Guys, I really so confused…
I was thinking Magatha will protect us from Plague. So when you draw plague oponent will recieve damage but not you. But it doesnt work this way.
I have a question - It must work this way? - Magatha give only usual spells to opponent? and not spells that cast when drawn?
According patch 27 or so, that was about 3 days ago…it seems so.
description is - give any spell drawn to your opponent.
I dont understand or this is bug when I recieve damage drawning plague with Magatha or it must be so…
And if Magatha cant protect from plague, whar is she usefull for? xd
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She is conditional but massive card draw.
The issue most people not understand is that hearthstone is effect oriented and not status oriented.
It really does not matter if your minion has good status for the curve if the effect isn’t on part with the curve.
Magatha would be a blast as 4 mana 4/4 but as a 5 mana it’s usually too slow.
It’s not a bug. The Plague effect is cast when drawn, meaning the effect will activate and then the Plague will be given to your opponent, at least that’s how it has worked in my experience. It could have changed since then.
Great point, the transfer of plague cards should trump plague draw effect.
I was also surprised to see that it didn’t.
This behavior drives me a little crazy, feels like it should be a nice protection option.
Bit old but it’s such a odd interaction. Before plague dk was a little underpowered, but the interaction is such a odd one.
Usually it gives any other spell to the opponent, but for plagues you take the damage even though the wording sounds like it could suggest the other way around.
Magatha and Hagatha are pretty witch like names, a witch giving a plague spreader back their curse could be thematic. But Magatha is a powerful draw card. In a minion heavy meta she’s very powerful reload, but right now most spells and her own dangerous nature are already enough.
No.
In a minion heavy meta she is just as bad.
The instant my opponent plays magatha he did lose so much tempo that i know i did win.
Want a really powerful draw engine?
Stargazing into wisdom of norgannon.
What more?
Secret passage.
Magatha is a joke at what she does not only having a incredible high cost for card draw but demmanding deckbuilding conditions for a overcosted effect.
That card could use some status and cost decrease maintaining the text.
Perhaps the most broken card ever printed. I really don’t think we need that in standard right now. Do you? Maybe rogue needs the help.
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Nah.
Still i’m talking of what powerful cards look like here.
You can’t really mean to balance anything without compare first.
Magatha would probably be good enough on the same terms but as 3 mana 3/3.
Blizzard has to decide if they want good neutral buildarounds to be a thing or if they really gonna go all in class cards letting neutrals only with techs.
What we can’t have are half baked buildarounds as neutrals.
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Some people are pretty much solo aggro players who seem to just always go. “AGGRO good, control bad, MURDER PRIEST!, AOE BROKEN! Draw 5 for 5 bad!” jk 
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Magatha is still a a draw 5 for 5/5. Problem is the modern tempo in hearthstone has just kinda gone so high, we’ve gone from 7 mana 5/5 draw 2 in classic being “too strong” with druid to 5 mana 5/5 draw 5 being too slow.
3 Should probably break, but if the comparison is the class drawing 4 cards for 1 mana. Then yeah secret passage is probably one of the most raw broken cards ever printed and still sees tons of play galore. That and the other 1 mana draw 3 require a empty hand at least. But it’s a easy draw 7 combo that can pair with each other.
Still though, comparing magatha to the most broken 1 mana draw 4-7s is probably unfair. But it was a powerful card in the right deck, until everything probably became soft +1-2 mana vs vanilla crept.
Heck, wild’s not the best place for vanilla, but a 4 mana 6/4 or 6/5 worgen greaser seeing no play and a lot of standard cards splashing over to d1 wild play is probably a indicator that the power level is high enough to shake waves with both wild and standard.
Something usually reserved for stormwind + launch odd dh with 1 mana hunter hero powers and 5 damage 4 attack glaives.
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