Embalming Ritual
Embalming Ritual is a 1 Mana Cost Common Priest Spell card from the Saviors of Uldum set!
Card Text
Give a minion Reborn.
Flavor Text
"Guess what! We're getting a new cat."- Mana Cost: 1
- Crafting Cost: 40 / 400 (Golden)
- Arcane Dust Gained: 5 / 50 (Golden)
- Rarity: Common
- Class: Priest
- Card Type: Spell
- Set: Saviors of Uldum
- Mechanics: Give Reborn
what if we cast this on a minion which already has reborn?
Basically just a worse Ancestral Spirit. So, I guess I predict it’ll be as good as Ancestral Spirit is. Except, like, worse.
This card isn’t good.
If you want to play this on stuff like cairne, it’s a worse ancestral spirit (because 4health > 1mana), and ancestral spirit has never been any good.
It might see play as a cheap but slow cycle card in a deck with loot hoarders, dead ringers, thalnos and acolyte.
Priest finally gets a good spell that isn’t for OTK 5/5
Poor kitty 🙁
I’m glad priest gets such a powerful card for 1 mana!!
So… Priest is making cards for rogue?
Reborn does NOT stack! It’s been confirmed by devs, it’s like giving a minion Divine Shield when they already have it, it doesn’t work. Still though, putting this on any large card with a decent deathrattle is serious value. 4/5
Very strong in combination with powerful deathrattle minions like Cairne, Mechanical Whelpling, Zerek, Convincing Infiltrator. At a 1 mana cost, this is 5/5
Unfortunately for Preist, Priest does not play Cairne, Mech. Welp, or Zerek. This card doesn’t change that.
This is exactly the kind of card that would change that. Slightly worse but better value play dead. But priest has better synergy with one cost spells so this is real good. Priest is currently running snip-snap and many other mechs so it’s not to hard to think that they would add some welp’s to make thier decks more resilant agaisnt control with this.
It’s not even remotely close to Play Dead, which has an *immediate* effect on the board.
A better comparison would be the Paladin spell Hand of Protection, which has NEVER seen play. A divine Shielded minion has to pinged and then killed – reborn is basically the reverse of this.
This card is better if it is played onto a Deathrattle minion. But that creates something which is incredibly weak to Silence. Aside from that, the six mana Deathrattle cards are just too slow. Priest already has Power Word Shield and Extra/More Arms for Zerek. It doesn’t see any play. The power of the effect isn’t enough because it is coming far too late in the game.
Recurring Villian has seen more play in Priest since the buff to Extra Arms than Zerek has ever seen in its entire existence. It’s not really great, but nothing in Priest is.
This is a cheap spell that could possibly go into some Miracle Priest. But I don’t think it makes the cut there. It’s certainly not gonna replace PWS.
I call it a more greedy play dead because you don’t get the immediate effect but you get more value in the long run. If you want instant value just play this and trade in the same turn. You’d prefer to compare it to hand of protection? Okay. You clearly know this card has much more synergy than that you’re just choosing not to make use of it at all. This card isn’t going to make Zerek good but priest already has many great minions which get better with this card.
Could you do this twice to a leeroy, kill it and get two more with charge? With holy smite its an ez 4 card 18 damage
Devs compared reborn to divine shield, it’s an ability that can be triggered once. If that analogy holds, then giving a minion reborn a second time would do nothing, just like nothing happens if you give divine shield to a minion that already has it.
Sure they don’t stack but if the reborn is triggered, could one reborn the new minion?
My guess would be yes
Put this on a big minion to get it back later. Put this on a small minion (great with deathrattle!) to keep the tempo going. Good with Nomi too if that sticks around. Really versatile card that works in many situations (I can only dream Zerek will finally be good). 5/5
I cannot possibly think of a reason to put this on Nomi.
why create this for a specific class? why not give it to all class? It’s a new mechanic for this expansion.
All Class should be able to use it. For example like a 2 mana 1/2 body that gives a minion “Reborn”.
Immediate 1 of 5.
It’s not because I don’t like Priest class, but this is new expansion mechanic that all class should be able to perform.
This effect in warrior/hunter makes no sense. Rez and reborn belong in priest and paladin.
For warrior think of reborn on a minion as giving that minion commanding shout that stops the first lethal dmg to minion instead. In that sense it is believable for warriors.
I mean it’s ‘reborn’ so the minion dies and gets reborn. What you’re describing sounds more like divine shield but I get you’re point. Though reborn defo doesn’t need full support in all classes, that has never been the case with new keywords and shouldn’t be.
Maybe because that doesn’t fit the theme of a lot of classes and it could cause a lot more broken scenarios? “It’s a new mechanic for this expansion” isn’t much of an excuse when we’ve had things previously like jade, schemes, etc that not everyone got access to.
Also, Priest already has a minion that is giving reborn to things, and reborn is basically just a possibly improved resurrection mechanic. It’s only natural that priest would have far more mastery and support for this new mechanic (though its really making me question what the point of paladin’s quest was now…)
Pissing people off as a priest 101 first play convincing infiltrator. Next tag the infiltrator with this card. And finally cast vivid nightmare on the infiltrator. Congratulations you just RNG killed 4 enemy minions.
10 mana mass resurrection plus embalming on the mosh ogg
Very good nomi miracle fuel
Great flexibility 5/5. The commons and rares are often scarier than the epics in this set
Zerek would be pretty interesting with this. I have a feeling that the Priest quest will be about resurrection, if so this will go in very nicely.
I can assure you it will be nothing with resurrection. Every other quest was the same… they give us preview cards that suggest a quest card around that mechanic and BOOM, the quest its nothing like that lol
Oh great ressurection priest just got it’s new favorite card.
Automatically going to give this a 5 Star Card, but for some Priest Decks out there, it might be worth only keeping 1 copy of this card. Automatically, the first thing that came to my mind when I saw this was Zilliax, and then some of the more control-style Cards such as Muerte, or Velen. This is really going to make Big and Control Priest happy, but for the more aggressive Zoo, Tempo and Midrange Priest as well. You’ve got cards like Argent Commander to make it that much more of a nuisance to kill, and you even got Vargoth and Zerek Wanting for a card like this to happen, so they could have more survivability to cause more chaos and shenanigans towards your opponent. Do not sleep on this card, even if, as I said, you can always play just 1 copy of it.
We can otk with leeroy easily if it stack
How?
Leeroy plus embalming puts him twice in the resurrect pool, mass resurrect, shadowy figure, catrina etc. End up with a bunch of leeroys
Does reborn effect stack? I mean, if you give it to a minion with reborn already, does two come back at 1 hp?
I wanna say it doesn’t
I would say one comes back but it still has reborn.
Based on how redemption works, I would say if you put this on a vanilla minion twice, you would get 2 one health versions of it when it died.
I had this exact thought. My guess would be if you cast this twice on sat, chillwind yeti you’d get two 1 health chillwinds when the first one dies?
My second thought about reborn in general is, when the 1 health minion is “reborn” is it healable? If so circle of healing got buffed.
Reborn minions can be healed. They come back with 1 health remaining, not with their base health set to 1.
If you give windfury to a windfury minions it does nothing.
Same with all 1-word keywords
So no.
If you give something with deathrattle more deathrattle, they trigger twice.
Deathrattle is never 1word
it’s “Deathrattle: do that”
What you say make sense. But how did you know that? It isn’t even out yet