Rend Blackhand
Card Text
Battlecry: If you're holding a Dragon, destroy a Legendary minion.
Flavor Text
Rend believes he is the True Warchief of the Horde and he keeps editing the wikipedia page for "Warchief of the Horde" to include his picture.
Card Sounds
Let's see Rafaam to that to his own Majordomo. Where's Kripp?
Too situational , has terrible stats , dies to BGH and im not talking about his battlecry , and costs 7 mana?! What was Blizzard thinking when they were releasing this card?
In arena hes worse than majordomo executus...
Remember the first tavern brawl? how this was nefarian's only answer to Golemagg? Rend Blackhand's fifteen minutes of fame.
Or not since you would end the game , before your opponent could draw Golemagg.
sometimes.
Some health makes all the difference. if he was a 8/6 he would be considered OP and 8/5 would be balanced. 8/4 is just a bit too low for my tastes. nice effect though, great value against 8-10 cost legends.
Um, it's 8/4 because it kills any legendary. Duh.
[Analyze:TGT|as regards to Rend Blackhand]
You're right, I think.
I used to run 2 bghs in my malygos warlock deck. Now I've added Chillmaw, and 2 Twilight guardians. Dropped one BGH and kept the other. Blackhand works great with this setup (7 dragons).
After loe the meta is even slower, I would say right now everything is viable, Rend is in business imo, thing is if his stats or mana were better he would be op and stuffed in every deck, granted there are a few conditions to fill however in dragon priest this guy has swung the game many a times, to top it off his animation an into is outstanding and makes for a lot of lol moments. Killed a guys ysera, tritrion and arch thief today :D
i see this card and i think...Oh, what could have been
this card would be in every deck if they nerfed him down to 4 or 5 mana stats...and it simply read "battlecry: destroy an enemy legendary minion"
The BGH of all Legends.
I use him in my dragon deck currently but must say I am not completely happy with him. Has to do with which Legendaries he regularly faces.
Against Ragnaros the Firelord, Dr. Boom, Mal'Ganis and many others I could also use a BGH. That would work out cheaper and be more reliable due to the dragon holding restriction of Rend.
Against Sylvanas Windrunner you can't use Rend without silencing her first, often there are better ways to deal with her.
He often works as an immediate answer to Emperor Thaurissan and is also good against Loatheb as you can't use spells. Sadly those two cost less mana than Rend does, which means at times you can't play him because of Mana restriction. He is also good vs Tirion Fordring but immediately dies to the sword.
So as such there are two Legendaries which he removes very efficiently: Archmage Antonidas and Ysera. You see those regularly, but not suuuper often.
So he often gets value, but most of the time a BGH would have done the job as well. Playing Rend without the battlecry is pretty sad as he dies too easily. So he is not the "upgrade" to BGH I hoped he would be. Of course if the meta changes, this might change big time.
Very powerful effect and If you are not satisfited with the stats, try Recombobulator him after battlecry. You will ended up geting something better 90% of time, with one exeption being Baron Geddon, as he kills your faithful gnome EOT.
Seriously underrated I recommend for all dragon decks.
Agreed. The dragon holding restriction is a good limiting factor, but the stats would need to be changed drastically. An 8/4 is definitely OP.
This guy is a superstar in my Pally right now. Maybe I am just getting lucky with him but he is tearing it up, I completely underestimated him. And he has the coolest enter the battlefield animation by far.
has its situations.
Got my rag rekt as priest, then he reversing switched it.
What if he could kill ANY minion, not just legendary?
He'd be really good. Insane actually, granted there is the dragon holding restriction, but if you pull it off, you're playing an Assassinate (5 mana) with a 2 mana 8/4.