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
That is a good point. I would assume Mal'Ganis's text in coding means "Buff all demons (minions)" but this is pure speculation.
Indirect nerf to Sneed's Old Shredder! Nooooo!
And wouldn't it be interesting if Gyth was a card and interacted with Rend in some way? Like "Battlecry: if you've already played Rend this game, resummon him and destroy another Legendary minion". Gyth was a dragon, after all, would make Rend's Battlecry make sense.
Maybe blizzard made him weak because they do not want people to stop playing legendaries and make the game "Boring" in other words they do not want to put sumething in the game that has a possibility to reduce the fun, but in that case making him in the first place was dumb, just make a better legendary.
Blizzard is also probably expecting more legendaries per deck being used in the future.
Just as a side note: I think he will be playable if he costs 6 mana or has 6 health instead.
too bad it cant be disenchanted
Replace Grommash with this crap? Are you fucking high?
The idea is not that bad for a guy which only has the BRM/Naxx+BRM cards and wants to try Control Warrior and doesn't have the mandatory legendaries, other than that, you're right
finally a easy way to kill bloodmage thalnos
wait, this is just like BGH, where if you're the only one with a Legendary on the board you can't play it cause you have to kill your own Legendary?
I guess it might be ok against legend heavy CW or ramp Druid? I wonder if it works on Jaraxxus? I guess maybe not since he becomes the hero and not considered a minion anymore,
Rend AfricanAmericanHand, the Maexxna of BRM... looks like it could be good, but won't ever be played unless you literally have no cards in your collection
Cool art i agree. Its pretty good however you do a dragon in hand and its stats aren't great being 8/4 for 7 mana. Although it does have a pretty cool effect its is kinda prone to spells such as Swipe, Starfire etc. It is also kinda like a bgh for legendaries so i guess instead of on higher attack legendaries it could be used on hard to remove cards such as Ysera and Malygos with 4/12 and since being 4 attack it can't be shadow worded or have bgh destroy it. Therefore Rend Blackhand comes in for the kill.
cool art, though
Hemet Nesingwary V.2!
8 attack is a threatening body, even if it only has 4 health, if it's played wisely i'm sure he'll have his day.
destroy effect is awesome..any neutral destroy effects i will take.
He must have like boulderfist body to be valuable.
Angry chicken is angry.
I dont think this is viable considering most of the legendaries are big people rather play big game hunter and if you play this to kill their doctor boom, theyll most likely use their Big game hunter that is supposingly for your doctor boom to kill this :D
a 7 mana bgh that you need a condition for talk about meh
This feels underwhelming. Most decks run 2-3 legendaries, maybe 4 at most (Control Warrior, of course, being the main exception). For that, a 7-drop with 4 health? Thanks, but I'd rather go with BGH + Ravenholdt Assassin instead, and I'd rather replace the Ravenholdt Assassin with...I don't know, a Stormwind Champion or something actually properly decent. Plus, most classes have hard removal. It's still better then Hemet Nesingwary, but claiming to be better then what is considered the worst legendary in the game is hardly bragging rights.
TL;DR: This card might see some use in very specific control decks, but otherwise...yeah, no.
It's funny seeing all the people trying to make this seem better than it is. Face it, this is an awful card.
it would be better either, without the dragon bit attached to the effect, or if it wasn't just a legendary minion and the effect was broader. don't anticipate having to worry about this one too much.
assassinate op eh