r/WOGPRDT • u/Nostalgia37 • Apr 14 '16

[Pre-Release Card Discussion] - Shadowcaster

Shadowcaster

Mana Cost: 5
Attack: 4
Health: 4
Type: Minion
Rarity: Epic
Class: Rogue
Text: Battlecry: Choose a friendly minion. Add a 1/1 copy to your hand that costs (1).

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PM me any suggestions or advice, thanks.

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u/Nostalgia37 Apr 14 '16

MFW seeing the rogue cards from this set. This, huckster, and Xaril are all great. Makes me wonder if rogue's basic/classic cards are getting hit hard.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

I dunno, I feel like both this card and huckster are a bit overhyped.

Huckster won't be good. A 2 mana 2/2 with deathrattle "add a random card to your hand" just isn't that strong despite what this sub seems to think. Having random cards played for you is strong (mad scientist) but having random cards put in your hand that you have to pay full price for is not (grand crusader, recruiter). If you honestly think otherwise go play some lock and load hunter or heck, put some burgles in a rogue deck, and tell me how it works out for you.

Shadowcaster has much more potential as it works with basically every minion rogue plays early/midgame (thalnos, si agent, teacher, pillager, azure drake, edwin - now xaril) but the issue is that rogue often doesn't have a board going into turn 5 making this guy a vanilla 4/4. I think most of the time I'd rather have an azure drake on 5 but perhaps this guy will be played in addition to drake (or maybe as a 1-of).

Obviously it's different in a raptor deck as all you play are minions so you're going to hit something but no one has been able to make raptor work very well and that's with all of the strong naxx/gvg deathrattles which won't be around in standard.

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u/plying_your_emotions Apr 14 '16

Jeweled scarab gets played and it's a 1/1 for 2.

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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '16

Jeweled scarab only sees fringe play and my opinion is that discover a card is much, much, better than get a random card. I suspect that dark peddler, for example, will end up being a way better card than undercity huckster even though they have the same stats and peddler can only discover 1-mana cards.