As many users were quick to notice following the release of the newest patch, Jandice Barov became the next card in line to receive the rare coveted Diamond treatment. Aside from a couple of newer additions coming with the recent Tavern Passes, it's been a while since we've seen this method being applied retroactively (such as with Ragnaros the Firelord previously).
That's the first Year of the Phoenix (and Scholomance Academy) pick for this special category. Our own Avalon might be a little sad it's not quite the predicted member of the faculty. Although the guess about it being a dual-class card was on point.
We haven't seen the notorious Jandice Barov as much recently since Rogues and Mages moved on to different sets of tools, but there was a time when the card was quite the terror (as you might recall, eventually having its mana cost increased as a result). You can take a sneak peek at the animated Diamond form in your collection even if you don't currently own the card (by choosing 'crafting' and marking 'diamond cards' to be visible).
There was no concept of a Mini-Set as we know it back in the days of Scholomance Academy, so you would need to collect ALL possible Legendaries from the expansion (including a copy of Jandice Barov herself) in order to meet the requirements.
Alas, not quite there...
You can find the relevant achievement in the Collection section, under its appropriate set. Any of you got them all or are nearly there? Is this Diamond addition tempting enough to craft a few missing Legendaries or grab some Scholomance Academy packs?
Comments
FFS... I had a full Scholomance set but DE'd Mindrender Illucia when she was nerfed. I have Jandice Barov in gold but can't DE her or I'd then be missing that one and still wouldn't get her diamond copy. Quite the connundrum! lol
I should have enough dust if I DE some dupes. Off to check the collection...
I hope you got there in the end! My dust reserves still can't handle gathering all these legendaries.
if the patch would ever appear on my Apple and android devices I can log in and claim it as I own every card in the game with almost 75% fully golden so all I have to do is go claim it
got everything updated claimed the diamond and all the new coins. Made smite gold and promptly cleared all the quests and laughed at how easy it was. Time to level Edwin to 30 and the other new mercs as well.
OMG such a hero.
not even close, i still need 15 legendaries...even tho i had to craft like 5 ot 6 back then :(
Got her right away upon login
No doubt a cool surprise for my wild collection.
I'm starting to get the SpamPwn chills with the first commentary lately.
Diamond cards are a trashy cash-grab.
Its completely optional, or to put it simply, unnecessary for anyone to enjoy the game, to obtain diamond cards. So where's the cash grab here?
I must say it was a nice surprise seeing this appear in the achievement log along with new coins for RoS and SoU (I'm not going to spend the dust to get the DoD and AoO ones though). Along with a nice and pretty sultry animation (if that's your kind of thing), it also gives me a nice 1600 dust in the bank if I ever want to dust my golden version.
I'm curious now though. Does diamond Jandice summon a diamond or golden Benedictus? Hmm. That might take a while to test.
It actually works (from this post)
Nice find! They do pay attention to these little things.
The animation looks fine, but the card itself hasn't seen play since the FiB and I doubt it'll change before the rotation.