Surrender to Madness
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Surrender to Madness is an epic priest spell card, from the Rastakhan's Rumble set.
How to get
| Type | Source | Quality | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Card packs | The Regular version can be opened from any of these packs:  | Regular | 1~2 (random) |
| Card packs | The Golden version can be opened from any of these packs: | Golden | 1~2 (random) |
| Crafting | Craft a Regular copy for 400  | Regular | 1 |
| Crafting | Craft a Golden copy for 1600 | Golden | 1 |
Lore[edit | edit source]
Surrender to Madness is a level 100 talent for Shadow priests in World of Warcraft. It grants a powerful temporary buff to the priest player, allowing them to cast while moving and causing all of their Insanity-generating abilities to generate 100% more Insanity until they exit 
Voidform, but extols a heavy price from the user: as soon as Voidform expires, the priest dies "horribly".
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Surrender to Madness is an example of a "top-down" card design, intended to capture the fantasy of giving up everything for power as seen in World of Warcraft's Surrender to Madness talent[1] as well as the theme of sacrifice and dark bargains seen in the Battle for Azeroth storyline involving
King Rastakhan, 
Princess Talanji, and Bwonsamdi.[2] - Surrender to Madness' exact effect (such as the size of the buff, the number of Mana Crystals destroyed, and whether or not it would buff minions in both the player's hand and deck) was tweaked a significant amount during development. According to Peter Whalen, once Team 5 finds a card design they like, they will often try to push it to the most extreme version possible to see what form it takes. In the case of Surrender to Madness, this was a version that cost around 2 or 3 mana with the effect of giving minions in the player's hand and deck +3/+3 at the cost of destroying 2-3 Mana Crystals. As this was clearly far too powerful, it was changed to only buff the deck, which made the spell significantly weaker.[1]
- Surrender to Madness' flavor text is a reference to the famous quote "Never give up, never surrender!" from the 1999 film Galaxy Quest.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
Patch changes
Patch 13.0.0.27845 (2018-11-29):
- Added.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cam Shea (2019-02-04). Hearthstone: Peter Whalen and Dean Ayala on Designing Key Rastakhan Cards. IGN. Retrieved on 2019-02-06.
- ↑ BlizzCon 2018: Hearthstone: What's Next. (2018-11-02). Retrieved on 2018-11-03.