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Immortal Vanguards - Abyssian - Infest

Really cool effect, and I love the flavor. Interesting in that it forces your opponent to space out/play their minions in a certain way to stop the infection from spreading.

EDIT: Updated with better picture.

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Combo with Grasp … swarmers/wallers gonna hate :slight_smile:

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This is what we need…great card:slight_smile:

I like it.

can I run this in doom? :thinking:

Really like the design, not sure about it’s viability though.

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Woah, this has a lot of personality and flavor, that’s awesome. It’s cards like these that really bring out the strategy aspect of the game.

As far as straight up power goes, it varies wildly depending upon what opponent you are playing against. Totally decimates opposing swarm decks (like they weren’t weak enough)

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Great card design/concept. In practice, this card is completely overcosted though, unless someone can provide a good combo that actually makes this worth the 3 mana.

It looks cheap for what it does. It Will be very easy dealing 6-8 damage face with this card, unless your opponent dispell his on minions

Probably countered by EMP (don’t take my word for it, thought it’d be a tad funny to say) 9/10 crazy card that’s gonna kill swarm, or at least kick swarm in the nuts, like really hard.

In what scenario outside of maybe swarm are you assuming 3+ minions to be adjacent to one another?

so if you kill this effected minion and an enemy Next to it you deal 4 damage since spell effects and dying wish happen before actual death (see any spell sentinel). Good Antiswam

Devious, mean, cruel, perfect for Abyssian.

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Because its a chain. Even if you infect Just one minion, your opponents need to place his other minions very badly or accept The damage

You’re kidding right? What about field wipe? Would it chain to every minion dying?

-sweats profusely-

Abyssian has Lure, so it’s not that hard to get 3 minions next to another sometimes. Really cool card, but I wish swarmy things get some good support this expac, not like there isn’t already enough tech options against them…

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I may or may not have read this cards name wrong

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daemonic lure is remains the undisputed champion of abyssian combos

love the card

ive suggested/seen similar mechanics in card contests before

swarm needs more love than anti-swarm though

A control cassyva deck with this looks already strong

That’s discoverable. By current interactions, only those adjacent would on a board wipe since theyre next to the original adjacent unit, so don’t play into like infest ~> breath of the unborn for 18 face

Except they don’t. This card is so easy to avoid simply by placing a minion either by general, or place and then moving other minion.

In addition, (again, apart from swarm), players usually have maybe 1-3 minions on board, and adapting to one infected isn’t devastating.

So then you’re spending 4+ mana and 2 cards for the actual effect.

The only thing coming to my mind that this could crush is specifically Wall Vanar, Flying Vet, and Lilithe Swarm.

Personally though, this card is garbage. Trash. Overrated for the overcost. This is a solid 2 mana card as it stands right now to me.

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