I don't care for the hunter, paladin, and warlock quests.
The one i want the most is the druid quest, followed by priest. I don't think the warrior quest is actually strong but I do kind of want it for an aggro/tempo warrior im messing with.
I didn't watch the stream but it sounds like this is no different from a Discover effect - so why didn't they just use the "Discover" keyword instead? "Wish for the perfect card" makes it sound like you will be given one card with no choice involved.
Sadly, it seems that Blizzard has sacrificed clarity and consistency for flavor (using "wish" because he is a Djinni).
Why is that sad? it's a one of and very unique card that will be very well known. Going for the flavor is cooler and better.
You could even make the argument that "wish" is different than discover because discover is always from a set pool (random spell, random mage minion, cards in your deck). This will give you certain cards in certain spots 100% of the time based on an algorithm which isn't random and is unlike discover, but i don't think that is an argument worth having.
Secret Hunter is already a thing, it is just one tier below Mech Hunter, which is the reason why you basically never encounter it.
It is already a really strong deck, I think it'll beat Mech Hunter as soon as the best version of it is found. Depends on the Meta of course, but this card is just THAT good.
yeah i should have clarified. I'm aware it's a deck that is around right now because of its good matchup against mage and rogue.
but this is the kind of power play that could put it as an actual meta deck.
Very good card for shaman in standard. Shaman gets annoyed by lackeys and 1/1 deathrattle tokens from snipsnap and soul of the murloc. Most of its clears are expensive and powerful but you dont want to eat that little bits of chip damage.
It also has quest/quest, elemental, overload synergies. very playable card.
This card is pretty good. You usually don't run bloodlust in aggro shaman but maybe you run this since it has a body and you're likely to be overloaded anyway. Even a small card like voltaic burst gets pretty good with this.
It has decent HP and a lot of reward if you get it to stick with thunderhead turns or even just hiding it behind 4/3 feral spirits.
Super good card that rounds out some of the inconsistencies of a secret mage in standard right now. Cheap spell that thins the deck and gives a free mana while retaining the discount.
Excellent curve into Masked Contender. Excellent synergy with the new card that aoes 2 damage when you secret.
Freeze mage might run this with ice barrier/flame ward package now.
This weakens the magic trick pool a bit for cyclone mage unless they start running a secret package of their own, maybe just flame ward.
This seems kind of nutty. So if your opponent is at 6 health this will always give a fireball? jeeez. really interesting card. can't wait to play around with it.
huh, interesting. pretty solid. most rogue lists already run two blink fox and two hench clan for vendetta enablers. you probably run bazaar mugger and pharaoh cat from the new expansion and with your shark/bouces you can usually get this done at a decent pace. the fastest you could do it by just curving would be pilfer/pharaoh cat > blink fox > hench clan > mugger and then have the quest for your turn 6. idk if you run pilfer though, probably pharaoh cat is better even if it can whiff quest wise.
the reward is good. good synergy with weapon buffs, good for removal and it's a lot of late game chip damage. it also lets you face tank minions in aggro races without killing yourself.
seems pretty good. the flexibility is pretty strong because you can always drop it in a favorable way. rush/windfury against two priority targets, divine shield/taunt or windfury/taunt against a token board, divine shield/rush for a big single removal, or just plop down winfury/divine shield against an empty board for the most pressure.
with the shaman quest you can get all four, lul. battlecry/shudderwock decks probably like this card in all seriousness though. this will help prepare the board for a walking fountain/hagatha on 8 very nicely. it has good synergy with the decks that run ancestral healing for their walking fountains
overall it seems like a pretty strong card. Some midrange decks probably run it on the top end. elemental synergy seems like it could be relevant. cheating this out with an evocation on turn 5 seems pretty strong. mage has a decent elemental curve forming but the win condition other than smorcing is kind of foggy.
It's no zilliax for sure because of the cost and lack of lifesteal but it might be more of a litch king type card, though definitely not that strong.
this is a potentially strong card. there aren't a lot of defensive things to do on 4 mana and this is neutral. It either soaks 10 damage while hitting stuff which is amazing for four mana, soaks premium removal like deadly shot, halts development and they pass, or they develop more possibly into a 5 mana aoe. All of these are pretty good. Maybe the fact that it never sticks makes it unplayable, but If you think of it more as a spell and less as a minion, it still seems playable. There hasn't been a card quite like this so we won't be sure until we get our hands on it.
I think maybe control shaman and some priest decks play this. maybe some combo decks that aren't focused on going really fast through the deck. Decks that aren't necessarily fighting for an early board and want to stall to play their powerful late game.
All aggro decks have cheap target removal so Idon’t think this card will be too much of a problem. I can just venomizer it and carry on with my day.
Venomizer is an important card in bomb hunter though. if i'm playing a control role against mech hunter i'm usually not that upset for them to use a venomizer early as one minion removal.
This isn't fel reaver or bittertide hyrda at all. This card sucks.
As aggro you don't care about cards in your deck or your own HP
but do you know what you do care about?
your opponent having a zilliax that deathrattles into another shielded zilliax. do you know what deck runs zilliax? that's right, all of them.
taunts and rush minions are also strong against this. imagine a warrior plays the 3/2 rush reborn into this. does the double dip and get two reborns? because if so this is hella bad. it's bad either way tho.
This card is insane. It doesn't have the body of the spider so it's not quite as good tempo rogue but the ceiling and flexibility is so much higher because you can use it on bigger minions that give more utility. Shark rogue already plays the long game pretty well, and this can make that deck even stronger there.
yeah, the described deck would certainly counter lucentbark druid but I don't think a deck like that is good in general. Would love to be wrong as I like control priest and having more than one control class would be very refreshing.
No harm at all :) i was just bouncing ideas in my head about how a lucentbark deck would/could deal with the plague cards that can deal with its board.
Mine went pretty bad but I won't be too upset because since i started playing i usually get almost everything i want so the luck was bound to run out.
I got all the bad quests (paladin, hunter, warlock, mage) but I did get the quest I wanted most (druid).
What really tilted me was all the trash epics I opened. 3 mogu, 2 cultist, 3 totem axe. 8 epics that are all neverplayable.
I don't care for the hunter, paladin, and warlock quests.
The one i want the most is the druid quest, followed by priest. I don't think the warrior quest is actually strong but I do kind of want it for an aggro/tempo warrior im messing with.
Why is that sad? it's a one of and very unique card that will be very well known. Going for the flavor is cooler and better.
You could even make the argument that "wish" is different than discover because discover is always from a set pool (random spell, random mage minion, cards in your deck). This will give you certain cards in certain spots 100% of the time based on an algorithm which isn't random and is unlike discover, but i don't think that is an argument worth having.
yeah i should have clarified. I'm aware it's a deck that is around right now because of its good matchup against mage and rogue.
but this is the kind of power play that could put it as an actual meta deck.
ok secret hunter is a thing again in standard.
Very good card for shaman in standard. Shaman gets annoyed by lackeys and 1/1 deathrattle tokens from snipsnap and soul of the murloc. Most of its clears are expensive and powerful but you dont want to eat that little bits of chip damage.
It also has quest/quest, elemental, overload synergies. very playable card.
This card is pretty good. You usually don't run bloodlust in aggro shaman but maybe you run this since it has a body and you're likely to be overloaded anyway. Even a small card like voltaic burst gets pretty good with this.
It has decent HP and a lot of reward if you get it to stick with thunderhead turns or even just hiding it behind 4/3 feral spirits.
Seems really good for the quest druid, obviously. It's pretty sticky so a lot of times you can drop this on two and still get the draw value.
Super good card that rounds out some of the inconsistencies of a secret mage in standard right now. Cheap spell that thins the deck and gives a free mana while retaining the discount.
Excellent curve into Masked Contender. Excellent synergy with the new card that aoes 2 damage when you secret.
Freeze mage might run this with ice barrier/flame ward package now.
This weakens the magic trick pool a bit for cyclone mage unless they start running a secret package of their own, maybe just flame ward.
I like it.
Nice to have an egg around again. It's no devilsaur / nerubian but it's pretty solid.
This might be the kind of early game card rogue needs to make a package with the deathrattle dagger work.
Maybe the newer warlock decks use this over/in addition to the scarab egg because that deck seems a lot less interested in going wide.
This seems kind of nutty. So if your opponent is at 6 health this will always give a fireball? jeeez. really interesting card. can't wait to play around with it.
huh, interesting. pretty solid. most rogue lists already run two blink fox and two hench clan for vendetta enablers. you probably run bazaar mugger and pharaoh cat from the new expansion and with your shark/bouces you can usually get this done at a decent pace. the fastest you could do it by just curving would be pilfer/pharaoh cat > blink fox > hench clan > mugger and then have the quest for your turn 6. idk if you run pilfer though, probably pharaoh cat is better even if it can whiff quest wise.
the reward is good. good synergy with weapon buffs, good for removal and it's a lot of late game chip damage. it also lets you face tank minions in aggro races without killing yourself.
seems pretty good. the flexibility is pretty strong because you can always drop it in a favorable way. rush/windfury against two priority targets, divine shield/taunt or windfury/taunt against a token board, divine shield/rush for a big single removal, or just plop down winfury/divine shield against an empty board for the most pressure.
with the shaman quest you can get all four, lul. battlecry/shudderwock decks probably like this card in all seriousness though. this will help prepare the board for a walking fountain/hagatha on 8 very nicely. it has good synergy with the decks that run ancestral healing for their walking fountains
overall it seems like a pretty strong card. Some midrange decks probably run it on the top end. elemental synergy seems like it could be relevant. cheating this out with an evocation on turn 5 seems pretty strong. mage has a decent elemental curve forming but the win condition other than smorcing is kind of foggy.
It's no zilliax for sure because of the cost and lack of lifesteal but it might be more of a litch king type card, though definitely not that strong.
ok secret/tempo mage is definitely a thing now.
this should probably be in the wild section
this is a potentially strong card. there aren't a lot of defensive things to do on 4 mana and this is neutral. It either soaks 10 damage while hitting stuff which is amazing for four mana, soaks premium removal like deadly shot, halts development and they pass, or they develop more possibly into a 5 mana aoe. All of these are pretty good. Maybe the fact that it never sticks makes it unplayable, but If you think of it more as a spell and less as a minion, it still seems playable. There hasn't been a card quite like this so we won't be sure until we get our hands on it.
I think maybe control shaman and some priest decks play this. maybe some combo decks that aren't focused on going really fast through the deck. Decks that aren't necessarily fighting for an early board and want to stall to play their powerful late game.
Venomizer is an important card in bomb hunter though. if i'm playing a control role against mech hunter i'm usually not that upset for them to use a venomizer early as one minion removal.
This isn't fel reaver or bittertide hyrda at all. This card sucks.
As aggro you don't care about cards in your deck or your own HP
but do you know what you do care about?
your opponent having a zilliax that deathrattles into another shielded zilliax. do you know what deck runs zilliax? that's right, all of them.
taunts and rush minions are also strong against this. imagine a warrior plays the 3/2 rush reborn into this. does the double dip and get two reborns? because if so this is hella bad. it's bad either way tho.
This card is insane. It doesn't have the body of the spider so it's not quite as good tempo rogue but the ceiling and flexibility is so much higher because you can use it on bigger minions that give more utility. Shark rogue already plays the long game pretty well, and this can make that deck even stronger there.
Also tons of weird combo possibilities.
can zerek please be good now.
yeah, the described deck would certainly counter lucentbark druid but I don't think a deck like that is good in general. Would love to be wrong as I like control priest and having more than one control class would be very refreshing.
No harm at all :) i was just bouncing ideas in my head about how a lucentbark deck would/could deal with the plague cards that can deal with its board.