I have been running a deck which relies on damage from Astalor and Nostalgic Clown in combination with Spirit Of The Shark and cost reducing cards such as Scabbs and Sandbox Scoundrel. In the past weeks its been going perfectly, the deck has the potential to do some insane damage. However, I’ve noticed today that the battlecry of Nostalgic Clown is not being activated after playing these cost reduction cards.
https____://hsreplay.net/replay/VydbdXfVJ83WndpbxmSs2V (remove underscore)
Here is a replay of a game which shows exactly the issue I experienced. On turn 7, I played Spirit of the Shark followed by Soundbox Scoundrel mini, but the active of Nostalgic Clown has not been recognised/highlighted, which would give me lethal, and so I have had to play a different card instead. This eventually made me lose this game. The same issue occurred again right after, leading me to write this post.
I know that I have played the setup correctly as this same pattern used to work flawlessly and I dont see a reason why it should not anymore.
Please help as this is hurting the viability of the only deck I enjoy playing at the moment
That’s because the Clown was not discounted, therefore it had its regular cost of 5 mana, and you had not played a card of cost 6 or higher while holding it.
Why did you expect the battlecry to be active?
I expect the battlecry to be active as it should be based on the current cost of the card. Once the cost has been discounted to 0, as was the case in the above replay after playing Spirit of the Shark into mini Sandbox Scoundrel, the battlecry should be available, which it was not. As a result, I played a different card. Note that I have had the Clown in hand since before playing several other cards, therefore its condition should be met.
Again, this is a deck that I’ve played over 100 times by now and today is the first and only time I’ve encountered an issue with this combo. Since this post I’ve played a bunch of games where this interaction is consistently not working as it normally does, and I’m often having to avoid playing the card where it would otherwise be the optimal play.
Thank you for your time
An interaction has been changed in last patches with the pirate so it doesn’t “corrupt” cards if they cost more than it before being played