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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

TypeSourceQualityCount
Card packsOpen one of these card packs:
Classic Pack
Golden Classic Pack
Wild Pack
Golden Wild
Regular
Golden
1~2 (random)
CraftingCraft a Regular copy for 400 DustRegular1
CraftingCraft a Golden copy for 1600 DustGolden1

Notes

To edit these notes, go to Template:Molten Giant notes.

  • The mana cost of this card is reduced by 1 for each point your hero is below its maximum Health.
  • 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 LegacyLord Jaraxxus has a maximum Health of 15, and the Ragnaros hero created by Blackrock MountainMajordomo Executus has a maximum Health of 8 (although this can be increased to 15 by LegacyAlexstrasza). 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 LegacyFreezing 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
  • ▶️ EX1_620_Molten_Giant_EnterPlay2.wav <summon sound>
Attack
  • ▶️ EX1_620_Molten_Giant_Attack1.wav <attack sound>
Death
  • ▶️ EX1_620_Molten_Giant_Death1.wav <death sound>

Lore

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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. Hero SkinsGarrosh Hellscream recently ordered his dark shamans to force Molten giants into battle.

Trivia

  • The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "Molten Core Raid Deck" series, for the card Golemagg the Incinerator.
  • Molten Giant is one of the original three Giants in Hearthstone. Several more have been added in expansions and adventure sets. All Giants are 8/8 epic minion cards, featuring a theme of their mana cost being reduced by a specific game factor.
  • Molten Giant is the first card to have a nerf reverted, albeit only because it was instead restricted to Wild format.
  • One reason for the change to Molten Giant with Patch 5.0.0.12574 (increasing base cost from 20 to 25) was to reduce the number of "evergreen" cards played in Handlock decks. Making Molten Giant less core forced players to look for useful cards in the other, rotating card sets, creating ongoing change in the deck.[3]
    • 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.

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    Patch changes

    External links

  • PlayHearthstone
  • HSReplay.net
  • Hearthpwn
  • OutOf.Cards
  • References[]

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