New Priest Spell - Call of the Grave

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A new Epic Priest Spell, Call of the Grave, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    A new Epic Priest Spell, Call of the Grave, has been revealed!

    Call of the Grave Card Image

    Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!


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  • Trimutius's Avatar
    1580 2533 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Did they say there will be less random for priest?

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  • Lundy's Avatar
    Little Devil Teemo 1555 707 Posts Joined 06/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    This card will be nuts when you get it from Wandmaker. Also a great card if you need something to fill a card spot in a shadow deck.

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  • Synnr7's Avatar
    Winter Whisperer 1050 649 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Interesting card. Love the idea of wanting to save this card for later making sure you can get the extra effects. Looks real fun. Fun shadow spell for priest.

    Casual Dragon Cardgame enthusiast. 

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  • PopeNeia's Avatar
    Darkmaster 640 841 Posts Joined 07/06/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Interesting card that will probably only see play as a discovered option from Wandmaker or as a card that is shoved into shadow Priest to make it work. The effect, while strong, is very inconsistent and requires you to reach turns 9-10 to get maximum value. 

    The variance is just way too large in the deathrattle minion pool to warrant running this card, and Priest doesn’t necessarily need more late game value to win, considering they have that abominable quest. Against aggro, this will mostly be a dead card and maybe you could do something cheeky with it like discovering a Deathsworn Cultist and restoring 4 health

    This ain't no place for a hero

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

     

    This just seems like a 5 star card all around.  The fact that if you get this early game, you get a deathrattle minion that could help you and if you do it mid-late game you get a double dose of the deathrattle, is just awesome.  Not broken, but definitely amazing 

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    This seems like a fairly mediocre 1-mana "discover a card", with the addition of a new unique ability which can do a large number of random things based on what you discover. The pool of deathrattles is so large, this could theoretically do anything. I think in a lot of cases this is simply too random to warrant a spot, but in a shadow priest deck it may be included.

    Also, every single priest spell becomes more interesting when you think about how much random resource generation priest has.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    This card has the potential to be one of the most scariest card to see work.

    Its 1 mana, its allows for an array of choices from summoning big minions to card draw, and it essentially replaces itself with a deathrattle card. To top it all off it exist in wandmaker's small card pool.

    In other words, you'll be seeing this card quite a lot. And it won't be a happy time for those who have to go up against it.

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  • Geno9999's Avatar
    Metrognome 1620 1217 Posts Joined 11/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Discovering a Deathrattle minion is eh, but potentially proc it too? That's what pushes it to 5 star tier, you're running this in every priest deck.

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Seems very good, maybe even too good .. (1) mana!
    Only (1) mana to discover and generate a card, and possibly its effect twice

    Struggle with Heroic Galakrond's Awakening? I got your back : 

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  • randomfan's Avatar
    Elemental 1255 744 Posts Joined 03/17/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    I like this card. I think it  will give plenty  of options in how it can be played. Probably the real limiting factor here is how many deathrattle cards there will be that it can pull from.

    Unfortunately, common sense isn't as common as it should be.

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  • JackJimson's Avatar
    670 673 Posts Joined 11/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    I get the feeling this card will scam me in the future.

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  • sule's Avatar
    Dinosaur 830 995 Posts Joined 08/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    You definitely want Darkspear Berserker.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    I see this as similar to Draconic Studies. NOt very useful early on but becomes exponentially more powerful the longer the game goes on....although it'll heavily depend on the amount of available deathrattles

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • FieselFitz's Avatar
    Prince Charming 1105 1355 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    I guess you will only play this one if you can Procc the Deathrattle - and therefor i guess this one is a good card. 

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Absolutely NUTS. This card is so good. The thing about deathrattles is that they have powerfull effects.... BUT your minion has to die first. Call of the Grave can basicly give a deathrattle as a battlecry.

    Sure the pool with deathrattles might have some lowrolls, but even then the highrolls are just very strong. Think about cards like Plagued Protodrake, Claw Machine, Lightshower Elemental and Taelan Fordring

    Also in wild you can also get cards like Obsidian Statue and Convincing Infiltrator.

    Call of the Grave seems solid, and will probably see play. Worst case scenario it gets generated a million or more times.

    RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.

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  • Erodos's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Cool card to support shadow priest, you need to play it on turn 7 to make sure the effect goes off though. Might be a bit too slow because of that. Great reveal video.

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  • anchorm4n's Avatar
    Harbinger of Winter 1915 2510 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Loving it! It's super versatile and generates a lot of value. Can't wait to play Shadow Priest :)

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2225 2544 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Why Blizz bringing back deathrattle support after so long? It's a new shadow spell, so will see play in the new Shadow Priest archetype. Least you have a chance to find Lightshower Elemental and heal up

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  • Tumbleweedovski's Avatar
    Protector of Elwynn 1470 598 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    I'm not too impressed by this card comparing it to the study cards like Draconic Studies. Those cards always gave you a 1 mana discount on a card. Sure, this effect has the potential to be far greater than giving a card a 1 mana discount, but it's also so much more unreliable. I don't think you'll get the effect that you want/need all that often. Maybe the Darkbishop Benedictus deck wants to run this, but that's about it.

    Arena > Wild > Standard

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    There are 27 DR cards actually, and some of them are "meh" with that card.

    If you want to activate the DR effect, you definitely don't want to discover cards like Mailbox Dancer, Educated Elekk, Teron Gorefiend or Darkspear Berserker. And there a bunch of situational DR like Showstopper, Explosive Sheep, Disguised Wanderer, Al'ar, Sneaky Delinquent... All of them can be fine in some situations, but use to be bad.

    The good point is that we have a lot of variety effects. Defensives like Lightshower Elemental or Death's Head Cultist, ofensives like Shadowed Spirit, card draw with Bloodmage Thalnos, Loot Hoarder, Claw Machine or summoning minions with Nerubian Egg, Dragonmaw Sky Stalker, Cairne Bloodhoof, Plagued Protodrake, Burning Blade Acolyte...

    I can say that it's a good card, usually you will get atleast 1 good option to pick and fits in a lot of archetypes.

    By The Holy Light!

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    or with less mana you can do the same with Death's Head Cultist. Exelent card.

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  • GoddammitDontShootMe's Avatar
    Relaxed 2195 2055 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    I wonder how this will change what choice you make from the Discover. Generally I tend to pick something I can play sooner rather than later when I play a discover card, so I guess that won't change much, since if I can't afford to play the card the same turn, the spell won't trigger the Deathrattle.

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    After seeing the deathrattle pool, there are some big bombs available, like Plagued Protodrake, Burning Blade Acolyte or even Scrapyard Colossus (through Palm Reading discounts) for big stats, Taelan Fordring for draw or even some tech options like Showstopper, a card option that can be slept on but when considering how HS runs on buffs or effects these days, mass silence can be game winning.

    But regardless, this is another flexible card, which means it will always have the potential to squeeze itself into decks.

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2285 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 5 months ago

    Interesting design. I like how it scales. I'll be curious to see what minions this functions best with.

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  • Swizard's Avatar
    1190 913 Posts Joined 04/30/2020
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Could be good for just 1 mana.

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  • Lemushki's Avatar
    Squirtle 1120 1063 Posts Joined 03/22/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Excelent value! Not the best deathrattles right now on standar but it may work in the futture.

    Lemushki - The one and only since the 2006 rebranding.

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  • Fedrion's Avatar
    Zombie 1675 733 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Going to be funny playing against priest in this expansion...

    FFS...

    Papa Nurgle wants to share his gifts.

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  • BigE's Avatar
    Peasant 1180 590 Posts Joined 05/28/2020
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Looks fun, hopefully a Shadow Priest is fine. 

    Chumbawumba is the worst band name. 

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  • NebuchadnezzarHS's Avatar
    Supporter 2035 1411 Posts Joined 06/14/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    More RNG for Priest, but since it fits nicely into Shadow Priest I will not complain ^_^

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  • Grumpy000's Avatar
    1880 1159 Posts Joined 06/06/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    is the mana used to trigger the deathrattle?

    I am 69 years old and still reach Legend

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  • SilverWolf's Avatar
    Tauren Chieftain Addict 990 1085 Posts Joined 04/01/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    It's very strong on the 7+ turns, because you proc the deathrattle and you have the mana to play other cards too

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1570 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Looks strong and versatile. Not sure it'll be something actively added onto a deck, but a very nice tool to get from Discover, specially in the late game

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  • ShadowsOfSense's Avatar
    1500 1111 Posts Joined 10/23/2018
    Posted 3 years, 4 months ago

    Big variety of things you can do with this, and it becomes better later in the game as you get to activate more Deathrattles with it. I'm definitely including it in every Priest deck, but only because I'm a sucker for cards like this - still might make the cut in Shadow Priest, I guess.

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