Spreading Plague
Spreading Plague is a 6 Mana Cost Rare Druid Spell card from the Placeholder set!
Card Text
Summon a 1/5 Scarab with Taunt. If your opponent has more minions, cast this again.
Flavor Text
In the past, plagues were spread by mice or fleas. These days they're spread by elves.
- Type
- Spell
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- Placeholder
- Class
- Druid
- Cost
- 6
- Spell School
- Nature
- Minion Type
- Mechanics
- Summon, Taunt
- Artist
- Alex Alexandrov
- Collectible
- Yes
- Rating
- 4.0/5 (1784 votes)
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47 Comments
Sober667
Living mana 2.0 :D
Stephen
Unleash the Hounds, Druid version. Also, I think it should be called a Locust instead of Scarab.
Stephen
My thoughts exactly.
Piterno
Did they have to word it this way? Why not do what they did with Unleash the hounds?
Stephen
My thoughts exactly.
TRPNG
Because this spell can be casted when opponent has no minions, maybe?
Raemahn
(1) Can be case when opponent has zero minions and still generate value.
(2) Equal to the number of minions the opponent has /minus one/.
Raemahn
Oh, and...
(3) Adds another counter to the Yogg-Saron stack. O.O
Trotticus
It's equal to, not minus one.
Raemahn
Oops, you are correct.
I am curious about the interaction with Auctioneer as well.
Fabian wogatzke
X = enemy minions
Y = ur minions
Plague value = 1+[X-(Y+1)]
JaySherman
Praise Yogg!
Fabian wogatzke
Cause its not the same as unleash the hounds, since it watches ur own minions too.
If u have 2 minions and ur enemy has 2 minions , this spell will still only produce 1 (1/5), cause u got more minions then ur enemy in that case.
Wywern
Well, looks like control druid will almost certainly be a thing.
Heralt
It won't, unless druid will have some good removals. To get any value from this card, u have to be much behind on board, but as druid you can't recover if you already far behind
Jaych
What, so Wrath, Swipe, Starfire, and Starfall aren't good removal?
Heralt
Are you kidding? No, they are not. Just compare to removals from "classic" control classes: swp/swd, dragonfire potion (and lightbomb earlier), execute/shield slam, hex/polimorph, brawl, different combos with equality and so on. The only good removal just rotated out from standard with year oh mammoth (bye bye mulch), so druid can't play as #2 on the board. You can skip 1-2 turns for manaburst and then play some big minions to get board back, but you can't play whole game
Unbekunt
turn 1 pass
turn 2 wildgrowth
turn 3 coin Spreading Plague
enemy
1/1 pirate with weapon , patches -> 2 dmg turn 1
3/3 pirate which got buffed from weapon - > 3 dmg turn 2
3/4 pirate which makes weapon better - > 7 dmg turn 3
enemy has 4 minions on board with a total attack of 8 and his weapon with 2 attack
Spreading plague gives u 4 1/5 taunts then which is kinda pretty good vs aggro.
Heralt
Yeah, but you cant play card only because it good vs aggro. It has to do something vs mid and slow decks as well.
Fanderay
I can't see which kind of rogue archetype could benefit from this card. I think this is a really bad card.
Fanderay
My bad. I thought this was a rogue card XD.
Anyway, I still think this is not a good card. Reminds me of protect the king, the warrior card, that never saw any play.
Bob
This is a druid spell
alexzon
Does this count as many spells if Auctioneer is in play?
Anon
That is a good question. I wonder if thats how this new "recast" thing will work
Fabian wogatzke
same as with yogg. The spell casts itself again, not u cast it again.
imaloony
Druid's Protect the King. Theoretically better, but I don't think it'll work. The bodies are good at buying you time, but don't impact the board much on their own. Could have synergy with Savage Roar, but you're better off just using Living Mana. I find it unlikely this card will do anything. If your opponent's board is big enough for this to get big value, you've probably already lost.
User27
This could work really well with poison seeds though. Play this to stall a turn, then next turn trade and turn them all into treants: you'll get some on your side to so you can trade away your opponents treants instead of just being beat down with druids lack of true board clears.
imaloony
People said the same thing about Protect the King + Bolster, but that never worked out. :/
Hearthstoner
Synergy with new druid legendary...
Baran613
This card seems maybe good in a sort of token deck and in a control deck if aggro is still around but versus control decks it sucks so I hope this card is crap because I dont wanna see aggro decks anymore xD
Dontfeedtheemu
The concept of "if your opponent has more minions is a cool one."
On turn 6 when you play Tar Creeper and Stonehill Defender to doesn't feel THAT great, and I have made that play ALOT. Those cards are obviously way better than this because the value is not totally in their stats...which suck.
Zezinsim
Very bad card !!!! To expensive !!
Fabian wogatzke
5 mana for 5-7 1/5 Taunts sounds sweet vs aggro on turn 5 ...
stewart biggle
ur retarded
jadelink
Ergh... attack of the taunt wall jade druids. Not looking forward to it.
billius
living mana is better
Glyphe
Not always. This card is like frost nova for Druid, very sick Card. Getting 4 minions is 20 Health and like Reno at 10 Health. As You can Play 2: better than Reno and Thats saying a lot.
Maybe a loooooot better
Max Hohmann
What Happens when u have the Wapon from Medive with maybe 3 Charges ?
The Cardtext say "cast it again"
You have Zero minions and your Enemy six
And u Play this ?
1/5 Tount 5 Mana Drop 1/5 Tount 5 Mana Drop 1/5 ....
Its maybe to Strong :'D to be true
Matt
Definitely would make sense if you got 3 5-drops.
Fabian wogatzke
Yogg's casting spells too and it doesnt effect medivh, neither mana wyrm or auctioneer. This card won't affect this too.
Playwright
Will the scarabs be beasts? If so I am interested to see if I could make a viable beast spell deck.
TS
can some one explain the effect fro me? cuz I'm confused. will this summon as many 1/5 taunts as there are opponent minions?
Corpesmen18
it summons 1/5 taunts untill you have the same amount of total minions as your opponent.
if you had 1 minion and your opponent had 3 minions, you would summon 2, 1/5 taunts
trip
Is it a good Card? Yeah can be.
Is it a fking boring card to introduce to hearthstone? Yeah always will be.
Peter
How good this card is depends on whether or not the second and later casts count as "spells" for Medivh and Yogg
If they do, this might be good in some kind of midrangy Druid
6/10
If they don't, all this does is stall the board in a class with poor board clears
3/10
Spyder9899
It doesn't matter if it counts towards yogg for this to be good. That's just ridiculous.
It's a broken card that needs to go.
Yeah, "all it does is stall the board." That just means it gives them time for bigger jades. You know how you beat Jade druid? You beat them early.
case hook
and they gave warrior this 1-1 taunt spell ?????? even the value blizzard !!!!!!!!!! who maked this card should shame on you 6 mana gives full board 7 times 5 health 35 health and 7 attack no whay to clear unless you are priest !
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