Mortal Coil

Regular
Golden

Artist: Matt Gaser

Collectible

Deal 1 damage to a minion. If that kills it, draw a card.

Cost:

1

Spell school:

Shadow

Full tags
`RARITY=2` `CLASS=9` `COLLECTIBLE=1` `ELITE=0` `COST=1` `CARDTYPE=5` `FACTION=3` `AttackVisualType=1` `DevState=2` `SPELL_SCHOOL=6`

Wiki mechanics
Deal damage, Draw cards

Wiki tags
Death-related, Targeted

Availability

Formats

Wild
Duels

Flavor

If your spells look like horrifying skulls, let's be honest, you should get to draw some cards.

Card set:

Legacy

Rarity:

Free

dbfId:

1092

Card id:

EX1_302

You might be looking for one of these cards: Mortal Coil (boss), Mortal Coil (Classic), Mortal Coil (Core), Mortal Coil (Prologue boss).

Mortal Coil is a free warlock spell card, from the Legacy set.

Other versions

Core

Classic

How to get

The Regular and Golden copies of Mortal Coil are uncraftable and cannot be crafted, disenchanted, or opened from card packs.

Type	Source	Quality	Count

Previous availability

Mortal Coil used to be obtainable through these means.

Type	Source	Quality	Count
Custom	Level up warlock to 43 until March 30, 2021.	Golden	1
Custom	Level up warlock to 44 until March 30, 2021.	Golden	1
Custom	Level up warlock to 4 until March 30, 2021.	Regular	2

Notes

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This spell has two steps:
- First it deals damage, queuing and resolving all on-damage triggers;
- Then, if its condition is satisfied, it draws a card, queuing and resolving triggers.^[1] Notice that minions that have been set pending destroy, such as by Acidmaw, are considered to be dying, and the condition will thus be satisfied.^[2]
Notice that, despite the text of the card uses the word kills, this spell's drawing effect does not actually activate in response to the minion being killed (which will happen only during the Death Creation Step following the end of the current outermost Phase), but rather it requires the minion to be mortally wounded (i.e., with 0 or less current Health) or pending destroy (i.e., hit by a destroy effect such as Acidmaw). As a result, the player will draw a card before the minion actually dies: for example, if your hand is full and you cast Mortal Coil on a Clockwork Gnome, you will draw a card from your deck but will fail to draw a Spare Part due to your hand being full again.^[3]

Lore

Mortal Coil is a talented warlock spell from World of Warcraft. It causes the target to run in horror for 3 seconds, and restores a portion of the warlock's health. It is very useful as a form of crowd control, as well as a regular method of maintaining health levels.

Trivia

The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "Crown of the Heavens" series, for the card Despair of Undeath.

This card may have been named "Death Coil" during the game's alpha. Death Coil was the predecessor to the World of Warcraft ability Mortal Coil, but was replaced with Mists of Pandaria.

Gallery

Mortal Coil, full art

Patch changes

Patch 20.0.0.77662 (2021-03-25):
- 2021-03-30: Moved from Basic to Legacy set.
Patch 8.0.0.18336 (2017-04-04):
- Rarity is now Free (previously: Common).
Patch 1.0.0.4217 (Closed beta, 2013-12-10):
- Golden card unlock requirement is now: "Unlocked at Level 43." (previously: "Unlocked at Level 42.").
Patch 1.0.0.3890 (Closed beta, 2013-10-02):
- Unlock requirement is now: "Unlocked at Level 4." (previously: no special unlock requirement).
- Golden card unlock requirement is now: "Unlocked at Level 42." (previously: no special unlock requirement).
Patch 1.0.0.3388 (Alpha, 2013-06-22):
- Name is now Mortal Coil (previously: Death Coil).
Patch 1.0.0.3140 (Alpha, April or May 2013):
- Added.