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.
66 minions 33 bovines and 1 kings.
after a lot of turns, I got bored and just killed the chow king. Now I understand why there is the 20+ jade golem skin tough lol
Best. Brawl. Ever.
So this happened... MUM GET THE CAMERA.
You can mill the Cow King to death, just get Kel'thuzad and steal a Bovine. His passive hero power is going to be his doom >:)
Had a potential unending game to kill infinite bovines. I was playing a Reno priest and stole a few cows (that shuffle back into your deck when you die). The weapon rack gave the cow king a charged hammer which changed his hero power. So after a few rounds I have full life, a full board, and healing 2 a turn. He was putting out 1 cow a turn and dealing 2 damage.
Hint for anyone having trouble with getting to the cow level... I didn't even know you couldn't do it after a few rounds of Reno priest. I'm not entirely sure there's a secret that doesn't activate in that game.
Just use standard renolock deck.Easiest win with it,you just outvalue first boss,and win him.(even better if you activate secret,that all your card cost 1,that is automaticly win)
the cardback is very nice but I just can't stop thinking that it's a slightly inferior Molten Core cardback :/
ah yes, opinions, the villains of the information highway :D
Not that this brawl awarding a cardback should surprise anyone, but now I see why Blizzard didn't hold a Christmas brawl. They knew if they had two weeks back to back without free 40 dust, the player base would riot.
What are your best stats for the Secret Level? I just got 110 Minions Killed, 59 Bovines Killed, 1 King Killed. Pretty proud of that, as I basically got him down to fatigue (he had one card in his deck which was another cow).
83 / 66 / 1 here, he actually died to fatigue for me, lol.
I made it to an infinite Jade Idol setup. The Cow can't really do anything about it. Turns out infinite 1 mana upgradable 15/15's are way better than 3 mana 2/2's. We both exploded on turn 90, but I had 9 Jade Idols on my deck, and a board full with huge jades.
Did anyone else not find Eater of Secrets in their collection when making their brawl deck?
All cards that interact with secrets were banned in this brawl.
The system and the idea is here but for blizzard, this game is more fun and interactive when every single card is playble in standard mode
It's not allowed in the brawl, same thing with Kezan Mystic and Flare, look at the section called Dark Wanderer Secrets.
What? I beat him, didn't activate any secrets and didn't get a pack
Because you're not going to earn a pack from this brawl.
thats because this brawl doesnt award a pack