will be needed to reach Diamond 5, but streaks still work there (unlike later).

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I heard you are matched according to MMR all the way to your class (1 star), after that you're not matched by MMR, but by class/rank. It's noticeable, because, e.g. my climb from 5 to Legend was easier, because people played worse and worse decks.

that'S the point though, you have no idea if you get the boardclear you want and you're not gonna play this as a boardclear fetch.

It's kinda like Grand Archivist and that card needed a very specific deck to function.

I played a lot of ladder in the last 4 days and Bilg is almost non existent aside a few Miss Fortune decks.
Which is quite funny since i am playing a Bilgwawter Twisted Fate / Ezreal variation that doesn't run the Nab package.
Surprisingly, the matchup i face the most is Tempo Ashe with Yetis.

1- Yeti Ashe/Sejuani
2- Deep Nautilus/Maokai
3- They Who Endure Elise/Kalista
4- Warmother/Tryndamere
5- Darius/The Harrowing

Other then those 5, from time to time i see some Demacia + Relentless Pursuit, Ezreal / Karma and Ezreal/Swain

Tutoring out a board clear isn't necessarily bad. Like spending 4 mana to cast Plague of Death from deck in a dire situation can be a pretty good deal. But yeah, not too reliable.

This is a pretty interesting card to build around. It won't work in Control Decks because you don't want this wasting your board clears. So, it has to be a Tempo deck. Priest has no card draw and that's what kills any attempts at building a good tempo deck for the class. It doesn't matter how many good Tempo minions or buff spells they print. Tempo Priest won't work without card draw. Paladin certainly benefits more from this but you need to be very careful with your spell choices. There's potential here but it will probably requires more proper support (for Priest mainly). 

Alright, now that the Soul Shard mechanic is out this is suddenly pretty good.

Tapping into soul shards can give you multiple discounts so it's not unlikely to get this out fairly early.

You could plop this into Dead Man's Hand Warrior to get a bit more free with your... well, Dead Elephant's Hand, I suppose. The secret suggestion is quite interesting, as well, since a few secret classes have ways to draw secrets straight out of your deck.

I'm not sure that ole Babar will find a home in a constructed deck, but I adore this type of strong, niche effect. Every time I home-brew some wretched amalgamation of cards, I come back to all of these ones like Educated Elekk, Meat Wagon, Master Oakheart, etc. and think, 'Weellll, maybe now? Can we? Does it work?' You just want to find a home for them.

perhaps this might be the thing that makes Big demon Warlock playable. If you draw a big demon off the Dark Portal or Quest Hero power you can do some crazy things (and the Outcast isn't really relevant and just a bonus).

It's also currently the only efficient way to duplicate Kanrethad Prime, which would be the win condition for that deck.

Why always Uther?

It's 2020, please Team5 give my man something to play with.

So, if you are Priest, and you want to play with this Card, you have to build a Deck without AoE?

... Yeah, No. Hard Pass from my Side.

Shadow Word: Pain Kappa.

Pinch of Death Cap*

The video portraits exactly what this card will provide lol

there's always one class that gets most of their cardpool revealed at the final dump.

You better make sure you stocked up on buff cards for your deck and not damaging ones, as the video pointed out. Looks great for Libram, and I'm sure even more craziness in wild. 

This card will do better in aggro with Savage Roar as a board controller and finisher.  I think there will be better cards than this for non aggro decks.  This card reminds me of Wardruid Loti.  When Loti was revealed, it was thought to be a flexible swiss army knife that would go in any deck.  In reality it didn't find a home in that many decks.  I'm getting the same vibe here.  This seems like a bait card, but with interesting effects nonetheless.

Turn 4 libram of hope.

But seriously, this is a card you can build your deck around, not completly but if you put spells that would mostly be good to cast then it could work. For example put more libram of hope, blessing of kings and pharaoph's blessing in it. 
And even if you cast a libram of justice it's no the end of the world.
Now priest has less buff and more removal, however things like "death" cannot target this so there is that.