90% of time he use usles spells oponent board full no flame strike no blizzard oponent 1 unit blizzard flame strike holly sxit duds fix him ore make him 2 mana but for 6 doing nothing+
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His spells are randomized. It isn’t trying to pick the best spell for the occasion. Helpful just refers to the list of spells being things that aren’t going to backfire on you.
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I think We can agree it’s a bad card. Just another example of team5 saddling Mage with slot machine mechanics.
I have never used the thing.
his spells say usfull spells not usles 99% of time
No thats not quite right, i dont mind slot machine cards when they tell me to my face thats what it will be.
I can understand the confusion from the person above, it all started with that delightful reveal video.
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I used that card quite a bit. The important thing to keep in mind is that you can control the outcome of the orbs choices to a certain degree.
When I cleared the board of the opponent I got a Fireball most of the time.
No, he is one of the best cards in mage.
He’s just a random card, not something you should be playing to get a board clear.
Hell, I had a game not too long ago where all he did is cast ice armor 5 turns in a row.
But you know what? Who wouldn’t play a 6 Mana 5/5 that gained 40 armor?
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Yeah, that’s what I thought, as well, and then me and friend tested it for hours trying to repeat that consistently, and that “rule” turned out to fall apart, it was just luck xD
It made sense to me, and for a few tries it also looked that way, that it complements your plays. If you go face, Khadgar clears, if you clear, Khadgar goes face or protects you
But it doesn’t work like that, sadly
Had a similar experience. That said, whatever conditions make for what spells aren’t clear to me.
I think the card is mediocre at best. And I have no love for random, as all of you already know:)
Yeah, each spell has conditions that put it on the list of possible spells.
For example, he will never arcane missiles unless your opponent has a 1 health minion on the board. If you don’t want him to arcane missiles (you almost never do), don’t leave 1 HP minions on the board.
He won’t use arcane intellect if you have 8+ cards in hand (it might be 7)
2 health minions seem to be the trigger of blizzard in the list as I’ve seen him blizzard a single 3/2 often.
Flamestrike has been rare, so I’m not sure what gets that on the list.
Polymorph goes on if there’s something big on the board, but I don’t know the size limit exactly, and it’s still a random target.
He seems to always be able to use fireball, frost bolt, mirror images, ice armor, and counterspell. I’m sure there are probably conditions for these as well, but I can’t figure them out.
If cards like this are so fabulous, then team 5 should be stoked to give them to pally druid and rogue for a change.
You really wouldn’t want druid to have him right now. They be able to drop it on like, turn 4 like a doomkin and lock you out of the game waaay more effectively.
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druid, rogue, shaman, and pally have everything already. I don’t see what difference it makes in BiasStone.
Anyhow, the card has never won me a single game.
It seems like a joke card to me.
I mean, imagine for a second that this was in paladin.
They use their three swings of painters virtue, Khadgar is now an 8/8 on curve that equips a new weapon and starts slinging random powerful spells for free that don’t interfere at all with the deck building restrictions of handbuff or magatha.
Also it’s a weapon so it enables the buffed charge pirates.
Khadgar is a strong card in basically any class. It’s not the reason mage is weak right now (that’s because blizz made a set to push all spell mage, so mage is basically operating a set down compared to everyone else as that package can’t mix with anything else)
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I can imagine it. But I also know that mage will never be allowed anything that makes the card as good as you describe.
In mage, I think the card is mediocre at best.
I have lost to thief priest and rogue using this card against me, so I see what it could be capable of.
I just don’t believe team5 will ever allow mage to use it that well, ever.
Anyone who cannot see that they purposely cripple the class isn’t paying attention.
He has won me most games I have played him. I just never play him as a hail Mary play unless he is the only possible out, because that’s not how you are supposed to use the card.
You want to curve into him when you aren’t dead on board or in dire need of some other play. You are basically just looking for a gap where he isn’t an emergency play.
From that point on, you play as though the card isn’t on board, and it basically just supercharges your turns for 6 turns with free value. It has made the marginal difference of winning in many, many games for me.
Where he is bad is when you are dead on board and you play him hoping for a blizzard or flamestrike. As I mentioned earlier, I think the trigger for blizzard is a 2 health minion on board, so if that’s not there, I don’t think he actually even has the chance to save you. (I don’t know the flamestrike trigger, it might be 5 health minions?)
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But here you see that the card itself is very good. It’s the rest of Mage’s cards that aren’t doing anything cohesive enough. Khadgar is one of the best cards the class has.
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This makes me incredibly sad.
hey, will you add me? I lost your btag.
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It shouldn’t. The card is good. I love playing it. It’s the rest of the cards that don’t feel quite as good to play.
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