We need mage buffs in standard

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Hi.

As people know mage situation in standard right now isn’t exactly the best and while there are worse situations i’m here to talk about mage today.

We should talk about what we understand.

  1. Lightshow isn’t only “bad”. It’s ugly.

I suggest it changing from:

Shoot two lasers that deal 2 damage to random enemies.

To:

Shoot three lasers that deal 2 damage to random enemies.

  1. Correct the cosmic keyboard text. (only text. It already works this way) from:

After you cast a spell summon a minion with status equal to it’s cost.

To:

After you cast a spell that cost (1) or more summon a minion with status equal to it’s cost.

It’s really important for mage viability that people know that cosmic keyboard not activates with 0 cost spells.

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It’s really weird they gave mage elementals without having a viable elemental deck.

Where is the Frost Lich Jaina equivalent to make this work.

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Nope - spell is completely fine. It has potential for massive burn and OTK tuns. Problem is meta is hostile towards deck relying a lot on late game if they arent packed with stall and removals like blood DK for example.

There is no need to buff it. Mage has a ways how to generate multiple copies of that spell via its beloved random discover effects and even replay them with Rommath.

And its pretty clear this spell is meant to be late game powerhouse. Not solid midgame spell.

If you wanna make this deck more viable - ask for nerfs to slow the lethality a bit so you arent threatened by turn 5 to explode reliably.

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Its not alone. Others like big beast hunter and overheal priest are waiting for their cards. Maybe we get stuff in the mini-set.

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The question i ask is this can we maybe nerf the problem decks instead of boosting mage i think we all could do with a power reset.

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As it is the card is basically junk that would still not see play even in 2014.

You not liking the game actual direction not makes your opnion on the card correct.

Also it has intrisic deckbuilding cost already.

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Uh Mage has at least one deck performing well at high legend already. A couple of cards in other classes just needed toned down and a few buffs overall.

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Yes.

And this is why cosmic keyboard needs text correction.

It’s getting mage winrate down. People aren’t forced to know they can coin while using cosmic keyboard.

Also it prevents blizzard from destroying the class by declaring that a bug when it’s clearly intended to not waste the weapon charge creating a 0/0.

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I’m with OP in this one, the Lightshow combo is too slow and there’s hardly any room for improvement. I’d buff either Lightshow or Rewind.

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I have no problem with buffing mage if they temper down the stall. I’m getting tired of getting a mage to lethal only to have to wait 6 turns to do 1 damage through all of the alibi’s, freezes, and slot machines.

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Keyboard deck isn’t even the good deck. It’s the Spooky Mage package combined with the Arcane package that has the higher win rate and is just better overall. It fights for the board while going face at the same time.

Given enough nerfs to other classes it could easily become the best deck.

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I don’t know Rewind is already a pretty good card. The fact that Mage has the best Finale card in the set would make a buff to rewind extremely dangerous.

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yeah lightshow is useless right now

even if you have a perfect discovery and get all lightshows, the card is way way too slow

it’s useless against aggro and even against control decks it’s pretty weak

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No need to buff rewind really.

That card is dangerous as heck as it is.

Also we can’t rely on data about cosmic keyboard due to not knowing how many people know how it works.

And that missinformation affecting atleast 50% of their matches(coin).

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This is an already powerful spell. I wouldn’t buff Rewind.

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Yeah forget about Rewind, but Lightshow could start at 3.

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And it definitely doesnt make your opinion correct either :smiley:

There is a lot of cards heavily underperforming currently (even more than Lightshow) - do you wanna buff all of them too?

If you wanna make it more viable in midgame , you should make it less powerful in late game - cap the number of lasers maybe so it can never provide massive burst or OTK.

Thats the cost you are paying in Lightshow- weak for few initial casts and strong after multiple casts and OTK kinda guaranteed with Rommath.

IF that spell would be in a deck with very limited access to generating more copies, I would be asking for buff. Either lower cost or more pings. Do you feel mage has a hard time to discover multiple copies of that card?

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Let me make it clear then.

  1. Yes. If people bring reasonable ideas to buff all underperforming cards i not against.

  2. Extra lightshows cost are already paid by having to run stuff like rewind that are a huge tempo loss.

In a situation like that you not need the main card to be bad.

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After how many casts is the question.

3 mana 4 damage
3 mana 6 damage
3 mana 8 damage

Even at 9 mana spent and probably another 8 on discoveries and rewind…you are usually nowhere still.

Lightshow is just too slow.

Your whole Lightshow deck has to be tailored to that card,…and the card itself isn’t even that good.

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Finally. A mage thread that I could not possibly care less about.
The entire game is broken.
Buffing mage isn’t the answer.
Flushing a huge amount of overtuned effects would serve the product better.

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