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.
lmao i love how much you hate us and the fact that you're going full jihad bc you didn't get a free card pack this week
LOVE this card back! The coolest (or perhaps the hottest?) card back ever.
In fact, you can make gold, by easily completing daily quests for different classes.
It's a nice card back, but the brawl itself was pretty boring and doesn't really justify a replay. Sure you can try to become the Cow King, but that's just wasted time not making gold, and when you juggle many different games and a job it's not really worth it.
Would have vastly preferred this to be another co-op brawl where two Diablo classes square off against the Dark Wanderer/Cow King. Oh well, maybe another time.
Hey, did anyone manage to actually get the charge and stealth secrets ? What do they do ? Because in like 15 games i did not manage to get them, and getting at least one of them is a 50/50 chance....
Just... card back!! for little girls. and his dolls.
But this is west. They have a celebration, they give a present, and this is virtual doll. For girls. Pardon, a little girls. And his moms. Congratulation! West is the best! \ Again...
Yay, something to replace Hallow's End, probably pernament.
Dat health bar though.
To all the ungrateful self-entitled brats complaining: I do hope this cardback stays this exclusive, just like the one we got from last winterveil brawl. This cardback is one of the coolest ones imo, so i hope it stays exclusive and only obtainable to people who play this 4 days of brawl, so that later you can all start qqing that you dont have the cardback.
Not sure why people are complaining.. the card back is pretty sik.
http://imgur.com/nn3C0Ho
I become the Cow too !! jajajaja
Idk how can u prefear a cardback to a pack ........ people here are strange or just too nerd
win, throw a priest global silence when the portal appear then he cant become cow king
"Becoming" the Cow King is the best part about this brawl, it is challenging and satisfying.
If you really want to have fun in this brawl. Try to Become the Cow King.
P.S.: Moooo!
I had a crazy game using Jade..
My biggest Golem was 29/29, my opponent had still 11 cards and then the game abruptly ended with a loss (must have hit turn 90)..
Killed 133 minions, 71 Bovines and no king..
And my druid had nearly 50 armor :-D
Was a bit fun and a bit boring :-D
Yeap. Went the same. Infinite jades and I had 2 Malornes on top. It's really a shame, that the game ends - I wanted to fatigue him out.
what a bunch of bastards they could give us a pack and moreover allow us the make golds from the wins, its not because we got a card back that they can fuck us , its just a skin that everyone will use for a month
Aren't you a cheap ungrateful brat? They implement something new in the game and you just whine, cause you didn't get your free deck, that AGAIN nobody entitled you for.
what kind of fanboys are you all, i pay this fucking company to entertain me, they work for me in order to get my money and im not gratefull for something that just makes the game enjoyable, however i can see how they try not to give anything to get more and more money, when the game already cost an adventure every year + a few expensive packs to start the game without playing shitty decks and farming like a cow, and still i lack some cards, this is a card game that is extremely cheap to develop, this is not worth 50$ a year , i rly like this brawl but they didnt need to fuck us
You pay? You have some agreement? Can I see it? Is it like a salary? They work for you? Wow. You really are a self-crowned idiot. Entitled to everything around.
I don't wanna talk to you. Final point: you don't have to play this game (that they present to you for free). If you don't like it - just leave. That's fair - it's how the business works, but calling them out for things you didn't get, that were not promised to you, because you paid the money, that nobody asked you to and was totally your own decisions (so you can actually be mad at yourself) - it's just plain stupidity. Nothing more.
You realize NO ONE is forcing your hand to fork $50 over anything, right?
This is a F2P game and Blizzard in no way or form is asking you to pay to play this game.