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Freeze
Frozen characters lose their next attack.
Frozen minion ss

A Frozen minion

Frozen hero ss

A Frozen hero

Freeze is a mechanic that marks a minion or hero as Frozen. Frozen characters miss their next possible attack. After this, the Frozen status is removed.

Freeze only prevents attacking. Frozen heroes can take all other actions as usual, including using their Hero Power and equipping weapons. Frozen characters will also still defend themselves if attacked. Silencing a Frozen character will remove the Frozen status (unofficially called Unfrozen).

Notes[]

  • During your turn, if your character hasn't attacked at least once yet while it can (or hasn't used up their attack(s)) and then has been Frozen, it will be Unfrozen at the end of your turn. This also applies to:
    • Minions with Rush but opponent has a minion to attack at the end of turn, or characters with Charge.[1][2]
    • Characters that can attack multiple times (usually with Windfury or Mega-Windfury) but haven't used up all of their possible attacks yet[3]
  • During your turn, if your character has attacked and then has been Frozen, it will be Unfrozen at the end of your next turn. This also applies to:
  • Can't attack effect and 0-attack attribute do not prevent the characters who have it from being Unfrozen.
    • For example: You summon an LegacyAncient Watcher and Freeze it afterwards. At the end of your next turn, it will be Unfrozen.
    • For example: You summon an Ancient Watcher. At your next turn, you Freeze it. At the end of that turn, it will be Unfrozen.
  • Freeze cannot stop forced attacks (United in StormwindLothar's effect, CoreIllidari Inquisitor's effect, Ashes of OutlandWarmaul Challenger's Battlecry,...).[5]
    • However, if they are forced-attacking and Frozen, they are counted as having used up their attack and cannot be Unfrozen until the end of turn when they are not forced-attacking.[5]
  • If your hero is Frozen and you play a hero card, your hero will be Unfrozen.
  • During your turn, when you Freeze your Charge minion and the opponent does not have any minion, but their hero is Immune or has Stealth, at the end of your turn, that Frozen minion will not be unfrozen.[citation needed]
  • During your turn, when you Freeze your Rush minion and the opponent has only minions which are Immune or have Stealth, at the end of your turn, that Frozen minion will not be unfrozen.[citation needed]
  • During your turn, when you Freeze your minion that has both Charge and Rush and the opponent does not have any minions, at the end of your turn, that Frozen minion will be unfrozen.[citation needed]
Freeze and Windfury
Freeze and Rush with a minion on opponent's side.
Freeze and Windfury and Rush but no minion left for the second attack
Freeze with Force attack.

Cards with Freeze[]

For Wild format listings, see Freeze/Wild format

Collectible[]


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NX2 009
CORE UNG 205
RLK 038
CORE GIL 801
TTN 077
RLK 951
TTN 735
RLK 015
REV 602
NX2 035
RLK 740
CORE CS2 028
RLK 063

Uncollectible[]


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NX2 037t2
NX2 037t

Related cards[]

For Wild format listings, see Freeze/Wild format

These cards have effect related to Freeze.


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CORE GIL 801
NX2 037

Achievements[]

CategoryNameDescriptionRewards
Achievement Category 2Achievement SubCategory 63 logoGameplay - Barrens - MageShatter ComboDestroy 50 Frozen minions.20 Achievement Point
Achievement Category 2Achievement SubCategory 63 logoGameplay - Barrens - MageDon't Move a Muscle!Freeze 25 characters with Elementals.10 Achievement Point
Achievement Category 2Achievement SubCategory 63 logoGameplay - Barrens - MageDon't Move a Muscle!Freeze 75 characters with Elementals.20 Achievement Point
Achievement Category 2Achievement SubCategory 157 logoGameplay - Alterac Valley - ShamanWinter VacationFreeze 150 characters as Shaman.10 Achievement Point
Achievement Category 2Achievement SubCategory 157 logoGameplay - Alterac Valley - ShamanWinter VacationFreeze 300 characters as Shaman.10 Achievement Point
Achievement Category 2Achievement SubCategory 157 logoGameplay - Alterac Valley - ShamanWinter VacationFreeze 600 characters as Shaman.20 Achievement Point

References[]

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