The Darkness
The Darkness is a 4 Mana Cost Legendary Neutral Minion card from the Kobolds & Catacombs set!
Card Text
Starts Dormant.
Battlecry: Shuffle 3 Candles
into the enemy deck. When
drawn, this awakens.
Flavor Text
I would rather light a single candle than curse the darkness. But I'm willing to do both.
- Type
- Minion
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Set
- Kobolds & Catacombs
- Class
- Neutral
- Cost
- 4
- Attack
- 20
- Health
- 20
- Minion Type
- Mechanics
- Artist
- L. Lullabi & K. Turovec
- Collectible
- Yes
- Rating
- 3.8/5 (1366 votes)
152 Comments
Mavis
such a beautiful card :D
FlujoZeitu
Silence and then win the game? seems a bit unbalanced
Mavis
cannot silence it. It starts dormant
Love this
But if you silence it, won't the dormant also be silenced?
Wixin
Dormant ignores all Ale Effects like Twisting Nether or Psychic Scream, and cannot be targeted by hero powers, spells, minions. Dormant is immortal
ShitUp
Dude what. Have you ever tried silencing sherazin, seed? Try that and then come back here.
Speziphisch
Oh boy, just use ur brain before you flame some1 Shitup, and if that doesnt work, try to silence a Sherazin that went dormant...
PIECEOFSHITTALKINSH11T
Man...u're retard?
Spencer Gillis
This with that priest card that switches stats... first deck for me!
Doug
Can’t taget dormant minions.
Spencer Gillis
Who said it has to be dormant?
4 mana 7/7
damn dude i feel bad now
McNugg2710
I want this purely for the memes
Ruso
I'm sorry, the FUCK?! This minion is absolutely busted in mill, and even if they destroy it you still got a removal spell out of it for only 4 mana. meanwhile, you can just make this a 4 mana 20/20 taunt creature, which is absolutely busted. now to see what those candles do.
Mr Bump
It's not a 20/20 until it wakes - until then it's nothing.
YourBoi
Taunt this and win
Mr Bump
You can't taunt it until it's awoken. It's nothing until it's awake, just a slot on your board.
KingArrudar
YOU NO TAKE CANDLE!!!
glk
Whoa, a swift counter for Raza. Play it before the Priest plays Raza and the Hero Power does not cost zero until they get the darkness to be awake.
guitarboy2111
how does this interact with a razakus opponent? duplicates in their deck will deactivate kazakus/raza? If so, then wow!!
Goldenpantss
Yep. Must do. It's a pretty strong counter. Turn 4 toi, the turn before Raz.
Goldenpantss
In fact reading the comments, EVERYONE is missing this point. It kills a Kazakus deck dead.
Shadow_farfetchd
So what happens when you evolve into this?
cypher
GG,wp.
mitpaul
It being dormant isnt part of its battlecry so I dont think it will do much sadly but also very FORTUNATELY.
sober667
You are f...ed
cypher
My bad, didn't notice it says starts dormant. I don't think we can evolve into this and if we do looks like is just lose 1 minion slot.
4 mana 7/7
4 mana 20/20
Morei
Youve all heard of 4 Mana 7/7
Now prepare for Snoop Dog
Morei
What about SIlence?
ChrisMorray
It's dormant, not Can't Attack. Dormant means it has no stats and cannot be removed from the board. For reference on Dormant: Look up Sherazin. It will show you how Dormant minions work.
cypher
Fuck highlander priest card, I like it.
Geirr
I’m attacking the Darkness!
One for us old guys out there XD
oParis
Beautiful counter to Razakus, now my quest priest will be better in constructed.
But against any other deck, this is TOTAL 0(Except druid that has few destroying cards.
Let's remember the C'Thun meta where everyone hold a card in hand to kill it(ex: Priest the shadow word:death, mage the polymorph). At least C'Thun could trigger his battlecry.
And how would it feel to see Twilight Acolyte tooking the 20 atk? xd
Moltar
Counter for highlander decks or high card draw decks like druid or quest mage.
bugalicious
everyone will keep removal in hand to kill it, possibly could be good with cold light oracles to force the candles to come out, but even then I doubt it will be able to attack until the next turn
Madeinsweden
Wonder what happens if you use Skulking Geist. It says when drawn, snuff a candle out but if the candles are removed from the deck. would that count ? Would be a super OP if it did hahhahah
Speziphisch
The candle costs 4 tho...
sober667
well in wild just use it with bran COME FASTER CANDLES
mitpaul
brann and dk valeera for even faster + 2 darkness ;^)
Sack boy
Anyone know do you need to draw all three candy or just one???
Illuminavi10
All three
Xander Raidon
Wait a second. If you Evolve/Devolve a minion into this, that means -1 minion slots? Unless they have the card in their deck, there's no way to awaken this. If you recruit this from your deck, it's -1 minion slot..
Kibler is Blizzard
I don't think you can evolve devolve a dormant minion
bob
silence it
Kibler is Blizzard
How does this work with King Togwaggle?
uuuther
You would have to draw them
Illuminavi10
Silence priest PogChamp
Illuminavi10
Nevermind, if it's like Sherazin you cannot target it....
KotoDX
420... The Dankness confirmed
PandaWolf525
God Damnit I hate you.
Helioshadow
Mill Rogue kappa. Copy with Valeera DK x3
Helioshadow
O wait, how does this work with Brann, second The Darkness, or burning the candle with a full hand or Togwaggle shenanigans? Or Azari the Destroyer? I’m intrigued.
ninininin
can a 3 cost minion evolve into this?? cause the same is possible with corpse flower , and is not dormant *vomit sounds*
Aaaaaaaaa
The difference is sherazin goes dormant on death where as the darkness goes dormant when it enters
Atioras
Run this in a hemet deck xD
lujanimo
The candles are 4 mana, plus they're in your OPPONENT'S deck
Sir Stone
Plus you could add other cards to make your opponent draw faster like Coldlight Oracle, Naturalize, or even Dancing Swords or even Deathlord!
SWEdosaur
Is this why the kobolds don't want You to take their candles?
DemonZer0
Man, you're a genius!
Name (Required)
I was thinking the exact same thing and came down here to see if anyone else thought about that
IronKing
Lore implicacions?
lujanimo
The first thing that comes to mind is the new druid recruit cards oaken summons and grizzled guardian, maybe recruit druid will be viable after all?
Retard?
Why would you want to recruit this card? The battlecry is pretty important...
PandaWolf525
DARKNESS CONSUMES YOU! I wonder how beautiful the Golden looks.
MonkFury
noob
Nick13
Hello Darkness, my old friend... I've come to talk with you again.
SteelShroom
Darkness called... but I was on the phone, so I missed him.
Kribo
Not by the body, but the fact your opponent WASTE 4 MANA ON NOTHING makes this card really powerful.
cypher
Your opponent doesn't spend mana to cast the spell, otherwise this would just be broken. It's just like the 5 mana mage spell that casts a random spell.
Mr Bump
Seems like the candles are where it's at. Do they cost your opponent 4 mana when drawn? If so that's amazing.
joeydungee
Since they have the same card text as the ambush rogue card, I think they're cast for 0 when drawn
NexiS
Man, the ambush cost 0 mana xD just think before saying anything!
MorbidArtist
Wait, so if you somehow play multiple ones on board, every candle drawn procs all X Darkness's... If so it sounds interesting.
cypher
Yes, it works that way. In rogue and druid is pretty easy to get 2. Rogue with the dk and druid with the new legendary that summons a copy. I think it can fit in mill rogue better though since it's already pretty strong and you can give the opponent 6 candles instead of 3 like druid would do.
mitpaul
Mage can also get 3 with simulacrum and not holding any other minions in hand! Duplicate in wild to counter any non silence removals! ;^)
sna7ch
So, you land this on the table, the opponent draws a candle and you have a 20/20 on board, he kills it, it comes back 2 more times, possibly. Also stops Raza and Kazakus from triggering, Seems interesting.
Am I the only one thinking this is a bit overpowered and will be nerfed soon after being released? Either that or they change the phrasing to "draw all 3 candles".
Nightfall
you need to draw all 3 candles for it to get summoned
sna7ch
Where did you read that? I don't see it anywhere. The wording is the same as in Deck of Wonders: http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/cards/deck-of-wonders/
Do you have do draw all 5 to cast one spell too?
Nightfall
deck of wonders casts a spell everytime you draw 1, but if you've watched the stream (it's up on youtube on the official hearthstone channel) you can see that it takes all 3 candles to summon him
sna7ch
For some reason my post didn't make the board, admins didn't like the web link for their own page.
Anyway, the wording is the same as for Deck of Wonders. Does that mean you have to draw all 5 to cast one spell?
sna7ch
Anyway, I think it will "wake up" on the first candle. The next candles won't do anything, he's either dead, or not dormant.
Goldenpantss
You need all the candles. They said it on the steam.
griff
"when you draw all 3 candles and snuff them out, the darkness will awaken" - Ben Brode (the reveal stream at about an hour 10)
cypher
The wording is the same, but doesn't work the same way, you have to draw all 3 candles to get the 20/20 while you just need to draw 1 for the spells.
sna7ch
How do you know that? Intuition? Facts are facts, wording is the same, effect is the same. Can't go around that. Either one is drawn and the effect happens, or all need to be drawn and the effect happens. It should be the same for both cards.
cypher
Saw it on the stream.
sna7ch
Ok, I'll take your word for it then. But it's very strange they have the same exact wording for different effects, hopefully they will rectify that.
Nightfall
I love this card only because it will feel soooo good to see your opponent throw their removal at your minions when they know a 20/20 is coming
5/5 will make hearthstone fun again
joeydungee
So, you can't cheat it out cause it starts dormant. So if you evolve into it or recruit it or something, than it's useless right?
Vladimir Nedelchev
This plus void terror 23/23 for 7 mana....
joeydungee
But is it like Sherazin's dormant state, where it has no attack/health, and can't be targeted by stuff?
mskedmnatee
You can get the stats because its dormant. It'd act like sherizan.
mskedmnatee
Christ so many typos in that last comment, you all understand..
Blackbeard
What it gonna happens if you silence this minion???
sna7ch
Nothing. It's a 20/20. While in dormant state, it's not a minion, so you can't target it and mass dispel won't affect it.
grotesque
what if you pull it by recruit or something?
Blackbeard
I think it will still have the debuff of dormant
Jo
Yes, and this is definately not a card you’d like to have Recruited since the Candles only can be added to your opponents deck through playing it, since it says ”Battlecry”...
Muzek
Only if it said battlecry become dormant. This is a rare case where the wording was really good
PurifiedAzure
Here is my problem with this card, it literally has the chance to go out of its dormant state in one turn. Don't even say that the chances are low, because this is hearthstone and we have seen more impossible things happen commonly.
to
It will work just like the rouge legendary... it will have 3 indicators each time a candle is drawn one will trigger, when all 3 are drawn it will then be present on the board...
Kibler is Blizzard
What happens if you pull with dirty rat?
Pigeon
It won't be able to attack because the battlecry doesn't trigger, it stays dormant. Just hope it doesn't get silenced
Name (Required)
Can't be silenced since its dormant works the same way with Sherazin and Nether Portal
DCgaming
Am I the only one who remembers silence exists?
Blake Huynh
I'm pretty sure that it works just like Sherazin, you cannot affect it by any mean when it's in dormant state.
Xix
So mass silence wont affect it either? This is scary broken if silence one way or another does affect this...
But other than that seems interesting for a mill deck.
TAbril
It's the perfect tech card vs Highlander Priest... I want two lol
With mage you can have some extra fun if you run Simulacrum...
Daniel S
I love this idea. Totally messes up Priest.
Mychilli
Two would make for 6 candles though.
mockingstuffs
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
Roberto
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
great quote :)
Foxlebt
You could play this when your opponent has 2-5 cards left on your turn. And on your next turn, you can double coldlight to draw all candles on your turn and attack? Or will you need to waif another turn for it to attack like Sherazin? Then I doubt its any good,..
Retrobot
The effect of the candle draws a card so you would just need to coldlight once if their entire deck is candles. They would keep drawing it.
sober667
if enemy burns candle its not casted so need to be realy caerfull
so if you play it somehow with bran and oracle( shadowsteped ealier) it gives you decend chance
or in control shaman with 1/1 elemental wich dubles next BC
CDrive
i wish it was an elemental....
Gurudulux
This sound just perfect to go in miracle rogue in place of a sherazine, or with the out of arcanes giant (rotation). I’m excited. This with valeera seems great.
Hiso
The candles are in your opponent deck. Drawing your full deck wont make this thing awaken.
Gurudulux
Holy sh*t.... damn me.
Hm, its appears less interesting. Maybe in a mill deck ? The risk is a candle destruction when your opponent hand is full.
Goddamn, i’m disappointed.
Xix
Allso more cards to burn...
crapcrack
WTF??? Dewd this is broken !!! Just give it taunt or silence it!!!
crapcrack
Oh i realized it's dormant XD
oParis
This is just a bad C'Thun. In the C'Thun meta everyone hold a card to kill him when he's played on the board. At least C'Thun could trigger his battlecry, this guy will just die right after he awakes in 90% of the times.
But is a counter to Raza and Kazakus, so for sure it'll have it's place in alot of decks.
Anton
What happens when both players play the darkness do all candles remove a candle from the opposing darkness.
This card is a good priest card because of the new card that grabs a spell from your opponents deck.
Me
Now the 4-mana 7/7 is sad
Sam
Did anyone realize how this counters Razakus ;) ? Got 1,6 k left and will craft this asap. See you ladder.
Name (Required)
yeah I realised that thanks to the three candles they can't activate Kazakus or Raza
Someone
Murmuring Elemental then darkness...sound ok.
KaihatsuJai
Yes, another great combo!
BluX
So how does this work with evolve? Will it be dormant?
OFF
YES :(
OFF
actually not :/ but still be weaker
CD001
It's cool as all hell, but I'm not convinced it'll be that useful because when the third candle is drawn it'll be at the start of your opponent's turn (Mill decks notwithstanding) - and they're likely to have 10 mana and had several turns to prepare.
Razakus can hold a Mind Control, Shadowreaper Anduin, Power Word Death, or hope they had a Kazakus spell that transforms everything into sheep.
Exodia Mage can just keep it frozen or tech in a Polymorph (or hope they got one from another card).
Miracle Rogue can Vilespine Slayer it.
... of course, if your opponent doesn't draw a counter, they're possibly completely hosed - but this gives them plenty of warning.
Rob
It stops the rizakis from working, that may be good enough in itself, and its the maret large of hearthstone you know without the indestructable.
CD001
Well it doesn't stop it dead - but it slows it the hell down. Remember they only have to draw 2 of the candles to get Raza and Kazakus back in play - the trick will be killing them before that happens.
Mind, delaying the Kazakus spell will probably be more powerful against Razakus Priest than having a 20/20 minion on the board.
I just don't think this will be a "must craft" since you've only got a 50% chance of playing the Darkness before they play Kazakus (they're both 4 mana Legendaries) and both Kazakus and Raza rotate out of Standard in a few months.
Arvin
If you play this with brann in wild and shuffles 6 cards, does it still require only 3 candles to be drawn for it to awaken? OR will the requirement go up to 6? This in wild with brann would counter highlander decks shuffling six cards and costing a removal, (ehem priest) add in Loatheb lol.
sober667
Yes
it has litle "quest" timer when you hover it wich shows how many candles need to be snufled like 1/3
Trent Glenn
Noggenfogger charge mill warrior
billius
goodbye highland priest meta :)
guitarboy2111
anyone remember this Daily Quest in World of Warcraft in Highmountain? You literally have to snuff out the candles to kill it!!
casehook
give this taunt and its concede or earthern scale and you got a 20 armor !!!!!! its just to easy.
really gone mess up the game maybe i stop !!
Name (Required)
Its "Dormant" it doesn't count as a minion until you meet the requirements
So no silence, no taunt, no mass dispel, no twisting nether
Blizzard isn't that dumb
fliplfop
People keep mentioning hard removals but so what? your opponent is using hard removals on a 4 mana minion when they could be using it for bigger minions
sober667
well lets say that you draw single card ( legend )in turn 4 lets say you skip ENTIRE TURN to play it
Let say enemie will play enough cards to awaken it well... chance that YOU PLAY IT and it AWAKENS is aboot 1/928 sooo its slim like REALY SLIM
and it can be summoned by any summon effeckt wich makes skip batelcry(BAD)
ir by dirty rat(BAD)
Or enemy burns candle(BAD)
well i think good outcome is preeeety slim
flipflop
where did you get those numbers from? 1/928 chance? Have you played ambush? more than once I managed to summon all three Nerubians from my opponents deck
and in Day9's stream with Ben Brode he went though only half his deck and already snuffled out 2 candles I guarantee you if the game went any longer The Darkness would've awoken
Why
Your math is as good as your English. Go back to your third grade class kid.
sober667
lets say that chance of waking it up in AVARAGE deck taking in concideration that it can be on botom oof deck but not couting it dirty rat its around 1 in 928 games
wich is BAD
Kitsune
I don't know if I trust the maths of a man who can hardly speak English but I agree with the sentiment at least haha
Xix
Another bad thing about this card is, it will go out of dormant state on your openent turn. Unless you force him to draw on your turn, and not milling him.
Btw if you shuffle 6 candles into your openents deck does it still need 3 to awaken?
KaihatsuJai
I think it works better by understanding that it randomly prevents card draw for 3 turns (paying 4 is prohibitively expensive).
So with that in mind, how can this card be useful?
I'm thinking warlock is the deck for this guy with gnomeferatu and the howlfiend/treachery combo. Cripple the opponent's hand and draw.
Also DK Valeera combos well, and it's immune to vanish while dormant. Prevents card draw twice as much, and can wake up faster, and your opponent must deal with both copies when they do. Good single card add to compliment 2 arcane giants.
On the subject of doubling its battlecry, murmuring elemental gives great value to the darkness for only 1 mana.
In short, I believe the darkness' battlecry can be powerful if properly exploited.
KaihatsuJai
Nevermind, the 4 cost candle card is automatically cast. If your opponent had to pay 4 this card would be awesome. As is, fun to play at best, but looks like a good idea that failed by committee.
Not good enough for most mill decks either except dead man's hand warrior. This card is made for that deck as a surprise finisher.
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