Or better known as Mage’s only win condition
Can’t win the game on their own so lets cheese one out with the casino card. “random” spells my 7th planet… board clear every time and usually 3 times over just to make sure the path is clear for the 3 “Power of Creations” it castes afterward.
and you can be as sure as death and taxes no board clear will be cast then 
Someone’s salty /20chars
Puzzle Box never hits me as hard as Solarian Prime. I might run two Mass Dispels as I never draw it before they can kill their Solarian.
You have no idea how much Mage players are sick of that “casino card”…
Thats all we have right now blame the dev team for not giving anything decent to the class this past year.
You are mad for lossing a game to an high roll box ,just keep in mind it backfires just has much…
When they start printing new cards that actually have a chance to compete(dont shadow nerf them) and they stop destroying the classic set we will stop playing “Mage´s only win condition”, just like you said we have nothing else but freaking RNG.
Its not by choice we were forced into this , complain to the dev team that think we are a “slot machine”…
haha the other day somehow a mage played 2 boxes against me. both largely went in their favor. isn’t this why the OG was nerfed? lol then they print a version you can put two of in your deck.
Seriously, that card is so random and in my experience rarely pays off.
Faced a Mage yesterday who used 2 boxes and only managed to do stupid crap like boost Totem health and Fireball his own face. He even buffed my minions!
Not a problem imho, and I would never put that card in my own deck voluntarily.
only win condition??
in wild ?
We mages hate the archetype too. How about you start petitioning Blizzard for mage to have actual cards instead of RNG trash?
Be part of the solution.
Funny, whenever I use it on my mage, it backfires. Eye of the beholder, I guess.
it isnt trash and it shouldnt be “instead” should be “and”
Just removing the secret cancels spells, absurd, murdering even the legendary missions.
If a 10 mana spell was printed that summoned a couple of minions and wiped a board be better or worse? Because the average outcome is significantly worse than that, and obviously it has no consistency. Depends if your issue is with the power level or the rng factor. I feel like most classes are capable of scamming games, and those that aren’t are just generally solid (Hunter, Warlock etc).
Opinions vary. I think my statement was perfect just the way it is written. You certainly don’t have to like it.
Your approval is neither desired nor required.
Only win condition? Just because it’s a stupid random card they use to bail out of losing games doesn’t make it their only win condition. Mage has lots of ways to kill people: Highlander has insane tempo swing plays, Spell Mage generates powerful minions for tempo swings, there are multiple combo wins right now, there’s giants, and burning opponents out is a viable win condition too.
Do you even play mage? There is exactly one viable mage deck on tier now. The same old janky HL mage we have been stuck with since forever.
Spell mage just got nerfed and it was trash before the nerf.
Puzzle box is ok, you lose cause of it sometimes but when the mage gets rekt playing it makes it worth.
Highlander Mage uses box to bail out of bad matchups like Rogues use Edwin. It’s not the primary win condition; that would be the dragon and Highlander payoffs.
Also still giggling that the forum is so convinced the discover change destroys mage decks. Just because Highlander is super strong doesn’t mean the other archetypes are terrible.
What mage deck do you think is playable other than HL? Vicious syndicate says the other two aren’t worth playing.
Of course they say that: Highlander is better and they will always advocate playing the better deck.
That doesn’t mean cyclone or spell mage is any good, 'cause they aren’t. As usual Blizzard didn’t give the archetypes enough support to be tier worthy. This is an ongoing pattern for Blizzard with regards to mage for the past three or more expansions. Print pieces of new archetypes, but not enough to make the style good. and then abandon it or nerf it into the ground.