Blood of The Ancient One
Blood of The Ancient One is a 9 Mana Cost Epic Neutral Minion card from the Whispers of the Old Gods set!
Card Text
If you control two of these
at the end of your turn, merge them into 'The Ancient One'.
Flavor Text
Add two cups of Blood of the Ancient One to one cup of lemon juice. Add just a dash of sugar and stir. Delicious!
- Type
- Minion
- Rarity
- Epic
- Set
- Whispers of the Old Gods
- Class
- Neutral
- Cost
- 9
- Attack
- 9
- Health
- 9
- Minion Type
- Mechanics
- Artist
- A. J. Nazzaro
- Collectible
- Yes
- Rating
- 2.7/5 (1676 votes)
Card Review & Interactions
The Ancient OneBlood of the Ancient One Information
- Every TWO Blood of the Ancient Ones will spawn a single copy of The Ancient One. For example, if you had 6 Blood of The Ancient Ones on the board you would receive 3 of The Ancient Ones at the end of your turn. [Source]
- The Ancient One is a token (uncollectible), which means it CANNOT be summoned by anything that randomly generates a card, e.g., Unstable Portal, Recombobulator, Summoning Stone, etc.
- If you have one silenced Blood of The Ancient One and one un-silenced version, it will still merge into The Ancient One. [Source]
- One golden Blood of The Ancient One and one non-golden copy will produce a normal version of The Ancient One. [Source]
90 Comments
Ermino
Pogchamp
Dem Unicorns
Rogue plays both and they stay alive w/ conceal and then ancient one.....
Urbam
And then, The ANcient One get out of the conceal, i think.
Sirus
Combos nicely with faceless manipulator, but what does the ancient one do?
Evident
I added it above, but it's a 9-mana 30/30 lol.
Turboisa
Faceless Manipulator much?
Genieblood
Seems a bit over-the-top
Genieblood
Varian new meta? lol
Genieblood
It says class paladin, but I'm pretty sure it's neutral...
Evident
Fixed, sorry.
TacoRocco
Notes: Works with Faceless Manipulator and Herald Volazj as additional "copies". 9/9 body is tough to kill, and being an epic means that you can have your back up copy with Faceless Manipulator to fill in the hole left by the lost copy. The 30/30 it summons will one shot any hero that doesnt have armor, and 30 health makes it near impossible to kill. That being said, it is incredibly slow and there is no guarantee your opponent wont have a counter play to it. A small taunt can stop the Ancient One from hitting face. Only unconditional removal (such as polymorph, execute, deadly shot, shadow word: death, BGH for this guy) can take out the 30/30. Without knowing the nerfs on the classic set, it is hard to say how good a card like this will be in standard.
sober667
for remoaval dont forget rducing health to 1 or attack so its easier to handle ts alot way to eremove it one is not case WAPON :)
Kittenstix
Translation?
Worlapim
Why is it paladin card, when it has no yellow border?
Evident
Fixed, sorry.
maro
it look soo fake
LordLukste
Hearthstone's Exodia.
ELU
Naga Sea Witch might actually be played now
Nightfall
nice one, naga sea witch actually works with herald volazj, this card and ancient manipulator, or just 2 copies from this blood of ancient one creature
Sky
So THAT'S why Herald Volazj exists. I get it now...
kevinloks1937
I guess we can all agree bgh is getting nurf no?
Mystik
Entomb. No, seriously, this card is going to be such a total soft-taunt. Summon this when you need to be sure that you get another turn with a different minion.
Christian
Holy Jesus this is freaking amazing !!!
AliceLiddell
No one mentioned Master of Evolution ? Can we get it from him ?
Evident
You can get Blood of the Ancient One, but not The Ancient One.
Kamui
I wonder if summoning portal can put the 30/30 on play
Evident
Nope, it's a non-collectible card.
Jussa
RIP if someone get them both summoned
cpearl
I think ancient blood rogue could be played because of cards like conceal an gang up compaired with faceless manipulater
Nightfall
the enemy still always will get 1 turn at least to remove the 30/30 body
Genieblood
Did a card get removed? I swear there was another release on here but I forgot already... maybe i'm just confused by the overflow of info
Evident
Nope!
Genieblood
Well I'm just delirious then. That's comforting.
Nightfall
now the question is, do you rather have 2 9/9's or 1 30/30? 2 9/9's are hard to remove because the enemy would need 2 hard removal spells or the never played dark bargain. the 30/30 can be removed with only 1, the 9/9's do not win you the game if they both stay on the board, the 30/30 does if there isnt a taunt on the board or if he isn't frozen. the 9/9's are weaker and therefor less likely to be removed while the 30/30 is top priority. both the 9/9's and the 30/30 have disadvantages but I'll have to see
lennon255
Ok so what I see here is a hell of a buff to Aviana. Aviana + x2 Innervate + x2 of this + x2 Faceless = a combo that requires a ton of cards but wins you the game immediately unless the other player has Twisting Nether or x2 Polymorph/Hex.
Matthew
I got the beast in my sights!!!!
LordLukste
Sorry, but no. BGH is out of the picture now.
Evident
That isn't confirmed, but it seems likely.
Malvo
Aldor, uldaman, death, entomb, misdirection(?), deadly shot, freezing trap, polymorph, execute, hex....
So many removals, this is WAY too slow.
TheArmorsmith
Aldor doesn't remove it? You literally have to keep it on the board for one turn, it's not slow at all.
Malvo
I meant that it becomes a 1/30.
minergretsold
Isnt the acient one the troll card from disguisedtoast? not like the same one but the same photo?
Evident
He just used the same art.
Donald Car
It doesn't say you can't get it from effigy
Evident
Effigy falls in the same category as the cards I listed. I've added a bit more clarification to the description.
Ankur
Fatigue warriors can use this card, but first you have to bait out bgh and other hard removals of opponent. So this gonna be very late game card.
Simone Lazzari
BGH is gonna be nerfed when they change the Classic set, at least I hope so.
Anonymous
Seriously, if The Ancient One had "Card can't be targeted by spells or Hero Powers" it would be nigh unstoppable. Too bad it's going to be the prime target for hard removal.
Genieblood
Wee Spellstopper meta inbound??? Kappa
sc1ph3r
Wee spellstopper getting removed with GvG xd
Simone Lazzari
Wild bro.
We'll see some Trolden clips about this thanks to Wild I hope.
Taknarosh
turn 9: blood of the ancient one
turn 10: faceless manipulator + loatheb or wee spellstopper
if the card has the same summon mechanic as thaddius, it will always summon to the left, so wee to the left will guarantee to protect it. if youre mage maybe even play a mirror image before the wee, so you get a unspellable taunt and your enemy cant trade with one of the poisonous minions (pit snake etc.)
Taknarosh
summon to the right* i mean, sorry.
cameldd
much wow, much fun, much crazy, much wild, much standard, much wtf???
with all the removal cards there are, why would one choose to swap two 9/9 targets for one damn 30/30. Let's see:
Paladin shits on it with all the damage reduction shiet;
warrior shits on it, ez
if its freeze mage he ignores it easy, if it's not mage is prbbly fuked, maybe poly is back who knows.
rogue saps it and the pleasure is his.
hunter matches doubtedly can reach that long and the same goes for shaman, if it's control/midrange shaman, hex would be a must on the deck so there's your answer.
I'm glad the game can't have a creature that can't win the game alone. who the fuck want's it right? But a 30/30? damn, that's some nasty shiet, I will love to see how it turns out in the first 2 surprise weeks of the release before it is turned to dust ahah xD
Anonymouse
If you play druid your gonna have a bad time. Because seriously who runs poison seeds.
Hornpub
thats when i pull out my naturalise or deathwing
SirArkimes
There is an anti mid range and aggro poison seeds druid so yeah would be no Problem. But I still like the Ancient One its realy cool and if you are something like a handlock or some sh*t its easy to get the enemy at its removel Limit when this card comes down.
Loco
BGH would like a word with you. You know, the generic hard-removal for bombs like this one?
There are only two Druid decks doing anything relevant right now, Combo and Aggro. Combo Druid always carries BGH and Aggro Druid ends games before turn 10, when this card becomes dangerous.
sober667
It will be insane for rouge or shaman (ich with good card can just fulll the board with tahat card or make ancient one spawn another after death bad legend wich is acticating deatjtratle twice rotating out
Fropps
It's not a deathrattle that summons the minions. It's an effect. Read the card.
The Ancient One
I'm just disappointed the card they merge into isn't legendary.
Lol
So it's immune to Rend Darkhand
HSAWESOME
What about herald volaj interactions? The new priest legendary, seems preety good here
OldGodKeeper
So hearthstone will realese minimum 1 card per day? So it seems like the e xpansion will come out at the very end of this month, wich I would feel like is sad. Im already done with this season and looking forward to the expansion + wild&standard.
SLauridsen
they have said it will come 26 of april :)
Lol
Sometimes during weekend no cards were released. Sometimes they released more than 1 card a day
Just some guy who plays random decks
The 30/30 reminds me of death wing. Amazing if the opponent has no taunt or removal otherwise you boned your self jus not to the extent dea thing can bone you. But I think it is undiniable that this card will be fun. I can see it being strong in a deck that can bait alot of removal. I would love to try this card in wild playing a control mage filled with counter spell , spell bender, echo, and prehaps weespell stopper(which is why in wild).
ethan
Naga Sea Witch!!!
Simone Lazzari
Windfury Value. Kappa
Loco
Let's see, answers to this...
Entomb, Polymorph, Hex, Naturalize, Poison Seeds, BGH, Uldaman, Aldor, Humility, Pit Viper, King Cobra, Maexxna, Equality, Mind Control, Shadow Word: Death, Twisting Nether, DOOM, Execute, Crush, Tinkmaster (RNGesus willing), Assassinate, and probably plenty of other cards of varying degrees of viability I'm forgetting.
Yes, I know some of these are not currently viable (or just outright bad, hello King Cobra, I'm looking at you), but they do stop the Ancient One. Personally, I'm going to be running Priest for a while instead of my usual Mage and Druid just to mess with people running the new bomb cards like this and Y'Shaarj. Entomb, MC and SW:Death and I'll probably toss in a BGH as well. Because why not.
Whispers of the old gods is amazing
BGH is likely to be nerfed as well as (possibly) Keeper so those are probably not counters to the ancient one.
Loco
Because the BGH nerf is definitely going to change its battlecry entirely, right? It's not going to change so drastically a 30/30 is out of its range, and its cost is not going to raise to the 9-10 range either.
It is very unlikely the BGH nerf will be so drastic that it doesn't stop The Ancient One. The required attack value may increase to 8 from 7, or it might get the Buzzard treatment and become a 6 mana 5/3 or something, but there is no way it's not going to be able to destroy The Ancient One. No card has ever had its mechanics changed even half that significantly.
Ditto Keeper. So maybe it costs 5 or 6. Maybe it makes the minion a 4/4 or a 5/5. How is that not still an answer to a 30/30?
Templar
"No card has ever had its mechanics changed even half that significantly."
Patron charge card... forget its name, Warsong commander maybe? got its mechanic completely eliminated.
Loco
You're thinking of Warsong Commander, yeah. It was a significant change, but I'd definitely argue that taking a card whose entire point is killing a big minion and changing it so that it does not kill a big minion anymore is vastly more significant.
Warsong Commander was not intended to allow that kind of raw burst. Big Game Hunter was intended to kill a big minion. Kinda literally in the name of the card. It will not be changed so that it no longer removes a big minion. It will likely be made less efficient at doing that, but it's still going to do that.
Though you are correct that it did get its mechanic changed pretty damn significantly, and I did forget about it.
Loco
Hey, look at that, the nerfs have been announced and BGH still kills a big minion. Its battlecry is completely unchanged, it just costs 5 now.
King Cobra
Wa sup bro, take a swing bro!!!
Muzek
You forgot the sexiest counter of them all, mindcontrol or sylvanas (RNGesus willing)
Loco
I listed Mind Control...
1292
Could the ancient one be summoned from forbidden shaping?
Evident
Nope, it's uncollectible.
Urbam
Well, i know it's redudant, but maybe these cards would get better, if "The Ancient One" could reform the "Blood of the Ancient One" if destroyed, as a deathrattle.
You know? Like a Savanna Highmane. But in a infinite loop. Ok, it can be silenced, but its better than... this.
Muzek
Thats game breaking, it's already practically instant win if you manage to summon the ancient one (assuming they dont have any counter cards.) You can't put a summon 2 9/9 bloods on a 30/30 card, especially not if those 2 9/9 cards just summon another 30/30 minion...
mafu
i think it would be funny to give it little slimes (2x 1/2 or something like that)
Fruitpunch36
Charge + Ancient One = instant win, new super control warrior
asdf
Can't charge it. It gets summoned "at the end of your turn"
TellerOfTales
Do they die when they merge? And if not, what zone would they be in?
Evident
Yes, they die when they merge.
lagaristis
Lol I can see this cars being like deathwing ...terrible.well my opinion OK only fun decks will run this ..,turn 11 plays are probably out of this format
Orcgoblin
Do you mean card and not cars
Kyle
So cool, this creature is taken straight from H.P Lovecraft's The Mountains of Madness!
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