Shadowstep

Regular
Golden

Artist: Graven Tung

Collectible

Return a friendly minion to your hand. It costs (2) less.

Full tags
`RARITY=1` `CLASS=7` `COLLECTIBLE=1` `ELITE=0` `CARDTYPE=5` `AttackVisualType=1` `FACTION=3` `ENCHANTMENT_BIRTH_VISUAL=0` `ENCHANTMENT_IDLE_VISUAL=0` `SPELL_SCHOOL=6`

Wiki mechanics
Decrement cost, Return to hand

Wiki tags
Targeted

Availability

Formats

Wild
Duels

Flavor

Rogue dance troops will sometimes Shadowstep away at the end of a performance. Crowds love it.

Card set:

Legacy

Rarity:

Common

Background race:

Human

dbfId:

365

Card id:

EX1_144

You might be looking for one of these cards: Shadowstep (Classic), Shadowstep (Core).

Shadowstep is a common rogue spell card, from the Legacy set.

Other versions

Core

Classic

How to get

Type	Source	Quality	Count
Card packs	Open one of these card packs:	Regular Golden	1~2 (random)
Crafting	Craft a Regular copy for 40	Regular	1
Crafting	Craft a Golden copy for 400	Golden	1

Notes

To edit these notes, go to Template:Shadowstep notes.

This spell has two steps:
- First it returns target friendly minion to your hand;
- Then, it creates a cost-modification enchantment attached to it that reduces its mana cost by 2.
If Shadowstep is intercepted by your opponent's Spellbender, it will return the token to your opponent's hand, not yours.^[1]

History

Development

Part of the reason for Shadowstep's design was to give rogues a way to activate Battlecries/Combo effects multiple times.^[2] However, in practice players tended toward using Shadowstep primarily to enable re-use of Charge minions such as Leeroy Jenkins (see below).^[2] The Blackrock Mountain card Gang Up was later created in order to provide an alternate means of activating these effects.^[2]

Beta

Prior to the nerf of Leeroy Jenkins in September 2014, 2 x Shadowstep was often used in combination with Leeroy in Miracle Rogue decks in order to deal 18 damage in a single turn. Combined with 2 x Cold Blood, this total could be increased to 26 damage in a single turn, not counting other minions and weapons. Unsurprisingly, this led to an excessive level of non-interactive play, with opponents largely unable to defend against this amount of burst. The nerf increased Leeroy's mana cost to 5, preventing him from being combined with more than one Shadowstep in a turn (unless The Coin is used) and moderating the combo's power.

Lore

Shadowstep is a rogue ability from World of Warcraft. It allows rogues to step through the shadows and appear behind a target. Movement speed is also increased by 70% for 2 seconds afterwards.

Trivia

The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "The Hunt for Illidan" series, for the card Shadowstep.

Gallery

Shadowstep, full art

Patch changes

Patch 20.0.0.77662 (2021-03-25):
- 2021-03-30: Moved from Classic to Legacy set.
- Now has Shadow spell school (previously: no spell school).
Patch 1.0.0.3749 (Closed beta, 2013-08-30):
- Flavor text now reads: "Rogue dance troops will sometimes Shadowstep away at the end of a performance. Crowds love it." (previously: no flavor text).
Patch 1.0.0.3645 (Alpha, 2013-08-12):
- Now reads: Return a friendly minion to your hand. It costs (2) less. (previously: Return a friendly minion to your hand.)
Patch 1.0.0.3140 (Alpha, April or May 2013):
- Added.