Right now it only summons three 1/1 ducklings with rush but there’s no 0/0 ugly duckling summoned as promised in the text. I don’t care if it’s flavor text it’s still canon, please give me my swan.
Is there some trick to doing this like how you summon Mister Bigglesworth via Kel’Thuzad?
If so I hope you reveal it to us eventually. If not I hope you put in the mechanic.
This “Easter Egg” is something we ought to be able to do by April 20th in time for easter. Do I need to play it in conjunction with a rabbit beast, perchance?
A summoned 0/0 minion should still die and generate a corpse, or even remain alive if buffed-on-summon by an Addled Grizzly giving +1/+1 before the 0 health creates a death - or at least summon-and-die to trigger a Knife Juggler’s text.
In accordance with Hans Andersen’s tail though, a Swanling should actually be bigger than a duckling (maybe a 1/2, but slower so no rush) but swan eggs take longer to hatch than duck eggs so maybe just summon a 0/0 swan egg (doesn’t leave a corpse) with the deathrattle to summon a dormant 2/2 swanling?
If that’s all too much for a 4-mana beast I suggest make Mother Duck cost 5 mana. If an extra 2/2 isn’t worth +1 mana then just give extra rush ducklings (there’s five in some versions of the story, not three) or have her summon a ducknest location so it doesn’t clutter the board.