New Neutral Minion - Infectious Sporeling

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5716 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    A new Rare Neutral Minion, Infectious Sporeling, has been revealed!

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Interesting card.. but won't see play cards that need to attack to do anything with such low hp as well just don't see play.

    good in arena for sure, in a scenario where there is only minion combat.

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  • Skorpionex's Avatar
    Headless Horseman 1445 424 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago
    Quote From DoubleSummon

    Interesting card.. but won't see play cards that need to attack to do anything with such low hp as well just don't see play.

    good in arena for sure, in a scenario where there is only minion combat.

    It says "damages" not "attacks". And it's neutral transform effect.

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  • Almaniarra's Avatar
    Devoted Outlander 900 1391 Posts Joined 03/21/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    only if there is a card like The Beast Within for every minions, just like Single Combat in runeterra.

    Neutral Polymorph would be hilarious tho.

    Might be some part of Trolden videos with Duel! and Mass Hysteria.

    Well, after considering giving rush with Goblin Lackey is a thing, I can say that it can actually be good in lackey classes and also with Magic Carpet.

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Seems hilarious, I guess the best place for this is with classes that can give it rush, specially with the rush lackey.

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  • Xarkkal's Avatar
    Servant of Illidan 900 1321 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Too soon...

    #coronavirus

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago
    Quote From Skorpionex
    Quote From DoubleSummon

    Interesting card.. but won't see play cards that need to attack to do anything with such low hp as well just don't see play.

    good in arena for sure, in a scenario where there is only minion combat.

    It says "damages" not "attacks". And it's neutral transform effect.

    Well it needs to attack to target a minion you want to transform, an opponent won't trade into it.

    unless you can give it rush and then it's kind of a 2 for 1, and even then you still might need to deal with it on the opponent's side of the board so they don't ruin all your minions as well.

    It's like the 2/1 poisonous snake in rogue it's kind of easy to get rid of in constructed.

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  • Skorpionex's Avatar
    Headless Horseman 1445 424 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Well, you have Rocket Augmerchant and lackeys. 2 mana, 2 cards, transforming annoying deathrattle minion in ressurect priest is worth it.

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    A credit card.

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  • GrayCatBlind's Avatar
    120 19 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Seems like a meme but a fun one :)

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Not bad if you give it Rush (Carpet anyone?).

    If there is a need for transform effects then I could definitely see this played with a support package. They payoff could be huge (although you have to kill the enemy Sporeling or else you get the clapback)

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5472 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Its basically an aggro deck counter to res priest. All you need to do is to give this minion rush and your res priest days are over. Just use a Magic Carpet, an already established good enough card for zoo type decks.

    Other than that, this minion gets obviously dangerous as the game progresses since even the biggest card just turns to a 1/2 minion if even so much touched by it. But the difficulties in giving this minion rush (and not saddle yourself with minions like Rocket Augmerchant) balances it out.

    Oh, and embiggen druid can barely interact with this thing without transforming one of its minions, so it counters that too. But obviously if we start seeing too many of this thing then 2 damage dealers will become meta very quickly.

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2448 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Kinda a meme, but i wrecks control decks. Image this against a ress priest that for some reason has no way to counter it. I like 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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  • Horus's Avatar
    Mimic 2525 3275 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    That flavor text tho :
    "The best thing about being me—there’s so many 'me's."

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

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  • metzger's Avatar
    425 93 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    It wrecks nobody. Maybe slightly annoys res priest but not much more. I once played as a control shaman against a res priest. I transformed two of his minions into frogs, three minions into murlocs. He resurrected only his good minions anyway, mass res gave him 2\3 normal minions and only one frog. It's useless. Thank god they didn't print any new res cards for priest. Maybe this archetype will finally die.

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  • Mercynary9's Avatar
    355 239 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago
    Quote From metzger

    It wrecks nobody. Maybe slightly annoys res priest but not much more. I once played as a control shaman against a res priest. I transformed two of his minions into frogs, three minions into murlocs. He resurrected only his good minions anyway, mass res gave him 2\3 normal minions and only one frog. It's useless. Thank god they didn't print any new res cards for priest. Maybe this archetype will finally die.

    You can give 1x Zul'Drak Ritualist a try in your deck if you have a space for it! But it's pretty bad against every other decks though. It is very effective one against Resurrection Priest.

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago
    Quote From dapperdog

    Its basically an aggro deck counter to res priest. All you need to do is to give this minion rush and your res priest days are over. Just use a Magic Carpet, an already established good enough card for zoo type decks.

    Other than that, this minion gets obviously dangerous as the game progresses since even the biggest card just turns to a 1/2 minion if even so much touched by it. But the difficulties in giving this minion rush (and not saddle yourself with minions like Rocket Augmerchant) balances it out.

    Oh, and embiggen druid can barely interact with this thing without transforming one of its minions, so it counters that too. But obviously if we start seeing too many of this thing then 2 damage dealers will become meta very quickly.

    And then next turn they destroy your carpet for "free" and then they AOE you and keep destroying you with the spore.

    You can't really buff this card either, if you buff it and transform enemies to this.. then they destroy your buffs as well.

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5472 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago
    Quote From DoubleSummon
    Quote From dapperdog

    Its basically an aggro deck counter to res priest. All you need to do is to give this minion rush and your res priest days are over. Just use a Magic Carpet, an already established good enough card for zoo type decks.

    Other than that, this minion gets obviously dangerous as the game progresses since even the biggest card just turns to a 1/2 minion if even so much touched by it. But the difficulties in giving this minion rush (and not saddle yourself with minions like Rocket Augmerchant) balances it out.

    Oh, and embiggen druid can barely interact with this thing without transforming one of its minions, so it counters that too. But obviously if we start seeing too many of this thing then 2 damage dealers will become meta very quickly.

    And then next turn they destroy your carpet for "free" and then they AOE you and keep destroying you with the spore.

    You can't really buff this card either, if you buff it and transform enemies to this.. then they destroy your buffs as well.

    Its a tech card, albeit very clunky one that sometimes work. Transform effects should not be underestimated, and against res priest that is more so the case. I'm not saying this card is the greatest card in the world and we're going to see this everywhere, just stating some obvious use of the card. Its certainly unique in what it does.

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  • RavenSunHS's Avatar
    Refreshment Vendor 875 1487 Posts Joined 03/27/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    This card could revive Odd Rogue in Wild. Maybe.

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  • Emptyness's Avatar
    Supporter 520 525 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    Kinda like Polymorph/Hex, but for every class and works against evasive minions - I like the idea. A niche tech card tho - if those pesky deathrattles get out of hand.

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  • liontail's Avatar
    Draconically Dedicated 210 277 Posts Joined 09/04/2019
    Posted 3 years, 8 months ago

    a different take on poisonous effect..a 1 mana kind of sheep but keep in mind..once you turn your opponent's minion into one they can do the same to you..so double edged sword

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