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Protect the King!

Protect the King!

Protect the King! is a 3 Mana Cost Rare Warrior Spell card from the One Night in Karazhan set!

Card Text

For each enemy minion, summon a 1/1 Pawn with Taunt.

Flavor Text

Form ranks! Everyone into the King's Tuskarr Defense!

Type
Spell
Rarity
Rare
Set
One Night in Karazhan
Class
Warrior
Cost
3
Minion Type
Mechanics
Summon, Taunt
Artist
Jim Nelson
Collectible
Yes

Related Cards

Pawn

18 Comments

  1. ROBERTO

    "Protect the king" AKA "Counter-Hunleash-the-Hounds" or "wreak-zoolock" incoming!

  2. Avagantamos

    This and bolster!

    1. Roberto

      WOW, true.
      that's a huge comeback......

    2. Pug

      Wow. Protect the King + Bolster + Bolster. GG aggro. Only problem is you have to play Bolster and your opponent has to have 3-7 minions to be great. A bit situational, but amazing.

  3. miliz

    At the office of Blizzard last week :

    - Odd that in 15 decks top tier, it has there only 10 of warrior playable for the moment! Moreover, from time to time, that loses against zoo!

    - Oh whore makes a cheat card quickly!!

    1. ROBERTO

      yeah, we have enough expensive warriors decks around.
      Can we have something different pls?

  4. alsozatch

    Unleash the cheat!

  5. Kookies

    Something to counter aggro shaman and zoo

    1. CD001

      ... with Bolster, that'd also cover Patron warrior, Rafaam (Mirror of Doom) and Token Druid.

  6. Arkyrion

    Guys, I know it's for the king, but don't charge the dragon, okay?

  7. DontFeedtheEmy

    This card is extremely bad...what in the world is everyone smoking?!

    If you think the opponent having a huge board and playing Protect the King + Bolster + Bolster is really good I have got something super overpowered for you!

    Have a huge health minion Divine Spirit + Divine Spirit + Inner Fire!!! With this "amazing" combo you don't even have to be losing the game horribly to a specifically only a zoo style deck to use it!

    1. Roberto

      Yes, infact being behind on the board and filling it with 3/3 taunt is really bad. Overall against zoo which can handle quite well a single big minion (hello power overwhelming) but has To sacrifice the whole board To pass through a Wall a peons.

    2. Pug

      I wouldn't say it's bad at all. Decent, at least. Seems like it could be solid in Tempo, Patron, or Dragon. Only problem is anti-synergy with whirlwind effects.

      And if you're playing against any kind of aggro, they will likely have 3-5 minions on board at any time. This + Bolster + Bolster is a huge swing. 7 mana for 3-5 5/5 taunts? Yes please. Bolster is still bad, but I still stand by this card being good. If your opponent doesn't have AOE, the 1/1s can soak up a lot of excess damage.

    3. CD001

      The problem with having "all your eggs in one basket" like that is that a single hard removal spell effectively destroys that minion and all your buff cards. Warrior gets away with it because of Charge; Priest - not so much. I've only seen that play work with really cheap, high health cards like Lightwell, played early (or Lorewalker Cho - that's pretty horrible as you get lumbered with a handful of Divine Spirits you daren't cast).

      Protect the King + a single bolster however gives you a 3/3 Taunt for every enemy minion for 5 mana cost. That means on turn 10 you could combo this with Leeroy Jenkins. Or that 5 mana totally counter's the 10 cost Rafaan Mummy Zombies card.

      This isn't a bad card, slightly situational (like Unleash the hounds) but not bad.

  8. Fruitpunch36

    I would use it in reno otk warrior

  9. Chewylopez

    Interesting counter-zoo card... May give one copy in a warrior deck a try

  10. DackFayden

    No good against patron though. The Grim Patrons will simply attack into the 1/1s creating more patrons :(

  11. Naru41

    This site card name is wrong. It's not "Protect the King", actual name is "Protect the King!"

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