Baku the Mooneater is a legendary neutral minion card, from The Witchwood set. It was once in the Hall of Fame set from April 4, 2019 to March 30, 2021.
How to get
Type | Source | Quality | Count |
---|---|---|---|
Card packs | Open one of these card packs: | Regular Golden | 1 (random) |
Crafting | Craft a Regular copy for 1600 | Regular | 1 |
Crafting | Craft a Golden copy for 3200 | Golden | 1 |
Ban lists
Baku the Mooneater is in these ban lists:
- E.T.C.'s blacklist - These cards cannot be put into E.T.C., Band Manager's sideboard.
- Odd and even-related cards - These cards restrict deckbuilding based on cards' cost to be effective and cannot be drafted in Arena.
- Duels ban list - These cards cannot be put into deck, cannot appear in card buckets and cannot be generated randomly in Duels games.
Generated Hero Powers
Notes
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- Baku's "upgraded" hero powers function identically to hero powers upgraded by Justicar Trueheart.
- 0-mana cards are even-cost cards. Cards without a mana cost (e.g. Shifting Scroll) are considered 0-cost cards.[2]
- Your deck must not contain any even-costing cards from the very beginning of the game for this card's effect to activate.[3]
- This card's effect takes priority over Prince Malchezaar, so the effect will activate even if Prince Malchezaar shuffles in even-cost cards into your deck.[4]
- C'Thun, the Shattered triggers after Baku, effectively preventing "upgraded hero power" effect.
Sounds
- Play
- ▶️
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I will silence their screams. - ▶️
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<music stinger>
- Trigger
- ▶️
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None will survive!
- Attack
- ▶️
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Slay them!
- Death
- ▶️
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<death sound>
Lore
- The Witchwood's growing influence drives even the redoubtable citizens of Gilneas to fearful flights of fancy. Uneasy townsfolk share bizarre stories of black cats with knowing eyes, and giant moths that peer into windows during the dead of night. Stranger still, they all seem to share the same horrid dream, night after night: a feeling of unspeakable dread as they watch huge, spectral fangs devour the moon.[5]
Baku is unique to Hearthstone. According to Mike Donais: "Hagatha, the witch of the Witchwood awakened the trees and beasts of the woods making them stronger and angrier. Baku the Mooneater is the great worm that is basically her General."[6] Baku has apparently devoured the White Lady, the larger of Azeroth's two moons, leaving only the Blue Child.[7]
- No being akin to Baku exists in any our exhaustive records that describe serpents, dragonhawks, dragons, or other scaled, magical creatures. Given that this being has not been seen physically by anyone at all—instead observed solely via shared dream visions—our duty to investigate her nature is clear.
- Our arcanists’ initial hypothesis is that Baku may in fact be the tormented psyche of a dragon whose physical form is trapped within the bounds of the Witchwood, but outside of physical reality—some kind of dream-dwelling projection of this dragon’s mind, warped and twisted by Hagatha’s own nightmares.
- Whatever the Mooneater’s true nature, those who dream of her tend to slowly descend into a fugue state—neither waking nor dreaming—and develop the ability to manifest their will in surprising ways. In brief moments of lucidity, these subjects express a feeling of crushing, unyielding dread, and report seeing a kaleidoscopic serpent coiling and stretching across the horizon, blotting out the sky overhead.[8]
Baku is similar in appearance to a sea serpent. The closest habitat to Gilneas that would contain them would be the Kelp'thar Forest.
- Sea serpents are large serpents living in the seas of Azeroth. The sea serpents made their first appearance in World of Warcraft: Cataclysm in the Kelp'thar Forest of Vashj'ir. They shouldn't be confused with the gigantic eels that also roam the areas.
Trivia
- They are also the first and only so far to be rotated a year early.
Gallery
Patch changes
- Patch 24.0.0.145077 (2022-07-26):
- Banned from Duels deck-building.
- Patch 22.4.0.131660 (2022-02-15):
- Fixed a bug where the Diao Chan Valeera Hero Skin would block Baku the Mooneater’s effect from upgrading the player’s Hero Power.
- Patch 20.0.0.77662 (2021-03-25):
- 2021-03-30: Move from the Hall of Fame to The Witchwood set.
- Patch 14.0.0.29933 (2019-04-04):
- 2019-04-09: Moved from The Witchwood to the Hall of Fame set.
- Patch 11.0.0.23966 (2018-04-10):
- Added.
External links
References[]
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii0XqLi3c5k&t=39m34s
- ↑ Mike Donais. (2018-03-12). Reddit.
- ↑ Mike Donais. (2018-03-12). Reddit.
- ↑ Mike Donais. (2018-03-12). Reddit.
- ↑ Daxxarri (2018-03-12). Be Ready to Brave The Witchwood. Retrieved on 2018-03-30.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Mike Donais. (2018-03-12). Reddit.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Hadidjah Chamberlin. (2018-04-10). Reddit. Retrieved on 2018-04-10.
- ↑ Daxxarri (2018-04-25). The Witchwood – Mysterious Missives Part 3. Retrieved on 2018-04-25.