Ok! Time to review... for the third time today!
I will call this a memorial review because he will soon be no longer obtainable except by crafting thanks to rotation, and he is totally not worth crafting.
So why would I review a card that will soon be forgotten? Because I can never forget my 3rd legendary!
The breakdown
Rend Blackhand is a 7 mana 8/4, these stats are terrible, worse then Core Hound. Luckily this guy gets... an oddly specific ability to back up his terrible stats! If you have a dragon in your hand, you kill your opponent's legendary! Yay for super-oddly-specific abilities that have a requirement and need specific targets! When I was a new player the first expansion I bought was Blackrock Mountain, and I was SOOOO happy to see this guy (because I was tired of loosing to legendaries). However it did not take me long to realize that he was not that good... his ability was just asking for to much to work all the time and if I played him without his ability his 4 HP would just get him killed!
However I still used him for quite some time, then I got a Big Game Hunter and used it instead. But I have good memories of games when he did work, one opponent even conceded when I killed their Ragnaros the Firelord. So I can't be to hard on this guy, especially when he is not TOOOO bad in the current meta game (still terrible). But I think he was blizzards attempt at giving new players a tool to deal with legendaries just by playing in adventure mode, even though I think they could have just given him a WAY cooler ability or removed the requirement to activate his ability. The better ability, would have made him even more useful for a new player.
The best thing about him is he looks bad ass.
He is definitely something that is fun to get off a RNG effect like Elise Starseeker assuming you get a dragon as well. But I don't think he is something that you would waste a spot in your deck for. I have had fun with this guy in some tavern brawls (like the one where all minions have charge and taunt) but I DO NOT recommend him in arena. The odds of your opponent actually getting a legendary is Arena is to low!
When he actually works he is allot of fun, unfortunately his ability having the activation requirement and the limit on what he can kill... makes him worse than most legendaries out there.
Conclusion
Rend Blackhand is a neat idea for a card that kills legendaries but with his poor stats AND an activation requirement he is to oddly specific to be of much use. His HP is so low that anything your opponent played before him has a good chance of killing him.
And he is TERRIBLE in arena because the odds of your opponent having a legendary in that game mode is REALLY low. If he appears, pick one of the guys beside him.
I hope you enjoyed reading this! Found something I missed? Want me to review a card? Let me know!
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Loyan got top 10 legend with midrange and this card, it's decent http://www.vicioussyndicate.com/wp-content/uploads/Loyan’s-Totem-Mid-Range-Shaman.png
7
This card is actully good, its like Knife juggler but doing 2 damage and its very easy to have lots of good battlecry cards in deck.
Too bad its only Shamans' and Shaman is all about Trogg, Totemgolem, 4mana7/7, Doomhammer...
3
Tried it Losing to aggro or stuff like chthun druid all the time, not enough removals or ways to deal with board. EU