Template:Ancestral Spirit notes

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  • The Deathrattle granted by this spell summons a fresh copy of the original minion following its death. Any damage, enchantments or silences affecting it before its destruction will not carry over to the new copy.
  • Control of the the minion is not affected by Ancestral Spirit - the spell does not grant control of the resurrected minion to the casting player.
  • The Deathrattle granted by this spell activates immediately after any Deathrattles the minion already had before Ancestral Spirit was cast. Consequently:
    • The copy of the minion will not receive any damage that may be caused by the Deathrattles a minion like  Abomination already had.[1]
    • If the minion already had a Deathrattle like  Haunted Creeper's that summons one or more minions, and they fill up the board to 7 friendly minions, then Ancestral Spirit's Deathrattle will be wasted and no copy of the minion will be summoned.[2]
    • If a Deathrattle which was put into play before Ancestral Spirit places the minion into the player's hand or deck, the Ancestral Spirit Deathrattle will not trigger. Currently the only example of this is  Malorne; an Ancestral Spirit will never trigger on a  Malorne, since its innate Deathrattle will shuffle it into the deck, removing Ancestral Spirit before it can activate.[3]
  • The copy of the minion will be summoned at the location where the minion died, just as with Deathrattles like  Harvest Golem's and  Sludge Belcher's.
    • If the minion already had a Deathrattle that summoned one or more minions at its location, the Ancestral Spirit copy of the minion will be summoned to the immediate left of those earlier Deathrattle-summoned minions.[4]

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  1. Tested by User:jerodast on 2015-02-21: Cast Ancestral Spirit on an  Explosive Sheep; when it died it dealt 2 damage to all other minions and then summoned a copy of itself that had no damage.
  2. Tested by User:jerodast on 2015-02-21: Cast Ancestral Spirit on a  Haunted Creeper with 5 other minions on the board; when it died its 2 Spectral Spiders were summoned but no copy of the Creeper appeared.
  3. http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/forum/topic/15538984032
  4. Tested by User:jerodast on 2015-02-21: In several repetitions of tests, Ancestral Spirit was cast on "sticky" minions including  Nerubian Egg and  Piloted Shredder, which were then killed. The copies of those minions always appeared to the left of the minions summoned by their regular Deathrattles.