Well; you know what, Drum? I willgladly edit my remark if it restores your composure.
Rest assured Iām fully composed, just highlighting why doomsaying is not a question and why you get vastly different responses to one over the other.
Itās like if someone has trouble solving a puzzle and just rants and complains at total strangers walking by about how screwed the are and how unfair puzzles are with the expectation that someone will eventually swoop in and save them. Theyād get a lot further if they simply said āHey, what do you make of this? Can you help?ā
One attracts ire. The other, answers.
Good for you. And thank you for the actual answers.
Not everyone is a full time gamer with the expertise you have.
Iām lucky if I average an hour of HS per day. I work full time and take care of a family and home. Iām anything but a full-time gamer.
In terms of expertise, youāve been playing this game for years more than I have.
But in terms of gaming knowledge yours outstrips my by leagues.
I simply canāt just look at a card and know what itās capable of.
I have to see it in action.
You guys one and all can visualize decks and plays.
Probably explains a great deal about my win rates.
Most of the time, I donāt see interactions the way you guys do either.
So; I ask questions that might seem stupid from an eight year player.
But; this game isnāt chess. It has no real rules and is constantly changing and so I feel ike Im continually relearning.
Iāll be 100% with you: I am genuinely surprised. I was hoping for Snowchugger, but was expecting something in the Mage Core Set that was Mech-related. That said, Iām also not wholly disappointed. That Mech draw/discount spell was even more shocking. That card is really powerful draw for a tempo tribal deck. Plus, there are some quality Neutral Mechs to round out any Tempo Mage Mech deck.
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I watched at least three streamers that were confident Snowchugger would be back.
Since I donāt have the same knowledge others do, I depend on their expertise for building decks.
Ask Schyla. Iām a really bad deck builder.
I am also a basic curve player.
I play my cards as efficiently to my mana as I can, and try and burn the other player down.
Sometimes it worksā¦
Letās not forget that the Core Set added Gorillabotā¦and then buffed it to be a better Spider Tank. And nothing says undersea adventure like robot monkeys! Ever heard of Sea Monkeys? Yeahā¦theyāre real.
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I think Drum is probably right that mage decks will have to be a hybrid of styles and there probably wonāt be a straight forward deck that just runs mechs.
I picked all the decent looking cards with mechs as a keyword, put in Fireball/Ignite/Runed Orb for burn, typed in draw and put in Arcane Brilliance, Multicaster and Flurry for third spell school.
Maybe it can go faster without Multicaster/Flurry and Drekāthar and Siphon Mana instead.
Maybe it can go for more late-game with Balinda/Amulet package.
But Curve and Burn mostly built itself. The only difficult part is deciding if it was worth running Flurry to enable a better Multicaster draw or to run Peasants/Thalnos. No Brain Freeze as obvious choice for Frost now.
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thanks so much! I havent played Wild in awhile.
Itās not wild. The official site just hasnāt updated Core yet. Itās why Gorillabot is still 4 mana.
oh gotcha just theorycraft. looks fun, and fast, hopefully:)
I already have a otk around the New naga theorycrafted.
Just saying.
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Itās probably better that snowchugger didnāt make it in, because itās not as good as the mechs weāve seen, and it would now clutter up the mech minion discover list.
Mech Mage is going to be at worst a decent deck. Itās probably going to be strong right out of the gates because itās easy to put together a working list since all the mechs synergize with all the other mech cards. Itās crazy. Mechs discovering Mechs, generating Mechs, discovering Mechs, all while drawing Mechs, discounting Mechs, and Mechs dealing damage to all enemies each time they are summoned or attack. Itās frickinā nuts.
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Well; like I said: Hereās hoping I find a deck that curves and tempos.
You might actually see me praise team 5 for the first time since WF mage was buffed.
Is this the part where I point out thereās no mechs in Paladin either or
Yeah I was surprised by that as well, but since i had listened to streamers say snowchugger would be a thing I planned all of my theorycrafting around that.