Deathwing
Card Text
Battlecry: Destroy all other minions and discard your hand.
Flavor Text
Once a noble dragon known as Neltharion, Deathwing lost his mind and shattered Azeroth before finally being defeated. Daddy issues?
Card Sounds
Battlecry: Destroy all other minions and discard your hand.
Once a noble dragon known as Neltharion, Deathwing lost his mind and shattered Azeroth before finally being defeated. Daddy issues?
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World Destroyer?
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got this card today. so excited !
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Time's up, let's do this. Deathwing observation time.
Backstory: When I started playing Hearthstone, I really liked that card. It was top 2 craft legendary for me(No, i didnt craft it, because i had very low dust amount. Thankfully...) This card seemed like badass Dragon Boss, and it does so even now.
About his stats: 12/12 for 10 mana used to be marvelous back in pre-WOG days. Only Deathwing itself could previllege on being so strong. Now it's not the case, ehh. Deathwing's Battlecry is devastating for both players, ou lose cards, enemy loses board. It use to be ultimate comeback card that won even few tournaments. Like, you opponent goes "ALL IN", you drop that Badass, he loses board, has very low cards, and often not much health. If he cant find answer for Deathwing or a way to kill you in 1-2 turns, this is "HABELLA"(Mr. Tomatoes reference) for him. His stats allow him to kill every minion and stay alive, except very few ones.
As for me, this card is insane. I still like, thus i know it has a lot of drawbacks, which will be discussed later here. This is your chance not to lose, if you're losing already, your last chance for a comeback from the abyss. It is like Astral Communion with no draw Twisting Nether + 12/12 on board. Whenever Deathwing is played, your opponent instantl ygoes into losing position, as he has no board and a giant threat on your side.
Another advantage is him being a dragon, so dragon synergy activation is applied, it won't be a completely useless card till turn 10 at least, if you play Drake Decks(which soon ill rotate out, sadly). He also was used in some control warriors, especially by Fibonacci. Deathwing, Dragonlord synergies well with usual Deathwing, as he pulls him on board after his death.(Note: If Deathwing, Dragonlord is in play, then classic Deathwing is played, you will discard your hand before the deathrattle, so ou won't drop your dragns on board. There were questions about it) He's like late game answer to losing control. lately was funfully used in discard warlock by Firebat. A lot of Astral Communion druids run him as a removal + instant fat drop after being overcloacked to 10 mana. he sometimes is played in Tavrn Brawls. In other control decks he may be used as "Into-fatigue-maneur", whn you dont have myuch cards left, or they are useless early game stuff.
He can be used as lategame Anti-C'Thun movement, to kill The God itself and his board he had.
Now, his disadvantages. He is usually off-meta. This card is really slow. Aggro or midrange decks re most likely to eat you before turn 10, or at the exact 12 turn, as always happens to me, at least. Even when you reach trun 10, you dont want to play him immediatley due to hand evaporation, unless you are horribly losing already. There will be a lot of times when you have very useful and cool cards in your hand that you dont anna discard them without sorrow. But countering that statement, i may say that this is better to have an option to lose your hand but not game, rather that missing that opportunity. If you have, let's say, 6 cool useful splls/legendaries, but you are gonna lose in 1-2 truns, they won't help you at all, if it's not helaing or protection. But Deathwing can at least try.
Another drawback is deathrattle carnival we see now. There are a lot of deathrattle minions that may not give your deathwing so many value, like Cairne Bloddhoof, Sylvanas Windrunner(Which counters the Drake badly, as she steals him if you play this card while she is on board) and so on, so enemy board won't be completely destroyed. Also mages carry Mirror Entity, so you may accidently give him yur precious Dragon. Other contrlol decks carry a lot of removals, like Hex, Polymorph, Execute, Shield Slam, Entomb, Shadow Word:Death, Siphon Soul,Big Game Hunter, etc. So your "last chance" may be countered. At least, you would have tried...
Sometimes you may drop him with powerful board of your if you cant trade all the dangerous opponent's minions to prevent lethal, so here you lose cards in hand and on board, what in total burns a lot of your deck, but buys you some time to interrupt your opponent in finishing you off.
Deathwing can be temporally counted by taunts or freeze effects, Sap. Your opponent will have little more time to get out of this sticky position, if wasn't countered right away. You may use this time to start building board with your draws.
Nowayads Deathwing is very rare, so people dont play around it. If yo uhave it, it may be a very huge "clown in a box" for our enemy. He can only theoretically expect it, or can joke about it(Ow, Deathing would screw me over here. Damn, I called it!).
Taking everything into account, i may say that this card is funky and evastating in some cases. It has won a lot of games for people, and lost for other who faced him. I would personally never dust it, but this is my preference. Other craft-guiders would say that you have to dust it as it is unplayable. Maybe they are right in some way, but i still love this card. About crafting it... Well, it may be the case if you want that card for your deck or Brawl, but it won't be used in popular top-meta decks for a long time, i suppose. Other Legendaries may be more demandful to craft, rather than this Big Boy. And he is in Expert set, never cycling out, but never being widely used, sadly.
If you've enjoyed reading this review, follow me in my profile to stay tuned and check out my other observations(Links):
The Expert Set:
Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight
Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus | Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream
The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:
Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth
Other Sets:
| Kel'Thuzad | Arch-Thief Rafaam |
My forum thread(Link)
Really very nice review for this card,you have my upvote and let me tell you i got him golden from a Pack but after think too much,it's true all what you said about the craft-guiders will say or even about to craft it.
What do people think of him in a dragon warrior?
He's pretty good in Dragon Tempo, I've been running him myself with surprisingly astounding results.
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why is everyone saying Destroyer of Worlds?
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Why does everybody writes "Destroyer of Worlds"?
Ohhh - got it :-)
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