Thing from Below
Thing from Below is a 6 Mana Cost Rare Shaman Minion card from the Core Set 2024 set!
Card Text
Taunt Costs (1) less for each Totem you've summoned this game.
Flavor Text
Just can't resist the opportunity to hang around with a bunch of totems.- Mana Cost: 6
- Attack: 5
- Health: 5
- Crafting Cost: 100 / 800 (Golden)
- Arcane Dust Gained: 20 / 100 (Golden)
- Rarity: Rare
- Class: Shaman
- Card Type: Minion
- Set: Core Set 2024
- Mechanics: Change Cost, Taunt
Thing from Below Additional Information
- Thing from Below reduces cost when the Shaman Hero Power (Totemic Call) is used, and when cards like Tuskarr Totemic are played. [Source]
- The card also works like Frost Giant where the cost reduction happens if the cards is in hand or in your deck. [Source]
- Thing from Below will continue to reduce in cost while on the board. This would be relevant with something like Youthful Brewmaster. [Source]
With the old gods rotating out soon, what’s a good replacement for this card? I was thinking Nesting roc.
People say “Midrange Shaman, omg this card is perf for Midrange Shaman”. Sure, I say. But what I’m worried about is this card as unbelievably synergistic tech in Aggro Shaman, a deck that not only plays the best totem card (Golem) religiously, but that also can maximize on the value given by both Flame-tongue and the Shaman Hero power.
Turn 1: Trog
Turn 2: Golem
Turn 3: Flametongue / Another Golem / Hero Power.
Turn 4: This
And that’s just one possibility. You could also just hold onto / draw into this while cost droping even further, playing Aggro normally with all your value totems and hero power. Suddenly you have a 2 or less 5/5 taunter to interrupt their efforts should your other beefy minions have bit the dust and a perfect damage dealer to close out the game should you come just shy of lethal after Doomhammer shenanigans.
Ultimately, I think Aggro shaman is going to go hog wild with this card and I for one am terrified to see just how far they take it.
I love how Blizzard is slowly reviving the dead class ( I LOVE SHAMAN)
oh yesssss i will take my totem shaman to stay please
Master of Evolution combos really well with this card
I play shaman I have it golden and what I think sham really needs is some good epic cards, but I can deffinetly see this card in any sham deck
Must be a bug. Already 2 revealed shaman cards and not even one overload.
OP
but Schaman needs it
Really solid card. A strong stat line, taunt, and none of the drawbacks that similar cards like Knight of the Wild have. With Totem Golem, Tuskarr, and Flametongue all being common additions to Midrange Shaman, this can consistently come out on turn 4
The earliest this card could be summoned is turn 4 (totem on turn 2 and 3, reducing its cost to 4 mana). Is a 4 mana 5/5 a good enough play? Also is it worth potentially sacrificing the first 3 turns of the game? Best case is Totem Golem on turn 2, Coin/Tuskar thats spawns another totem golem on turn 3 and the 5/5 taunt on turn 4. Could be a good play, but very unlikely to pull of consistantly. Late game it will be very cheep and could help with board control, so it still gets a good score in my eyes.
Almost a Finley nerf.
Guys! It’s like Knight of the Wild! It’s not that good!
It’s better because it receives the cost reduction from in your deck and in your hand. Knight of the Wild only works while in your hand.
Really? I never knew that. I’m still not completely sold, but this is better for sure…
You just cant compare awful Knight of the Wild to this. Knight of the Wild is just big dude without any other effect. For 1st this one got taunt so it does something immediately, for 2nd you dont need to have him in your hand to reduce his cost. Its much better than Knight of the Wild. #PowerCreep
It’s smaller so each cost reduction is a bigger deal, it is effected whether or not it’s in your hand, it’s in a class where the hero power reduces the cost, and it has taunt. Everything about this card is better.
It’s super easy to reduce the cost of this card, hero powering alone reduces it. This will see a ton of play
This is an extremely solid card. With this and Hallazeal I think control shaman is going to rise up from the depths of hell it’s been stuck in forever.
Does the one from Tuskarr count?
Yep, any time a Totem is “summoned” it counts.
Does this count use of your hero power?
I’d be surprised if it didn’t. Shaman Hero Power reads: “Summon a random Totem.”
The not so steady rise in midrange shaman cards continues. Just watch what happens when all of the sticky minions rotate. just think of the sequencing (not even the best). totem golem on two, totem turn 3, this on 4. its going to be obscene…
and later in game for free second 5/5
I like it, it will be played in midrange/control shaman