Onyxia
Card Text
Battlecry: Summon 1/1 Whelps until your side of the battlefield is full.
Flavor Text
Onyxia long manipulated the Stormwind Court by disguising herself as Lady Katrana Prestor. You would have thought that the giant wings and scales would have been a giveaway.
Card Sounds
i lik golden animation
My first legendary <3
Counters rag
all druid cards are anti-rag
I just got her from a pack I got from Tavern brawl, I am excited to try her out! Any advice on what deck class/type I should use?
Token druid is, probably, the only way to go.
Id like to try that card in combination with savage roar…
Does this dragon see any play anymore since the introduction of Nefarian and Chromaggus? Too reactive of a legendary now?
Taunt for whelps would make this card really good. I'd like to see that change.
battlecry: summon 6 taunts? Sounds balanced.
srsly?? how is nefarian better than onyxia?
Well if you summon 6 whelps ,each whelp 1 mana cost its like your summoning a 9 mana cost + 6 mana cost
Won her two times on packs,never find a way to use her.
It used to be one of the worst legendaire. Cost too high, worthless 1/1 whelps, BGH issue, these are static disadvantages. Meanwhile, flooding the board with non-taunt irresistant minions is super hazardous against freeze Mage, burn Hunter and many other competitve cases in practical games. Even for FoN-SR Druid it's still much worse than Cenarius.
And now we have BRM dragon utilities. Up to this version, Mister Boom is still mandatory for any not-too-fast general-purposed deck. If you need the power of Blackwing Corruptor, Onyxia is not bad an option, acting as an inferior Mister Boom. Some Dragon decks are low on effective minions in total, where Onyxia can help by flooding the board in the hope of passive trading.
Bear in mind that its many drawbacks did not go away. If not sure, don't use it in construct.
Now actually playable in Paladin, who knew?
One Fan of Knives later
9 mana for an 8/8 and eating up weak board clear isnt bad
Dr. Boom seems more effective
Onyxia used to be a 9-mana 8/8 that would've dealt 2 dmg to all other characters whenever her owner would draw a card, that ability would've been useful in this meta, kind of, but hey, the whelps are lovely! Imagine a mighty golden whelps army led by an awesome fire-spewing dragon.. simply adorable!
Paladin played this against me, one of Fan of knives later