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- You might be looking for one of these cards: Mercenaries/Molten Giant, Molten Giant (boss), Molten Giant (Classic).
Molten Giant is an epic neutral minion card, from the Legacy set.
Other versions
How to get
Type | Source | Quality | Count |
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Card packs | Open one of these card packs: | Regular Golden | 1~2 (random) |
Crafting | Craft a Regular copy for 400 | Regular | 1 |
Crafting | Craft a Golden copy for 1600 | Golden | 1 |
Notes
To edit these notes, go to Template:Molten Giant notes.
- Contrary to the card's text, Molten Giant's mana cost is not affected by the total damage taken during the game, but only by the difference between the hero's current and maximum Health.[1]
- Example: If a hero's current Health is lowered from 30 to 10, Molten Giant's mana cost will be reduced by 20, for a final cost of 0 mana; however, if a hero's Health is lowered by damage from 30 to 10, then restored to 20 using healing effects, Molten Giant's mana cost will only be reduced by 10, for a final cost of 10 mana.
- All regular heroes have a maximum Health of 30. However, the hero created by Lord Jaraxxus has a maximum Health of 15, and the Ragnaros hero created by Majordomo Executus has a maximum Health of 8 (although this can be increased to 15 by Alexstrasza). Since only the Health values for the current hero will determine the cost of Molten Giant (regardless of previous damage), this makes Molten Giant impossible for Lord Jaraxxus and Ragnaros to play without other cost-modifying effects.[2]
- The mana cost of this card cannot be reduced below 0. However, further cost-reductions can help in countering cost-increasing effects like Freezing Trap.
- This card has an in-hand effect: it modifies its own mana cost only while in the player's hand, and not while the card is anywhere else.
Sounds
- Play
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<summon sound>
- Attack
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<attack sound>
- Death
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<death sound>
Lore
This section uses content from Wowpedia.
- Molten giants are a type of giant that live in warm mountains and underground. Most live in the Molten Core. Small glowing yellow eyes peer out of a massive red stone skull. In fact, this creature's entire body is formed from chunks of red stone, even what appears to be a beard or mane. Its arms and legs are thick pillars of rock, and every inch is covered with molten veins. Molten giants are the brutal and cunning front-line defenders of Ragnaros' army.
- Ragnaros pulled some of those giants from the heart of the Firelands to the Blackrock Mountain and the Molten Core. The Earthen Ring has all shamans forbidden to summon, control and direct those unpredictable and violent fire elementals. The use of such coercion could trigger an event similar to the Cataclysm, if the elements grow sufficiently angry. Garrosh Hellscream recently ordered his dark shamans to force Molten giants into battle.
Trivia
- This was also the reason behind reverting the change and instead moving to the Hall of Fame, allowing Wild players to use it forever while still spicing up the decks for Standard format.
Gallery
Patch changes
- Patch 20.0.0.77662 (2021-03-25):
- Patch 11.4.0.25252 (2018-07-10):
- Is now a Elemental (previously: no minion type).
- Patch 11.0.0.23966 (2018-04-10):
- Moved from Classic to Hall of Fame set. Now costs 20 mana (Down from 25).
- Patch 5.0.0.12574 (2016-04-24):
- Now costs 25 (Up from 20).
- Patch 1.0.0.3890 (Closed beta, 2013-10-02):
- Flavor text now reads: "He gets terrible heartburn. BECAUSE HE IS FULL OF LAVA." (previously: no flavor text).
- Patch 1.0.0.3645 (Alpha, 2013-08-12):
- Now has 8 attack (Down from 10).
- Now has 8 health (Down from 10).
- Patch 1.0.0.3140 (Alpha, April or May 2013):
- Added.