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Deathlord is a rare neutral minion card, from the Naxxramas set.

How to get

TypeSourceQualityCount
CraftingCraft a Regular copy for 100 DustRegular1
CraftingCraft a Golden copy for 800 DustGolden1
AdventureDefeat NaxxramasBaron Rivendare in Curse of Naxxramas 3rd wing - The Military QuarterRegular2

Notes

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Deathlord's Deathrattle causes the opponent to place a random minion from their unused deck directly onto the battlefield.[1] The card is removed from the player's deck.[1] If the opponent has no minions remaining in their deck, no minion will be summoned.[2]

Deathrattle interactions

Like every other minion in the game, Deathlord's Deathrattle is not processed until after it has been killed and removed from play. Also note that when multiple deaths happen simultaneously, each one and all its consequences are resolved before moving to the next one. This means that if the Deathlord is played first and summons a minion that triggers on deaths, before then dying simultaneously to another minion, the minion summoned by the Deathlord's Deathrattle may react to the death of the other minion. In addition, if the Deathlord was killed by a spell, the spell will not resolve until after all deaths are processed, allowing newly summoned Flamewakers and Wild Pyromancers to immediately trigger.

Examples:

  • Your opponent plays a Deathlord first and you play a LegacyBloodfen Raptor second. After damaging the Deathlord to 2/3, you use the Raptor to attack it. Both die simultaneously and a Death Phase begins where their deaths are considered in order of play. First the Deathlord brings out a LegacyScavenging Hyena, then the Bloodfen Raptor's death is considered, and the Scavenging Hyena becomes a 4/3. Note that if the Deathlord was played second, the Scavenging Hyena would come out too late and it would be unbuffed.
  • You LegacyPyroblast an enemy Deathlord. Its Deathrattle puts a LegacyWild Pyromancer into play. When the Pyroblast resolves, the Wild Pyromancer sees the spell finishing and triggers its effect, dealing 1 damage to all minions.
  • If a Deathlord (played first) is destroyed alongside other minions and puts a LegacyFlesheating Ghoul into the field, the Flesheating Ghoul's triggered effect will always activate for any later simultaneous deaths, but may not activate for the Deathlord's death (it will only activate if the owner of Deathlord is the Dominant Player).[3]


Fixed bugs[]

  • Prior to Patch 4.0.0.10833 or Patch 4.1.0.10956 (2015-12-04), Deathlord, like other put into battlefield effects, used to have a bug that made the minion put into play by its Deathrattle deviate from the expected order of play when it died simultaneously with other minions - it was usually considered the new oldest rather than new newest minion in such a simultaneous death (what actually happened was the summoned minion's relative order was determined by when it was generated (often the beginning of the game), rather than when it was summoned; therefore effects which summon newly generated minions rather than existing cards (LegacyMirror Entity, LegacyAnimal Companion, LegacyHex, etc.) did not visibly produce this bug).[4] However, in all other circumstances (such as order of triggering of end-of-turn triggers) they had the correct, newest order of play.[5]

Trivia[]

  • The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "War of the Elements" series, for the card Aric Stonejack.
  • Deathlords effect can be seen as a prototype of the mechanic later known as "Recruit", which was introduced almost three years after deathlord in the Kobolds & Catacombs expansion.

Sounds[]

Play
  • ▶️ VO_FP1_009_EnterPlay_01.wav Death does not scare me!
Attack
Death

Gallery

Patch changes

  • MoLK LogoPatch 25.0.0.158725 (2022-11-29):
    • Minion type is now Undead (previously: no minion type).
  • The League of Explorers logo Patch 4.2.0.12051 (2016-03-14):
    • Golden card unlock requirement is now: "Crafting unlocked in The Military Quarter, in the Naxxramas adventure." (previously: "Can be crafted after defeating The Four Horsemen in the Military Quarter.").
  • The League of Explorers logo Patch 4.1.0.10956 (2015-12-04):
    • Unlock requirement is now: "Unlocked in The Military Quarter, in the Naxxramas adventure." (previously: "Unlocked by defeating The Four Horsemen in the Military Quarter.").
  • Curse of Naxxramas logo Patch 1.1.0.6024 (2014-07-22):
    • Added.

References[]

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