Cleave

Cleave

Regular

Gold

Set:	Legacy Legacy
Type:	Spell
Class:	Warrior
Rarity:	Free
Cost:	2
Abilities:	Deal damage
Wiki tags:	Random
Artist:	Phroilan Gardner

Deal 2 damage to two random enemy minions.

Flavor text

Hey you two…could you stand next to each other for a second…

External links

Data page • PlayHearthstone • Hearthpwn

Cleave is a warrior spell card, from the Basic set.

How to get

Prior Year of the Gryphon's rotation on March 30, 2021:

• Two copies of Cleave were a reward for raising a warrior to level 2.
• Two Golden copies of Cleave were a reward for raising a warrior to levels 40 and 42.

Notes

• Cleave can be cast and will function if there is only one enemy minion on the board. The enemy minion takes 2 damage.
• Cleave deals damage to both affected minions before queuing and resolving triggers.

Strategy

Cleave is a relatively inexpensive area of effect (AoE) card with two caveats. You cannot choose which targets to attack.

In the right conditions, Cleave can be very effective for removing low health minions or lowering their health to vulnerable levels. Ideally used against precisely two minions, allowing the warrior to be certain of the spell's targets.

Lore

"Two bodies are better than one."

Cleave is a warrior ability from World of Warcraft. It is a melee attack that instantly deals a small amount of damage to the target and one additional nearby target. Cleave plays the role of a multi-target 'rage dump', allowing the warrior to burn off their excess rage using the ability, rather than simply wasting it. As such, Cleave is an inefficient attack, but is not on the global cooldown, allowing it to be used in-between other attacks in the warrior's rotation. Heroic Strike is a single-target alternative to Cleave, and is preferable for use on single targets.

This card has a similar function and shares artwork with the Cleave ability seen in the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

Trivia

• The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "Heroes of Azeroth" series, depicting the spell Cleave.
• As of Patch 14.6.0.31761, multi-target cards are eligible to be played even if there is only one viable target on the board. Previously, multi-target cards were ineligible to be played if there were less than two viable targets.

Gallery

Cleave, full art

Patch changes

• Patch 8.0.0.18336 (2017-04-04): Rarity changed from Common to Free.
• Unknown alpha patch: Mana cost reduced to 2, down from 3.