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Coins are more desirable as a Quest completion tool (partly because of Sivarra) and come bundled with better statted minions to boot. If you play the 1/2 and then the spell it generates, you've spent 2 mana to progress your quest, got a 1/2 and dealt 2 damage. If you use something like Licensed Adventurer, you've spent 1 mana to progress your quest and got a 3/2. You don't really care about the damage cause you just ignore the board and hide behind Ice Blocks, so you essentially get the same result for 1 less mana (2 less damage but 2 more attack on the minon). And given how hyper-focused Quest Mages are at completing the quest in as little mana as possible, I think the coin strat still outperforms everything this Arcane package offers.

Guess we knew we'd get a spell school specific Sorcerer's Apprentice at some point. Ofc will be a key combo piece in the Arcane Bolt OTK that's already been figured out. Might see play elsewhere though in big spell mage to cast Arcane Defenders

Its not bad. Ofc there will be a new arcane mage archetype and this minion will slot right in there coz it's still decent value. Probably won't see much play if the whole Arcane Bolt OTK doesn't work out.

This is extremely versatile and can go into a variety of decks. Love the artwork too, need to get one of these golden.

If you want to learn more about the creation of other DK cards and the class as a whole, then you should definitely watch this video:

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Years ago they talked about class identity, but nowadays that is all over the place.

Introducing more and more hand disruption is very frustrating. Seems like this is their only answer to combat their own mistakes of releasing broken cards in the (recent) past, present and future. 

Any text-box on a warrior minion that references spells is a class identity red flag to me. Prior to this expansion we had only seen it happen once, and only as part of the 'elusive' text on Beryllium Nullifier which barely counts. I can understand that if any race was going to feed spell-based effects into the class it would be the Blood Elves, but still.

As for the flood of recent hand disruption, what really sucks with it is that the biggest losers are off-meta/meme decks. It can be tough enough to pull off shenanigans to begin with, and it only gets tougher with everyone having ways to delete your key cards before you get to use them.

This just seems like a completely broken archetype, the spells and minions are just way too good and has a very strong finisher on turn 8 already with just Elemental + the Apprentice (each of those 1 mana shards is a fireball!) if you have 4 in hand that’s 24 damage, and if you don’t play Renethal then good luck to you

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More hand attacks. Are they trying to make constructrd into Arena or what? This is retarded.

I could not agree more. Years ago they talked about class identity, but nowadays that is all over the place.

Introducing more and more hand disruption is very frustrating. Seems like this is their only answer to combat their own mistakes of releasing broken cards in the (recent) past, present and future. 

Are we still playing the same game as before? I really wonder. 

10/10, goes into every Mage deck just on the basis of being generally useful.

Ah yes, Schrodinger's Mech strikes once again.

Good card probably, but not nearly as clean as Violet Spellwing.

Not as strong as Sorc's, but I guess it still enables some stuff. At the end of the day it comes down to just how easily you can refill your hand to justify all the spell slinging.

Basically Mozaki again. Gather ressources, then go off with damage.

Siphon Mana is still in Standard and the new Arcane spell only costs 1-mana so once you set that up you can just combo this with any spell damage you can find and go off.

It could be nice in wild with Soggoth the Slitherer, Tomb Warden or Evasive Drakonid. In standard we will haveSilverfury Stalwart but I think they will show us some more good taunt cards.

Too expensive to be useful. Even if you hit a dream taut (like Mor'shan Elite) you're still not going to be that far ahead.

Big Spell Mage does stuff like this on a regular basis on turn 6 and they aren't even a top-tier deck anymore.

Well, that's broken. I guess this is the way to bring Control Warrior back, just make them lock out the opponent from winning.

You can even build an anti-spell combo with Faceless Manipulator and To the Front to just dump all their spells from hand. Phylactery Warlock on suicide watch.

The more I think about it the better this gets. Imagine just straight up copying Wild Growth or Nourish while developing the board.

It only gets iffy once targetted spells get into the mix, wouldn'T want to fireball your own face.

Disruptive spellbreaker is the only consistently good card here.

But more concerning is what exactly is warrior's identity this time round? Because the class has very few options in the meta right now, and these cards dont help either of them. These cards dont really reveal much other than making one very big minion and crossing fingers.

4 mana to do nothing, for a bigger taunt that will then be removed by one spell.

Yeah, Im not rating this card's chances. The only way it can work is that you need to tutor a very specific card and coincidentally it has taunt. Otherwise, considering that youre paying 4 mana to draw one card, this card is trash.

This card is scary as hell.

Basically a mutanus for spells, and at 5 mana. The only mitigating factor here is that its not a battlecry and therefore cannot be brann-ed, and you cannot play according to what is being discarded. Dont even bother thinking about value because there's absolutely no way this card will ever survive more than a turn, unless your opponent is playing no spells at all.

Looks good and can potentially decide games with spells like Deathborne, or Miracle Growth, but its so meta dependent that Im tempted to just call this a tech card.

Because as much useful it can be, this card can also whiff hard, being stuck in your hand for the longest time because your opponent played around it or there's just plain no useful spells to take advantage of.