The Black Knight
Battlecry: Destroy an enemy minion with Taunt.
Anekdotentext
He was sent by the Lich King to disrupt the Argent Tournament. We can pretty much mark that a failure.
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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 |
Greetings. As I promised, The Black Knight review would come after some time of the new meta. I think now i can review it as it is.
A little backstory. I was paying attention to that card's popularity before and after the WOG. That legendary used to be around 1.45-1.85% of deck presence in a while, but after the announcement of new expansion's taunts its popularity raised to 3.42% in one week and to 5.52% in another. I think it's a great number, if you are somehow familiar with statistics.
Now, time for my usual-styled review. I crafted this card right after expansion arrival, and that was kinda a good decision. If you already have all neutral top-tier legendaries and dont need class ones, The Black Knight may be your crafting choice. It really helps you to sustain most of druid decks, as they run several huge taunts(C'Thun druid runs 5-7, just for note), so most of the time you will have a target for its battlecry. Against shaman it may help you with dealing with random-Evolved taunts, Thing from Below and some others. Some warlocks also run Defender of Argus, Sunfury Protector, so her you have usae of Black Knight. Against Paladin you will be happy to get rid of Tirion Fordring, but then The Black Knight will just die from Ashbringer. Still acceptable, ciuse it's 1 less durability of the weapon. Against Hunters it will be useful to destroy Misha or a Houndmastered beast.
Against C'Thun decks, that are very popular at the moment, it may be handy if they play Twilight Geomancer, as a future answer to taunted Old God, or to get rid of Crazed Worshipper, Twin Emperor Vek'lor. So, as you can see, this card will find a good place in control or defensive midrange decks.
About tempo of this card: If it has its battlecry applied, your tempo is great, because you play Chillwind Yeti for 4 mana and destroy enemy taunt(which costs at least 4 mana) for 2 mana. But if you drop it just for a minion on a board(which i wouldnt recommend in any case, unless you are sure that you won't face a taunt in your match), it is just a 2 mana waste. Not a big loss, but unpleasant.
Now, the disadvantages that i discovered. This card is useful, but still very situational. THere are a lot of times when you have perfect target for it, but you just cant draw it. And then you draw it when there is nothing to kill. Very awkward situations, but they have place.
Against aggro it's a dead card. Maybe against some kind of Evolve-aggro shaman or hunter with Houndmasters it would somehow work, but it's too slow in such matchups. Against freeze-mage or miracle rougue it won't help you either.
So, to sum up, i would say that this legendary is useful, no doubt, but he is very meta-oriented and situational. If its all about high aggression and tempo, you better not to run him(As used to be before WOG), so it's not an universal tech. It can be somewhat substituted with Sylvanas Windrunner, becuase she can steal a pesky taunt, not just destroy it. (Personally, i prefer running both in my control decks, to have more answers to enemy threats).As i said, if you worried about crafting it, check first if you have all nessessary top-tier legendaries, or if you really face a lot of unpleasant taunts. If your answer is positive, go ahead and craft him, because he is a part of the Expert set and always will be Standart-acceptable. WOG has revived this legendary to what it was back in these days.
UPDATE: Hail the aggro-zoo meta. This legendary now is in even worse place than it used to be before WOG. People wanna go face, no need in taunts.
P.S. If i missed something, go ahead and post here. it will be a good contribution to the review.
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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)
He also destroys one of the Twin Emperor Vek'lors, Thing from Below and even [card]Soggoth the Slitherer[/card.
and now it's back to 0.59 percent. still run this legendary beast tho
Dusted a golden TBK ages ago :( but I have the dust to craft another. I feel like as you're wrecking your opponent's big taunt, the golden animation further adds insult to injury.
First legendary that I ever got in HS, it really feels good to use it once again :))
this guy will get pretty popular, those freakin new druid taunts..
I dusted you only to craft you again.
The Black Knight rides again!
THE FACE HUNTERS LAUGHED AT MY 4/5 6 MANA TAUNT KILLER, BUT LOOK WHOSE LAUGHING NOW!?!?
Pulled this from a pack a week before WOTOG was first announced, and all the time I was debating whether or not to dust for an epic, now... :^) it is going to be completely necessary in this meta.
THE Black Knight RIDES ONCE AGAIN!
No one in their right mind would dust a tech card that's always been good. The meta was so broken aggro but not anymore. Lots of new taunts coming!
WotOG is near....
with the new 5/5 shaman cheapo taunt nzoth resummoning tirion and the faceless shambler i think the black knight will be coming back baby and were not even all the way though the xpac yet so more taunts without deathrattle maybe?
soon the knight shall ride back into the meta without gvg and naxx or so i hope.
I was wondering the same thing. Will he work in Standard? I have the feeling he might but it might be reasonable to wait for the spring expansion to know better
He was actually a fairly popular card pre-GvG. This was due to all the handlocks and further enabled by all the sludge belchers.
I just get a card that ... golden ...
I am seriously considering disenchant. The information here, the card is used in 1.42% of the decks ... I believe it pays more to win the 1600 and do other classes of cards.
Anyone have any thoughts?
Honestly I would keep him. You never know when a deck will need him, and disenchanting a legendary you need later down the line will make you kick yourself, I know I did something like that once with Baron Geddon. On top of that its gold, you can get any other legendary at any other time normally, a gold one is special. I always say, unless its Gruul levels of bad,or you already have it, never disenchant a legendary. If its not too late of course.
If you really want to get yourself some dust out of legendaries, this post might be useful in making that decision. Personally like to hang onto golden legendaries until I get the plain version.
Keep him if you can. The meta is about to change, and he may be a key card. He is a very meta-sensitive minion. He used to be a priority-craft (like sylvannas) pre-GvG.