I can see a lot of arguing about this card, and I honestly just don’t understand it. People tend to compare it with Surrender to Madness, but it’s two entirely different cards that share very little in common.
Surrender to Madness not only costs 3 mana, but it also takes away two of your mana crystals, with their loss most of the time being devastating to you. If you were to play it on turn three, it would take you 9 turns to reach 10 mana, with having 2 crystals less then your opponent on 8 of them, which would mean that you’ve paid 3+(9×2)-1, or 20 mana in total for this effect in total, with rarely being able to fully unleash the effect itself. Most of the time you will find yourself dead long before 10 mana after that. To sum up, Surrender to Madness requires you to pay horrific price without gaining anything out of that right away, and that is true about ALL of cards that break your mana crystals or give more to your opponent.
Embiggen, on the other hand, doesn’t require you to sacrifice anything, besides one card – but if it was drawing card in place of itself, it would be just way to OP, so the price is fair. You may pay even more mana in total for the buff you get, but you won’t be paying it right away – only slowly and only for the cards that you actually get to play. With the delayed powerful effect, the price for it is also delayed, and this is what makes this card incomparably better.
Some assume that it would be good in aggro archetypes, some think more of control, but know what? I would be brave to say that it will be equally good in any kind of druid based around minions, just because relation between bigger price and more stats is shifted way to much on the side of stats. It would be more arguable if it were +1/+2 buff and totally worthless in case of +1/+1, but +2/+2 makes it absolutely busted.
I can see a lot of arguing about this card, and I honestly just don’t understand it. People tend to compare it with Surrender to Madness, but it’s two entirely different cards that share very little in common.
Surrender to Madness not only costs 3 mana, but it also takes away two of your mana crystals, with their loss most of the time being devastating to you. If you were to play it on turn three, it would take you 9 turns to reach 10 mana, with having 2 crystals less then your opponent on 8 of them, which would mean that you’ve paid 3+(9×2)-1, or 20 mana in total for this effect in total, with rarely being able to fully unleash the effect itself. Most of the time you will find yourself dead long before 10 mana after that. To sum up, Surrender to Madness requires you to pay horrific price without gaining anything out of that right away, and that is true about ALL of cards that break your mana crystals or give more to your opponent.
Embiggen, on the other hand, doesn’t require you to sacrifice anything, besides one card – but if it was drawing card in place of itself, it would be just way to OP, so the price is fair. You may pay even more mana in total for the buff you get, but you won’t be paying it right away – only slowly and only for the cards that you actually get to play. With the delayed powerful effect, the price for it is also delayed, and this is what makes this card incomparably better.
Some assume that it would be good in aggro archetypes, some think more of control, but know what? I would be brave to say that it will be equally good in any kind of druid based around minions, just because relation between bigger price and more stats is shifted way to much on the side of stats. It would be more arguable if it were +1/+2 buff and totally worthless in case of +1/+1, but +2/+2 makes it absolutely busted.