The Darkness
The Darkness is a 4 Mana Cost Legendary Neutral Minion card from the Kobolds and 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.- Mana Cost: 4
- Attack: 20
- Health: 20
- Crafting Cost: 1600 / 3200 (Golden)
- Arcane Dust Gained: 400 / 1600 (Golden)
- Rarity: Legendary
- Class: Neutral
- Card Type: Minion
- Set: Kobolds and Catacombs
- Mechanics: Add to Deck, Battlecry, Dormant
The Darkness Additional Information
The Darkness Card Clarifications
- If you Recruit The Darkness it will come into play dormant, but you will not shuffle the 3 Candles in your opponent’s deck. It is not a good Recruit card! – Source
- The Darkness DOES work with Brann Bronzebeard, so you can shuffle 6 Candles into your opponent’s deck. – Source
Cards Relating to The Darkness
| Darkness Candle Type: Spell - Cost: 4 Snuff out a candle. Draw a card. Cast this when drawn. |
The Darkness Full Card Art
i wish it was an elemental….
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,..
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.
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
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
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
great quote 🙂
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…
I love this idea. Totally messes up Priest.
Two would make for 6 candles though.
Am I the only one who remembers silence exists?
I’m pretty sure that it works just like Sherazin, you cannot affect it by any mean when it’s in dormant state.
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.
What happens if you pull with dirty rat?
It won’t be able to attack because the battlecry doesn’t trigger, it stays dormant. Just hope it doesn’t get silenced
Can’t be silenced since its dormant works the same way with Sherazin and Nether Portal
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…
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.
what if you pull it by recruit or something?
I think it will still have the debuff of dormant
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”…
Only if it said battlecry become dormant. This is a rare case where the wording was really good
What it gonna happens if you silence this minion???
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.
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?
This plus void terror 23/23 for 7 mana….
But is it like Sherazin’s dormant state, where it has no attack/health, and can’t be targeted by stuff?
You can get the stats because its dormant. It’d act like sherizan.
Christ so many typos in that last comment, you all understand..
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
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”.
you need to draw all 3 candles for it to get summoned
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?
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
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?
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.
You need all the candles. They said it on the steam.
“when you draw all 3 candles and snuff them out, the darkness will awaken” – Ben Brode (the reveal stream at about an hour 10)
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.
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.
Saw it on the stream.
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.
Wait, so if you somehow play multiple ones on board, every candle drawn procs all X Darkness’s… If so it sounds interesting.
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.
Mage can also get 3 with simulacrum and not holding any other minions in hand! Duplicate in wild to counter any non silence removals! ;^)
Seems like the candles are where it’s at. Do they cost your opponent 4 mana when drawn? If so that’s amazing.
Since they have the same card text as the ambush rogue card, I think they’re cast for 0 when drawn
Man, the ambush cost 0 mana xD just think before saying anything!
Not by the body, but the fact your opponent WASTE 4 MANA ON NOTHING makes this card really powerful.
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.
Darkness called… but I was on the phone, so I missed him.
Hello Darkness, my old friend… I’ve come to talk with you again.
DARKNESS CONSUMES YOU! I wonder how beautiful the Golden looks.
noob
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?
Why would you want to recruit this card? The battlecry is pretty important…
Is this why the kobolds don’t want You to take their candles?
Man, you’re a genius!
I was thinking the exact same thing and came down here to see if anyone else thought about that
Lore implicacions?
Run this in a hemet deck xD
The candles are 4 mana, plus they’re in your OPPONENT’S deck
Plus you could add other cards to make your opponent draw faster like Coldlight Oracle, Naturalize, or even Dancing Swords or even Deathlord!
can a 3 cost minion evolve into this?? cause the same is possible with corpse flower , and is not dormant *vomit sounds*
The difference is sherazin goes dormant on death where as the darkness goes dormant when it enters
Mill Rogue kappa. Copy with Valeera DK x3
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.
420… The Dankness confirmed
God Damnit I hate you.
Silence priest PogChamp
Nevermind, if it’s like Sherazin you cannot target it….
How does this work with King Togwaggle?
You would have to draw them
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..
I don’t think you can evolve devolve a dormant minion
silence it
Anyone know do you need to draw all three candy or just one???
All three
well in wild just use it with bran COME FASTER CANDLES
brann and dk valeera for even faster + 2 darkness ;^)
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
The candle costs 4 tho…
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
Counter for highlander decks or high card draw decks like druid or quest mage.
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
I’m attacking the Darkness!
One for us old guys out there XD
Fuck highlander priest card, I like it.
What about SIlence?
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.
Youve all heard of 4 Mana 7/7
Now prepare for Snoop Dog
4 mana 20/20
So what happens when you evolve into this?
GG,wp.
It being dormant isnt part of its battlecry so I dont think it will do much sadly but also very FORTUNATELY.
You are f…ed
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.
how does this interact with a razakus opponent? duplicates in their deck will deactivate kazakus/raza? If so, then wow!!
Yep. Must do. It’s a pretty strong counter. Turn 4 toi, the turn before Raz.
In fact reading the comments, EVERYONE is missing this point. It kills a Kazakus deck dead.
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.
YOU NO TAKE CANDLE!!!
Taunt this and win
You can’t taunt it until it’s awoken. It’s nothing until it’s awake, just a slot on your board.
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.
It’s not a 20/20 until it wakes – until then it’s nothing.
I want this purely for the memes
damn dude i feel bad now
This with that priest card that switches stats… first deck for me!
Can’t taget dormant minions.
Who said it has to be dormant?
Silence and then win the game? seems a bit unbalanced
cannot silence it. It starts dormant
But if you silence it, won’t the dormant also be silenced?
Dormant ignores all Ale Effects like Twisting Nether or Psychic Scream, and cannot be targeted by hero powers, spells, minions. Dormant is immortal
Dude what. Have you ever tried silencing sherazin, seed? Try that and then come back here.
Oh boy, just use ur brain before you flame some1 Shitup, and if that doesnt work, try to silence a Sherazin that went dormant…
Man…u’re retard?
such a beautiful card 😀