A Wild Review of Voyage to the Sunken City's New Mage Cards Coming to Hearthstone

Published 3 years, 11 months ago by (Updated 3 years, 11 months ago)

All the new Mage cards for Voyage to the Sunken City have been revealed and in this article we're going to discuss how they will impact Wild in general and any specific decks they can fit into.

Here is how the cards will be rated:

  • 5 stars means a card that can see a lot of play in meta defining and powerful decks
  • 4 stars means a card that can see some play in the best decks and a lot of play in slightly less competitive meta decks
  • 3 stars means a card that can see some play in less optimal meta decks or is good for some off meta decks
  • 2 stars means a card that can see play in any deck, even if it's a very niche or weak archetype
  • 1 star means a card that won't see any play at all

Gaia, the Techtonic

Gaia, the Techtonic Card Image

Our Wild Rating

Gaia, the Techtonic is very powerful but the cost means it is most likely meta dependent as to whether it makes the cut in Mech Mage. It will be good in slower metas but too slow in faster ones.

Commander Sivara

Commander Sivara Card Image

Our Wild Rating
 

Commander Sivara is incredible in Open the Waygate Quest Mage. It will be great to get copies of 3 cheap spells and complete the quest a lot faster, as the copies you get count for the quest. You can even manipulate it to get Twinspell cards, or get another copy of the Time Warp quest reward if drawn later in the game. This should provide a significant boost to the archetype.

Spitelash Siren

Spitelash Siren Card Image

Our Wild Rating
 

There aren't enough nagas to make Spitelash Siren a viable or consistent option in Wild, it's better to play Quest Mage if you want to be able to do combos requiring over 10 mana.

Volcanomancy

Volcanomancy Card Image

Our Wild Rating
 

Volcanomancy can be played on a Vicious Scalehide to deal 3 damage to all minions and heal 3 for each, but Vicious Scalehide is very weak on its own so this combo is not worth putting into your decks. Volcanomancy may be an option in some Reno Control Mages which lack good removal. Other than that though, it's too weak and situational for Wild.

Seafloor Gateway

Seafloor Gateway Card Image

Our Wild Rating
 

Seafloor Gateway is a great card for Mech Mage, a handwide discount will let you play your minions faster as well as do powerful combos with Mecha-Shark. 

Gifts of Azshara

Gifts of Azshara Card Image

Our Wild Rating
 

There are not enough good nagas for Mage to play Gifts of Azshara.

Trench Surveyor

Trench Surveyor Card Image

Our Wild Rating
 

Amazing card for Mech Mage, with the Battlecry letting you discover a card from your deck, having good stats, and as a bonus being able to get the Sunken Sweeper from Azsharan Sweeper.

Mecha-Shark

Mecha-Shark Card Image

Our Wild Rating
 

Mecha-Shark is the card that, if Mech Mage becomes a thing, it is the key card that boosts its power enough to let it become meta. After discounts from Mechwarper, Galvanizer, and Seafloor Gateway, it will be easy to play this for cheap and combo a lot of mechs with it. This can secure board control as well as deal a lot of face damage to finish off games. This card will create the key swings that win you otherwise lost games, and is an immensely powerful enabler of the Mech Mage archetype.

Azsharan Sweeper

Azsharan Sweeper Card Image

Our Wild Rating
 

Azsharan Sweeper is good with Trench Surveyor getting the Sunken Sweeper for refill, but it's meta dependent because it's a bit slow to get value from - you have to play 2 3/4 minions to get the value of 3 random mechs to your hand. 

Spellcoiler

Spellcoiler Card Image

Our Wild Rating
 

First of all, Wild's pool of spells is very large so Spellcoiler will be inconsistent at getting anything specific. Secondly, if you want some specific spell, just put it into your deck - this will get too many spells that don't synergize with your deck. The naga tribe doesn't matter for Wild Mages right now.

Overall Set Score

Sunken City Wild Mage

Huge impact on Mage, with Mech Mage looking to become a meta deck after being uncompetitive in Wild for years, even if not at the level of the top 5 decks. In addition, Commander Sivara giving Quest Mage a huge boost makes another major impact. Mages should be able to do better in Wild this expansion than before.

What do you think about the new Mage cards and how they'll do in the Wild format? Let us know in the comments below!

More Wild Reviews for Voyage to the Sunken City

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  • This is all dependent on whether Mech Mage becomes viable in wild, and if it is, it will get nerfed. The cycle of a Mage player.

     

  • Giving mech mage cards 5 stars was very bold, but I doubt it will turn out to be a meta defining deck.

    Also, spellcoiler deserves more than 1 star, it seems like a decent inclusion in quest mage. 

    • Quest Mage has better options, I really doubt it would see play there.

      I was originally going to give Mech Mage 4 stars but I think being bold with this prediction is more fun + promotes more discussion.

      Even if it’s not tier 1 but tier 2 I’d call it a 5 star card given how rarely mage gets new archetypes in Wild over the years.

  • For volcanomancy, the wording seems to indicate that the spell would deal the damage, not the minion (“deal 3 damage” and not “it deals 3 damage”). So combos with lifesteal and poisonous should not work.
    Of course, it’s Blizzard, so I could easily be wrong.

    • You may be right, in that case it’s even worse but Reno Control Mages may still play it depending on the meta (still 2 stars because that’s a very niche deck).

  • First of all many thanks for the wild reviews! As a wild player I really appreciate it!

    Two points that come to my mind:

    • Mech Mage looks really interesting but a bit too slow to become more than Tier 2/3
    • Commander Sivara is unfortunately an incredible support for Open the Waygate which was detested almost to the level of Big Priest when it was prevalent; I predict another nerf (not soon but eventually)

    All in all things don't look like too good for Mage. Right now it is the worst class in wild and I doubt this will change much (apart from the much loved Open the Waygate which might become playable again)

  • Another great article! One thing I'd like to point out is the Volcanomancy + Venomous Scorpid combo. Scorpid is already decent on its own in slower decks, but 5 Mana for a full board clear more often than not, plus Discover a spell (in Mage!) plus a must-clear body?! This combo alone makes Volcanomancy a 4 star card in my books.

    • Wait a moment, I'm stupid. The scorpid has to die before the AOE goes off, which makes it way worse. I imagined it to happen like Flurgl/Toxfin. Meh. 

    • Looks like the big question is if Mech Mage can kill before turn 6 then. Tough, but manageable I think. Maybe the solution is to get in a little burn as well, like Fireball or Ignite.