It’s always just been broken.
Mana cost: It costs 1 mana, but it should cost 2, instead, for the simple reason that it’s a combination of Mirror image (1 mana) and Flame Geyser (1 mana)
Even if we somehow decide to tolerate the mana cost and blame powercreep for it, there’s still the fact that the spell is multi-purposeful. It’s very versatile and useful in almost every situation.
It is broken.
And while we’re at it, Backstage Bouncer is also kinda sus xD
What kind of jerk goes after taunt warrior like this. Next will be the cries to nerf taunt entirely by eliminating the keyword.
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Backstage Bouncer is a Shaman minion.
It gives 8 mana worth of stats for 4 mana
it’s a dual class minion lol shaman/warrior
I both agree and not think it needs nerfing tbh. I wouldn’t say it’s broken because I don’t think it breaks any deck it’s in, but it definitely is far better than a 1 mana spell should be.
Backstage bouncer seems fine tho, it’s mostly that good just because Pop-up book is good.
Not really. Flame geyser gives you a 1/2 to hand while this summons the 2 0/1 minions the cards are just about equal in value
I dont see how you think it is both cards in 1 card.
Its not broken, but it is annoying that shaman can snowball tokens so effectively. Shaman identity is going wide though so it makes sense for the class
I actually think the 2 mana spells that buff minions is what helps snowball shaman out of control in the early game more than anything.
That is incorrect. Only older Shaman decks still play that.
The strongest Shaman deck currently, Spell shaman, also swarms the board early, and does that without those spells.
We have First Contact now!!
Ah yea lol its pretty annoying when they have 3 or so different ways to make 2 minions on turn 1, but the 0/1 minions are a minor nuisance compared to the ones that deal damage…
Unless maybe your playing something like sludgelock where they block your damage eh? XD
As long as you have ways to pick off the minions behind the taunts they are pretty easy to clean up.
It always feels bad when one gets turned into a 4/5 to be fair
Do you run aoe in your warlock deck? I feel like defile alone would wreck the swarm strategies.
I’m the one playing Spell Shaman xD
I said it was broken almost a week ago xD
Can’t lose against Druid, Priest and Rogue, loses only to BSM mage, a bit of DK and 50% against other shamans, ofc.
Yeah, it’s got a ton of AoE.
Someone got tilted by an evolution shaman. It’s not a great deck at surviving before evolving so it needs those kinds of cards. In fact it often HIGHROLLS to survive because those flimsy little minions it uses rarely have more than 1HP.
Also it does its job relatively late against various opponents. The main reason it wins is that sometimes it highrolls the flooding and the lack of AOE of the opponent so time-wise it’s mostly an aggro deck.
Express yourself better if you want to be understood. We don’t have telepathy. The only thing you did at the OP was to whine against 2 cards.
Those 2 cards are staples of evolution shaman, the best shaman.
Anyway, I really like the deck.
Ended up changing a few cards from it:
2x weapon out → 1x Thrall’s Gift + 1x Cookie legendary in
2x 3 mana elemental out → 2x Sigil of Skydiving in
This combo added 11% winrate to the deck which was already in tier 1 according to VS
And the funniest thing is, I thought I was borrowing the idea from Evolution Shamans, but EVERY spell dmg Shaman I saw on the ladder today did the same at the same time.
Literally NO Spell Shaman list anywhere contains Thrall’s Gift and Skydiving, but EVERY Spell Shaman on NA in top 1k contains at least 1 (most are running 2, but that’s redundant).
Stats → 63,83% winrate in 47 games in top 1k mainly
Apparently, DH and Warlock were deleted from the game.
Because Shamans can’t use it.
Pop-Up Book needs to lose its spell tag to align with a balanced power level.
It makes no sense for it to be a Nature spell while also serving as a clone of Mirror Image and Flame Geyser combined.
Well, it kinda does xDD
Ice and Fire being elements, Nature is the natural ruler of all the elements.
Naturally.
I see you changed a typo to Thrall’s. Thousands of games have used that combo of cards on spell shaman. Check spell shaman deck 19892423 at hsguru.
