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Lifedrinker

Lifedrinker

Lifedrinker is a 4 Mana Cost Rare Neutral Minion card from the Core Set!

Card Text

Battlecry: Deal 3 damage to
the enemy hero. Restore
3 Health to your hero.

Flavor Text

In a pinch, he'll also settle for Holy Water: Zero.

Type
Minion
Rarity
Rare
Set
Core Set
Class
Neutral
Cost
4
Attack
3
Health
3
Minion Type
Beast
Mechanics
Battlecry, Damage Hero, Restore Health
Artist
Slawomir Maniak
Collectible
Yes
Rating
3.7/5 (944 votes)

Card Review & Interactions

This card is a bit counter-intuitive. It both deals damage to your opponent's Hero and heals you. Those are usually the things you want to do in a completely different decks. Dealing face damage is good in Aggro, while healing your Hero is good in Control. Midrange deck also assumes either a control role (vs Aggro) or a beatdown role (vs Control), so it never really needs BOTH damage and healing at the same time.

For Aggro, the healing part can be ignored, 3 damage is good, but you'd rahter play a better body than a 3/3 on Turn 4. 3/3 is easy to remove, while something like even a vanilla 4/5 might be out of range and get in a hit or two (resulting in more damage overall).

Control deck would definitely play Earthen Ring Farseer before it - 1 mana cheaper and healing is targeted.

Midrange might POSSIBLY want to play it, but this card is still pretty bad on the curve. And although not as much as Aggro, Midrange decks also care about their early curve.

By itself, the card looks bad. The only potential I see is some wonky combo with Shudderwock - if you play a few of those, maybe some other Battlecries that damage your opponent, you could have a really solid burst finisher. But the combo is pretty hard to pull off, so it might not actually work.

Card rating: 3/10, maybe more in some fancy combo Shaman deck.

21 Comments

  1. Alt3r

    Hello much better Nightblade, how are you doing today?

  2. alsozatch

    Peace Pierce Strider

  3. Blorp

    After Siege Rhino rotated out of standard, he found its way to Hearthstone!

    Gonna be great for Shudderwock decks!

    1. Gody322

      I guess it lost the 4/5 stats and trample on the way. :)

  4. GlosuuLang

    Nightblade is crying, since it got power crept. Still, this probably doesn't make the cut in Constructed. 2/5 stars.

  5. SaturnRebirth

    This card is crazy

  6. to

    So a lot of beasts in this set , I remember awhile back they announced that rexxar was getting an update to the build a beast menu. Does anyone know if that will be done on the expansion release or later..

  7. Anon

    I'm probably missing something here. Is there a reason why community rating of this card is fairly high? I thought it's... well not good, but also not terrible... so bad :/

    1. Alt3r

      The new Shaman legendary kinda makes any direct damage to the other hero battlecry at the very least ok, with this along with the chain gang + Grumble battlecries stacked on Shudderwock could make a very strong combo that could deal 30 and heal 30 (60 if you play 2 of these) on turn 10

      1. Zac Galbraith

        if you grumble shudderwock it probs interacts the same way as yog and stop his battlecry

        1. Bladeofsteel

          It was confirmed on stream by Ben bride that, that is not true. That was a need specific to yogg saron. Currently Tess greymane and shudderwock, do not have any needs and will proc all abilities until completed.

  8. Law-kun

    People used to play a 3-3 heal 3 for 3 mana. For one extra mana you get to possibly clear the board of a cheap minion, finish off an expensive minion, or even hit face for extra pressure. It does so much, and its stats aren't that terrible for the cost when you consider the battlecry. Very good card.

    1. Law-kun

      sorry, I missed the bit where it only targets the hero. Not as good as I thought it was. Maybe decent for face decks.

  9. EksSkellybur

    A powerful Support Card for anyone to pick up.

    I would see this as Platted Beetle's Big Brother.

  10. MockRock

    I really, really wish they had reworked this card a bit. If the text read "Lifesteal; Battlecry: Deal 3 damage to the enemy Hero, and lose Lifesteal afterwards" then it would have been functionally almost identical while allowing Ashmore and Corpsetaker synergies. As is, meh, nobody will play this. Too expensive and weakly statted for an aggro deck, too low impact for control.

    1. Matt

      A lot of stuff could be tried out if the even/odd thing is actually good. This ended up in my even hunter somehow.

      1. WellMaybe

        Think you mean "will go live in your Hunter deck." The set hasn't been released yet, only spoiled.

        1. Matt

          I've been playing around with the deck builder here more than I should.

  11. Soup And Salad

    This seems rather okay. I'm not too sure this will find its way into anything in particular, but it does have a sort of functional charge, and 3 face damage might be worth the 1 mana extra to push Earthen Ring Farseer out of Standard for a while if that were to ever see play.

  12. RahulKid

    This card have otk potential in Shaman

  13. BigSi

    What happens if you combine this with poisonous with rexxar?

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