Anyone else can’t wait for this disgusting spell to finally be rotated? 1 gem spell that’s commonly discovered, it’s a stain on the game. Nothing is worse than seeing 3 devolving missiles by turn 7. Terrible. Why even play a deck that puts minions on the board? I should just hold my cards for a OTK like every other damn class in the game.
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While it’s definitely a card I won’t be sad to see leave in rotation, I feel it was a card needed to keep Libram Paladin in check throughout their run together in Standard. Librams were technically added in AoO, but rose to prominence in Scholomance Academy when DM was released. DM (and Librams for that matter) have run their course and I’ll be glad to move on from them.
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Devolving missiles are only bad when they are being played against you.
You would change your tune if you played it yourself. It’s extremely unreliable, sometimes even helping your opponent when it “devolves” into better stats.
Also, nothing more frustrating than playing missiles on 2 minions and it only hits the 1/1 three times while the buffed deathrattle one stands unaffected.
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I’m not a fan of cards that so easily disrupt another players cards. I think it’s anti-fun and cancels out the time I spent designing the deck to be played the way it is. It’s my only caveat about the game entirely, and why I usually concede against priests.
If there were no distruptions, this game would be a LOT worse than it is.
You need to have counters to certain plays otherwise this would be just single player solitaire game. I’m sorry for assuming this, but you seem new to hearthstone? No disrespect in that statement but it seems like you don’t play much when you say distruptions are “anti-fun”.
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Been playing since release. I don’t believe the game without disruptions would be bad like you think, i.e. chess. But I never said I want that aspect removed from the game. However, when the disruption is so cheap and easily attainable, it’s gross. Mages, shaman, rogues, they all have the possibility of discovering this card. It’s a cop out. Choosing another card besides this would almost always be a dumb decision.
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proof you never used this
because you dont know how unreliable this is unless the opponent has only 1 minion
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It’s a one gem card that is usually reduced to 0 when a mage plays it. That risk is superficial.
Then i appologize to you for thinking otherwise. Again, no ill intent meant.
Still tho. If i had a choice of having 4cost Hex or 1cost DevolvingM, i’d always choose to have Hex. Missiles are very VERY luck based and i don’t have a good track record when it comes to being lucky in HS.
i knew it
you never lost a game because you played devolving missiles and had all 3 shots hit the wrong minion
It’s an excellent card. There may be potential for it to be made part of the core set if I am understanding correctly. It can suck to play against, of course; but stuff like DRs and passive effects need a counter. And as others have said, it’s highly unreliable.
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I’m curious for an alternative. I really hope they don’t make it core.
You probably actually see more stuff like Lilypad Lurker and Mass Polymorph than you do Devolving Missiles. I have a feeling you have had a negative experience with this card and might be a little bothered at the moment.
I’m just saying that it’s definitely powerful but no more powerful and popular than a handful of other, yet similar, cards. It’s a necessary mechanic because we have some very strong deathrattles, passive effects, etc.
I’ve been bothered by it for awhile. I understand it’s necessity but dislike it more than others. It’s probably because I play deathrattle decks. I can’t climb with the deck I want to, basically because of this card.
You should give DR DH a try. It’s basically the same deck as it was, but with Expendables and Kurtrus and Korrak and those imps. You should be able to climb 🪜 with it.
No way they’d add it to the core set, it’s too powerful. But I’m very glad it exists otherwise libram paladin would be the best deck in the game. Oh wait, it is!
I hope it goes into the base set to be honest. It’s a cheap card that disrupts specific deck types. Against most decks it’s little more than a nuisance but for those looking to stack a minion it’s the great equalizer.
would they put duel class cards in the core set? i can’t see why not, but seems more versatile than the core set is intended.
i don’t mind my opponent using it. i carry more than just a few good cards in my decks, takes more than a couple devolving missiles to throw my decks off.
I’ll miss it. When playing against decks that buff cards like crazy or cheat out huge stuff early it’s nice to have something to mitigate that a little bit.
There’s very little more satisfying than devolving missiles into a minion a pally just double libramed early on. Or a minion the priest just dumped a whole hand of buffs into.