- You might be looking for one of these cards: Battlegrounds/Lord Jaraxxus, Lord Jaraxxus (Classic), Lord Jaraxxus (Core), Lord Jaraxxus (hero), Mercenaries/Lord Jaraxxus, Mercenaries/Lord Jaraxxus (63819), Mercenaries/Lord Jaraxxus (64507).
Lord Jaraxxus is a legendary warlock hero 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 (random) |
Crafting | Craft a Regular copy for 1600 | Regular | 1 |
Crafting | Craft a Golden copy for 3200 | Golden | 1 |
Related cards
Notes
To edit these notes, go to Template:Lord Jaraxxus notes.
- Due to being a hero card, Jaraxxus is no longer considered a demon, and therefore cannot be destroyed by Sacrificial Pact.
Achievements
Category | Name | Description | Rewards | |
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Game Modes - Battlegrounds - Lord Jaraxxus | INFERNAL OVERDRIVE | Play a game of Battlegrounds as Lord Jaraxxus. | 10 | |
Game Modes - Battlegrounds - Lord Jaraxxus | INFERNAL OVERDRIVE | Finish in top 4 as Lord Jaraxxus. | 10 | |
Game Modes - Battlegrounds - Lord Jaraxxus | INFERNAL OVERDRIVE | Finish in 1st place as Lord Jaraxxus. | 20 | |
Gameplay - Core (Gryphon) - Classes | JARAXXUS FACE YOU!!! | Attack and kill 10 characters as Lord Jaraxxus. | 10 | |
Gameplay - Core (Gryphon) - Classes | JARAXXUS FACE YOU!!! | Attack and kill 25 characters as Lord Jaraxxus. | 20 |
Sounds
Type | Transcript | |
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Play | ▶️ | You face Jaraxxus, Eredar Lord of the Burning Legion! |
Play stinger | ▶️ | <music stinger> |
Attack | ▶️ | MUAHAHAHAHAHA! |
Death | ▶️ | <death sound> |
Emote: Greetings | ▶️ | You face Jaraxxus, Eredar Lord of the Burning Legion! |
Emote: Well Played | ▶️ | <VO sound> |
Emote: Oops | ▶️ | MISTAKE! |
Emote: Threaten | ▶️ | OBLIVION!!! |
Emote: Thanks | ▶️ | THANK YOU. |
Unused: Sorry | ▶️ | JARAXXUS IS... sorry. |
Concede | ▶️ | You win... BUT YOUR WORLD IS STILL DOOMED! |
Running out of time | ▶️ | TIME RUNS OUT! |
Thinking | ▶️ | Hmmm... |
Thinking | ▶️ | I wonder... |
Thinking | ▶️ | How shall I destroy you... |
Almost out of cards | ▶️ | My deck! IT'S RUNNING OUT OF CARDS! |
Out of cards | ▶️ | NOOOOO! I'M OUT OF CARDS! |
Error: Need a weapon | ▶️ | WHERE DID MY WEAPON GO? |
Error: Not enough mana | ▶️ | NOT ENOUGH MANA! |
Error: Minion exhausted | ▶️ | THAT THING ALREADY ATTACKED. |
Error: Hero already attacked | ▶️ | I ALREADY ATTACKED. |
Error: Minion not ready | ▶️ | IT JUST GOT HERE! |
Error: Hand already full | ▶️ | TOO MANY CARDS! |
Error: Too many minions | ▶️ | TOO MANY MINIONS. |
Error: Can't play that card | ▶️ | CAN'T PLAY THAT. |
Error: Can't target Stealthed minion | ▶️ | IT'S STEALTHED. |
Error: Not a valid target | ▶️ | NOT VALID. |
Error: Must attack Taunt minion | ▶️ | THAT TAUNT MINION IS IN MY WAY! |
Error: Generic | ▶️ | CAN'T DO THAT. |
Emote: Greetings [Lunar New Year] | ▶️ | <VO sound> |
Emote: Greetings [Holidays] | ▶️ | I WILL FEAST ON YOUR SOUL, THIS WINTER VEIL! |
Emote: Wow | ▶️ | UNBELIEVABLE! |
Emote: Greetings [Happy New Year] | ▶️ | <VO sound> |
Emote: Greetings [Fire Festival] | ▶️ | <VO sound> |
Unused: Greetings [Pirate Day] | ▶️ | I AM JARRRRRRAXXUS! |
Emote: Greetings [Happy Halloween] | ▶️ | HALLOW'S END. AND YOURS! |
Unused: Greetings [Happy Noblegarden] | ▶️ | HAPPY NOBLEGARDEN! |
History
Jaraxxus as a minion card
Strategy
It was possible with the Classic version (but not the newer Core version) to force an enemy to become Jaraxxus.
This could be done by using playing Sylvanas Windrunner, reducing her to 1 health, using Treachery to give them to the opponent, and then killing her as Jaraxxus is summoned and temporarily in a minion state, through a means such as Knife Jugglers. This caused the enemy to take control of Jaraxxus before the battlecry took effect, and benefit from it instead.[1]
This was previously used to kill enemy heroes directly by casting Sacrificial Pact on them before it was nerfed to only apply to friendly demons. After the patch, the only way for this to work is through the indirect offense: force the enemy into casting the spell through means like using Lorewalker Cho to give it to them and Unseen Saboteur to randomly select it.
Trivia
- Lord Jaraxxus' Battlecry was similar to the functionality of hero cards, a card type first introduced in the Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion. However, Jaraxxus was not reclassified from a minion to a hero card upon the release of Knights of the Frozen Throne due to some important differences in functionality; notably, Jaraxxus' Battlecry always sets the hero's Health to 15, whereas hero cards retain the hero's existing Health.[2][3] Furthermore, while hero cards are an entirely separate card type that can only enter the battlefield by being played from a player's hand, Lord Jaraxxus can enter play as a 3/15 minion through put into battlefield and random summon effects.
- Previously, completing a game as Lord Jaraxxus would always grant warlock experience, even if the player was in fact playing another class (such as a priest acquiring Lord Jaraxxus using Thoughtsteal). However, this bug has now been fixed, and experience will always be granted to the player's selected class.
- Light's Champion, a minion released with The Grand Tournament, used to be able to silence a Lord Jaraxxus hero. This would allow Light's Champion to remove attack buffs from Jaraxxus, such as from Heroic Strike or Savage Combatant. Silencing Jaraxxus would also remove the Frozen status from Jaraxxus. In addition, a Jaraxxus hero set to 1 Health with Repentance would be restored to 15 Heath when silenced.[4] With the release of Patch 4.0.0.10833, Lord Jaraxxus can no longer be targeted by Light's Champion.
- Ben Brode has described Lord Jaraxxus as his #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5 favourite cards.[5] Lord Jaraxxus was also designed either primarily or entirely by Brode.[6] It still remains his favorite as of July 15, 2017.[7]
- Since Hearthstone's launch, Lord Jaraxxus was infamous for his crippling weakness to Sacrificial Pact, which could also target and destroy the Lord Jaraxxus hero, reasoned by him "technically" being a Demon minion replacing the hero. This enabled warlocks to instantly win against Jaraxxus through a single card, and Zephrys the Great was even able to offer Sacrificial Pact to defeat an enemy Jaraxxus. In Ashes of Outland, Sacrificial Pact was nerfed so that it could only target friendly Demons, so Jaraxxus no longer has his notably humiliating weakness. However, a player controlling the Jaraxxus hero can still kill themself with Sacrificial Pact.
Lore
- Lord Jaraxxus is an eredar lord of the Burning Legion and the second encounter of the Trial of the Crusader raid instance. Lord Jaraxxus is accidentally summoned by Grand Warlock Wilfred Fizzlebang when the gnome attempts to summon a doomguard for the next challenge. Jaraxxus kills Fizzlebang for his efforts.
In Hearthstone lore, Lord Jaraxxus would later become mechanically augmented by Dr. Boom as Mecha-Jaraxxus with The Boomsday Project, although how and why this happened is unknown. Later, he goes to command the Rusted Legion in the Trial by Felfire adventure, but he's stopped by Illidan Stormrage and Aranna Starseeker.
Trivia
- According to Medivh, Jaraxxus is apparently also an amazing karaoke singer.
Gallery
Patch changes
- Patch 20.0.0.77662 (2021-03-25):
- Patch 9.2.0.21517 (2017-10-17):
- No longer triggers Repentance, Sacred Trial, and Snipe.
- Patch 5.0.0.12574 (2016-04-24):
- Wow emote added. Sorry emote no longer available.
- Patch 4.2.0.12051 (2016-03-14):
- "I WILL FEAST ON YOUR SOUL, THIS WINTERVEIL!" changed to "I WILL FEAST ON YOUR SOUL, THIS WINTER VEIL!"
- Patch 4.1.0.10956 (2015-12-04):
- Winter Veil emote added.
- Patch 1.1.0.6024 (2014-07-22):
- Now reads: Battlecry: Destroy your hero and replace it with Lord Jaraxxus. (previously: Battlecry: Destroy your hero and replace him with Lord Jaraxxus.)
- Patch 1.0.0.3388 (Alpha, 2013-06-22):
- Flavor text now reads: ""TRIFLING GNOME! YOUR ARROGANCE WILL BE YOUR UNDOING!!!!"" (previously: no flavor text).
- Patch 1.0.0.3140 (Alpha, April or May 2013):
- Added.
External links
References[]
- ↑ demonstrated 20 February 2018
- ↑ Ben Brode on Twitter. (2017-07-07).
- ↑ Puffin on reddit. (2017-07-08). Retrieved on 2018-11-24.
- ↑ Disguised Toast - Hearthstone Experiments: SILENCING JARAXXUS?
- ↑ Ben Brode on Twitter. (2014-11-25).
- ↑ Ben Brode on Twitter. (2014-11-14).
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6nc1zz/well_met_im_ben_brode_the_game_director_on/dk8dwn9/
- ↑ Good Game Well Played - Designing Competitive Hearthstone with Ben Brode. (2016-08-10).