I did call Raylla “budget Dorian” earlier, I’ve also referred to her as “bargain bin Dorian” before. 
She is definitely weaker than Dorian is, sadly. Making her stat line match his didn’t really change that. But yeah… she needs to be played in a similar manner.
No, you don’t. Part of what the card is doing is letting you tutor your wildfires by letting you run grillmaster. Consider that as part of her effect, even if you can’t really leverage her on board effect as well.
ok. I’ll keep trying to learn to use her better:)
At absolute worst, imagine her as something like Renathal. He’s actually a bad minion in your deck, but him just being there gives you an advantage that doesn’t involve actually playing him.
Raylla is doing the same for you, but yeah, you can leverage her better if you hold her a bit until you can play her with at least 1 spell.
Just don’t even try.
Rayla would be decent in standard if rainbow mage still was a deck.
It don’t.
Mage has effect oriented gameplay. This means that any card that isn’t feasible to use the effect the own turn it is played is just not worth.
And while it is possible to use rayla the turn it is played the card is a legendary on top of that.
It means that you can’t get her consistently because she is a 1 off.
So you have to work your way during the game into a card you don’t know if you gonna draw.
Well, I’m only using her because I have to in order to run grillmasters. But yeah, she is clunky for me, most of the time.
Dorian is not giving access, to all Paladin cards from Perils. And it’s mechanically different on the generation of cards making it essentially a comparison between apples and oranges.
Yeah, that’s why I emphasized not judging her entirely based on what she does on board. If using Raylla lets you run grillmasters which are key for your deck, well, the grillmasters are part of Raylla’s effect.
Ty for the advice. If Watercolor Artist were fire instead of frost, I wouldn’t have to run the card at all, lol.
It’s a card that basically doesn’t have a meta/game to be playable in. The card could have been an Epic IMO. That effect doesn’t really measure up to a legendary card effect in todays game.
So, wasn’t the card good in rainbow mage or something?
I just am using it in a deck that has no better alternatives.
It was statistically the best card to play in a really bad deck basically.
Half the tourists are mediocre on their own. They’re not “on its own” cards though, they have the extra benefit “you can choose all the cards of another class in Perils”.
Which is powerful if the cards you are given access to are all of equal power across the classes. ATM i think Mage is probably suffering the effects of them being too scared to buff those Paladin cards because it might make Paladin too powerful. Sucks for Mage in that regard. Probably why they just decided to lean into BSM instead of pushing the Expansion theme any further with Mage.
Idk if I entirely agree. I’ll bet shaman loves having mage cards.
The card can definitely do some work in the right deck.
For example, this was a game I just played against rainbow mage, where, had I not gotten pretty crazy luck, their Raylla would have probably demolished me.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/6WCajbiCQqx8cdeLnYjAd5
Shaman gets Demon Hunter “tourism”.
Oh yeah. It’s druid. Just what they needed, 'cause they are so weak. lol.
Mistah Vistah/Concierge Druid is one of their hardest to play decks. Most druids go easy mode and play 999 mana on ramp druid. It’s not as great as people think it is when they don’t play it.
All I know is what I see in Wild. Not a great way to judge, I’m sure.
Druid gets to play turn 10 on turn three or something.
The card is just following Mage tradition patterns, and we need to respect those.
Every so other set Mage needs a Legendary like so or it doesnt feel like Hearthstone.
What i found amusing was the hype for it on reveal and later the fearmongering over its buff like it would bring about a biblical disaster.
Not even the most conservative predictions saw a 1hp+ buff coming, Mage balance changes are so entertaining.