Divine Shield is an ability which causes a minion to ignore the next damage it receives. Upon receiving any damage the Divine Shield is removed, and that damage is ignored. The amount of damage taken is not important, and may occur in combat from either attacking or defending, or from a spell or other effect.
Divine Shield is available to all classes, but is most strongly associated with the paladin class.
Notes
- Minions with Divine Shield who engage in combat will still deal damage normally.
- Divine Shield can also be removed through spells such as Silence and transforming abilities.
- Divine Shield does not protect the minion from all sources of harm or attack, only from damaging abilities. Spells that do not specifically cause damage, such as
Hunter's Mark, Equality and Assassinate, are therefore not prevented by Divine Shield. - Spells with both damage and an additional component, such as
Cone of Cold, will have their damage prevented by Divine Shield (consuming the effect) but will still apply all non-damage effects. - Minions with an effect that triggers when they deal damage, such as the Water Elemental, will not apply this effect as the shield prevents all damage.
- Engaging in combat with minions with zero Attack will not remove a target's Shield, since no damage is taken.
- As with Stealth, Divine Shield is both an ability of a minion and an effect on the minion. Once the effect is consumed, the card text will still be present but does not do anything.
- If a minion with Divine Shield is silenced, it will lose any Divine Shield effect.
- If a card without a Divine Shield effect is given Divine Shield, it will gain the effect, regardless of whether it already has the Divine Shield card text or has ever had the effect before.
- A minion cannot have two Divine Shields active; attempting to give it to a minion does nothing if it already has the effect.
Strategy
Since Divine Shield is removed by any source of damage, regardless of amount, when seeking to quickly destroy a shielded target, it is often wise to use a weak ability to remove the shield before targeting the minion with a more substantial attack (if required). Good sources for this include weak minions, low damage spells like Arcane Explosion, and the mage Hero Power Fireblast. Cards with low damage secondary effects like a druid's Swipe and warrior's 
Death's Bite are similarly useful, by primarily targeting another minion while allowing the secondary damage to remove the Divine Shield.
Minions that originally possessed Divine Shield but have already lost it are good targets for return effects or re-summoning using cards such as Redemption, allowing them to regain their shield.
Cards with Divine Shield
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Related cards
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