This will be good in my highlander warlock.
Flashy cards are always welcome!
It’s basically a one side twisting nether, with the upside of summoning a token that can be sacrificed to do warlock’s things.
A true gigachad
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that´s actually a good way for the colossal to be weaker when recruited than when played from hand.
11/11 stats are still good if you can cheat it out somehow, but you´d lack the board clear.
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So potentially 0 mana 8 health cost 1 sided Twisting Nether.
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Soo a two card twisting nether combo with grimoire and a body. Or a one card two body card and hope they can’t remove the non taunt minion first
Edit: so what deathrattle triggers first if ya do a spell or something that kills both minions at same time, do they get spit back out and stay alive or does the other desthrattle trigger first and the minions die? Or do they happen simultaneously and the minions die that are in thebmaw
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my money would be on the minions in gigafin being destroyed, but we´ll have to test to find out i guess.
Now opening up the bets, I got 10 on the minions being destroyed so far
Do I have any on them staying alive, any at all?
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deathrattles trigger in order that they appeared on the board.
so, since the colossal hits the board before the maw (since the colossal is the one spawning the maw), then if both died simultaneously, it should be that the colossal deathrattle triggers first, and then the maw deathrattle.
so, using existing HS rules, if you clear bott, you should get back your minions.
also, it’s much better than “one sided twisting nether” because it also leaves a gigantic body behind. That’s like comparing assasinate with vilespine.
on the other side, with the neutral legendary that puts 3 colossal minions on the bottom your deck, this opens up possibilities of “any class” having potential access to a board clear as well* (reliability tied to the number of colossal minions in the set ofc).
*would be a “fun target” for shadowstep as well^^
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intuitively yes - but as it´s an entirely new mechanic so we don´t know yet how it´ll be resolved.
my assumption would be every class get´s one colossal legendary, that´d be 30%ish for a boardclear of the neutral. If there´s less chances go way up for a more or less guaranteed neutral+dredge boardclear (albeit at 8 mana it´s still very fair even as a neutral option).
How is it 0 mana?? Last I checked warlock couldn’t discount murlocs…
Now what if Wildfire mage plays Reckless Apprentice and the hp hits the spawn first and kills it and then the other guy second and kills it In the Same play.
Orrr perpetual flame!!!
It’s a murloc.
Warlock got that dredge card that can swap cost to health if it hits a murloc.
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We live in a meta where this isn’t a certainty.
Wow this game is powercrept.
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Wow cool a minion that destroys the board permanently if you don’t have… Spell removal.
Cool I’m sure that won’t make minions less appealing or anything.
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I believe that just like mutanus, gigafin will gain the stats of all minions devoured. While devour isn’t an official keyword, it’s been used before in both battlegrounds and with mutanus. Anything that gets devoured adds stats to the thing that’s doing the devouring.
This would give people a reason to consider running single target removal if they play board based strategies. Shadow word death would be an ideal counter to the main body. And since this is the one time where you actually WANT the enemy deathrattle to trigger when it dies, this is NOT a minion a rogue would enjoy playing bootstrap-sunkeneer to.
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11/11 is a good statline, but spreading the stats across 2 bodies has both upsides and downsides.
Since one half of it has Taunt, having it pulled out isn’t the worst thing.
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there is a piece missing in that combo
which card did they get to place it at the bottom?
If the card works the way I think it does it’s going to be much bigger than an 11/11, depending on how many things gigafin eats.
deathrattles trigger in the order they were played, if they die simultaneous.
albeit - shouldnßt the maw get bigger if, as the devoured minions would be in there?
or, which would be a very interesting twist - if the minions would first be in the maw, and if that get´s the deathrattle of it counts as a full devour and gigafin get´s the stats, while if you can deny it they are just hanging out, part devoured and non stats are to be gained.
Not sure though if they are capable of such intricacies, would be partly justifying the hype.
When it says “permanently destroyed”, what does it mean by that? Does it mean that the minions are also taken out of the resurrection pool when destroyed by this effect or simply referring to the fact that they can no longer be spit back out? Or is it possibly both effects? I am probably just overthinking the simplified wording referring to the latter effect.
In reference to the play order, it seems to vary depending on the card. Typically, battlecries have the summoned minion put on the field first, since the battlecry took place before the actual card played is on the field, mechanically speaking. But there are some exceptions and rule changes made every now and then, so it’s anyone’s guess.
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