A Little Too Nuts

Ladies and Gentleman, the time has come: Summer is here and the Spectral Oaks are ready to start producing acorns! The Spectral Oak and Spectral Acorn are rewards for our community that Kickstarted the game at King tier and up. No cards in the history of HEX have worked as these cards do, and as such they have some rules that needed to be ironed out in order for them to exist in our game. Let’s take a look at said rules and the small changes Spectral Acorn and the Mystic Squirrel have been through since you saw them last.

Here is the exact excerpt to the rules of Spectral Acorn from the Primal Dawn FAQ:

Spectral is a special keyword just for Spectral Acorn it means:

This is unaffected by all cards, powers, and effects other than its own powers and effects.

As such, Spectral Acorn will not be seen by cards like Arcane Focus, be randomly put into your hand by cards like Infernal Professor, destroyed by things like Total Meltdown, or reverted by things like Cleanse. If the card, power, or effect is not the payment power on Spectral Acorn, it will not affect the Spectral Acorn. Spectral Acorn will be skipped over in the case of Arcane Focus and you will see the next card in your deck instead.

To irreversibly transform into a Mystic Squirrel means that this transformation persists throughout all of time. Even after the game is finished, the individual copy of Spectral Acorn in all your decks using that Spectral Acorn will become a Mystic Squirrel. This change cannot be undone.

To ensure that champions do not transform their prized possessions into Spectral Acorns and then turn them into Mystic Squirrels forever in an irreversible fashion, Spectral Acorn cannot be randomly created or transformed.