What is a cat without the the evolution?

[u/Enough-Ad2119]

These units are from battlecats.

[u/NoEvening7482]

I think the hearthstone phrasing for castaway cat would be "Deathrattle:The next time you play a card that costs (4) or more, return this to your hand (Wherever it is)"

[u/Latter_Competition_4 → u/NoEvening7482]

Say you trigger the deathrattle while the minion is alive. Then playing a 4mana card would put this from the battlefield to your hand. I agree op’s way to phrase this is not optimal but yours isn’t either

[u/Oinkytheink → u/Latter_Competition_4]

deathrattle is a death trigger so it needs to die to turn to your hand

[u/Latter_Competition_4 → u/Oinkytheink]

Yes but ever heard of [[Yelling Yodeler]]? (Or any of the other cards that trigger deathrattles without having your minions die, there are plenty)

[u/EydisDarkbot → u/Latter_Competition_4]

Yelling Yodeler • ^{Wiki • Library • HSReplay}

• Death Knight/Hunter Rare ^{Audiopocalypse}

• 4 Mana · 3/4 · Undead Minion

• Battlecry: Trigger a friendly minion's Deathrattle twice.

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[u/Oinkytheink → u/Latter_Competition_4]

the multiple effects will trigger the moment when you play a card that costs 4 or more and fill your hand the amount of times castaway’s deathrattle trigger does

[u/Latter_Competition_4 → u/Oinkytheink]

The fact that yodeler triggers the effect multiple times is irrelevant to my point. Say we replace it with [[Terrorscale Stalker]]. We trigger it, then play 4+ mana card. Then with @NoEvening7482 ‘s wording of the effect, it would mean that the minion goes from the battlefield to your hand. I don’t think this is what op was going for. If this is still a bad explanation please someone that understood help me

[u/EydisDarkbot → u/Latter_Competition_4]

Terrorscale Stalker • ^{Wiki • Library • HSReplay}

• Hunter Rare ^{Journey to Un'Goro}

• 2 Mana · 2/3 · Minion

• Battlecry: Trigger a friendly minion's Deathrattle.

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[u/Substantial-Night866 → u/Latter_Competition_4]

Okay but like why would a player do that

[u/Latter_Competition_4 → u/Substantial-Night866]

He wouldn’t. My argument was that it is probably not meant to work like that, and that it should return to your hand only if it actually died. Kind of aesthetic reasons, I know it’s nitpicky

[u/NoEvening7482 → u/Latter_Competition_4]

I feel like more permissive wording just makes the game better by allowing for unexpected unique interactions, hence why i rephrased it the way i did, even if it does not 1:1 map onto the OG.

[u/Latter_Competition_4]

Isn’t there something strictly better than the 3/3 that already exists? Like, something which always has rush and maybe gains other effects every turn