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*Riiiing* Yes?....The Darkness hey! what's up? Vernula Left you a message? no i don't have his number
...can we kind of count this as the game's first and only neutral Quest? It does use the Quest animation when a candle is drawn...
That's just Blizz reusing assets. It's not really a Quest. Quests are their own keyword, 1 mana Legendary spells that are guaranteed to be in your opening mulligan. Plus, Quests take up a Secret slot, not a minion slot.
They better reference the Dead Alewives D&D video with the flavor text.
"I wanna cast Magic Missile!"
I'm pretty sure candles activate when milled. Ambush activates when milled right?
If your opponent burns the Ambush because his hand is full it doesn't trigger. So I guess candles won't trigger too.
it says when drawn so that means if you mill, its still drawn so this will trigger
Flame Leviathan didn't trigger when it got burned.
It won't activate. Also, Ambush doesn't activate... nor any other milled card.
fucking retard leviathan is a minion and ambush summons a minion BUT ITS ANOTHER TYPE OF CARD DUMBASS RETARDS it will activate iin any case stupid idiots
Finally best card counter raza+anduin combo.. I ll use it in all of my decks.. and eager to see auto concade highlander priest :)
This card doesn't counter Razakus Priest at all... All they have to do is hold back SW:D or use Anduin after drawing the candles. They could even use Psychic Scream. And it's extremely likely that they'll have access to at least one of those methods of removal if they've drawn enough of their deck to trip all 3 candles.
The candles prevent them from using Raza or Kazakus, unless they draw at least 2 of them. Even if they keep removal for the 20/20, staving off the no-duplicate battlecries before forcing removal to be spent is worth the mana cost.
Oh darn, I didn't even consider that interaction. I don't know if it's a powerful counter, but it's definitely much better than I thought.
I predict some insane Fal'dorei Strider + Coldlight Oracle combos with this card to just cycle both decks like crazy in order to force them to draw the candles while filling the board with 4/4 spiders. Priest has great removal, but constantly killing a board filled with 4/4 spiders that can return every turn is a little hard, even for them.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/980077-spiders-in-the-darkness
Imagine Valeera the Hollow + Fal'dorei Strider + copy + Shadowstep + Fal'dorei Strider on turn 10. That shuffles 12 spider ambushes into your deck with just two cards out of your hand. After the priest uses their psychic scream, circle of healing and dragonfire potion to clear that nonsense, you can just do it again. It's like an improved quest hunter where the reward minions are stronger, cost nothing, and can be more numerous.
Possible potential in a Mill Rogue deck. :)
If you mill his candle, it'll never activate. It's the same reason why Beneath the Grounds was bad in mill rogue, but even more severe with this. Can't Gang Up this card either to fill his deck with candles :(
behold! the 4 mana 20/20!
If The Darkness got pulled out by Dirty Rat or something like that, will it stays dormant?
Good question. Without the text of Battlecry, I would assume that starting out as dormant is a passive effect. In fact, if The Darkness get's pulled by Dirty Rat, the shuffling of candles wouldn't happen so it would just be dormant forever