The Comprehensive Day of Rebirth Preview

 

Tribute Dance

This is a weird transform card that can either be used defensively or offensively. We do not like the defensive usage for it, as it is far more awkward than a card like Hex or Polymorph if we want to deal with a large threat. We can use it offensively by turning one of our smaller minions into a bigger one, but again, it requires us to have an appropriate copy target.

The only way we can envision this spell as a competitive option is as a late game combo piece, by copying some game ending threat we develop on the turn we play it. If Mage was a Starship class, for example, then we could see Tribute Dance doing some silly things.

Ultimately, this card looks thoroughly unplayable outside of very narrow circumstances. Those types of cards do not usually see competitive play.

Score: 1

Sheep Mask

Worse than Polymorph, as it does not transform the minion. The upside is that pinging the minion we gave the Mask to leads to an additional AOE, but it is unlikely we get great value from both effects. The ping also requires us to either spend more mana or have a minion to trade into the sheeped minion. Using Sheep Mask on our minion sounds terrible, as we would rather play cheaper AOE for the sake of clearing boards. For instance, Rising Waves is available.

There are so many better ways to remove threats that we see no hope for this card to see competitive play. Pure filler for the mask gimmick. At 3 mana, we are not sure it is good enough. 4 mana? Surely not. Get out of here.

Score: 1

Techysaurus

Quest Mage gets its Thing from Below! Except this card is nowhere near as good as Thing from Below. In fact, Techysaurus is straight up terrible. We will explain.

Quest Mage wants to spend mana to discover. It does not actually want to spend mana on the things it discovers. Not in the early game, and not when it completes the quest either. It cannot afford to waste time doing anything besides discovering in the early game if it wants to complete the quest at a reasonable time frame. This means that Techysaurus will take ages to discount in a Quest Mage, long after we have likely completed the quest. Seven instances of playing generated cards to get a 0 mana 3/6 taunt? Think how much mana we need to spend to do something that does not directly further Quest Mage’s game plan. This might cost 0 mana when we get tournament mode.

Score: 1

Final Thoughts: Outside of an unexpected Tribute Dance fantasy, this Mage set looks like a complete waste of time.