The Caverns Below

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The Caverns Below can be obtained through Journey to Un`Goro  "We re almost there. Quiet down, everyone.  "This is not like any of our previous expeditions. This will be far more... ambitious. We re stepping into a land of primordial wonders, infused with astonishing elemental energies. The card packs Card pack concept art Card packs are items that players can open to acquire cards for filling a player s collection. Only card packs for the current Standard format sets are available for purchase in the , through crafting Crafting mode, in Standard format mode The crafting system is an element of Hearthstone that allows players to directly create new cards. It can be accessed through the My Collection screen. Crafting consumes Arcane Dust , or as an Arena A video explaining the Arena in Hearthstone made by the Curse Gamepedia @@@#@@@YouTube(youtube.com)###@### Channel. The Arena is a game mode where players compete against each other using specially constructed decks to earn substantial rewards. It reward.

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The Caverns Below	1600	400
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The Caverns Below

Set:	Journey to Un`Goro  "We re almost there. Quiet down, everyone.  "This is not like any of our previous expeditions. This will be far more... ambitious. We re stepping into a land of primordial wonders, infused with astonishing elemental energies. The
Type:	Spell
Class:	Rogue
Rarity:	Legendary Rarity is a rough measure of the quality and scarcity of a card. Cards of higher rarity are typically more powerful and more useful, but are harder to find and more expensive to craft. There
Cost:	1
Abilities:	Generate Generate effects are abilities which create new cards and place them into a player s hand, or more rarely shuffle them into the player s deck. They may generate entirely new cards, or combine with a copy , Quest See the spell card. For quests which reward gold, see Quest. A Quest is a spell card featuring a conditional reward. When played, Quests are displayed above the controlling hero s portrait, similar

Quest: Play four minions with the same name.
Reward: Crystal Core.

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The Caverns Below is a legendary Rarity is a rough measure of the quality and scarcity of a card. Cards of higher rarity are typically more powerful and more useful, but are harder to find and more expensive to craft. There rogue Contents 1 Heroes 2 Overview 3 Background 4 Hero Power 4.1 Unique mechanics 5 Strategy 5.1 Countering a rogue 6 Spells 6.1 Uncollectible 7 Minions 7.1 Uncollectible 8 Weapons 8.1 Uncollectible 9 Leveling rewards 9.1 spell Fireball, a simple mage spell. It costs 4 mana, dealing 6 damage to a chosen target. Spell cards are cards that can be played to trigger a one time effect or ability, described in the card, from the Journey to Un`Goro  "We re almost there. Quiet down, everyone.  "This is not like any of our previous expeditions. This will be far more... ambitious. We re stepping into a land of primordial wonders, infused with astonishing elemental energies. The set.

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Strategy

An effective way to complete The Caverns Below is to use return to hand A return to hand or return effect is a card effect whereby a minion, or more rarely a weapon or spell, is returned to the controlling player s hand. The target returns to its original card effects such as Gadgetzan Ferryman Gadgetzan Ferryman Set: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Type: Minion Class: Rogue Rarity: Rare Cost: 2 Attack: 2 Health: 3 Abilities: Combo, Return to hand Combo: Return a friendly minion to your hand.Is it just me, , Youthful Brewmaster Youthful Brewmaster Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 3 Health: 2 Abilities: Battlecry, Return to hand Battlecry: Return a friendly minion from the battlefield to your hand.His youthful enthusiasm doesn’t always equal , Ancient Brewmaster Ancient Brewmaster Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Common Cost: 4 Attack: 5 Health: 4 Abilities: Battlecry, Return to hand Battlecry: Return a friendly minion from the battlefield to your hand.Most pandaren say his brew tastes , Coliseum Manager Coliseum Manager Set: The Grand Tournament Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 3 Attack: 2 Health: 5 Abilities: Inspire, Return to hand Tags: Hero Power-related Inspire: Return this minion to your hand.Meets monthly with the gladiators , Shadowstep and Vanish, as well as cards that create copies of other cards, such as Shadowcaster Shadowcaster Set: Whispers of the Old Gods Type: Minion Class: Rogue Rarity: Epic Cost: 5 Attack: 4 Health: 4 Abilities: Battlecry, Copy, Generate, Modify cost Battlecry: Choose a friendly minion. Add a 1/1 copy to , Gang Up, Thistle Tea and Mimic Pod. For a list of all cards with return and copy effects, see return to hand A return to hand or return effect is a card effect whereby a minion, or more rarely a weapon or spell, is returned to the controlling player s hand. The target returns to its original card and copy.

Another strategy to complete this quest is using the Flame Elemental tokens generated by Igneous Elemental and Fire Fly. Not only do these quickly place minions with the same name into your hand, they generate 1 mana 5/5s once the quest is complete, and have Elemental synergy.

Crystal Core is one of the trickiest Quest rewards to make use of. It has obvious synergy with cheap, low-statted minions like Swashburglar or low-statted minions with strong Battlecries Battlecry is an ability where a particular effect activates when the card with the Battlecry is played directly from the hand. Although mostly limited to minions, some weapons also have Battlecries. Activation of Battlecries are like Vilespine Slayer. On the flip-side, it has severe anti-synergy with many high-cost minions, as most will be reduced in stats or gain little to no benefit. One of the strongest aspects of the card is buffing tokens, such as the Violet Apprentices created by Violet Teacher Violet Teacher Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 4 Attack: 3 Health: 5 Abilities: Summon Tags: Spell-related, Triggered effect Whenever you cast a spell, summon a 1/1 Violet Apprentice.If you don t pay attention, you , or the Stewards summoned by Moroes. Each will become a 5/5 minion. It also has great synergy with Edwin VanCleef and Biteweed, as long as they`re in the player`s hand and not the board when Crystal Core is played. Each begin at 5/5 and can gain a large amount of stats. Other generally good cards to receive the Crystal Core buff include Razorpetal Lasher, Runic Egg, any minion with Living Spores, The Voraxx, Novice Engineer, Devilsaur Egg, and so forth.

This card as notable anti-synergy with Jade Golem decks, as it will limit all future Jade Golems to 5/5.

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Notes

• The Caverns Below counts minions played, not minions summoned. This means that minions such as Doppelgangster Doppelgangster Set: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 5 Attack: 2 Health: 2 Abilities: Battlecry, Copy, Summon Battlecry: Summon 2 copies of this minion."Every me, get in here!"See this card on Hearthpwn will trigger only once, and not three times, for the quest. In summary, minions` names will only be counted for advancing the quest if the minions were played from the hand.
• The quest progress counts any minions that have the same name, even if they are not the exact same minion. For instance, playing from hand an Imp token Imp Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Demon Cost: 1 Attack: 1 Health: 1 See this card on Hearthpwn data page] For the identically-named Imps, see Imp (Imp-losion) and Imp (Imp Gang Boss). For other Imps, created by Imp Master Imp Master Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 3 Attack: 1 Health: 5 Abilities: Deal damage, Summon Tags: Demon-generating, Triggered effect At the end of your turn, deal 1 damage to this minion and and an Imp token Imp Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Demon Cost: 1 Attack: 1 Health: 1 See this card on Hearthpwn data page] For the identically-named Imps, see Imp (Imp-losion) and Imp (Imp Gang Boss). For other Imps, created by Imp-losion would count as playing 2 minions of the same name, despite the two Imps` difference in source and card art. Similarly, playing a Doppelgangster, returning one of the uncollectible copies Doppelgangster Set: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 5 Attack: 2 Health: 2 Abilities: Battlecry, Copy, Summon Battlecry: Summon 2 copies of this minion.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Doppelgangster is to one`s hand and then playing the copy again would count as 2 minions of the same name.
• Upon playing Crystal Core, all friendly minions in the player`s hand, deck and battlefield get set to 5/5 stats, and any friendly minion summoned/transformed/taken control of thereafter will be set to a 5/5 the next time Auras update, if it has not been set to a 5/5 this way yet. Afterwards, minions can still take damage, get buffed and activate their triggered effects The lightning bolt icon, explicitly indicating a triggered effect Triggered effects are effects that activate in response to specific events. Triggered effects may belong to minions, weapons or spells (in the form of Secrets), as , Battlecries Battlecry is an ability where a particular effect activates when the card with the Battlecry is played directly from the hand. Although mostly limited to minions, some weapons also have Battlecries. Activation of Battlecries are and Combos Combo is an ability where the stated effect occurs if the card is not the first one played during the turn. Cards with this ability are limited to the rogue class. The term "combo" is like normal; they will simply start out with 5/5 stats by default. This includes tokens Token is an unofficial term for most uncollectible minions that are summoned directly into play by other cards. Those cards may include minions with triggered effects or Battlecries such as Violet Teacher and Cenarius, or created by cards such as Violet Teacher Violet Teacher Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 4 Attack: 3 Health: 5 Abilities: Summon Tags: Spell-related, Triggered effect Whenever you cast a spell, summon a 1/1 Violet Apprentice.If you don t pay attention, you and Onyxia Onyxia Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Dragon Rarity: Legendary Cost: 9 Attack: 8 Health: 8 Abilities: Battlecry, Summon Tags: Dragon-generating Battlecry: Summon 1/1 Whelps until your side of the battlefield is full.Onyxia long manipulated the , copies of other friendly minions created by Barnes Barnes Set: One Night in Karazhan Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 4 Attack: 3 Health: 4 Abilities: Battlecry, Copy, Summon Tags: Random Battlecry: Summon a 1/1 copy of a random minion in your deck.He used and Shadowcaster Shadowcaster Set: Whispers of the Old Gods Type: Minion Class: Rogue Rarity: Epic Cost: 5 Attack: 4 Health: 4 Abilities: Battlecry, Copy, Generate, Modify cost Battlecry: Choose a friendly minion. Add a 1/1 copy to , and transformed minions created by spells such as Polymorph Polymorph Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Mage Cost: 4 Abilities: Transform Tags: Beast-generating Transform a minion into a 1/1 Sheep.There was going to be a pun in this flavor text, but it just came out and Hex Hex Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Shaman Cost: 3 Abilities: Transform Tags: Beast-generating, Taunt-generating Transform a minion into a 0/1 Frog with Taunt.If you Hex a Murloc... it really isn t much of a change, is .
  • All Jade Golems Jade Golem Set: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Type: Minion Class: Druid, Rogue, Shaman Tri-class: Jade Lotus data page] Jade Golem is an uncollectible tri-class minion, summoned by various cards from the Mean Streets of Gadgetzan summoned after playing Crystal Core will be 5/5 minions.
  • Taking control of an enemy minion after playing Crystal Core, such as using Sylvanas Windrunner Sylvanas Windrunner Set: Hall of Fame Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 6 Attack: 5 Health: 5 Abilities: Deathrattle, Take control Tags: Random Deathrattle: Take control of a random enemy minion.Sylvanas was turned into the Banshee `s Deathrattle or a randomly generated Potion of Madness Potion of Madness Set: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Type: Spell Class: Priest Rarity: Common Cost: 1 Abilities: Charge, Take control Tags: Triggered effect Gain control of an enemy minion with 2 or less Attack until , will cause that minion`s stats to immediately be changed to 5/5. They will stay a 5/5 even after being returned.
  • Silencing For the card of the same name, see Silence (card). Silence is an ability which removes all current card text, enchantments, and abilities from the targeted minion. It does not remove damage or minion type. a minion affected by Crystal Core will remove all enchantments and card text except the Crystal Core enchantment, meaning that the minion`s stats will remain 5/5.
  • Cards that create 1/1 copies of minions, like Herald Volazj Herald Volazj Set: Whispers of the Old Gods Type: Minion Class: Priest Rarity: Legendary Cost: 6 Attack: 5 Health: 5 Abilities: Battlecry, Copy, Summon Battlecry: Summon a 1/1 copy of each of your other minions.His and Mirage Caller Mirage Caller Set: Journey to Un Goro Type: Minion Class: Priest Rarity: Rare Cost: 3 Attack: 2 Health: 3 Abilities: Copy, Summon Battlecry: Choose a friendly minion. Summon a 1/1 copy of it.Mirage is actually the , continue to make 1/1 minions and do not create 5/5 minions due to Crystal Core. This is likely because the enchantments those cards place on the copies to force them to be 1/1 are created after the Crystal Core enchantment (which is copied from the original minion rather than re-applied, presumably), and therefore override it.
  • Similar to the interaction between Sword of Justice Sword of Justice Set: Classic Type: Weapon Class: Paladin Rarity: Epic Cost: 3 Attack: 1 Durability: 5 Tags: Durability-related, Summoning-related, Triggered effect After you summon a minion, give it +1/+1 and this loses 1 Durability.I and Steward of Darkshire Steward of Darkshire Set: Whispers of the Old Gods Type: Minion Class: Paladin Rarity: Rare Cost: 3 Attack: 3 Health: 3 Abilities: Divine Shield Tags: Summoning-related, Triggered effect Whenever you summon a 1-Health minion, give , if you have a Sword of Justice/ Addled Grizzly Addled Grizzly Set: Whispers of the Old Gods Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Class: Druid Rarity: Rare Cost: 3 Attack: 2 Health: 2 Tags: Summoning-related, Triggered effect After you summon a minion, give it +1/+1.Druids who and Crystal Core and play a minion, it will become a 6/6, but a merely summoned minion will become a 5/5.

Trivia

• The enchantment aura provided by Crystal Core is similar to the enchantment aura Miniature, encountered in the Tavern Brawl Miniature Warfare.
• The spell`s visual effect consists of two card`s effects reused: the first stage is Devolve`s mist cloud effect, extended by Renounce Darkness` shimmering effect and some small sparks.

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The Caverns Below, full art