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- Thread starter Azrayne
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So I win another argument against you, it's really trivial at this point.
Been smacking you around since I got here. You think you would have learned after I put your butt budy Hodj in his place, where is he now btw? ;}
O right
Been smacking you around since I got here. You think you would have learned after I put your butt budy Hodj in his place, where is he now btw? ;}
O right
Yeah, I'm not sold on Duplicate. It allows mage to build a different type of deck than they've previously been able to, but you can really only hope to force a duplicate of a low cost minion and there really isn't a whole lot of benefit there. If they'd revoke the secrets played on your turn change it could be much stronger obviously, but as it stands I don't really see it getting heavy use, there aren't enough good ways to build around it and it doesn't add a lot of strength to any given mage deck.
Mures
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I've done a little playing with the new shaman card, not in a fancy deathrattle deck or anything, and sometimes its clutch and others it sits in my hand. Of course its op w/ sylvanas, but getting those 2 cards in your hand with shaman isn't easy. It has come in clutch as a pseudo-silence a couple of times, but you may as well use an owl or spellbreaker at that point. It works well against the death lord too, it is a 2 mana summon a random minion from your deck.
It's an arcane intellect that always gives you meh cards though. What's the best you are hoping for, a water elemental or a strong taunter? It'd be different if it was with other classes, but mage's best feature is their spells and it obviously doesn't benefit those. Also the fact that mage secrets cost 3 mana makes it really hard to get any benefit out of in the early game.
There might be a way to build it into a stall mage with some molten giants though. Hm..
There might be a way to build it into a stall mage with some molten giants though. Hm..
Sinzar
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Turn 10 antonidas into duplicate is very strong (but lategame). Duplicate is nice with doomsayer (if it goes off, you keep the secret active, if they kill doomsayer, you get 2 more to re-play and continue stalling). It's also good with the midrange power legendaries like cairne, sylvanas, loatheb. It's a decent card overall I'd say, just don't use it in weak ways like duplicating an argent squire.
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Kirin Tor+Duplicate on turn 3 is a pretty cool turn since it feeds you a bunch of fairly decent cards back. 4/3 don't trade particularily well but trade decently enough. Kirin Tor in generally if you run 6secrets(ice armor, ice block and duplicate) is gonna be a good deal, it dies easily but it makes for strong turn 3s if you have a secret in hand and otherwise still decent.
Main issue with duplicate is you can't really run mirror images in the same deck, or you need to play around it which is annoying as shit.
Main issue with duplicate is you can't really run mirror images in the same deck, or you need to play around it which is annoying as shit.
Gavin and Pyros are the only ones describing scenario where you aren't leaving your board clear til turn 5 so that you get the dream card duplicated. Have you guys actually managed any of this in practice or are you just theorycrafting how great duplicate could be?
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Enob
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Duplicate is insane in arena. Mages were already the best class in arena and they got one of the best class cards for it from Naxx. I'm excited to see it used in constructed but I don't think it'll be that common. I could see it maybe ending up in one-off tournament decks kind of like how paladin aggro was pre-Naxx.
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You don't have to leave your board clear, that's a terrible line of logic. You can still do shit like Mana Wyrm turn 1, you just don't necessarily duplicate it.
Yeah your examples specifically were all pretty unlikely in a given play scenario. Certainly not strong enough to count on that value.