Arch-Thief Rafaam
Card Text
Battlecry: Discover a powerful Artifact.
Flavor Text
He's very good at retrieving artifacts. From other people's museums.
Card Sounds
Additional Information
Name | Type | Class | Cost | Attack | Health |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Voidwalker | Minion | Warlock | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Flesheating Ghoul | Minion | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
Earthen Ring Farseer | Minion | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
The Black Knight | Minion | 4 | 4 | 4 | |
Bloodmage Thalnos | Minion | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
Stranglethorn Tiger | Minion | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
Defender of Argus | Minion | 4 | 3 | 3 | |
Abomination | Minion | 5 | 4 | 4 | |
Flame Imp | Minion | Warlock | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Raging Worgen | Minion | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
King Krush | Minion | Hunter | 9 | 8 | 8 |
Cenarius | Minion | Druid | 8 | 5 | 8 |
Sorcerer's Apprentice | Minion | Mage | 4 | 3 | 2 |
Xavius | Minion | 6 | 7 | 5 | |
Wild Pyromancer | Minion | 2 | 3 | 2 | |
Doomsayer | Minion | 2 | 0 | 7 | |
Flame Imp | Minion | Warlock | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Flesheating Ghoul | Minion | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
Ice Lance | Ability | Mage | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Cold Blood | Ability | Rogue | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Battle Rage | Ability | Warrior | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Bestial Wrath | Ability | Hunter | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Shadowform | Ability | Priest | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Lord Jaraxxus | Playable Hero | Warlock | 8 | 0 | 30 |
Rocker Rokara | Hero | Warrior | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Frostwolf Thrall | Hero | Shaman | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Barrens Bru'kan | Hero | Shaman | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Dungeoneer Bru'kan | Hero | Shaman | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Venerable Bru'kan | Hero | Shaman | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Malfurion Stormrage | Hero | Druid | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Shan'do Malfurion | Hero | Druid | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Emerald Malfurion | Hero | Druid | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Gul'dan | Hero | Warlock | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Shadow Gul'dan | Hero | Warlock | 0 | 0 | 30 |
N'Zoth | Hero | Warlock | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Shadowmoon Gul'dan | Hero | Warlock | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Saraad | Hero | Mage | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Illidan Stormrage | Hero | Demon Hunter | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Demonic Illidan | Hero | Demon Hunter | 0 | 0 | 30 |
Skullbearer Illidan | Hero | Demon Hunter | 0 | 0 | 30 |
I wish the artifacts were actually linked here
Wish granted:
Lantern of Power Mirror of Doom Timepiece of Horror
I kind of wish the artifacts were more recognizable pieces of Warcraft lore. The effects seem cool though, haven't figured out what I should be cutting from any of my decks for this guy. Also would have been great too if there was an artifact that gives like 1 4/6 minion and a 6/4 minion for 10, seems like that would fit the damage motif too.
Compare Timepiece of Horror with Avenging Wrath, which is 4 less mana for 2 less damage. And no one plays avenging wrath in constructed.
The thing that fills up the board with 3/3s might be kinda decent in the control warrior mirror but in most other matchups you're going to die before those 3/3s can do anything.
Compare to Ysera which gives you a card EVERY TURN and each of those cards is a much better version of a popular constructed card.
Like Nefarion and Chromaggus, this card is just a much worse alternative to Ysera for pretty much any deck.
ysera is also just good for the dragon syngergy tho so I doubt youd wanna cut it.
No one plays Avenging Wrath in constructed because it isn't worth a deck slot and it's situational.
Rafaam makes you choose which card to choose. +10/+10 is a finisher with one token, and the mummy army is very good unless the opponent has lethal. But you won't play the artifacts if the opponent has lethal, no?
Good artifacts but its a dead drop first turn it comes out and BGH targetable, so you better be sure that you have the board and health still at Turn 9/10.
Mirror of Doom(if you have the board, another dead drop at 10) and Timepiece of Horror(to keep control of the board) seems the better ones to fit your current situation. Its like having 2 turns doing nothing on the board.
Loatheb will surely ruin your day.
Really cool art and the Artifacts look powerful enough for their cost
cool story bro, card is not released yet
So they didn't give him 16 stats (like a decent size of the 9 mana minions have) becauuuuse....testing?
Either way, it's really cool, but not entirely amazing. I'll certainly use him though lol
Tfw I'll never pull a golden Arch-Thief Rafaam D:
You won't because you can't
You would need to craft a Golden Arch-Thief
Yeah.. That was the point I was saying. If I ever want him I will 100% have to craft him.
Which sucks...
Late game this guy is amazing, better than most of the other late game minions. You're guaranteed to get efficient value for the situation, card for card. Spending absolutely no cards worth of value to summon 7 3/3's? That's really hard to deal with. And you get the choice so you can choose for the situation. Need board presence and a lot of damage? Get the mummies. Wanna go for lethal and think this guy will survive? Get the buff, buff him next turn into a 17 damage attacker. Need immediate damage on board? Get the 10x damage one.
I think its strength is in its flexibility. Sure you can BGH it but that doesn't get rid of the value from the card it generates, and all the cards it generates are good as compared to Nefarian that can give you crap like bolster or deadly poison. Plus it combos really well with Naga Sea Witch in a ramp druid style deck.
I like golden animation
pensir? is it you????