The Dark Wanderer is This Week's Tavern Brawl, and There's a Card Back Reward
A hooded stranger sits to play, holding a grim deck in his hands. Can you unravel the secrets surrounding this dark wanderer?
Trivia
- This is the first time we've seen this brawl - and possibly the last!
- The brawl is a tribute to Blizzard's Diablo franchise and their 20th anniversary.
- The brawl is a reference to the Secret Cow Level.
- This is the second brawl which rewards a card back, the first being Winterveil of 2015.
- No enemy players in this brawl, the opponent is a computer.
How it Works
This Brawl has up to two phases, with the second phase not being more of a bonus level than anything. You can win the Brawl without entering the second phase.
- You'll first need to build your own deck using cards from the Wild format. Check out community-built decks here.
- The end of game has a scoreboard which keeps track of minions killed and secrets revealed.
Phase 1 - The Dark Wanderer
- Your opponent is Dark Wanderer. His Hero Power, Diabolical Powers, summons random Imps
- He is classified as a Warlock and as such, many Warlock cards and demon synergies.
- The fight begins with three random wanderer secrets in play (see below).
- When these secrets are all revealed, Twisting Nether? is played which places Enigmatic Portal and takes you into Phase 2
- When his minions die, they have a chance of spawning Weapon Rack, Discarded Armor, or Chest of Gold.
- The effects of Weapon Rack and Discarded Armor are clear.
- Chest of Gold, when defeated on your turn, gain 2 The Coin.
Phase 2 - The Cow King
- There is no cow level.
- The Cow King is now your opponent. His Hero Power, So Many..., is all about card draw.
- He has his very own deck which features cows upon cows upon cows.
- The same random spawns from minion deaths from Phase 1 apply here.
- Neato: You can become The Cow King if you steal Enigmatic Portal.
Dark Wanderer Secrets
The Dark Wanderer has many secrets. You are not allowed to use Flare, Kezan Mystic, and Eater of Secrets, but other secret interaction cards are available. Destroy his three secrets to enter The Cow Level.
- Visions of the Amazon - Secret: When your opponent summons a minion with Battlecry, Summon a Mirror Image for both players.
- Visions of the Assassin - Secret: When your opponent summons a minion with Stealth, All minions equip a dagger.
- Visions of the Barbarian - Secret: When your opponent summons a minion with Charge, THUNDER FURY!
- Visions of the Crusader - Secret: When your opponent summons a minion with Taunt, change all minions' attacks to 1.
- Visions of the Necromancer - Secret: When your opponent summons a minion with Deathrattle, destroy it.
- Visions of the Sorcerer - Secret: When your opponent summons a minion with Spell Damage, Summon 2 Guardians.
- Visions of Fate - Secret: When your opponent takes lethal damage... save him.
- Visions of Hate - Secret: When both heroes have 15 or less Health, BRAWL!
- Visions of Valor - Secret: When your opponent summons a Legendary minion, give all minions Windfury.
- Visions of Knowledge - Secret: When your opponent's hand has 9 or more cards, reduce the cost of all cards in both hands to (1).
Dark Wanderer Cards
- Lightning - Deal 3 damage.
- Many regular Warlock cards.
The Cow King Cards
- Summon Guardians - Summon two 2/4 Guardians.
- Summons: Guardian - At end of your turn, deal 2 damage to the enemies opposite this minion.
- Moo... - Summon 3 Hell Bovines. Give all Hell Bovines Taunt.
- Summons: Hell Bovine
- Stampede - Summon 2 Hell Bovines. Give all Hell Bovines Charge.
- Summons: Hell Bovine
Become the Cow King
Amaz managed to steal the Enigmatic Portal and become The Cow King!
Discuss This Week's Brawl
Head on over to our discussion thread to talk about this week's brawl and to rate it.
this game is cheap as fuck, they make some cards two time a year and pay for the servs, this is nothing compared to a solo game, the base game is already finished so they only need to make some voices, animations etc, the team is rly small compared to what you have to do to make a solo game that cost no more than 50$ to buy like call of duty, with the servers too and that cost millions $ to develop, so go learn about games and open your mouth after, i guess you are 12 or something so dont argue with me
you realize i paid and this game is as f2p as any card game is f2p : no pay no fun or enjoy your aggro deck and the 10 % content that you'ill always have on the game
You do get Gold for everything you complete, It may be slower but that does not mean you are obligated to pay a $50 monthly fee when you can still buy packs without spending a single cent. At least thats how you are making it sound with the whole: "I PAID YOU ASSHOLES $50 SO WHERE IS MY COOL FREE CONTENT???"
So I would suggest you get off your self-entitled high horse and realize you paid $50 for the content blizzard gave you (your packs) there are no terms specified anywhere that buying packs automatically entitles you to anything else. Its like going to a fast food joint and getting a $5 meal and start bitching that they dont give you free fries the next time you come in. You get what you pay for and they dont need to give you any more.
first i said 50$ per year not per month, second the game isnt playable correctly without money since you can't farm the next expantion into the current one into the two last one into the classic set into the 3 adventures, at best you can continue playing for free if you have all the needed cards which is possible for free only if playing since the beta, and if you farm like hell all the year.
also are you a complete retard ?
Do you think that you are only buying cards when you pay for packs at 1.20$ per pack ? Do you think that when you buy a phone you receive "free" update from the constructor or that its normal and included on the price of the phone (which means they HAVE to do it) ? Do you think that when you pay the price of a FULL GAME like halo, gta, call of duty etc which are for some of them running servers for years and that cost hundred billions $ to make, you are only paying for the packs and not the content ? what kind of shit do you have in your head , who would pay to play that game if there was no content at all, i mean wtf is your age you know nothing about games and monetization and you speak with me haha what a waste of time, you have no clue how cheap HS is to run and develop compared to a AAA solo game
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It's a great looking cardback, much cooler than a pack in my opinion.
Won at turn 5 with wild face hunter..
I made a pretty bad midrange hunter deck and won 5 times pretty easy. The ai plays bad and once you know it's deck and how it plays, you can outplay it. 2nd game I just killed 1 minion, with face hunter probably can get 0 minions killed.
but without the 3 secrets, there is no cow level! :D
The idea was very good, more like this. But, it was way too easy. The way I would have made this is that there'd be a second level after defeating the first one. The first level would be exactly the current one, but the second one would be like Heroic Naxx diffficulty level. Defeating the first one would give you a card pack, defeating the second level would give you the card back and maybe even some more rewards. The Cow would be a separate hidden bonus level, like currently, with no extra rewards or something fairly small.
Played and arcane warrior variant. Killed him T8, no secrets went off, very disappointed.
Played again multiple times to enjoy phase 2.
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I didn't see that coming.
When fatigue ticks for 20+ game just ended at defeat screen. FeelsBadMan
Every game of hearthstone has a hard 90 turn limit.
I also went Justicar Trueheart, so you get more armor.
So i managed to summon the cow king and mill him to death (no damage to face from me) with a gimmick deck i called "Renozoth feat Malchezaar" (to get Kazakus and the other priest leg grill). I first thought stealing one bovine would lead to an infinite game but it turns out i misread his heropower and my bovines's death were actually make him draw a card. Pity !
Score : http://i.imgur.com/HDRi2jY.png
All of this effort they put into this Tavern Brawl and they made it brain dead steam roll easy which basically makes most of the work put in a complete waste as most won't appreciate it or gain any fond memory cause no brain activity is required..
Sweet card back tho. Thanks.
Going in i thought it was gonna be at least Heroic level of difficulty.