Splitting Image
Splitting Image is a 3 Mana Cost Epic Mage Spell card from the Rastakhan's Rumble set!
Card Text
Secret: When one of your minions is attacked, summon a copy of it.
Flavor Text
Sometimes you get punched so hard they see double.
- Type
- Spell
- Rarity
- Epic
- Set
- Rastakhan's Rumble
- Class
- Mage
- Cost
- 3
- Spell School
- Arcane
- Minion Type
- Mechanics
- Secret, Summon
- Artist
- L. Lullabi & K. Turovec
- Collectible
- Yes
28 Comments
Piterno
This is insane. It can copy your Rag or Lich King, for 3 mana! Good replacement for Explosive Runes which rotates soon.
Arachnofiend
Oh joy, more mage secrets that you basically have to play into. "Is the secret Splitting Image or Counterspell? No way to tell until I lose the game on a 50/50."
Taznak
I mean, that’s how secrets work in Hearthstone. You have to think carefully and take calculated risks against them.
I’m kind of surprised you’re complaining against Mage secrets, since pretty much no one plays any Mage secrets after the Mana Wyrm nerf killed Tempo Mage. If you’re going to complain about strong Secrets, the Hunter class is that way —>
Lllllll
They might be strong ( I don’t see how mage isn’t equally as strong ) but more predictable and have less synergy ( like freezing and explosive trap ), whereas counter spell and most other mage secrets combo really well or confuse you if they just played one secret.
January1979
A lot like mirror image. You’re either getting a 1/2 firefly or a lich king, never in between. Much easier to play around than mirror so probably not as good as it looks. 3 stars, honestly might be too high.
Piterno
Did you read the card right? "When one of *your* minions is attacked" so there's little play-around, if your opponent wants to trade and you have 1 massive minion this is summoning the same massive minion. It isn't like a "When an enemy minion attacks, summon a copy of it" or something.
Lllllll
Do you mean molten reflection?
Bajula
Would have been pretty good with Mana Wyrm...
politzo
minion mage is growing more and more and this card might vie a place in that deck. copy a lich king, mountain giant, ragnaros and its stupendous even copying something smaller isnt terrible like a small taunt or an elemental
5/5 easy
Lluadian
Rag, giant, lich those are the big boys........ Now everyone is going to be teaching chief inspector
Lllllll
Teching?
Ben
Fav card in the set so far sick art and effect
6/5
mockingstuffs
Poor troll gets punched so hard his soul comes out.
Cool card by the way, can go well with lich king or any taunt minions (if they aren't killed by spell).
jason
much better than mirror image.
1Skyscale
If you need protection, not really.
This card needs to be built around to be worth using. The enemy can also decide when to trigger it or use removal on the minion you want to copy, making the secret useless.
Besides, it doesn't fit into any current archetype nor does it fit into odd mage.
Elemental mage has no need for this, as it would still prefer using the 2 staple secrets
Tyramir
Control Mage. Drop with Doomsayer. Your opponent then needs to commit to dumping 14 damage into Doomsayers, or just going face and losing their board. Even more hilarious if they commit to killing a Doomsayer and can't kill the second because they didn't properly play around.
Lllllll
Deal one damage to doomsayer and trigger effect. Then go face
Lord Tyrone
Yea everyone knows those epic late game 1 attack minions.
Lllllll
There are lots of ways to deal 1 damage and I’d rather even do 4 less face damage to trigger the effect so it doesn’t end up summoning a big minion with 6+ health.
Lllllll
This fits perfectly into tempo and can work in odd and most other archetypes.
GlosuuLang
This could have its moments. The idea is to drop this when you have no board, then next turn drop a Lich King or the like. I'm guessing this will not trigger if you have a full board?
fareh
So usefull, will be a staple in mage decks for sure...
Control, combo, aggro, any deck could use this.
Its like a preemptive molten reflection, could be used on empty board, love it... 5/5
Freedon
Strong addition to the mage secret repertoire, as like all half-decent secrets it forces people to play around it just because it exists, whether or not its actually being played.
Focusing on the effect itself, its a decent one. If you drop a big minion, especially a hard or soft taunt, and your opponent has an efficient removal spell or effect, they would be likely to use it anyway rather than trade in a minion or several. If they don't however, they going to struggle, and will seriously consider not trading at all. If the big minion you were looking to copy gets removed, you can still gain plenty of decent value by gaining a copy of anything worth 4+ mana with decent stats, on-board effect, or deathrattle, which you should have some control over.
Needless to say it could find a place in any deck with at least a few medium-large minions included, so I think it will see play at some point, not to mention just generally increasing opponent's anxiety levels and misplays.
Vincent
An insane card for a big minion / control deck. 5/5
Jed
A much more controllable mage secret.
Good flavor all around, good card.
5/5
sm1ng
The summoned copy is of your minion before the attack deals damage, right?
Lllllll
Yes but it might not keep enhancements.
DukeStarswisher
Board to board copies actually keep enhancements now after that one patch. Its only when a card goes backward in play zones that enhancements go away. (e.g. zola copy to hand, banker copy to deck)
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