Definitely will see play...at least in my deck :P Say you just finished the new mage quest, hero powered a couple of turns so now your hand is full of spells, and then you play this card to make use of all the high mana spells you got. Or you could remove / refill your hand the turn before with a big cyclone turn on 9. Imagine the possible swings...a new archetype: swing mage.
I think this is an interesting aspect of HS, since its rng nature it can trigger some strong emotions, which can be triggered/aggravated by the right emote at the right time. I always try to be cool, but when faced with some bad rng which makes me lose or gets me a lot behind early in the game I sometimes yell out in agony and land my fist hard on the table. Did not eat my keyboard yet. And when I get irritated by the emotes of the opponent I just press squelch. And most of the time I do not hear it very loud since I have music on and the output volume of HS is almost 0.
I only rope people who are roping me. So a typical scenario is when they rope you on their first turn. Then I counter-rope on my first turn. Most of the times the roping is then over. But sometimes it turns out to be an abandoned game.
Hey man, you can practice your original deck against the Innkeeper. He does not run netdecks :)
I only play original decks I created myself because I think that's the best way to have a good time, see how your creation works out in the meta.
But not everybody is like this, most ppl just want to compete and get legend (or try to) and to do that your best (efficient) bet seems to be a netdeck, especially this late in the expansion.
And I am curious: why do you delete them? Because you lost? Your deck did not perform that well against that specific netdeck? You can not expect to spend an hour on a new deck and then be the meta-breaker and defeat all decks out there. This is just not realistic. So first you should have a reasonable expectation of your new creation, which you can then test by playing. Most of the time I make a new deck I have some expectations and I always try to have an idea what the deck is good at and what are the weaknesses.
So basically: expect less, enjoy more. It's like that with a lot of things in life.
Pretty strong buff. Depending on bord will be easier to complete, for instance by healing your opponent minions as well. I also like the way they incorporated the Uldum theme here with the obelisk. I like obelisks.
I do not think it is so easy to play around. You wait until the opponent has gone wide before you play the secret. Then opponent has to either wait with attacking face until he can buff his minions to >3, or sacrifice some. It can severely limit your options, and you will have to check for it and after the check it can still be either this one or Ice Barrier. Only weapons can check for it I think.
Erh no you swapped the cost first. So your spell in your hand has now 10 mana cost, and this card costs you 1 mana, and when you play it, for 1 mana you get a 10 mana minion. So after you play Prismatic Lens you have in your hand a one mana Phaoris and a 10 mana spell. Then you can play Phaoris for one mana, and since you have a 10 mana spell in your hand now, you get a 10 mana minion on the board.
Well sure, that one secret will cost ten, but the rest of your hand will be (fairly useless) one cost spells in order to make the combo work, which means overall you're getting a lot less out of it compared to a deck that just runs big spells.
A secret pally does not consider his one mana secrets useless. If you run a lot of cheap spells this minion combo's nicely with Prismatic Lens. Sure if you manage to get a hand full of big spells and still survive and then can play this at turn 10...these are a lot of if's, and will have to put a lot of late game spells in your deck and draw them as well, which is not nice since you would rather have a playable card in your hand.
What I mean: after you play Prismatic Lens you have in your hand a one mana Phaoris and a 10 mana spell, since the swapped costs. Then you can play Phaoris for one mana, and since you have a 10 mana spell in your hand now, you get a 10 mana minion on the board, and all this for a lousy 5 mana in total.
Fire Fly is much better than this, since it has better stats and gives you a specific minion that you can immediately play. While this one still needs to die first, and it gives you a random 1 drop which is on average worse than a 1-2.
Taunts are always nice to have. Especially when you want to protect this big 7-attack minion.And then it has reborn. So to completely get rid of it, you have to remove a 1-1, a 7-5 and a 7-1 all in one turn. So that means at least 3 attacks from the opponent go not in your face, bearing silence effects etc.
And although 3 damage is not a guaranteed clear that would be too OP for 3 mana. But with this secret in your deck it becomes much more appealing to also add the cheap aoe spells like Arcane Explosion and Shooting Star. Btw: does it stack with spell damage in the same way Explosive Runes did?
I am already afraid that 30 slots is not enough for all the aweseome cards I want to put in my deck...
Erh. Can be good and bad...maybe not the best to return a nice battlecry minion...on the other hand...a free sap can not be bad value wise. Still, I am not sure a rogue will want to include this.
Wow. I was kinda expecting a new secret for mage because of all the other sercret support, but this? This is just bonkers. Of course, when playing a tempo mage you are more concerned about your minions than your hero life at turn 3, but even then it is some good insurance. Its just the perfect answer when some opponent goes wide, making a galaxy spell turn for instance much more safe. I am very happy with this one.
I think what could first be done is a design editor where you can design a card. You must use existing mechanics, but otherwise you are free to spec a card to your liking, give it a name, store it in your private card collection, upload a nice image for it etc.
So in this way you can "design" new cards to play with.
Then, in order to be able to play with other people using your (and their!) newly designed cards, you need a way to be able to "share" your new designs with other players.
And then you can start building decks with it and play "challenge a friend" using your new cards.
I think this could work, you only loose the cool animations which normal cards have, and their "golden" effect etc.
You can probably extend this also to new classes as well.
From a player's point of view this is awesome of course. But from Blizzard point of view not so much, they want to have an active player base who feel the need to also sometimes buy stuff, instead of designing their own cool collections. So somehow Blizzard should also profit from this.
Your moonfire and bees are listed as duplicates? Shouldn't that be singletons as well? Or you wait playing Elise until later.
Definitely will see play...at least in my deck :P Say you just finished the new mage quest, hero powered a couple of turns so now your hand is full of spells, and then you play this card to make use of all the high mana spells you got. Or you could remove / refill your hand the turn before with a big cyclone turn on 9. Imagine the possible swings...a new archetype: swing mage.
I think this is an interesting aspect of HS, since its rng nature it can trigger some strong emotions, which can be triggered/aggravated by the right emote at the right time. I always try to be cool, but when faced with some bad rng which makes me lose or gets me a lot behind early in the game I sometimes yell out in agony and land my fist hard on the table. Did not eat my keyboard yet. And when I get irritated by the emotes of the opponent I just press squelch. And most of the time I do not hear it very loud since I have music on and the output volume of HS is almost 0.
I only rope people who are roping me. So a typical scenario is when they rope you on their first turn. Then I counter-rope on my first turn. Most of the times the roping is then over. But sometimes it turns out to be an abandoned game.
Yes that's what I meant. So I leave that as a feature request for Blizzard then :)
Hey man, you can practice your original deck against the Innkeeper. He does not run netdecks :)
I only play original decks I created myself because I think that's the best way to have a good time, see how your creation works out in the meta.
But not everybody is like this, most ppl just want to compete and get legend (or try to) and to do that your best (efficient) bet seems to be a netdeck, especially this late in the expansion.
And I am curious: why do you delete them? Because you lost? Your deck did not perform that well against that specific netdeck? You can not expect to spend an hour on a new deck and then be the meta-breaker and defeat all decks out there. This is just not realistic. So first you should have a reasonable expectation of your new creation, which you can then test by playing. Most of the time I make a new deck I have some expectations and I always try to have an idea what the deck is good at and what are the weaknesses.
So basically: expect less, enjoy more. It's like that with a lot of things in life.
Pretty strong buff. Depending on bord will be easier to complete, for instance by healing your opponent minions as well. I also like the way they incorporated the Uldum theme here with the obelisk. I like obelisks.
I am also thinking of the interaction with Knife Juggler if that random attack hits face, will the secret pop? That would be hilarious.
I do not think it is so easy to play around. You wait until the opponent has gone wide before you play the secret. Then opponent has to either wait with attacking face until he can buff his minions to >3, or sacrifice some. It can severely limit your options, and you will have to check for it and after the check it can still be either this one or Ice Barrier. Only weapons can check for it I think.
A secret pally does not consider his one mana secrets useless. If you run a lot of cheap spells this minion combo's nicely with Prismatic Lens. Sure if you manage to get a hand full of big spells and still survive and then can play this at turn 10...these are a lot of if's, and will have to put a lot of late game spells in your deck and draw them as well, which is not nice since you would rather have a playable card in your hand.
What I mean: after you play Prismatic Lens you have in your hand a one mana Phaoris and a 10 mana spell, since the swapped costs. Then you can play Phaoris for one mana, and since you have a 10 mana spell in your hand now, you get a 10 mana minion on the board, and all this for a lousy 5 mana in total.
Fire Fly is much better than this, since it has better stats and gives you a specific minion that you can immediately play. While this one still needs to die first, and it gives you a random 1 drop which is on average worse than a 1-2.
Taunts are always nice to have. Especially when you want to protect this big 7-attack minion.And then it has reborn. So to completely get rid of it, you have to remove a 1-1, a 7-5 and a 7-1 all in one turn. So that means at least 3 attacks from the opponent go not in your face, bearing silence effects etc.
And although 3 damage is not a guaranteed clear that would be too OP for 3 mana. But with this secret in your deck it becomes much more appealing to also add the cheap aoe spells like Arcane Explosion and Shooting Star. Btw: does it stack with spell damage in the same way Explosive Runes did?
I am already afraid that 30 slots is not enough for all the aweseome cards I want to put in my deck...
Reminds me of Terrorscale Stalker except it also heals.
And how about Prismatic Lens synergy and some low cost secret for paladin
Erh. Can be good and bad...maybe not the best to return a nice battlecry minion...on the other hand...a free sap can not be bad value wise. Still, I am not sure a rogue will want to include this.
Wow. I was kinda expecting a new secret for mage because of all the other sercret support, but this? This is just bonkers. Of course, when playing a tempo mage you are more concerned about your minions than your hero life at turn 3, but even then it is some good insurance. Its just the perfect answer when some opponent goes wide, making a galaxy spell turn for instance much more safe. I am very happy with this one.
I think what could first be done is a design editor where you can design a card. You must use existing mechanics, but otherwise you are free to spec a card to your liking, give it a name, store it in your private card collection, upload a nice image for it etc.
So in this way you can "design" new cards to play with.
Then, in order to be able to play with other people using your (and their!) newly designed cards, you need a way to be able to "share" your new designs with other players.
And then you can start building decks with it and play "challenge a friend" using your new cards.
I think this could work, you only loose the cool animations which normal cards have, and their "golden" effect etc.
You can probably extend this also to new classes as well.
From a player's point of view this is awesome of course. But from Blizzard point of view not so much, they want to have an active player base who feel the need to also sometimes buy stuff, instead of designing their own cool collections. So somehow Blizzard should also profit from this.
I will try two mage variants: spells/tempo and complete random casino fiesta with the most random spells in one game.
Oh and I will definitely try to make those obelisks and mogu cultist work.