Wondrous Wisdomball appreciation thread

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The adventure just released and I assume most people don’t know what the Wondrous Wisdomball is, does and why it’s the best thing ever.

The Wondrous Wisdomball (or WW in short) is one of the passive treasures you can find in the Dalaran heist adventure. It’s a talking magic ball whose effect is “occasionally giving you helpfucl advice”. It has a myriad of small randomly activated effects that range from drawing an extra card, casting a spell twice to freezing the enemy board or refilling your empty deck with minions and has a line of dialogue for each of them.

Is it useful? Sorta. Not as much as an actual treasure, that’s for sure. Its randomness makes it completely unreliable and its effects have a chance to harm you, but damn if it isn’t funny when it shuffles a totem back in your Big Shaman deck and goes “I’m helping !” afterwards

Why it’s the best thing ever: It’s funny, it keeps you company and adds an healthy amount of RNG to your run that will make it more fun whether it ends up helping or sabotaging you.

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Other effects are clearing both sides, and shuffling a minion that died into your deck.

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Ooh. It sounds fun! I haven’t had the chance to get it yet, but I hope I’ll get it soon! I’ll be watching for it, and I’ll grab it if I get a chance.

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Also it assures that you go first in every round.

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Loved this, when I picked it. I thought… eh what does it do? and took it… best decision ever.

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“That guy started with extra mana. You should too.” - That’s what I’ve been saying since Dungeon Run, and it was nice to have agreement (and mana).

“Why don’t you take an extra turn?” saved me once.

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Honestly, This treasure saved my bacon as well. One turn, I would have died, and it said, “I got you. I remember when Ice Block was in Standard” As a hunter. Saved my run, and I went on to beat all of the other bosses. But yeah, it’s a greeeeat treasure.

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Interesting butbthe board clear is usually really badly timed.

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I love the Wisdomball! Half the time it’s a minor annoyance (Thanks for turning my 1-mana card into a 4-mana card, Wisdomball!) but it’s always entertaining and occasionally it actually does save my bacon.

Most memorable - Drawing my last card and preparing to concede - “You should bring more cards next time!”, six random cards added to my deck and damned if I don’t win thanks to Wisdomball.

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Been trying to find all the effects. So far, I knew about the Ice Block already, but personally experienced:

Nobody’s looking: Randomly draw an extra card. Kinda nice!

Let me play that again: Recasts a spell you cast, but with random targets. This baller copied my “The Candles” treasure; I was down to three uses, and not only did his recast help me clear, it stuck in two copies with two uses each. Saved me versus the Core Hound with the Patrons.

That’s a Great Spell! Let’s cast that again: Recast spell, same targets.

Let me adjust the mana cost on that: changes the cost of something you draw. Bastard made my 3 cost minion cost 8.

Don’t be Sad: Lost a minion? He’ll reshuffle it into your deck. Alas, he shuffled a Flame Elemental in…

I love treasure!: When using a played treasure, shuffles one back in your deck.

They started with extra mana: If the opponent started with extra mana, you start with the same amount.

Take a few extra cards: Triggered for me on an end boss, filling my starting hand with a drawn card… Animal Companion in my case :smiley:

This guy doesn’t seem like much, and most games I found him rather useless. But on my seventh boss, he duplicated a treasure card, and on the eighth match, he procced like nuts. My options were between him and I think the boombot control that gives 3 boombots at the start, but considering his mad proc rate on the eighth boss, including starting me with TWO bonus crystals (since the boss starts at 3), he kind of made up his value.

Really random. Some of his effects even actively work against you. However, it’s very much weighted in your favor; it’s no lie to say he’ll get you out of messes you have no business winning.

Edit: after getting him twice now, it seems he has an unusually high proc rate on end of run bosses. In most matches he might show up once, but on my final boss this time he procced practically every turn. While I might have preferred another treasure on other bosses, he was irreplaceable on the last.

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Allow me to join in the appreciation. I played Heroic not even with the intention to win but just to have all decks and powers selectable, so when the Wisdomball showed up, I decided “oh, why the hell not?”. Well, instantly the first fight it immediately gave me an extra turn (yes, on my first turn already) and 3 extra cards, so I knew things were going to be good. It also did some harmful things (casting a 2nd Meteor on my board and upping Polymorph to 6 mana), but the good outweighed the bad.

But it especially proved its worth vs Gallywix. On Heroic he’s surprisingly tough, and while I hung in there, I was in fatigue with 4 armor + 4 life. Gallywix also wasn’t in the best situation, but he’d win guaranteed. Then it happened: Wisdomball gave me a new deck (bad cards like Hired Gun and Master Swordsmith, but anything’s welcome at fatigue), then the turn after he gave me an extra turn on top of that! I completely turned the game around thanks to that (he even procced a third time in 3 turns, but it was duplicating the Master Swordsmith I drew in 5 Master Swordsmiths: didn’t need it as that turn was my victory)

He also procced A LOT. 5 times was the fewest times I saw it proccing.

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The Wondrous Wisdomball is hilarious. Thank you for his wisdom.

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Casted ice block, I was able to use Create a beast, got lifesteal-taunt-5/6, came back to win.

He also summoned Sogoth, Annoy-a-tron and that 0/5 new shield minion. Thats helped alot.

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i was losing hard on board. my other treasure was case study. with elektra stormsurge got 2 copies of timewarp. he casted 1 second time. + i believe he gave me extra turn as his passive. only real drawback he has he increases cost of some cards when you draw them. like 7 mana blazing invocation. maybe blizzard may offset to change the cost to 5 mana.

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You never got the 1 where when u play a minion and it becomes a random Legendary? cause it’s honestly funny if u play a tiny hunter, player a 1/1 shifting Cam. and becomes a deathwing. it’s like “oh wow that a nice legendary for advice”

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I got my Murloc Warleader transformed into a Lorewalker Cho.