That Pyroblast OTK seems a lot more doable now
Sort of like DH relic where its improved every time you play it. There are plenty of ways to get more copies with the upcoming cards.
This doesn’t seem very good. That said, I dont think any of the soloists are very good
4 mana draw 3 spells seems pretty good on its own. Add another copy of one of the three spells you chose seems even better. Could get you more copies of lightshow
Get more copies of lightshow. You can create a lightshow deck using Rommath as a finisher from discovered lightshows. I like it!
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That lightshow is going to be obnoxious as hell, but I will admit that a groovy disco mage killing you with a lightshow flurry is kind of amazing.
Not bad. I already know I am going to hate this with a passion tho
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i love the spell tutor
maybe having something like this wouldve made deep breath playable before rotating
This looks fun. Reddit will be in shambles though, and we all know how that ends up.
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Lightshow feels incredibly overrated. Sure you can do it, but it’s going to hit minions too so its ability to be a combo finisher is extremely limited.
Arcane Bolt and Vexallus does the same concept better.
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One thing to keep in mind here is that all three of the new spells here are Arcane, so they can work with the Arcane support minions introduced in MotLK. So you could double them with Vexallus, or likely better, discount them with Magister’s Apprentice.
I agree. Players praising these cards are spewing nonsense.
Again; this is too random to be effective for mage, but a rogue stealing them will be awesome.
Mage will be a joke that loses to druid, rogue, priest, and probably everything were I to guess.
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Lightshow does seem more like a meme than a serious spell.
But Volume Up is really good.
And Rewind has potential in any Mage deck that runs a small number of spells that it really wants extra copies of.
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These all look pretty bad.
If opponent has no minions will iightshow hit face for 4 or 6 if buffed? The card text isnt clear to me. If it can hit face twice then its a good card.
Keyboard is not as bad as it looks i guess because of the totall amount of stats but i dont think its playable.
Volume seems just bad. How mage ever going to spend 4 mana to draw 3 i dont see it happen.
Rewind is pretty expensive to use as well. You dont have mana for such things unless you are full control.
Technically you can play that route because mage has a bigger finisher since you can recast all discovered lightshow at turn 9.
So basically light show is both your finisher and control tool.
So it sounds like this deck is just gonna discover solid alibi off of volume up, then play solid alibi for the next 8 turns because rewind gives more solid alibi’s. Followed by some kind of OTK. Sounds fun.
None of it will compete with Rogue Druid and Priest.
Team 5 has printed too many classes and too many busted cards. They cannot have winners without serious losers.
I know what mage will be already.
Volume UP and audio splitter can run in most mage decks actually.
Actually audio splitter is a hell of a card.
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Mage has ran Multicaster quite often just to draw 3-4 cards with a body. This tutors spells and can also give you an extra copy. It is not a bad card imo. Only real drawback is that you’d be forced to use draw at the end of turn (something a bit counterintuitive)
The thing with volume up is it discovering a card from your deck.
Aggro mage is basically this.
Generating arcane bolt again and again.
Now we have lightshow that is basically the same archtype but slighty slower and with more damage output.
If you not exagerate and build your deck correctly this can actually work.
Actually, thinking about it, you could build a deck that can pretty consistent copy Lightshow to get a lot of copies.
If Rewind, Lightshow and Volume Up are your only spells, plus running the Arcane Bolt generators, Volume Up has a huge chance of drawing a copy of Lightshow and offering you a potential opportunity to copy it. Rewind will almost always offer you Lightshow, since there are only three possible options to choose from (four if you had the Coin). You can run Sivarra and Audio Splitter to generate extra copies of Lightshow and/or Rewind. Rommath can recast a lot of the Lightshows too.
The first downside is that you’d need to really cut back on the Discover a Spell options in your deck to avoid polluting the Discover pool for Rewind.
The other downside is that the idea seems like it would be pretty slow to get off the ground, and you’d need to rely a lot on minions to hold off your opponent while you try to ramp up your Lightshows.
It’s probably easier just to take a similar approach, but focus more on Frozen Touch like the current Frost Aggro Mage deck.
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Well, I won’t bother. Comparing these cards to other classes, I am convinced this will be meme at best, and when it does win, players will scream about how “uninteractive” it is.
Team 5 never learns anything. They just repeat the same old mistakes as always.
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Or…
You can use the exact same package but trade lightshow for arcane bolt.
Now that the dugeoneer is rotating there is no reason to not put non frost spells on aggro mage.
Incorporating volume UP and arcane bolt to aggro mage you get potential extra 4 copies of arcane bolt reducing draw variance drastically.
I was thinking more leaning into the current Frost package with Volume Up and maybe Rewind.
Since as you mention, you don’t need to build around Dungeoneer, you can use the two new spells to draw and copy Frozen Touch and/or Deathborne depending on the matchup.
Rewind is probably to slow for that type of play.
And volume UP gonna already draw the copies of deathborne and any spell you need most of the time.
No need to discover that with it.
Actually draw 3 will probably filter the deck hard enough that it’s late game inconsistency will mostly be gone.