I still don't quite understand the rules of this one… if you play the chickens, does it just go back into the deck or does it give you an additional copy in the deck on top of that? It seems like it's the latter, as all opponents that played their whole hand each turn ended up primarily playing chickens over and over again and then they lost.
Also of note is that for spells like Evocation the "shuffle back into the deck" brawl rule triggers before the "discard at end of turn" part, meaning you quickly get many many spells in your deck, which you can then pull with tutors (Tortollan Pilgrim, Phase Stalker, …)
I still don't quite understand the rules of this one… if you play the chickens, does it just go back into the deck or does it give you an additional copy in the deck on top of that? It seems like it's the latter, as all opponents that played their whole hand each turn ended up primarily playing chickens over and over again and then they lost.
Also of note is that for spells like Evocation the "shuffle back into the deck" brawl rule triggers before the "discard at end of turn" part, meaning you quickly get many many spells in your deck, which you can then pull with tutors (Tortollan Pilgrim, Phase Stalker, …)
Mage is totally fair and balanced, win rate 100% after playing 6 games with fun stuff like 0-cost Mana Giant, Demented Frostcaller, Stonesplinter Trogg on turn 1, Evocation plus Vex Crow into Phase Stalker, Blast Wave against a board full of chickens, … – fun!