When shaman excavates 4x they get the reward: “The Azerite Murlock”
The Azerite Murlock evolves all your minions +3.
but when combined with Shudderblock, your board gets +9 evolve, but not your hand/deck. your hand gets +3 evolve only. and your deck gets evolve +3 only too.
Watch all my 2 drops evolve into either 11 drop onboard or 5 drops in hand/deck:
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https://youtu.be/rPviff27lfE
It says all minions. That should include the ones in your hand and deck. If paly’s excavate reward buffs everywhere equally, so should shaman. Shudderblock isn’t getting the 3x battlecry in your hand and deck and so this is bugged !
I believe this is the intended interaction even though it is not intuitive. The Azerite Murloc’s battlecry is pretty specific “Transform ALL your other minions into ones that cost (3) more (keeping their original Costs).” Because the minions in hand and deck keep their original costs, they won’t evolve after the second battlecry because the battlecry specifies “ones that cost (3 more)”
On board, the battlecry works as expected, because a minion will always have its base cost on the board. So a 2 mana minion becomes a 5 mana minion, then an 8 mana minion, then an 11 mana minion
In your hand or deck, a 2 mana minion becomes a 5 mana minion, but the minion still costs 2 mana, so when the battlecry goes off again, it evolves into another minion that costs 3 more than 2
This is expected by me (I’m not blizzard) when the evolve occurs to the hand and deck the costs remain, and deck and hand evolutions are based on card cost to play not original costs.
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