Hearthstone
New Death Knight Minion - Boneguard Commander
Submitted 2 years, 1 month ago by
Arthas
A new Rare Death Knight Minion, Boneguard Commander, has been revealed!
Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!
Learn more about March of the Lich King
Head on over to our dedicated guide for March of the Lich King!
Get Cheaper Card Packs
This section contains affiliate links.
If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.
Leave a Comment
You must be signed in to leave a comment. Sign in here.
A new Rare Death Knight Minion, Boneguard Commander, has been revealed!
Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!
Learn more about March of the Lich King
Head on over to our dedicated guide for March of the Lich King!
Get Cheaper Card Packs
This section contains affiliate links.
If you want to save money when buying Hearthstone packs, you should check out Amazon Coins! It's an easy way to save up to 25% off Hearthstone packs so you can get into the new expansion without worrying about your wallet too much. We've got a detailed guide on how to Get Started with Amazon Coins, but if you've already dealt with them in the past, you can buy some more by clicking right here.
Your friendly neighbourhood bot!
Like what I'm doing? Disable ads and unlock cosmetics with Out of Cards Premium!
Amazing minion. You spend 6 corpses for this reload or board swarm card, and you get all those corpses back after the 1/2 taunts are removed. This looks pretty good. The only problem with this card is that it costs 8 mana, but i feel like Blood DK might run this. Also if a Unholy DK runs a blood rune, they might include this as well. It's 1 mana cheaper then The Scourge and probably a bit more reliable i guess. And if DK gets any kind of mana cheat outside of Frost DK, you only need to cheat 1 mana in order to Boneguard Commander into Anti-Magic Shell.
But that being said, i'm still unsure if unholy DK even wants to run a blood rune, and it might be too slow for unholy DK. Maybe frost DK could try this out, so they can stall out more turns until they go for their wincon? Still i'm not sure if Frost wants a blood rune, because they probably prefer a Unholy rune for lots of corpses and ways to pressure their opponent.
RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.
Too slow probably, but if it does stick and trigger it's basically a multi-turn stall.
I tried having fun once.
It was awful.
You do not: "Risen" minions do not provide a Corpse when they die, to prevent endless recycling. They are the exception to the whole "friendly minions leave behind a Corpse."
DK design is really insane. An 8/8 for 8 plus a board full of taunts? What is the thought process behind this? Even paladin can't generate board as well as DK can.
But is this card good? Well, it depends if your motivation is to make up a handbuff unholy blood deck then there might yet be a reason to play this because just look at it. At least there's no way for them to play Grave Strength as a follow up.
Its only weakness is not slowness. Its redundancy, as with most DK cards it seems. It might not feed into plans and its rune requirement basically squashes its viability.
If this card was released a couple years ago, it'd be broken. But now we have the likes of Raid Boss Onyxia which funny enough counters this card exactly. Sure, you'll get the corpses back when the footmen die but this isn't gonna win you the game, it's just fair stall.
TREMBLE before.... the most legendary dragon that ever existed!
Nice. I'm going to just assume the 1/2s are Goldshire Footmen than had a bad day.
Thank you for pointing this out, as I was also under the impression that it was an endless (re)cycle design. Makes a little more sense
Commander? In Hearthstone!? FINALLY!
Struggle with Heroic Galakrond's Awakening? I got your back :
No worries. The Risen cards say as much on their tokens, so it'll be common knowledge eventually haha :)
Interesting. Obviously very strong against board decks through the sheer taunt wall you produced, but I'm struggling to think of any other use for this, as you can't run Grave Strength as that's triple unholy. Maybe you're going BUU, using this alongside Corpse Bride to get 0 mana Stitched Giant and hope to land a BGBM the following turn.
Hey, you heard about that Mario guy?
A strong defensive card, should be worth playing even one of against aggro decks.