Warlock

[e][h] Warlock

Class Information

Hero:

Gul'dan

Hero Power:

Life Tap

Abilities:

Discard
Self-Damage

Decktypes:

Aggro
Control
Zoo
Handlock

The Warlock class is represented by Gul'dan. Known as practitioners of dark arts, Warlocks call upon powerful demons and shadowy spells to aid them in exchange for their own life and more. Most of their cards in Hearthstone have a lower mana cost than their neutral counterparts, but have an additional cost like Health or discarding cards.

Strategy

The most effective Warlock decks are defined by the fact that their hero power Life Tap costs health in addition to mana. This helps them play otherwise situational cards like Molten Giant in slow control oriented decks or very aggressive decks that aim to end the game before the health loss becomes a factor. The card draw effect also lets them play strong minions like Twilight Drake and Mountain Giant while removing the need to include many otherwise weak cards for drawing more such as Loot Hoarder and Acolyte of Pain. Numerous Taunt minions are often used for protecting your lowered life pool.

Main Synergies

• Leeroy Jenkins buffed with Power Overwhelming and cloned with Faceless Manipulator is a common lategame finisher.
• Ancient Watcher combined with Shadowflame provides strong board clear.
• The Coin into Life Tap on turn 1 is a good play should the player value a random card from his deck more than The Coin.

Common Weaknesses

• Heavy use of Life Tap can bring your life total low enough to be burst down by decks that otherwise don't have enough of direct damage to be a threat - moderation and healing cards such as Earthen Ring Farseer and Siphon Soul are often crucial.
• Cards like Soulfire and Doomguard can discard key cards needed to win.

Types of decks

• Zoolock

Example Decks

A fast Zoo Warlock control deck

#		Name
2	0	Soulfire Soulfire	1 1
2	1	Flame Imp Flame Imp	1 1	3 3	2 2
2	0	Voidwalker Voidwalker	1 1	1 1	3 3
2	1	Argent Squire Argent Squire	1 1	1 1	1 1
2	1	Abusive Sergeant Abusive Sergeant	1 1	2 2	1 1
2	1	Shieldbearer Shieldbearer	1 1	0 0	4 4
2	2	Young Priestess Young Priestess	1 1	2 2	1 1
2	0	Elven Archer Elven Archer	1 1	1 1	1 1
2	1	Amani Berserker Amani Berserker	2 2	2 2	3 3
2	1	Dire Wolf Alpha Dire Wolf Alpha	2 2	2 2	2 2
2	2	Knife Juggler Knife Juggler	2 2	3 3	2 2
2	0	Shattered Sun Cleric Shattered Sun Cleric	3 3	3 3	2 2
2	1	Dark Iron Dwarf Dark Iron Dwarf	4 4	4 4	4 4
2	2	Defender of Argus Defender of Argus	4 4	2 2	3 3
2	2	Doomguard Doomguard	5 5	5 5	7 7

A staple Handlock control deck

#		Name
2	0	Soulfire Soulfire	1 1
2	0	Mortal Coil Mortal Coil	1 1
1	1	Power Overwhelming Power Overwhelming	1 1
2	2	Ancient Watcher Ancient Watcher	2 2	4 4	5 5
2	1	Ironbeak Owl Ironbeak Owl	2 2	2 2	1 1
2	2	Sunfury Protector Sunfury Protector	2 2	2 2	3 3
1	0	Shadow Bolt Shadow Bolt	3 3
2	1	Earthen Ring Farseer Earthen Ring Farseer	3 3	3 3	3 3
2	0	Hellfire Hellfire	4 4
1	2	Shadowflame Shadowflame	4 4
2	2	Defender of Argus Defender of Argus	4 4	2 2	3 3
1	4	Leeroy Jenkins Leeroy Jenkins	5 5	6 6	2 2
2	2	Twilight Drake Twilight Drake	4 4	4 4	1 1
1	3	Faceless Manipulator Faceless Manipulator	5 5	3 3	3 3
2	2	Siphon Soul Siphon Soul	6 6
1	4	Alexstrasza Alexstrasza	9 9	8 8	8 8
2	3	Mountain Giant Mountain Giant	12 12	8 8	8 8
2	3	Molten Giant Molten Giant	20 20	8 8	8 8

Warlock Cards

Here, all the class-specific cards are explained and arranged by their type.

Minions

Name	Rarity				Effect
Anima Golem	3 Epic	6	9	9	At the end of each turn, destroy this minion if it’s your only one.
Blood Imp	1 Common	1	0	1	Stealth. At the end of your turn, give another random friendly minion +1 Health.
Broom	0 Free	2	2	2
Candle	0 Free	1	1	1
Cho'gall	4 Legendary	7	7	7	Battlecry: The next spell you cast this turn costs Health instead of Mana.
Dark Peddler	1 Common	2	2	2	Battlecry: Discover a (1)-cost card.
Darkshire Councilman	1 Common	3	1	5	After you summon a minion, gain +1 Attack.
Darkshire Librarian	2 Rare	2	3	2	Discard a random card. Deathrattle: Draw a card.
Doomguard	2 Rare	5	5	7	Charge. Battlecry: Discard two random cards.
Dread Infernal	1 Common	6	6	6	Battlecry: Deal 1 damage to ALL other characters.
Fearsome Doomguard	1 Common	7	6	8
Fel Cannon	2 Rare	4	3	5	At the end of your turn, deal 2 damage to a non-Mech minion.
Felguard	2 Rare	3	3	5	Taunt. Battlecry: Destroy one of your mana crystals.
Flame Imp	1 Common	1	3	2	Battlecry: Deal 3 damage to your hero.
Floating Watcher	1 Common	5	4	4	Whenever your hero takes damage on your turn, gain +2/+2.
Imp Gang Boss	1 Common	3	2	4	Whenever this minion takes damage, summon a 1/1 Imp.
Infernal	1 Common	6	6	6
Lord Jaraxxus	4 Legendary	9	3	15	Battlecry: Destroy your hero and replace him with Lord Jaraxxus.
Mal'Ganis	4 Legendary	9	9	7	Your other Demons have +2/+2. Your hero is Immune.
Mistress of Pain	2 Rare	2	1	4	Whenever this minion deals damage, restore that much Health to your hero.
Pit Lord	3 Epic	4	5	6	Battlecry: Deal 5 damage to your hero.
Possessed Villager	1 Common	1	1	1	Deathrattle: Summon a 1/1 Shadowbeast.
Reliquary Seeker	2 Rare	1	1	1	Battlecry: If you have 6 other minions, gain +4/+4.
Silverware Golem	2 Rare	3	3	3	If you discard this minion, summon it.
Succubus	0 Free	2	4	3	Battlecry: Discard a random card.
Summoning Portal	1 Common	4	0	4	Your minions cost (2) less, but not less than (1).
Teapot	0 Free	3	3	3
Usher of Souls	1 Common	5	5	6	Whenever a friendly minion dies, give your C'Thun +1/+1 (wherever it is).
Void Crusher	2 Rare	6	5	4	Inspire: Destroy a random minion for each player.
Void Terror	2 Rare	3	3	3	Battlecry: Destroy the minions on either side of this minion and gain their Attack and Health.
Voidcaller	1 Common	4	3	4	Deathrattle: Put a random Demon from your hand into the battlefield.
Voidwalker	0 Free	1	1	3	Taunt
Wilfred Fizzlebang	4 Legendary	6	4	4	Cards you draw from your Hero Power cost (0).

Spells

Name	Rarity		Effect
Bane of Doom	Epic	5	Deal 2 damage to a character. If that kills it, summon a random demon.
Chaos Bolt	Common	2	Deal 2 damage to a minion. If the target is a Demon, give it +2/+2 instead.
Corruption	Free	1	Choose an enemy minion. At the start of your turn, destroy it.
Curse of Rafaam	Common	2	Give your opponent a 'Cursed!' card. While they hold it, they take 2 damage on their turn.
DOOM!	Epic	10	Destroy all minions. Draw a card for each.
Dark Bargain	Epic	6	Destroy 2 random enemy minions. Discard 2 random cards.
Darkbomb	Common	2	Deal 3 damage.
Demonfire	Common	2	Deal 2 damage to a minion. If it's a friendly Demon, give it +2/+2 instead.
Demonheart	Epic	5	Deal 5 damage to a minion. If it’s a friendly Demon, give it +5/+5 instead.
Demonwrath	Rare	3	Deal 2 damage to all non-Demon minions.
Drain Life	Free	3	Deal 2 damage. Restore 2 Health to your hero.
Forbidden Ritual	Rare	0	Spend all your Mana. Summon that many 1/1 Tentacles.
Hellfire	Free	4	Deal 3 damage to all characters.
Imp-losion	Rare	4	Deal 2-4 damage to a minion. Summon a 1/1 Imp for each damage dealt.
Kara Kazham!	Common	5	Summon a 1/1 Candle, 2/2 Broom, and a 3/3 Teapot.
Metamorphosis	Free	6	Do something crazy.
Mortal Coil	Free	1	Deal 1 damage to a minion. If that kills it, draw a card.
Power Overwhelming	Common	1	Give a friendly minion +4/+4 until the end of turn. Then, it dies. Horribly.
Renounce Darkness	Epic	2	Replace your Hero Power and Warlock cards with another class's. The cards cost (1) less.
Sacrificial Pact	Free	0	Destroy a Demon. Restore 5 Health to your hero.
Sense Demons	Common	3	Put 2 random Demons from your deck into your hand.
Shadow Bolt	Free	3	Deal 4 damage to a minion.
Shadowflame	Rare	4	Destroy a friendly minion and deal its Attack damage to all enemy minions.
Siphon Soul	Rare	6	Destroy a minion. Restore 3 Health to your hero.
Soulfire	Free	1	Deal 4 damage. Discard a random card.
Spreading Madness	Rare	3	Deal 9 damage randomly split among ALL characters.
Twisting Nether	Epic	8	Destroy all minions.

• Metamorphosis belongs to Mission card set and is not available for players.
• Chaos Bolt was removed and replaced with Demonfire before the launch of Hearthstone.

Free Cards Acquisition

All of the cards that are of rarity Free can be won through normal play in the tutorial and Practice Mode. You always get two of them simultaneously because that's the limit you can have in one deck. This is how you get them:

Card

• Voidwalker
• Succubus
• Drain Life
• Shadow Bolt
• Hellfire
• Corruption
• Mortal Coil
• Soulfire
• Sacrificial Pact
• Dread Infernal

Event

• Available upon unlocking Warlock
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• Available upon unlocking Warlock
• Get to level 2 with the Warlock
• Get to level 4 with the Warlock
• Get to level 6 with the Warlock
• Get to level 8 with the Warlock
• Get to level 10 with the Warlock

In addition, Golden versions of the free cards can be unlocked by leveling further than level 10. For Golden versions, though, the cards are unlocked one by one and not in pairs. These are the levels and the associated unlocks.

Lore

Warlocks are masters of the dark arts, devoted to furthering their understanding and use of shadow and fire based magics along with summoning demons from the Twisting Nether. They appeared on Azeroth during the First War when Gul'dan, the first of their kind among the invading orc clans of Draenor, led the Horde across the dimensional gulf through the Dark Portal while in servitude to the Burning Legion.

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External links

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