Savagery

Savagery is a rare druid spell card, inducted into the Legacy set, formerly from the Classic set.

Previous availability

 * Regular Savagery could also be obtained as a first-time reward for first time reaching Silver 10 and Gold 10 in Ranked mode from April 1, 2020 to March 25, 2021 (or as a reward of Climbing the Ranks (2/10) and (4/10) achievements).

Strategy
In most cases, Druids will need to gain Attack in some way to deal damage with this card. This is easily done with Shapeshift, but generally dealing 2 damage for 3 Mana total is very inefficient. Cards that give Attack like Claw, Bite, and Pounce as well as alternate Hero Powers like Dire Shapeshift and Plague Lord are more efficient ways to gain Attack.

The alternative method of gaining Attack is to equip a weapon. Druids are limited to Twig of the World Tree and Atiesh, which have very low attack. Other unreliable ways to gain better weapons is from The Lich King/Arfus (1/8 chance) or from Blingtron 3000 (random results).

Overall, Savagery is a very poor card. In most cases it needs to be comboed with other cards to even be usable, and being limited to targeting minion makes it less versatile. Druids have much better cheap spells for damage or removal, like Moonfire, Lesser Jasper Spellstone, Living Roots, and Crystal Power.

Trivia

 * Savagery was removed for selection in Arena on September 15, 2016 but was reinstated on December 9, 2018.
 * The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "Tomb of the Forgotten" series, for the card Raso'jin.

Patch changes

 * Moved from Classic to Legacy set.
 * Text changed to: "Deal damage equal to your hero's Attack to a minion." Mana cost reduced to 1, from 3.
 * Mana cost increase to 3, from 2.
 * Previously: Deal damage equal to your hero's Attack to all enemy minions. [2 mana, Rare]