New Shaman/Mage Spell - Devolving Missiles

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    A new Epic Shaman/Mage Spell, Devolving Missiles, has been revealed!

    Devolving Missiles Card Image

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  • economicaooc's Avatar
    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Very nice card, devolve at 1 mana, and in mage.

    Almost certain to go somewhere, and will likely be played for a long time.

    Randomness is negligible, and the missile-ness of the spell is an upside if they have less than 3 minions in play.

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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  • ArcanisDF's Avatar
    660 214 Posts Joined 08/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    if it can reduce the same minion 3 times this will be broken as hell

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  • RavenSunHS's Avatar
    Refreshment Vendor 880 1487 Posts Joined 03/27/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    This card may actually lurk into Wild QMage and give the deck yet another dangerous anti-Aggro tool.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    I see it was priced at 1 cause it's a "worse" Devolve but devolve is quite an insane card.. so..

    I see this card as extremely toxic, I can see it getting nerfed to 2 in the future.

     

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  • JFK's Avatar
    Curious Pair 1070 621 Posts Joined 07/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    I thought they said there will be less rng. Definitely powerful and could easily be nerfed, but we'll see.

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Basicly Devolve and Arcane Missiles in one. Seems really good! Cheap transform effect. Allows you to play 2 transform effects in Highlander decks. (This + Polymorph in mage, and Hex in shaman) 3 Missiles are often enough, but i do wonder: can these missiles hit the same target multiple times? If so than this might be a bit less reliable, but still amazing! Imagine someone dropping a Khartut Defender, and then you cast Devolving Missiles to turn the Khartut Defender into a random 3 drop. Also this card screws over ress-priests over A LOT. and I LOVE EVERY SECOND OF IT! 

    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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  • Thez's Avatar
    195 73 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Never been a fan of Devolve effects. It's basically a better Silence. Any deck built around card effects like Deathrattles or buffs just get neutered with zero counterplay. This is effectively a 1 mana "Silence 3 random enemy minions and then replace them with crappier minions that have zero synergy with your deck". The only bad hits are high cost low-stat minions and those are easy to kill off first due to the low stats.

    On top of the Devolve RNG, you also get hit based RNG to make it even worse. This can either completely neuter your board into something utterly terrible and just give your opponent the win, or it doesn't do much at all but then the opponent has only wasted one mana.

    Yes, it screws over Rez Priest. That is literally the only positive thing about it. Everything else about it will make the opponent smash their keyboard when the RNG screws them over and turns their 8/8, 5/5 and 4/6 board into a bunch of high-cost low-stat crap minions for 1 mana.

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  • scuac's Avatar
    385 167 Posts Joined 07/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago
    Quote From Brandon

     Also this card screws over ress-priests over A LOT. and I LOVE EVERY SECOND OF IT! 

    This! This gets all my upvotes

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  • MenacingBagel's Avatar
    Zombie Chow 815 723 Posts Joined 09/24/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    They make Rattlegore a card then also print this aside him it seems really strong since it's just Devolve but even more random.

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  • GoliathTheDwarf's Avatar
    980 667 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    So many people are going to hate this card when it gets played against them. I can't wait, lol. 

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  • Emptyness's Avatar
    Supporter 520 525 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Nice one for both classes I guess. Devolve saw play in Shaman back in the days and Mage won't mind to have yet another spell to regain control of the board.

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Priest

    Bye Priest

     

    I guess we got our Multi Polymorph after all. I assume if only one enemy is on the board it will get devolved 3 times?

    Either way it's decent "silence" for both classes. Mage as an additional control/anti-value tool, in Shaman possibly for tempo (it can enable better trades in the early game for just 1-mana which is huge)

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • Demonxz95's Avatar
    Senior Writer 2255 2706 Posts Joined 03/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Now this could potentially devolve one minion three times, which could make it strong against a single minion. Although, your opponent would need to have only a single minion that can be devolved three times for that to work.

    Still though, it's a cheap spell with a decent effect, and people will rage over it.

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  • theo333's Avatar
    Outlandish Rager 975 889 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Resurrect Priest on suicide watch. Now if only non-mage could find cards like this in the form of random silences.

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  • FenrirWulf's Avatar
    1005 367 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Can't wait to see this in Trolden videos when it hits a 1-drop 3 times.

    Take my words with a grain of salt. I'm unranked and only play casuals lmao.

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  • JackJimson's Avatar
    670 673 Posts Joined 11/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    I like this card, primarily cause it hurts priest lol.

    Good tech card against Deathrattle too. The ultra sticky Rattlegore comes to mind.

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    This card looks super powerful. Devolve is a very popular card at 2 mana, and this is also available to Mages. I do wonder though if this can hit the same thing more than once. If so then it becomes a bit less consistent which is disappointing, but otherwise it might be too strong.

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  • Synnr7's Avatar
    Winter Whisperer 1050 648 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    5 star artwork and concept. Made me do a double take in the reveal. Not as wide spread as Devolve but can hit the same target multiple times. This really does look like a community created concept and I love it.

    Casual Dragon Cardgame enthusiast. 

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Not really that good in my opinion. Yes, devolve was a good card. But that affected the entire enemy board, and its usually considered an AoE for small boards.

    In situations where boards are anything higher than 3, this becomes a massive rng spell that only maybe do what its supposed to do, remove a threat. Kinda reminds me of Plague of Murlocs and will likely end up the same way.

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  • Xarkkal's Avatar
    Servant of Illidan 910 1321 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Yes, it seems balanced because Devolve is 2 mana, but I really see this getting nerfed up to 2 mana. 

    A little concerned at the power level of some of these bi-class cards. 

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  • Mazinger31's Avatar
    345 39 Posts Joined 08/05/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    I feel like you'll see this card played a lot by Mages, but rarely main-decked.  This is the type of card you love to find off of Magic Trick or Evocation.  Depending on the meta I could see some Shaman decks running this.

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  • allthehype's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 630 739 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Looks like a lot of fun to play vs deathrattle or buff decks. Could be used by a lot of Shaman/Mage decks.

    Also, F off R**s Priest!

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  • BasilAnguis's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 835 426 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Every time a new card that transforms or summons a bunch of tokens for the enemy is revealed people go nuts with "fUcK rEz pRiEsT". Is that even a deck anymore? In wild it's shit now, only Raza is viable, and yeah it was a good archetype in standard last year but nowadays only galakrond and maybe highlander is good. So why do people still act like rez priest is a constant plague upon us all?

    I'll boop you 

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  • Duke's Avatar
    205 82 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Must be sort of a ptsd issue imo. 

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  • Elfensilver's Avatar
    595 663 Posts Joined 03/14/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    If you look closely, you will see that Troublemaker and his two buddies are being devolved here.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago
    Quote From FenrirWulf

    Can't wait to see this in Trolden videos when it hits a 1-drop 3 times.

    Wisp

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  • meisterz39's Avatar
    925 1200 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Devolving Missiles is clearly crazy on a board with one large enemy minion, but given the incredibly high variance on the card when your opponent has multiple minions, I'm not sure you want this in the deck. The opportunity cost of it just seems a bit high. But, with all the resource generation in the game, I have no doubt you'll see it showing up through card generation effects and producing some pretty crazy results.

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    I don't think this is that good, but it seems like a really fun card, what I would like to know but I assume it doesn't is if this is affected by spell power.

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  • RandomGuy's Avatar
    430 614 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Very good card

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  • PLANETCRUNCH's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 820 1248 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    decks with prominent death rattles or minions that wanna be buffed will hate this card.

    it's easy to find from cards like arcane blast, cobalt spellkin or that new rogue/mage minion, which means mages and shaman will have a strong tool to defuse their opponents strategy 

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  • Erodos's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    This card will be insanely unfun to play against, and will probably by itself cause multiple people to quit the game.

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    A devolving-arcane-missile ?!
     *Yawns*

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  • BloodMefist's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 850 804 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Seems really good in any control-y decks since it can helpfully answer buffed or large threats.

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2285 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    This is my question indeed. It ought to, as the transformed minions should be there right away.

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  • Dermostatic's Avatar
    Eldritch Horror 535 228 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    I'm sure my Wild Evolve deck only has 29 cards... Love the art and flavour of this, and the effect isn't half bad either.

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  • sinti's Avatar
    Senior Writer Chocolate Cake 2070 2792 Posts Joined 10/20/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Cant wait for the Trollden videos lol!

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  • Guenh's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 725 633 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Cool effect and it will be probably so strong against priest. Evolve was better for sure and the RNG factor is really high here. Super strong against a small board with strong minion, really weak with a full board where there isn't only 1threat (or taunt to devolve to close the game)

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  • Guenh's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 725 633 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Cool effect and it will be probably so strong against priest. Evolve was better for sure and the RNG factor is really high here. Super strong against a small board with strong minion, really weak with a full board where there isn't only 1threat (or taunt to devolve to close the game)

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  • kvist56's Avatar
    Rexxar 235 28 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    This card removes the weakness of taunt heavy decks for quest mage in wild. They keep inexplicably printing more broken cards for an undeniably meta warping deck. Hoping they nerf sorcerer’s apprentice and just basically reset the meta on the spo

    Noice.

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  • Vandaren's Avatar
    620 636 Posts Joined 06/05/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Yess, so fun and actually cool effect, with so many primes and powerful minion its surely fun devolving those.

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  • Meteorite12's Avatar
    670 696 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Seems pretty decent, probably gonna be frustrating to play again though. Anything you use this against will probably be because of its effects, so the end stats don’t really matter all too much

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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  • Firenza's Avatar
    550 348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Does anyone know if this is affected by spell damage? Either with more missiles or by upgrading (downgrading?) the devolution?

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  • linkinboy0's Avatar
    Headmaster 1235 513 Posts Joined 07/07/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    I love this Mage/Shaman duality. It's an awesome mix

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

    One of the most fun I will get with a xard this expansion

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  • Valord's Avatar
    465 281 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    My favorite design and flavor of the set. Very solid

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  • slychd's Avatar
    Sparklepony 1175 484 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    This looks like a fun card and while it might not be "perfect", I play Hearthstone for the fun.

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  • Fisguinho's Avatar
    The Raven 1190 411 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Even more random devolve.... at least it only costs 1 mana

    All hail the banshee queen.

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  • Safiron's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 620 156 Posts Joined 07/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    This can hit the same target multible times. Awesome removal.

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  • Janusi's Avatar
    Face Collector 595 225 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    It's a good effect at a low cost. It actually gets better when it's only one or two minions on board.

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  • ChocolateChipCooke's Avatar
    Unicorn Reveler 1160 337 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    This seems absurdly good to me, and I think Devolve is good enough evidence for me to think that.

    Obviously there is layers of RNG attached to this (which minions get targeted plus the devolving itself), but it seems really strong against everything except wide boards of tiny minions.

    I expect to see this in any control-oriented Mage lists.

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

    This can't stay at 1 mana for long, right? It's a ridiculously good effect.

    The only slight downside is that on a board with more than one minion, you might miss hitting the one you really want. Given that you'll still have the majority of your mana available to you however, I don't think that's too much of an issue to warrant not running a card that will sometimes just completely destroy any attempt at an early game.

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  • Samzy's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 370 191 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    10 for dual class flavour. 
    10 for artwork. 
    Really hope this sees play, it’s good removal for strong buffed minions like vanclee

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  • SavageDrago's Avatar
    300 150 Posts Joined 05/07/2020
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    The flavor on this is just great. Gameplay-wise, you can hope to bypass taunts or deal with troublesome deathrattles. Still, not that good.

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2225 2544 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    I'd definitely appreciate getting this off Cobalt Spellkin 

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  • UVE's Avatar
    1180 832 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago
    Quote From Firenza

    Does anyone know if this is affected by spell damage? Either with more missiles or by upgrading (downgrading?) the devolution?

    There is not damage from spells here, so spell damage doesn't affect that spell.

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  • EpicPickle's Avatar
    Sparklepony 810 301 Posts Joined 06/02/2020
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    I hate this card already.

    Would Shaman run this in Wild over just Devolve? I don't know, but that is a seriously powerful effect for one man's, especially if it can hit a single target three times.

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  • Sparkinarius's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 715 471 Posts Joined 07/18/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    The weird thing about Devolving Missiles is that I think it works best when your opponent has only minion on their board. If that minion is threatening, this is effectively a 1 mana Polymorph that greatly shrinks down that minion's stats. Against a wide board, it can still be impactful, but the spell goes down in consistency as it can hit a minion you don't care about hitting multiple times. I think this is more suited for slower decks like Highlander Mage who can utilize this well against a board of 1-2 minions. In Shaman, I can only really see this in Galakrond Shaman, but they already have ways to respond to the board through their invoke cards and Galakrond, the Tempest.

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  • Alfi's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 1790 1375 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    This is a great idea and I will hate to play against it :-)

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  • shaveyou's Avatar
    415 198 Posts Joined 06/08/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    I already hate this card. I don't think it will be consistently played, but rather being teched in anytime large deathrattles, buffs or ongoing effects become commonplace. Any meta that is heavy on Rush or Battlecry, this card could potentially become a huge liability, either "healing" a rush minion, or "buffing" a battlecry minion.

    Also, I have a feeling this card will kill Libram Paladin.

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  • FaytFFX's Avatar
    410 191 Posts Joined 12/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    This looks like one of the more fun spells from this expansion.

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

    Diligent Notetaker + Devolving Missiles x2

    With some luck it can disrupt a powerful board

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  • Thonson's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1740 1737 Posts Joined 03/24/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    At first I thought this was really good, but the inconsistency isn't great.  In Standard this should be fine because Devolve is in Wild.  But not sure this would see play in Wild because Devolve is in Wild.  Most effective when you are playing a Priest with a single Infiltrator on board that has had Grave Runes cast on it.

    Quick!  Someone give me something clever to write here.

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  • Joe45's Avatar
    350 52 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    A devolve that could miss the target you want to hit or best case hit it multiple times..  A bit too much RNG, but it should be fun.

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

    Too random to be reliable, but may be useful when obtained from discover mechanics or such.

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