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.
We’re always on the lookout for ways to improve your experience playing Hearthstone, and will be making a change to the Tavern Brawl release schedule to help achieve that goal. In order to provide better monitoring capabilities, increase our response time for any issues that sneak by, and minimize service impact to all our players across the world, the Tavern Brawl release schedule has been adjusted to the following:
Americas: Wed 9:00 AM PST
China: Wed 1:00 PM PST (Thu 5:00 AM CST)
Korea/Taiwan: Wed 1:00 PM PST (Thu 6:00 AM KST)
Europe: Wed 1:00 PM PST (Wed 10:00 PM CET)
And still they say the lack of communication is because they don't have time. FeelsBadMan
Here's a deck that doesn't have tons of legendary cards that allowed me to get into the Cow Level and even become the Cow King in a different game.
I never saw the cow king and I beat him. How do you get to it?
Trigger all the secrets
I was using jade druid to go infinite on him, but after about 30 turns we both exploded for no reason.
there is a cap on the number of turns a game can have.
Was trying to get a good record of minions killed but the Cow King had Tentacles for Arms from the other guy so he kept suiciding.
Gonna try out Jade Druid so I can go indefinitely.
I theorized well enough!
Although a secret level, but the player can be The Cow King!
Don't hate me for the greedy question, but does win in this brawl counts towards 3 victories for 10g ?
Should we consider a deck to kind of "Farm" this brawl ?
EU player
no
I don't think it counts.
Even though the card says minion, it activates if you play a weapon with a deathrattle
You can play as the cow king, If you have sylvanus you can steal the portal and when it triggers you can be the cowking.
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I've written up a guide on how to reach the Cow Level using my Rogue. It covers all secrets, so it pretty much ensures that you can access the Secret Level, given enough time! Have fun! :D
This is the deck that I had fun with. No guide written, for the enjoyment of the brawl ;)
It's got everything you need to last a really long time and still win
Did it with a first try Shaman deck. Nothing special, just some midrange aggro cards.
10 minions killed, 2 secrets revealed, did not enter cow king fight. Somewhat disappointed of the lack of voice acting, diablo quotes or whatever...
Thanks for a nice card back, though..
I'm glad the reward is the card back instead of a free pack. This one is so good, I love the way the health orb fills up. Would have been really neat if there was some sort of reward card similar to Elite Tauren Chieftain or Gelbin Mekkatorque for Diablo.
Killed the Cow King. No extra reward of any kind.
how do you get to the cow king?
I used a dragon priest deck with auchenai soul priest*2 and circle of healing*2. Awesome tavern brawl, excellent card back!!