On the one hand, running her in Spiteful makes more sense, because the deck is more minion-based.

On the other hand, her effect is stronger the longer the game goes – after all, she’s initially a tempo loss and it might take a few turns before you draw the right minions and play them. Spiteful Priest is a pretty heavy tempo deck by its nature, and usually wants to close out the games pretty quickly if possible.

That’s why I’ve decided to go with the Control build instead for this theorycraft. But I’ll definitely test her out in many different builds!

There is really zero net gain, lots of people, including me, have calculated that. Believe me, I wouldn’t lie to people here, lol.

But just to show it quickly again.

Let’s look at the Ice Block. You have 2 regular Copies and no Golden copies at all. Now you take two routes. I’ll show your current total dust in parenthesis.

First – craft 2x Golden Copy (-3200 Dust). Then you get refunded for the Golden copies (0 Dust). Then you disenchant 2x Golden copy (800 Dust) and 2x regular copy (1000 Dust). You gain up to 1000 Dust (800 if you want to keep regular copies).

Now you don’t craft anything and you just have 2x regular copy. After it rotates out, you get the crafting cost refunded (800 Dust) and then disenchant them (1000 Dust). Exactly the same thing. 1000 Dust if you want to disenchant them, 800 if you want to keep them.

Crafting Golden cards is only worth it if you want to keep the Golden copies for the WIld. Then you can essentially craft them for free.

The situation is SLIGHTLY different with Commons, because you gain a little extra Dust by crafting Goldens (10 Dust per card if I remember correctly), but no Commons are rotating out to Hall of Fame right now.

Thank you!

You’re right, it was initially played quite a lot. But when saying that it didn’t see a lot of play, I’ve meant the whole time it was in Standard.

Anyway, comparing Deranged Doctor to Ragnaros, Lightlord was a very generous comparison. Lightlord healed immediately, and it healed every turn, so it basically had Taunt – Aggro deck had to kill it or kill your right away. Deranged Doctor can mostly be ignored – plus since it has 8 health, you might not be able to run it into something next turn,

The only disadvantage is that it could sometimes heal your minion if you couldn’t set it up correctly. However, that disadvantage was also an advantage sometimes – e.g. if you had a big minion on the board in a slow matchup, you prefered that it would heal it over yourself.

That’s why even though those two cards share the same mana cost, stats and similar effect (healing), Lightlord is miles ahead and I don’t think that given that it still wasn’t good enough in certain aggressive metas, I don’t believe that Deranged Doctor will be a healing card of choice, at least in the decks that can’t somehow cheat it out.

To be honest, I’m not sure. Depends on whether this effect is active when the card is still in your deck/hand or when it’s already on the board.

If you mean the Year of the Raven promotional event that gave you a pack for completing every quest, it finished yesterday, just like announced.

If you already have the regular copies, crafting golden ones will be a 0 net gain. You won’t lose anything, but it’s basically pointless.

Sorry, you’re right, I thought that it was released in Gadgetzan for some reason. Fixing it.

I’m 99% sure that Corpsetaker won’t get Taunt/Lifesteal from Paragon of Light – the card doesn’t have those keywords by itself, it gains them as a part of their effect.

Sorry, we’ll upload the official translation once we stumble upon one, but right now I’m fixing it until we get a better one.

Even Rogue doesn’t make much sense. Rogue’s Hero Power is the worst one for the discount – not only it works for 2 turns, but you often don’t have to repeat it, because you can save the dagger charge if you have nothing to hit.

On top of that, drawing Keleseth would be great, but not only he won’t be that efficient on Turn 2, but Keleseth decks are Tempo decks, and playing Tempo decks without 1-drops (and 3-drops too in case of Even deck) is a really bad idea.

To be fair, Kingsbane Rogue is probably dead in Standard, at least in the way we know it (the Mill variant). So it’s really hard to say at this point.

But they can’t design the whole expansion around that effect.

Not to mention that a card that doesn’t go into an Odd deck naturally goes into an Even deck. So this way both types get support.

In the end, the Odd/Even will probably turn out to be “fun” or “meme” decks, unless they would go all in on those mechanics, and that would feel really, and I mean really forced.

I’m 99% sure that it can only discover Mage Secrets. After all, Discover only pulls card from your class + Neutrals, and there are obviously no Neutral Secrets.

As for the second point, there are two options. You might simply not be able to Discover a Secret that’s already in play, or picking it will have no effect whatsoever.

In Rogue, though, Elven Minstrel just feels much better. Yes, it has 1 less health and it has to be combo’d, but drawing 2 instead of 1 is a pretty big difference.

Well it could definitely tutor SOMETHING if you have other minions in your deck.

The better question is – can it tutor something valuable in the mid/late game? 😀

Lesson learned, at least 🙂

I’m not encouraging anyone to actually craft those decks – I mean that if you already have the cards, and you only play Standard, you should test those decks out before they rotate out. Because a week from now (yeah, it’s that close already) you will no longer be able to, at least not in the current form!

You’re right about Ashmore not drawing DK’s. You’re wrong about pulling Elementals after you play Jaina.

Jaina’s aura works on the minions on the board, not in your deck, so that Blazecaller or Baron Geddon in your deck still don’t have Lifesteal.

That’s a really good question. I will say that it should. It checks for Lifesteal minions, see that you have Statue in your deck and target it for drawing, then it will again check for the Deathrattle minions, see that you have another Statue in your deck (Deathrattle) and also target it from drawing.

That would be the logical outcome.

That said, it won’t work unless both Statues are still in your deck, so it’s not very consistent, but might matter sometimes.

No, it won’t draw DK Jaina.

Frost Lich Jaina does not have Lifesteal. It gives a Lifesteal aura. Those are two different concepts.