So many classes have weapons but only rogue has a draw weapon from deck minion and all classes really need access to this mechanic through a neutral draw weapon from deck card.
Tutor cards are already difficult to balance, and Neutral ones particularly so. Furthermore, applying it to cards that are relevant in certain classes but not in others is a recipe for disaster when mechanics that explore these boundaries are attempted, such as the Legendary Weapons from Kobolds & Catacombs.
If such a card existed, it would likely either slot too easily into multiple decks from the weapon classes (and possibly from the non-weapon classes, e.g., a hypothetical Dragon Soul Priest) or would generally be too weak to be worth playing. The middle ground in this respect is quite small, and neither result is particularly enthralling.
This is to say nothing of class identities, including strengths and weaknesses. Fishing for a weapon fits Rogue very well and is only truly powerful in a Kingsbane deck at this time, but perhaps Warrior or Paladin – for example – would be much easier to break with such a card?
You really don’t wanna give Warlocks a way to easily grab Skull from there deck. Trust me on that.
I feel like Paladin has good cheap weapons. If any class could use a weapon tutor let’s give it to Shamans lol.
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Warrior has another one and no one plays it.
As someone stated before: Tutor cards are very hard to balance. At one point they have to stop creating draw cards alltogether.
Warrior cards in Year of Mammoth are basically garbage (tiny exceptions)… that weapon draw spell is a tempo loss and drawing 2 weapons is usually overkill.
If Warrior had Ultimate Infestation during KOTFT it would been get 5 armor, deal 5 damage, draw 5 weapons.
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You want tutor cards for key pieces or win conditions. For typical weapon classes, a weapon is neither a key piece or win condition, it’s just a good tempo tool which you are happy to see, but not go out of your way to necessarily have it.
In Druid, Warlock and Priest however, it would be used to fish for KNC weapons with greatly increased consistency, because those cards actually are win conditions.
By default this effect is actually the least beneficial for your typical weapon classes.