Meme card, will rarely do something insane in arena.
If legendaries are mostly high-cost cards, maybe there’s some sanity to this. Load up a deck with cannon fodder murlocs along with this. Get some legendaries when they die. Then roll on with the one or two good legendaries that you get …
I’m not sure if I could say the above with a straight face. Murlocs seem like a tribe that works best when you get a bunch on the board, then buff the board. I don’t want random legendaries when my murlocs die! I want more murlocs!
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Now now Warlock is there too. It’s gameplan seems to be in this expansion to watch hunters and demon hunters steamroll them while they setup for slow turn 9+ plays that never come
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This card indirectly nerfed Plague of Murlocs (you don’t want to give this to your opponent along with murlocs they can turn into legendaries) and buffed Murgurgle Prime.
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Im going to be the optimist and say this is a trash tier one-off card, and the rest of the Shaman reveal is going to be OP Shudderwock level shenanigans. Maybe.
I feel like a lot of people are underestimating this card. Just as a 3 mana 3/4 Murloc this is comparable to Nightmare Amalgam, a card which saw play in nearly every Murloc deck while it was in Standard. Any additional value obtained from it is just a bonus.
There are situations where the Shaman may not have enough cards left to finish off the opponent by pushing aggressively. While not as good as additional Murlocs, random legendaries can still allow the Shaman to continue pressuring the opponent. This card also has great synergy with the tokens from Soul of the Murloc.
People are definitely underestimating this card. It indirectly protects your board from most common AoE in the meta. Magic fin survives holy nova, wild pyro, shattershard mystic, etc. and then refills your hand.
It’s terrifying! Shaman with murlocs going be pretty disgusting to play against.
I thought we were getting less RNG not more???
I think the designers are using “Madness” as a code-word for RNG. Maybe they’re getting the RNG out of their system before next year.
I like Magicfin because it’s not annoying like Underbelly Angler.
3/5 Star Power card
No, but might make for a surprise with soul of the murloc till that move gets played out.
I think its pretty bad even in a Murloc deck that works. Murlocs want to play Murlocs, they want cheap synergistic Murlocs. Just getting a bunch of Legendarys is basically just doing Casino Shaman. You want your Murlocs hitting face not clearing minions and your opponent is going to clear this before any other Murloc.
It’s Dave Kosak’s obsession with RNG swan song.