Garona Halforcen
Garona Halforcen is a 4 Mana Cost Legendary Rogue Minion card from the Across the Timeways set!
Card Text
Fabled. Battlecry: If your opponent is holding King LLane, destroy him and cut their Health in half.
Flavor Text
Garona made her mark that day. No longer was she simply the assassin of the Horde. She was now the liberator of the dictatorship of Lordaeron.- Mana Cost: 4
- Attack: 5
- Health: 4
- Crafting Cost: 1600 / 3200 (Golden)
- Arcane Dust Gained: 400 / 1600 (Golden)
- Rarity: Legendary
- Class: Rogue
- Card Type: Minion
- Set: Across the Timeways
- Mechanics: Battlecry, Damage Hero, Destroy Card, Fabled, Start of Game
Garona Halforcen Additional Information
Fabled Package:
Cards Relating to Garona Halforcen
| The Kingslayers Type: Weapon - Cost: 2 - Attack: 3 - Durability: 2 After your hero attacks, both players draw a Legendary card. |
| King Llane Type: Minion - Cost: 3 - Attack: 3 - Health: 3 Start of Game: Hide from Garona in the enemy's deck. Battlecry: Draw a card. Shuffle this back into your deck. |
At worst it’s a 29 card deck for you and 31 for your opponent (not to mention it screws spell mage). I can’t imagine it not being played for that alone.
This is going to be playable in aggro – King Llane is one card that gets out of your deck entirely so you only have a 29 card deck, and aggro loves that (the part where Patches removes itself from your deck is one of the reasons why that card is so good), while The Kingslayers is a Fiery War Axe that also draws you a card on each swing. Granted, it does draw one for the opponent as well, but most Legendaries are expensive and if you kill the opponent before they have enough mana to afford to play theirs (which, as aggro, is what you’re trying to do anyway) the fact you drew it for them doesn’t matter.
Garona Halforcen herself isn’t that impressive because relying on your opponent to have a specific single card in their hand that never starts in their opening hand to get the effect is not going to work often, particularly since the opponent can get rid of it, but at the same time, the THREAT of her existing encourages the opponent to pay 3 whole mana for an effect only worth 1 mana, since playing King Llane largely has the same effect as trading a Tradeable card – and making the opponent repeatedly waste mana trying to avoid the effect of a card you might not even draw is quite good for aggro.
I think the interaction they are hoping for is that Renferal will force this to get locked in the opponent’s hand, forcing them to hold it. Still, that’s a pretty ass chance to go on and you only get 3 choices out of their hand. Value decks will eat this combo alive – but someone will meme it.
3 or 4 stars depending on whether she glows in your hand to tell you they’re holding Llane.
It doens’t glow.
3 stars. But can be great fun to play!