Long comment aside I ' m gonna be locked up through 2017 as well , if possible . We can start calling it The Year of the Lock and try to get others on this sub onboard with us . I know ufleemarket will probably join us . <| sep |> It ' s simple . You play the card to bounce a few key targets in your deck , like Reno or coldlight oracle . But very often you might have something like Tomb Pillager on the board that you don ' t want to return cos that costs you 4 mana to replay for no real benefit , but you ' ve already Reno ' d or you haven ' t drawn your coldlight yet . You just need to put some stats on the board to keep up some tempo and can ' t afford to wait for some card to bounce . Brewmaster is unplayable , this guy you can just play as a 23 . This card is quite a lot better against aggro than Shadowstep as you can just play it as a 23 which trades for a lot of early cards and eats 1 drops .