So a lot of the things are in that space, some of them were more top-down designs so we had a flavour that we really wanted to hit. And I think Luna's is a cool card in Mage now. Peter Whalen: Yeah, Barnabus the Stomper - he was pretty sweet, it was a cool deck.

It used to be a non-quest minion, and it was an interesting deck so we wanted to preserve that.ĭean Ayala: Barnabus the Stomper. The “set the cost of all minions in your deck to something small, either zero or one.” That's being floating around since Un'Goro, we tried that out with the quest. Some of these are definitely things that we've had floating around for a while. It's more a philosophy thing of they're weirder, they're more different, they’re sort of strange cards. We tend not to do our legendaries as just being - oh this is like an epic or a rare but stronger. Peter Whalen: It's less a question of overpowered. IGN: Were any of these cards ideas that you've been sitting on for a long time, thinking - man this is the coolest idea for a spell but it would just be too overpowered if we gave people two of these. They’re not all cards that you only want to do once, but a lot of them are in that space of big and flashy and cool and do something a little bit different. Maybe because it sets the cost of all the minions in your deck to one, and you don't really want to do that a second time, it doesn't mean anything. And a lot of the time, they’re the type of cards that you really only want one copy of for whatever reason. What makes a legendary spell legendary? They're big, they're flashy, they're cool, they're unique.

Their premier invention - this is their life's work, their awesome discovery and now it's going to be a legendary spell.

And so we hit on the idea of having scientists in each of the classes and then along with that their legendary spells. Peter Whalen: We wanted to capture the feeling of science, of crazy inventions. What, in your mind, makes a legendary spell different to a regular spell? Tell me a little bit about deciding to go down this path and how you approached it. IGN: Boomsday introduces legendary spells for the first time.

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