When using devolving missiles against terrible chef, if the missiles only hit the deathrattle egg, when the chef dies, the minion that the egg devolved into also dies, and without summoning the 4/4 nerubian.
Not only is this just broken in the obvious sense, but it also clearly is not aligned with the flavor text of the chef (Battlecry: Summon a 0/2 Nerubian Egg. Deathrattle: Destroy it).
Would kind of imply that the devolved minion is still a 0/2 Nerubian egg (which has a deathrattle of “summon a 4/4 Nerubian”), which it clearly cannot be if it doesn’t summon a 4/4 nerubian.
Transformations have a long history of strange behaviors, but keeping a transformed minion the same “entity” is what they went for for various reasons. Probably same reason why cards in your hand being transformed do not count as cards entering your hand.
If “it” is the nerubian egg, and then the nerubian egg becomes a whisp, then “it” is the whisp. A whisp doesn’t summon anything on death so there’s nothing to expect. I don’t see how it is implied it would.
If the ‘nerubian egg’ dying is still a live value, then the egg itself exists. If the egg itself exists, then, in its existence exists the deathrattle.
If I drop a rock in the water and it gets wet, it’s still a rock. It is also wet. Your analogy is just that, therefore, using your analogy, the ‘devolved’ object, still being itself, would resolve with a deathrattle of summoning a 4/4 nerubian.
I hope that helps.
EDIT:
I may have misunderstood what your example was (I re-read it a couple of times, but still not completely clear).
If ‘it’ started as a nerubian egg and then was devolved so that ‘it’ became a wisp, then indeed a wisp does not have a natural deathrattle effect of ‘summon a 4/4 nerubian’. In that logic, a wisp is also not a nerubian egg, even if ‘it’ was what ‘it’ was before the devolution.
The logic of ‘it’ still being the same ‘it’ makes no sense, since other cards that use the ‘it’ or ‘this’ language do not retain their effect upon de-or-evolving.
Do you have examples ?
Because what is important here is that the card did not lose its text.
The card that has been transformed is the egg, not the Terrible Chef
Went testing this out and I have to apologize, it effectively does not work that way for other cards
Went testing with annoying fan, voodoo doll, and a bunch of other cards, and yes the chef is the only one to affect the post transformation minion, even with cards other than evolve/devolve style
This report reminded me of another officially documented bug:
Perhaps they might be having some general issues (in short, messy code) with tracking transformed minions in such situations.