Tombstone

**Tombstone** is a perk for Mordar. It is only available to Mordar.

Has Placement Aura - a mechanic that limits the placement of the building too close to the edges of the arena. This is done to prevent the building from being placed in a safe spot behind the master tower, thus making it untouchable by minions attacking regularly.

## Mechanics

The card is added to Mordar's deck automatically during a match after reaching perk 1. Another is added 35 seconds after the previous tombstone was destroyed.

### Activation

* The Tombstone will only resurrect minions belonging to Mordar after it has activated.
* It takes 10 seconds to activate. Stuns reset this, making it require another 10 seconds to activate.
* When a minion is resurrected, the Tombstone takes damage equal to half the minion's maximum health. If this destroys the Tombstone, the minion is summoned with health equal to half the health that Tombstone had.

## History

* Tombstone's original ability was: Resurrect the next minion that dies with full health. Takes 8 seconds to charge.
* In Update 12 - Blast Entry (5 Jan, 2017) the mana cost of Tombstone was increased from 0 to 1
* In Update 28 - Answer the call (10 May, 2017) the mana cost of Tombstone was reduced from 1 to 0
* In Update 1.8 - Frostival 2019(18 Dec, 2019) Tombstone received placement aura.
* In Update 1.14 - Charging into Darkness (25 June, 2020) the Tombstone received the following changes:
	+ Tombstones can now only resurrect minions belonging to Mordar.
	+ Tombstone activation times reduced from 10s to 8s.
* In Update 1.23 - Outlandish Operations (21 April, 2021) the Tombstone's activation time was increased from 8s to 9s.
* In Update 1.26 - Best Plan No Plan! (1 July, 2021), Tombstone received the following changes:
	+ Tombstones now resurrect minions with health missing, proportional to the charge that the tombstones have.
	+ Tombstones now take 20 seconds to charge, and only resurrect if they have at least 25% charge.
* In Update 1.27 - Best Plan No Plan! (5 August, 2021), the charge required to resurrect a minion was increased from 25% to 50%.
* In Update 1.32 - Invasion (3 February, 2022), Tombstone received the following changes:
	+ Charge required to resurrect a minion increased from 50% to 75% (15 seconds of charging)
	+ Stuns no longer reset the charge

* In Update 1.45 - Arcane Anomalies (March 9, 2023), Tombstone was reworked:
	+ Previously, Tombstone activated after 15 seconds, then continued charging up for up to 30 seconds. The next minion that died was resurrected, with health proportional to the charge of the tombstone.
	+ Now, Tombstone activates after 10 seconds, and whenever a minion dies, the tombstone is dealt damage equal to half of the minion's maximum health. If the tombstone survives, the minion is revived with maximum health; otherwise, the minion has health missing proportional to the excess damage dealt. This also means that one tombstone can revive multiple units.
	+ Its stats were also changed:
		- Health increased from 400 to 500
		- Activation delay reduced from 15 to 10 seconds
		- Lifetime increased from 40 to 60 seconds
		- Instead of being added to your deck, is now added to your deck 25 seconds after the previous Tombstone was destroyed.
		- When Stunned, now resets its charge instead of temporarily becoming unavailable

* In a hotfix launched on March 10 2023, Tombstone received the following changes:
	+ Duration reduced from 60 to 50 seconds
	+ Cooldown between copies increased from 25 to 30 seconds
* In Update 1.47 - Into the Void (18 May 2023), the cooldown of Tombstone was increased from 30 to 35 seconds.