The Lich King
The Lich King is a 8 Mana Cost Legendary Neutral Minion card from the Knights of the Frozen Throne set!
Card Text
Taunt At the end of your turn, add a random Death Knight card to your hand.
Flavor Text
"All that I am: anger, cruelty, vengeance, 8 attack - I bestow upon you, my chosen knight."- Mana Cost: 8
- Attack: 8
- Health: 8
- Crafting Cost: 1600 / 3200 (Golden)
- Arcane Dust Gained: 400 / 1600 (Golden)
- Rarity: Legendary
- Class: Neutral
- Card Type: Minion
- Set: Knights of the Frozen Throne
- Mechanics: Taunt
The Lich King Additional Information
- There’s 8 total Death Knight cards that are completely separate token cards.
- Only The Lich King and Arfus can spawn them.
Cards Relating to The Lich King
| Anti-Magic Shell (The Lich King) Type: Spell - Cost: 4 Give your minions +2/+2 and "Can't be targeted by spells or Hero Powers." |
| Army of the Dead (The Lich King) Type: Spell - Cost: 6 Remove the top 5 cards of your deck. Summon any minions removed. |
| Death and Decay Type: Spell - Cost: 3 Deal 3 damage to all enemies. |
| Death Coil Type: Spell - Cost: 2 Deal 5 damage to an enemy, or restore 5 Health to a friendly character. |
| Death Grip Type: Spell - Cost: 2 Steal a minion from your opponent's deck and add it to your hand. |
| Doom Pact Type: Spell - Cost: 5 Destroy all minions. Remove the top card from your deck for each minion destroyed. |
| Frostmourne (The Lich King) Type: Weapon - Cost: 7 - Attack: 5 - Durability: 3 Deathrattle: Summon every minion killed by this weapon. |
| Obliterate (The Lich King) Type: Spell - Cost: 2 Destroy a minion. Your hero takes damage equal to its Health. |
Wish the hs top decks site’s back-end team was competent enough to include this in the “Neutral Card” field of deck filters. Maybe running a database-heavy, user-interactive site via a Wix design template or with one community college IT grad isn’t a great idea…
Wish it had lifesteal!
Bite
If you play the Lich King against the new Adventure bosses, there will be Custom lines. I was vs the dude who could only be hurt by weapons.
Him: What are YOU doing here?
Lich King: Don’t worry, I can’t hurt you.
I Was vs. The Dude. Tuesdays on CBS
Not fair … Must be 9 mana at least
i agree
And then, they can use him on an odd deck.
Ohenestly Frostmourne is the only good death card the rest are just under value and niche
No. Just no. I feel you are comparing the rest to frostmourne instead of…you know, every freaking card in hearthstone…these are all amazingly powerful effects for their cost. I’m only a little meh about death grip but that’s still really good for 2 crystals.
So i got an idea for this with Priest. So first you try to bring out a copy of Lich with Barnes or Shadow Essence. Then try to make copies with Mirage Caller and Herald Volazj. Then use Onyx Bishop, Resurrect, and Eternal Servitude to bring the copies back. Also Shadow Visions to make copies of the spells to get more. Its not going to be good but its going to be fun and try to go Ultra Value. Cant use Prince Taldaram since there are other 3 cost cards in the deck. Also Faceless Manipulator for more copies. Been doing this in wild with Ragnaros, Yesra, Baron, Cairne, and Sylvanas and its fun to just out value since 50% of the time. And like i said, its not good but its fun to watch your opponent struggle to deal with everything or just give up once they realized they cant do much. Also Obsidian Statue is going to be a great addition to this.
You managed to play Barnes and summon 1/1 Lich King.
Opponent Priest Potion of Madness your Lich King into your Barnes and then Eternal Servitudes.
Lol so I guess its bad because of one thing. GUY LOOK ITS BAD BECAUSE OF “BLANK”! Seriously if you judge every idea and card just because of a card in the same or another class then technically everything is bad and you should not play the game. Seriously that thought process is the same thing is MTG just because it can be countered or removed by and removal spell. Shit players always will have some reason to say something is bad. Yes that exact thing happened but then I went and made about 8 copies of Obsidian Statue and wreaked him.
you just described big priest
Somebody called BGH?
Nice Black Knight buff
8/8 ? I KNEW IT!! ARTHAS IS A NAZI!!
Ironbark Protector with a free card attached. Seems good with minion-based decks, with Doom Pact being the only bad roll.
Dr.8 is here!!!
I think this card is PERFECT. Not because of it’s stats or its ability, but because of the fact that it’s difficult as shit to kill, just like WoW’s Lich King (WoTLK anyway). People might say that the HS Lich King needs to be nerfed because of how insane its body and effect is, but that’s how WoW’s Lich King was. And while you might HS has it harder because you’ll see it pretty much every game, WoW players felt the same way about pre-nerfed WoW Lich King. This is Blizzard’s way of putting the golden age of WoW into HS. THAT’S why this card is perfect just as it is. 1 year and a half of this. jUsT wHaT i WaNt, GoOd JoB bLizZaRd
It’s actually way easier to kill than Ysera. 8 health is much lower than 12. It’s taunt, so it can be attacked right away. Ysera can be guarded by other taunt minion. It has 8 attack so it can be deathed by priest unlike Ysera. It can be killed by Black Knight (if taunt is gonna be more present in the meta that will be a thing)
I think it’s a good card but not so resistent like Ysera. We have seen in the kibler reveal stream that this guy never sticks on board for too long. There were always multiple ways of dealing with it.
m8 you ever seen someone play Ysera in constructed nowdays? No shit 8 health is lower than 12. But who cares about 12 health when you get hit in the face for lethal afte playing a 9 mana do nothing. This card impacts the board immediately and 8 and 9 mana is a big difference too.
Ysera is still bae though if the meta slows down enough.
dude, see anyone playing 8 mana 8-8’s except rag? They aren’t hard to kill. Polymorph, meteor, hex, shadow word death, equality plus anything, execute, hunters mark. These are all cards that are played that kill or essentially kill it. See anyone playing ironbark prot?? The stats aren’t OP but 8 for an 8-8 taunt that can give you some amazing cards (1 guaranteed) is awesome, because it combines good stats and a great effect
Now you are confusing me m8. Not sure if trolling, but essentially you said exactly the same thing I meant. Never have I said that it is exceptionally hard to kill. Except for shadow word death all the removal-options you listed work for literally every card in the game (?). I thought that was obvious. My point was that it has playable “vanilla stats” with taunt and gives you an amazing card at the end of your turn for 1 mana less than Ysera and impacts the board immediately (taunt) giving you the option to stop some bleeding, if it doesn’t get removed. That makes it almost strictly better than Ysera and a good card if the meta doesn’t change drastically.
its ironbark defender power creeped into ysera and neutral.
OK this is kinda dumb, Like it’s a really great card and all, but this is gonna be like Dr.Boom level broken
This is our new Rag, that every control deck + prob even aggro and Mi -range deck could easily run
8-8 for 8 with taunt is easy to drop anytime (because taunt) unlike cards like Ysera
+ most the Dk cards he gives are even better then Yseras Dream cards
StoneHill just got a MASSIVE buff, I could see control paladin becoming Redic
Idk.. I like it, but i don’t like how it’s gonna be like an auto include in almost every deck, I think this is gonna be a little broken, Unless they make it so Stone-Hill can’t discover this
Imagine having 2 3 manna cards that could Discover you doctor boom in your deck
Aggro decks playing an 8 mana 8/8 that does nothing the turn it’s played and has a chance to screw you over by giving you shit cards?
Murlock Paladin runs Tirion and sometimes even Rag LightLord
A ton of aggro decks used to run Rag
+ yeah you might get a bad card, but the only one that looks really bad for aggro is Doom pack, the other ones all look pretty decent to me
And against aggro decks, control decks are likely to have a much harder time removing this guy the turn you play him, since they are gonna be having to deal with a ton of aggro in the early game
So good chance this guy might get you 2-3 cards
It has taunt to so it does something the turn you play it, it protects your other minions on board
Weaker ysera. Hmmm…
Anyone who use ysera knows, this kind of effect is slow.
No tribal tag, 4 less health, and 8 atk have its own drawback.
But its a nice 8 drop.
Good in curving taunt decks.
Though, kinda expecting more fron an entity called Lich King
This is way stronger then Yesera
And not even that slow since it’s a taunt
It’s a taunt so it’s way easier to just play then Yesera a turn earlier
Most of the DK cards are way stronger then Yesera Dream cards
New druid leg Spider Rezez this guy
StoneHill discovers this guy
TO be honest this guy will prob be run in almost every deck (minus maybe combo decks)
I don’t know guys, I don’t know… This is the Lich King!! This should be an awesome card but it seems just… average… I mean: the card itself is nice but, what about the spells that it generates? Anti-Magic Shell works only if you have a good board, Frostmourne needs 3 turns and needs to kill 3 minions to proc its effect (while you get damage attacking the opponent’s minions). Doom Pact and Obliterate could be more negative than positive. And Army of the Dead reminds me of Varian Wrynn who’s never been played. The other 3 cards are good but, in my opinion, Ysera’s +5/+5 or Ysera’s deal 5 damage to everyone except Ysera herself are way better. I don’t know you guys but I feel a bit disappointed.
An avarage 4.8/5 I see u bra. But sure u r right. This should be 5 mana discover a death knight card at the start and the end of the turn, can not be targeted by spells. Am I right m8?
this card is really good. i know for a fact that this must of been one of the most difficult cards to create that lives up to the original source. They can pull a deathwing and make another version of the lich king in a future set.
“I got a beast in my sights.”
Can we see this guy again ?
Yeah, uh, don’t really know what to add. It’s pretty good. It does a little bit of everything, and being 8 mana instead of Ysera’s 9 is a really big deal. Some of the cards are obviously better than others (which will also change based on the situation), but in general it’s just really good. Taunt Warrior wants it, the theoretical Taunt Druid wants it, Control decks want it, value decks want it, Midrange decks probably want it… there’s a lot of competition for deck slots right now so it probably won’t make it into every deck, but many decks will at least give it a lot of consideration, and it will probably make it into at least one top tier deck.
Giant body? Check!
Immediate effect on the board? Check!
Value generator? Check!
Well then, enough said.
It will fit so perfectly in new druid’s deck. This shit can return at least 3 times to the board.
This card is the most overated card since Troggzor the earthinater. The stats are terrible, it should’ve been a 10/10 and even then it wouldn’t have been played. The effect isn’t good just use Arfus. This card is hard countered by the black knight and spell breaker. This is why I rate this card 1.5/10.
Ummmm….not countered at all by spell breaker. You still have a giant 8/8 body and got a pretty good card in hand. That’s like saying spell breaker counters Ysera or Antonidas. Yeah, sure he removes one of the things that make them good but you’ve normally still gotten some value from them and there’s still a reasonably large body. Not to mention how good This good this card is with the new Druid legendary, and it can be discovered from Stonehill defender. Also can be good in Shaman with ancestral Spirit.
rank 25 comment confirmed
This card is destroyed by silence and polymorph effects, therefore it is bad.
News flash, every minion dies to removal…
So using that logic, every minion in the game is bad… good to know
Lol dude are you retarded? This is Ysera for one mana less and with taunt and I won’t think Black Knight will see much play in the next time. If you spend your 4 mana to silence it, it will still be an 8/8 that has to be removed. This card is just VERY STRONG.
I rate Hearthstoner69’s comment Troll/10
Dude you high? Oh my bad you are stoned. I see you.
Yeah, this will be awesome in druid.
Best card of set. My must have #1 card to craft. Its a neutral so will be great in so many decks. Wow looks Amazing.
This seems like a really good card. The only problem is there doesn’t seem to be much of an overarching theme to the cards. One of the things that made Ysera so effective was that you always were near guaranteed to get a good card from her. While many of the possible Death Knight cards are pretty good, about as many more have extremely limited uses.
Free from amber.
can be discovered by stonehill defender
Also the black knight is saying hello.
No he’s not. Taunt war was the most played deck for so long and yet it still saw no play cuz it’s stats are Garbo
DR. 7 returnes as the Lich king
0 star because it’s broken.
Similar to ysera, though the cards aren’t as good. Really cool self harm cards though. Why can’t warlock get anything that balanced?
Right! Most of these spells would make great warlock cards. I’d trade in my treachery for an army of the dead any day
OOOOOPPPPP BROKEN!!!!
Have yet to see what these new death knights are. It would be interesting to see the current hero cards in minion form, but I doubt that they are going to be like that. Other than that, this is a solid card, think druid 8/8 work taunt with free card generation. Will definitely see play on control if the death knights are any good at all.
It saus right below the card what the 8 death knight cards are, but yes it’s a title minion for a control deck
Comment from op was posted before the death knight cards were revealed/known
Sick af