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Malfurion the Pestilent is a legendary druid hero card, from the Knights of the Frozen Throne set.

How to get

TypeSourceQualityCount
Card packsOpen one of these card packs:
Knights of the Frozen Throne Pack
Wild Pack
Golden Wild
Regular
Golden
1 (random)
CraftingCraft a Regular copy for 1600 DustRegular1
CraftingCraft a Golden copy for 3200 DustGolden1

Ban lists

Malfurion the Pestilent is in these ban lists:

  • Hero cards - Hero cards cannot be drafted in Arena.

Choice cards

ICC 832pa
ICC 832pb
ICC 832a
ICC 832b

Related cards

ICC 832p
Tied Hero Power
ICC 832t3
ICC 832t4

Notes

To edit these notes, go to Template:Malfurion the Pestilent notes.

  • For information about the functionality of hero cards in general, see Hero card#Notes.
  • If played while in control of Whispers of the Old GodsFandral Staghelm, Malfurion the Pestilent's Battlecry will summon two 1/2 Spiders with Poisonous and two 1/5 Scarabs with Taunt [1] and his Hero Power will give +3 Attack that turn and +3 Armor.


Sounds

TypeTranscript
Play▶️The circle of life is over!
Attack▶️Blight and rot.
Death▶️<death sound>
Emote: Greetings▶️The cycle of decay begins.
Emote: Well Played▶️<VO sound>
Emote: Oops▶️The web unravels.
Emote: Threaten▶️You will wither and rot.
Emote: Thanks▶️My thanks to you.
Concede▶️You win. I can rest now.
Running out of time▶️Death is eternal, my turn is not!
Thinking▶️Hmmm...
Thinking▶️A tangled web...
Thinking▶️My thoughts are plagued...
Almost out of cards▶️I'm almost out of cards!
Out of cards▶️I'm out of cards!
Emote: Wow▶️Staggering!

Lore

Malfurion the Pestilent is the death knight version of Hero SkinsMalfurion Stormrage. He has completely abandoned the traditional path of the druid and its association with animals such as panthers or bears, and has now instead fully embraced spreading plagues through insects.[2]

Malfurion the Pestilent comic

Malfurion the Pestilent in Forest for the Weary.

In the web comic Forest for the Weary, a One Night in KarazhanPompous Thespian tells a tale of how the master hunter Hero SkinsRexxar one day discovered that a great evil had descended on his forest home — the air was frigid, and the forests and everything that walked within them were dying. The thespian's story is interrupted by a fortune-teller, who announces that choosing Malfurion as the story's villain is a bold choice. The audience rebuke her by saying that her powers have failed her, since having the noble Malfurion, guardian of nature, as the bad guy makes no sense, and that no storyteller would take such liberties. As the thespian continues with his tale, he reveals that it actually was Malfurion, but not as the listeners knew him, for "he was the pestilent. Bane of the forests. Corruptor of nature." Rexxar fired his bow at the corrupt druid, but Malfurion's insects chewed apart his arrows and poisoned his companions, LegacyMisha and LegacyHuffer. However, Rexxar was transformed into Knights of the Frozen ThroneDeathstalker Rexxar by the vampiric death knight Hero SkinsGul'dan, allowing him to grant his beasts unholy immortality and stitch together an army of Zombeasts to strike against Malfurion. For all his corruptive might, Malfurion could not withstand the fury of claw and fang. However, as Rexxar moved in for the killing blow, Malfurion whispered that he, too, had accepted dark power from a hooded stranger in an attempt to protect his land from a draining presence: the druid and the hunter had fallen victim to the same force.

Malfurion's affinity for plagues and insects appear to suggest an association with the Unholy death knight specialization.

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"While free from the Lich King’s grasp, some death knights still embody the ever-corrupting nature of the Scourge plague that once threatened to consume Azeroth. No matter their allegiance or cause, they remain defilers of life; and nowhere is their callousness more on display than when threatened. Inflictors of the most aggressive of diseases—and masters of raising unhallowed minions from the ground—these unholy death knights are vicious melee combatants, capable of striking with the force of an undead legion and unleashing pestilence that would bring their foes to ruin."

For more information, see Knights of the Frozen Throne.

Trivia

  • Malfurion the Pestilent underwent a few redesigns during devleopment of Knights of the Frozen Throne. An early name for the card was "Malfurion, Plaguebringer". One of the designs involved it being a 5-Mana card with the effect "Destroy all your mana crystals, all your cards cost (2)", where as another was 7-mana with the effect "Choose One - Spider Form; or Scarab Form". The latter design was kept for "a while" during development, with the effect allowing him to either gain 10 Armor and "defensive minions", or no Armor and "more aggressive minions".[3][4]
  • When the developers were discussing the names for all of the Knights of the Frozen Throne death knight heroes, they were in a group with Ben Brode, who proposed to name Malfurion "Malfurious". Matt Place is not certain if he was being serious or not.[5]
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    External links

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  • References[]

     
    1. Puffin on reddit. (2017-08-06). Retrieved on 2017-08-07.
    2. Hearthside Chat with Matt Place: Death Knight Hero Cards - YouTube. (2017-08-06). Retrieved on 2017-08-06.
    3. Mike Donais on reddit. (2017-07-20). Retrieved on 2017-08-06.
    4. Designing Hearthstone's Death Knights - IGN. (2017-09-14). Retrieved on 2017-09-14.
    5. Matt Place & Day9 - Knights of the Frozen Throne Card Reveals (50:17). (2017-07-28). Retrieved on 2017-08-06.
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