I was in a ranked Duels game against a mage and I must have been distracted on their turn or something because they were all of a sudden out of cards in their deck and every time it was their turn to draw they got to discover a card twice. I looked at the history but it didn’t say anything. Is this a hack or did I misread a treasure or something? I’m so confused. I can’t find any card that does this online.
I can think of a scenario where this happens.
Mage has a treasure called Infinite Arcane. It does what you describe - It destroys the player’s deck and allows them to discover a card every turn that costs 2 less.
There is also a passive treasure called Idol of Elune. At the end of your turn, it casts a random spell you’ve cast this turn.
When you combine these, it means the player:
- casts Infinite Arcane, destroying their deck.
- casts Infinite Arcane again because of Idol of Elune
On the player’s subsequent turns:
- They discover a card because of the initial Infinite Arcane cast
- They discover another card because of the Idol of Elune’s cast of Infinite Arcane.
Oh. Ok. Yeah, that’s not totally broken or anything.
Sometimes duels is just like that. And tbh, there is worse.
I recently faced a warrior who had the legendary weapon treasure. Chose woecleaver and recruited an 8/8 minion…on turn 1. Good times.
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duels is not meant to be fair
Wow, no wonder I hate that mode.
it why i only play the casual mode
You want crazy? How about a 3-Patches bucket while you have a passive that gives all neutrals +1/+1 and your deck also contains the 3 0-mana 1/1 neutrals. As soon as I had that passive, I started every game turn 1 with 5 minions on the board each having 2 ATK (sadly, I don’t have a Patches of my own, otherwise it’d be even crazier), and of course tons more low-mana options to keep the aggro up, as well as Loyal Sidekick (in the last battle it was 3 mana 14/14). Easy 12 wins. My only losses were against 2 Priests who would AoE me and then heal all the damage back up.
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That mage treasure is pure loserville. Fwiw, I almost exclusively play duels and I’m used to the nonsense that goes on. That said, the “all out of cards” treasure is just plain g to the izzay.
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That would be a pretty bad hack, don’t you think?
It’s really not. Infinite arcane let’s you discover a card from your deck and put it on top of your now gone deck for two less.
Would you do that? Would you destroy your deck, inutilize your card draw, for a random discounted card from your deck? What happens if you need two cards from your deck then?
He copied the effect, so every turn he discovered 2 cards.
Sounds like you had a good build. I dont think you can put patches in your initial build though. It’s available in that card bucket that contains 3 of them, however.