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Not entirely sold on this card. Maiev Shadowsong had a similar effect (one round less) tacked on a minion for 4 mana. And it didn't see much play after the initial days of the Ashes of Outland release if I remember correctly.

Wild Secret Mage is loving this

Am I reading it wrong or Framester completely shuts down opponent's Highlander cards?

This in Wild Shaman... Looks juicy

Framester is a meme card that can legit be a real thing because cards like macaw exist. Played with bolner for that extra fuck you sauce on your opponent's steak. But as to whether it'll be competitive? Likely not. RNG is one thing, but its not even disrupting the enemy on the same turn they draw the thing. And of course, the counter does exist in Steamcleaner, so it may not even be worth it to build around.

Torghast Custodian is shit. 8 mana to sometimes remove targets? No taunt option, no lifesteal? Its Siamat but infinitely worse. And costs 8 for some reason so there's some argument to be made to just run Insatiable Devourer and forget this even existed.

Kidnap - Counters minions but not really. Objection! - Counters minions. Like seriously team5? Shafting rogues as we go along I think. But this and counterspell existing legitimately makes life miserable enough to make Tight-Lipped Witness go from absolute atrocious shit to god tier in one swoop

Life Sentence - Not sure what is being meant by remove. Does it kill? Or does it poof them away so deathrattles dont trigger? Either way, its a discover card because mages dont need stuff like these.

Contract Conjurer is just completely insane. Double secrets by turn 3 is hardly anything special, but to be able to drop a 6/6 down at the same time? Looks like team5 is pushing secret mage hard and it might just work this time. Orion, Mansion Manager is going to shit on everyone's coffee it seems.

But Framester won't screw your turn where you drew them, just a turn later. Overload works the turn after you overloaded, unless I don't understand the card and it actually overloads mana in turn you draw it, then it will be very frustrating

Attorney-at-Maw is just a redundant design which is infinitely made worse by the fact that starfish exists. The only way this card would see play is that the granted immunity is a selling point, and it just might, because it allows for a value trade. But currently druid simply doesn't care about that. What they care is to play broken things, and this is about as far away from that as it can be.

Incarceration is just baffling. Practically printing hard removal for a class thats already cancerous enough, and moreover doesn't fit into any part of druid's identity. Fortunately for all of us, this is mostly a redundant card for druid, being a card that neither advances their ramp nor a card that wins them the game so I doubt its an inclusion into any list. Unfortunately for us though, it is now a legit a discover option that will likely make players tear their tiny little moustache off whenever it happens.

Because of course it will. If druid doesn't annoy me in any part of their expansion cards then it doesnt conform to druid's constitutionally set identity.

All Fel Breaks Loose is bad but it has potential because dhunter is a class that draws substantially enough that they can afford a couple of hold on cards. You can play your big demons, cheated out and whatnot, and then rez them back at a later turn. Its only problem is that you're limited to playing big demons and such as you're not playing Prosecutor Mel'tranix, which is already a hard sell in of itself. Big dhunter hasn't work since AoO was released and I doubt this card would be the pushing factor.

Sightless Magistrate is an aggro card. But occasionally it can be very difficult to play especially if it also draws the opponent cards. Its also 4 mana so its messes somewhat with the vomit identity aggro dhunter have nowadays. Might just be a miss, simply because of that Im afraid.

These are so weird for shaman, they dont fit any existing archetype in standard.

Framester seems very polarizing. You either end up getting nothing or you distrupt your opponent's turns heavily. Reminds me of the bomb mechanic for warrior, but i think this has the potential to be way more effective since bombs only deal damage to face and don't actually mess with the opponent's plays, while this can potentially shut down combos, or just ruin tempo. Interesting to say the least.

Then the custodian is just so weird, it's similar toAl'Akir the Windlord. It might be strong but I dont know if it fits the shaman's playstyle right now. Seems fun tho.

Framester just sounds like meme, but I hate that it has decent stats. I don't wanna see Shamans win just because they put this fucker in for the lolz and then he just randomly ruins a crucial turn.

Custodian just looks too awkward, but I guess that's good because "Control" Shaman is already getting on my nerves

Gigantotem makes me consider this, but the condition is hard to activate and Totem decks still suck because without Stonewright they just do nothing

Oh man, objection is scary.

This might actually make Secret Mage viable for Standard. Having 2 Secrets up isn't easy, but it's far from impossible, especially since you can set it up for turn 3 with the neutral that makes the enxt Secret cost nothing or the other neutral that can discover you a paladin Secret to combo with your Mage one on turn 4.

Also makes Orion a lot better.

The only question is, what is Secret Mage's gameplan in Standard? It's definitely not an aggro deck, but it doesn't really have a ton of lategame or exceptional card draw (Multicaster will have to do I guess). Do we just slam the Wildfire package into it like we do with everything else? Or do we run Skeletons?

Wait, so it counters Eater of Secrets?!

Great removal but we live in a time where removal is just not worth the cost if it isn't incredibly cheap.

I wouldn't run it, but maybe if appears in times of need from discovery.

Great Priest hate card for Wild though

Better than counterspell for the current vision of Secret Mage (which appears to be relatively defensive)

Also a great way to delay enemy power turns, especially since so many decks nowadays telegraph their plays.

For some reason my tiny monkey brain read it as (2) mana. With (3) it's actually good now because you can discover a Paladin secret with the Mysterious neutral or set up a double secret turn with the other Secret support neutral.

Actually a good card, holy shit.

How could you get Conjurer to 2 mana? It’s either 6, 3, or 0 mana

What if we print only good for mage and druid, but don't print them for warrior or paladin. Surely that will fix paladin and warrior, great design Kora 

For some reason I thought it blocked battlecries as well. It's a significant difference in that case.