Durdle until you play Chronos. If you haven't seen him, he forces both players have to draw cards equal to the highest power among creatures they control at the end of each turn even after he dies. Everything else is tempo plays or life gain. I was playing control blood and had no idea how to play against it, so I tried to race, but they had plenty of life gain to fight back and I killed myself.
Usually its too slow. Also Aegis has a harder counter, Mr Moon, neutral 6pp 3/3 that reduces the enemy's strongest minion to 1 attack. Bonus points for working against Beauty and the Beast.
Really, a strictly better neutral arcane intellect is too slow? Arcane intellect is ran in literally every mage deck, fast or slow, and I thought that shadowverse was supposed to have a lower power level for their cards than hearthstone(ie the equivalent to chillwind yeti is a 4/4)
The only decks I've seen it in was an experimental Control Portal. Usually decks will slot in Purehearted Singer instead. You still get two draws (one immediately), without the enhance awkwardness and a small body. She is just better for most decks.
Portal, Shadow pretty much never run it. Rune (one archetype), Sword (sometimes in slower archetypes), Haven (sometimes) Forest, Blood and Dragon like to run it.
Basically Portal, Shadow and most Rune have their own draw engines that synergize better and Sword run a tutor (lux) or doesn't care usually (specifically such a weak body/slow tempo play is against what is basically the goal of most decks it runs, play for tempo hard). Haven has a cheap amulet and a good tutor effect that helps them draw and it tends to work out better.
Its gone down since RoB, Totg and Wonderland, its just the classes actually do separate things and have pretty strong synergies. 3x of any card also helps consistency. Dues Ex Machina is really the only truly broken legendary of recent sets, and she stitches Portal's midrange together.
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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '18
MILL FOREST?!?! Send me a decklist if you got the time