| Set: |  Kobolds & Catacombs |
|---|---|
| Type: | Minion |
| Minion type: | Elemental |
| Class: |  Mage |
| Rarity: |  Rare |
| Cost: | 4  |
| Attack: | 4  |
| Health: | 5  |
| Abilities: | Increment attribute, Modify cost |
| Wiki tags: | Deck-related, Spell-related |
| Artist: | Arthur Bozonnet |
The shortest distance between two points is a leyline.
Leyline Manipulator is a rare mage minion card, from the Kobolds and Catacombs set.
How to get
Leyline Manipulator can be obtained through Kobolds & Catacombs card packs, or through crafting.
| Card | Crafting cost | Disenchanting |
|---|---|---|
| Leyline Manipulator | 100 | 20 |
| Golden Leyline Manipulator | 800 | 100 |
Notes
- The following cards will be affected by Leyline Manipulator's Battlecry:[1]
- generated cards, such as from
Babbling Book, 
Fire Fly, or Pyros; - copies of existing cards, such as from
Simulacrum, Duplicate, Thistle Tea, or Thoughtsteal; - token minions created on the board but have been returned to hand or shuffled into deck;
- legendary minions shuffled into the player's deck at the start of the game by Prince Malchezaar.
- generated cards, such as from
- The following will not be affected by Leyline Manipulator's Battlecry:[1]
- cards that started in the player's deck but have been returned to the hand by return to hand or shuffle into deck effects;
- cards transform themselves into new cards while in the player's hand, such as Shifter Zerus, Molten Blade, or Shifting Scroll.
Strategy
This card acts like Ethereal Peddler for Rogues, reducing the cost of cards you've gained off of other effects. If you are able to hoard a large amount of spells, it will give you much more value out of them. It also has fair stats for its cost, which means you can play it for its stats if necessary.
This is a key card for Exodia Mage as its main combo enabler. Using two copies of 
Sorcerer's Apprentice created with 
Simulacrum, it discounts their cost just enough to allow it to combo with Archmage Antonidas and Molten Reflection.
Quotes
- Summon
- This power is ecstasy.
- Attack
- I consume!
Lore
This section uses content from Wowpedia.- Ley lines (or leylines) are channels of immense power that course through the earth itself like blood vessels carrying arcane magic instead of scarlet fluid. In Azeroth, the lines are artificially intersected by a series of 'anchors' to form a complex arrangement in which the whole planet is draped. Said junctions are catalogued in the Arcanomicon, the map of all ley lines gifted to Malygos by the titan Norgannon.
- Archmage Vargoth studied the ley lines of Draenor and discovered several similarities to those on Azeroth. He believed this may indicate a similar genesis.
- The Mystic Runesabers feed on magic and have recently emerged from the shadows in search of ley lines. Stellagosa, and presumably the rest of the blue dragonflight, are capable of seeing the ley lines when they are underground.
- Ley lines on the surface tend to crystallize in the form of glowing purple mana crystals.
Gallery
  Leyline Manipulator, full art |
Patch changes
- Patch 10.0.0.22611 (2017-12-06): Added.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kyeongbeom Kim and James Hong (2017-11-28). Leyline Manipulator - Exclusive Card Reveal for Hearthstone: Kobolds and Catacombs - Inven Global. Retrieved on 2017-11-29.