Avenge

How to get

Regular Avenge can be obtained x2⃂by completing the paladin The  Paladin is one of the nine classes in Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, represented by Uther Lightbringer and Lady Liadrin. Heroes edit | edit source] Uther Lightbringer is the standard hero for paladins. Players who Class Challenge Choosing an adventure Game formats Each Standard year, any adventures released prior to the previous calendar year are marked as Wild format. The adventures are removed from the Shop, and players will be unable to in Curse of Naxxramas "Whispers of an ancient tomb… holding horrors in every room. Ghastly ghouls, poisons galore… but in the shadows lurks something more. Knights of death and abominations… cleaving your bits for new creations. And if by .

As a Wild format Wild format or Wild is one of Hearthstone s two game formats, the other being Standard format. Wild format appears in game modes in which players are allowed to play decks without the deck restrictions of card, both versions of Avenge can also be crafted Crafting mode, in Standard format mode The crafting system is an element of Hearthstone that allows players to directly create new cards. It can be accessed through the My Collection screen. Crafting consumes Arcane Dust for the following amounts.

Card	Crafting cost	Disenchanting
Avenge	40	5
Golden Golden cards often add movement and visual effects, like with this golden Piloted Shredder "Golden" redirects here. For information on golden heroes, see Golden heroes. Golden cards are special, rarer versions of cards. Each card Avenge	400	50

Strategy

Silver Hand Recruits summoned by Reinforce are excellent at both activating or acting as targets for this spell. Sudden +2 health to a minion may easily prevent your opponent from clearing the board.

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Avenge

Set:	Naxxramas "Whispers of an ancient tomb… holding horrors in every room. Ghastly ghouls, poisons galore… but in the shadows lurks something more. Knights of death and abominations… cleaving your bits for new creations. And if by
Type:	Spell
Class:	Paladin
Rarity:	Common Rarity is a rough measure of the quality and scarcity of a card. Cards of higher rarity are typically more powerful and more useful, but are harder to find and more expensive to craft. There
Cost:	1
Abilities:	Secret A Secret is a spell card that is cast normally but has a delayed, hidden effect, which only takes place when a specific event occurs. When a Secret is played, a Secret icon appears on
Tags:	Death-related, Random Yogg-Saron, arguably the most random card ever released Random effects are effects which include some degree of randomness or RNG (random number generation). Random effects introduce an element of chance into Hearthstone. They can be , Triggered effect The lightning bolt icon, explicitly indicating a triggered effect Triggered effects are effects that activate in response to specific events. Triggered effects may belong to minions, weapons or spells (in the form of Secrets), as

Secret: When one of your minions dies, give a random friendly minion +3/+2.

Several paladins have joined together to deliver justice under the name "Justice Force." Their lawyer talked them out of calling themselves the Justice League.

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Avenge is a common Rarity is a rough measure of the quality and scarcity of a card. Cards of higher rarity are typically more powerful and more useful, but are harder to find and more expensive to craft. There paladin The  Paladin is one of the nine classes in Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, represented by Uther Lightbringer and Lady Liadrin. Heroes edit | edit source] Uther Lightbringer is the standard hero for paladins. Players who spell Fireball, a simple mage spell. It costs 4 mana, dealing 6 damage to a chosen target. Spell cards are cards that can be played to trigger a one time effect or ability, described in the card, from the Naxxramas "Whispers of an ancient tomb… holding horrors in every room. Ghastly ghouls, poisons galore… but in the shadows lurks something more. Knights of death and abominations… cleaving your bits for new creations. And if by set.

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Strategy

As stated by Ben Brode prior to the adventure`s release, this card has good synergy with Noble Sacrifice, allowing the Defender`s death to grant +3/+2 to a friendly minion.

Notes

• If this Secret is active while a friendly minion is killed, but there are no others on the board, it will remain hidden and not activate. Generally, it will also not activate when all friendly minions are killed at once, although certain Deathrattles A Loot Hoarder displaying the Deathrattle icon Deathrattle is an ability where the stated effect occurs when the minion or weapon is destroyed. Cards with Deathrattle appear with a skull and crossbones when in play. can affect this - see below.

• As with all Secrets, Avenge will only activate on the opponent`s turn Hearthstone takes place in turns. Each turn gives a player the opportunity to act. At the end of each turn, play is passed back to the other player. A round describes one turn for each . This prevents the paladin from intentionally trading A trade is the loss of one or more cards in exchange for the elimination of one or more enemy cards. Most often, trading refers to minions dying in combat, but the term may be or sacrificing minions in order to activate the effect.

• Mad Scientist Mad Scientist Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 2 Health: 2 Abilities: Deathrattle, Put into battlefield Tags: Random, Secret-related Deathrattle: Put a Secret from your deck into the battlefield.His mother wanted him `s death will never trigger an Avenge put into play by its own Deathrattle. Be that as it may, if the Mad Scientist is one of several simultaneous deaths, it is possible for its Avenge to be activated immediately by one of the other dying minions - see below.

Deathrattles and death-related effects

• Avenge`s trigger and effect have a number of subtleties to consider when minions with Deathrattle, or death-related effects such as Redemption Redemption Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Paladin Rarity: Common Cost: 1 Abilities: Copy, Secret, Summon Tags: Death-related, Resurrection effect, Triggered effect Secret: When a friendly minion dies, return it to life with 1 Health.I am , are involved. This is particularly true when those effects add, remove, or damage minions on the Paladin`s side of the board, such as with Sludge Belcher Sludge Belcher Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 5 Attack: 3 Health: 5 Abilities: Deathrattle, Summon, Taunt Tags: Taunt-generating Taunt. Deathrattle: Summon a 1/2 Slime with Taunt.DO NOT GIVE HIM A ROOT BEER.See this or Sylvanas Windrunner Sylvanas Windrunner Set: Hall of Fame Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 6 Attack: 5 Health: 5 Abilities: Deathrattle, Take control Tags: Random Deathrattle: Take control of a random enemy minion.Sylvanas was turned into the Banshee ; with Anub`ar Ambusher Anub ar Ambusher Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Class: Rogue Rarity: Common Cost: 4 Attack: 5 Health: 5 Abilities: Deathrattle, Return to hand Tags: Random Deathrattle: Return a random friendly minion to your hand.Originally he was called ; or with Abomination Abomination Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 5 Attack: 4 Health: 4 Abilities: Deal damage, Deathrattle, Taunt Tags: Area of effect Taunt. Deathrattle: Deal 2 damage to ALL characters.Abominations enjoy Fresh Meat and long .

• A review of the sequence of relevant events that occur with minion death (including multiple minion death) is useful before considering specific interactions.

1. All minions that have suffered lethal damage or destroy Destroying a minion or weapon removes it from play. Only minions currently on the battlefield and weapons that are currently equipped can be destroyed. Discarding a card removes it directly from the player s hand and effects die and are removed from the board
2. Each minion`s death will now be resolved, in the order in which the minions were put into play:
   1. All triggers from the minion`s death activate in the order they were played, including the minion`s Deathrattle, Avenge (if the check is positive - see below), and other secrets and triggered effects
      1. Avenge checks whether there are any friendly minions left in play: if there is, it triggers; if there is not, it does not trigger and remains in place
   2. Note that if the previous step caused new minions to become lethally damaged, the game will not change them to dead until all current deaths have been resolved, meaning they can still receive buffs such as Avenge at this point, potentially saving them from dying
3. Once all the original minion deaths have been resolved, any new minions deaths resulting from the above death process are now considered, and the process begins again

(For a much more extensive discussion of sequences of events, see the advanced rulebook While most rules in Hearthstone are fairly easy to ascertain, when several effects, each with their own behaviours, are brought into conflict, things can get a little more complicated. The advanced rulebook offers a comprehensive .)

Activation based on other friendly minions

• When a friendly minion dies, Avenge checks for the presence of another friendly minion to determine whether to activate.

• Like all death-related effects, Avenge will check for activation at the moment at which the minion`s death is resolved - before any Deathrattle or other death-related effects have actually taken place. If there are no living friendly minions on the board at that point, Avenge will remain unactivated, even if a later effect generates one. For instance, if a player with Avenge has a lone Sludge Belcher Sludge Belcher Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 5 Attack: 3 Health: 5 Abilities: Deathrattle, Summon, Taunt Tags: Taunt-generating Taunt. Deathrattle: Summon a 1/2 Slime with Taunt.DO NOT GIVE HIM A ROOT BEER.See this on the board, and the Sludge Belcher is killed, the Avenge will not activate, regardless of order of play. This is because at the point at which the Belcher was removed from the board, there were no friendly minions to buff, and so the Avenge did not become `queued` to trigger. Although the Sludge Belcher`s Deathrattle goes on to produce a Slime Slime Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Cost: 1 Attack: 1 Health: 2 Abilities: Taunt TauntSee this card on Hearthpwn data page] For the other minions of the same name, see Slime Slime is an uncollectible neutral , this happens too late to activate the Avenge. This behaviour is confirmed by the case of a lone minion dying with a Redemption Redemption Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Paladin Rarity: Common Cost: 1 Abilities: Copy, Secret, Summon Tags: Death-related, Resurrection effect, Triggered effect Secret: When a friendly minion dies, return it to life with 1 Health.I am and an Avenge in play (in that order): the minion dies, leaving an empty board; the Redemption then activates, summoning a 1/1 (a valid target for Avenge); but Avenge will not trigger, since at the point at which it would have been queued, there were no minions on the board.

• Avenge will check for activation at the start of each death resolution, until it is activated. This means that when multiple minions die at once, Avenge will take into account the results of Deathrattles and death-related effects activated by the deaths of any previous minions when checking for activation. Therefore, a minion whose death resolves immediately after a Sludge Belcher or Harvest Golem Harvest Golem Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Mech Rarity: Common Cost: 3 Attack: 2 Health: 3 Abilities: Deathrattle, Summon Tags: Mech-generating Deathrattle: Summon a 2/1 Damaged Golem."Overheat threshold exceeded. System failure. Wheat clog in port will cause the Avenge to check for activation, find the minion summoned by the other minion`s Deathrattle, and queue itself for activation. When Avenge is then activated, it will buff a friendly minion at random. This can cause Avenge to trigger even when all friendly minions on the board are killed by a single effect, provided those minions were played in the right order.

• For example:
  • A paladin plays Haunted Creeper Haunted Creeper Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 1 Health: 2 Abilities: Deathrattle, Summon Deathrattle: Summon two 1/1 Spectral Spiders.Arachnofauxbia: Fear of fake spiders.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] followed by Micro Machine Micro Machine Set: Goblins vs Gnomes Type: Minion Subtype: Mech Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 1 Health: 2 Tags: Triggered effect At the start of each turn, gain +1 Attack.This card is the real thing.See followed by Avenge. His opponent Flamestrikes Flamestrike Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Mage Cost: 7 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Area of effect Deal 4 damage to all enemy minions.When the ground is on fire, you should not stop, drop, and roll.See , destroying both minions and removing them from the board. The Creeper`s death resolves first because it was played first; Avenge checks for activation but finds no minions, and therefore does not queue itself for activation; the Creeper`s Deathrattle then activates, summoning two Spectral Spiders Spectral Spider Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Cost: 1 Attack: 1 Health: 1 See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Spectral Spider is an uncollectible neutral minion card, from the Naxxramas set. Two Spectral Spiders are . The Micro Machine`s death then resolves; Avenge checks for activation and finds the two Spectral Spiders, and therefore queues itself for activation; the Avenge activates, and buffs one of the Spiders, at random.
  • A paladin plays Micro Machine Micro Machine Set: Goblins vs Gnomes Type: Minion Subtype: Mech Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 1 Health: 2 Tags: Triggered effect At the start of each turn, gain +1 Attack.This card is the real thing.See followed by Nerubian Egg Nerubian Egg Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 2 Attack: 0 Health: 2 Abilities: Deathrattle, Summon Deathrattle: Summon a 4/4 Nerubian.Eggs are a good source of protein and Nerubians.See this card on Hearthpwn data followed by Avenge. His opponent Flamestrikes Flamestrike Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Mage Cost: 7 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Area of effect Deal 4 damage to all enemy minions.When the ground is on fire, you should not stop, drop, and roll.See , destroying both minions and removing them from the board. The Micro Machine`s death resolves first, since it was summoned first; Avenge checks for activation but finds no minions, and therefore does not queue itself for activation. The Nerubian Egg`s death then resolves; Avenge checks for activation but finds no minions, and therefore does not queue itself for activation; the Nerubian Egg`s Deathrattle then activates, summoning a Nerubian Nerubian Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 4 Attack: 4 Health: 4 See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Nerubian is an uncollectible rare neutral minion card, from the Naxxramas set. The minion is . Avenge does not trigger since there were no friendly minions on the board at the time either death began resolving.

Activation order of Secret and Deathrattle

• Like all death-related triggers, Avenge may activate before or after the dying minion`s Deathrattle, depending on the order of play. This can be significant because Avenge only chooses a target when it activates, not when it first checks for trigger conditions. If the Avenge was put into play before the minion, it will select a random friendly minion and grant it the Avenge buff before any Deathrattle; while if the minion was put into play first, its Deathrattle (if any) will trigger before the Avenge. This allows order of play to affect both targeting and activation.

• Consider a Sludge Belcher Sludge Belcher Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 5 Attack: 3 Health: 5 Abilities: Deathrattle, Summon, Taunt Tags: Taunt-generating Taunt. Deathrattle: Summon a 1/2 Slime with Taunt.DO NOT GIVE HIM A ROOT BEER.See this dying while Avenge and Wisp Wisp Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Common Cost: 0 Attack: 1 Health: 1 If you hit an Eredar Lord with enough Wisps, it will explode. But why?See this card on Hearthpwn data page] For the are in play:
  • If Avenge was played before the Belcher, it will choose its target before the Belcher`s Deathrattle summons a Slime Slime Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Cost: 1 Attack: 1 Health: 2 Abilities: Taunt TauntSee this card on Hearthpwn data page] For the other minions of the same name, see Slime Slime is an uncollectible neutral , so the Wisp is the only choice for the buff.
  • If Avenge was played after the Belcher, the Slime will be summoned first and Avenge will randomly pick between valid targets, including the Slime.

• Be aware of the counterintuitive difference between this scenario and the previous one concerning trigger conditions: A Sludge Belcher`s Slime never qualifies as a friendly minion for the purposes of triggering Avenge when the Sludge Belcher dies alone, but the Slime can be the target of Avenge provided another friendly minion was already on the board to activate it.

Simultaneous resolution of damaging Deathrattles

• In the case of minions such as Abomination Abomination Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 5 Attack: 4 Health: 4 Abilities: Deal damage, Deathrattle, Taunt Tags: Area of effect Taunt. Deathrattle: Deal 2 damage to ALL characters.Abominations enjoy Fresh Meat and long or Explosive Sheep, all effects triggered from a death are considered to take place simultaneously before another round of deaths can begin. For instance, an Unstable Ghoul is played, followed by an Avenge. The Ghoul is destroyed, and its Deathrattle reduces a Silver Hand Recruit to 0 Health. The Avenge then triggers, granting its buff to the Silver Hand Recruit, and increasing its Health to 2, allowing it to survive.

Combinations of Deathrattles

• One of the most complicated cases is when damaging and summoning Deathrattles are involved in one event. For example: a player plays Sludge Belcher Sludge Belcher Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 5 Attack: 3 Health: 5 Abilities: Deathrattle, Summon, Taunt Tags: Taunt-generating Taunt. Deathrattle: Summon a 1/2 Slime with Taunt.DO NOT GIVE HIM A ROOT BEER.See this , then Abomination Abomination Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 5 Attack: 4 Health: 4 Abilities: Deal damage, Deathrattle, Taunt Tags: Area of effect Taunt. Deathrattle: Deal 2 damage to ALL characters.Abominations enjoy Fresh Meat and long , then Avenge; the opponent then weakens the Belcher, before destroying both minions simultaneously using Flamestrike. The result is a buffed 4/2 Slime Slime Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Cost: 1 Attack: 1 Health: 2 Abilities: Taunt TauntSee this card on Hearthpwn data page] For the other minions of the same name, see Slime Slime is an uncollectible neutral : The Sludge Belcher`s death resolves first due to the order of play, summoning a 1/2 Slime, but since the board was empty at the time its death resolves, Avenge does not activate; the Abomination`s death then resolves, and both the Deathrattle and Avenge are queued, since Avenge sees the Slime on the board. The Deathrattle reduces the Slime to 0 health, but Avenge then buffs the Slime. Since the game does not check for further deaths until after current deaths have completed, the Slime survives as a 4/2.

Avenge and Mad Scientist

• If a Mad Scientist Mad Scientist Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 2 Health: 2 Abilities: Deathrattle, Put into battlefield Tags: Random, Secret-related Deathrattle: Put a Secret from your deck into the battlefield.His mother wanted him dies and its Deathrattle puts Avenge into play, the Avenge will not activate from the Mad Scientist Mad Scientist Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 2 Health: 2 Abilities: Deathrattle, Put into battlefield Tags: Random, Secret-related Deathrattle: Put a Secret from your deck into the battlefield.His mother wanted him `s death, since it was not present when the game checked for death-related triggers. Be that as it may, any minion which dies once the Avenge is in play will activate it, provided there is a friendly minion left on the board.

• This means that if multiple minions are killed at the same time, the Avenge may activate from the death of any minion which dies after the Mad Scientist - provided there is a friendly minion left on the board to receive the buff. The receiving minion may have survived the attack, or have been generated by a Deathrattle or other death-related effect from one of the dying minions. Note that minion deaths are resolved in the order in which the minions were put into play.

• As an example, with an Avenge in your deck (and no other secrets), play a Micro Machine Micro Machine Set: Goblins vs Gnomes Type: Minion Subtype: Mech Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 1 Health: 2 Tags: Triggered effect At the start of each turn, gain +1 Attack.This card is the real thing.See , Mad Scientist Mad Scientist Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 2 Health: 2 Abilities: Deathrattle, Put into battlefield Tags: Random, Secret-related Deathrattle: Put a Secret from your deck into the battlefield.His mother wanted him , Knife Juggler and Chillwind Yeti in that order and have your opponent cast Flamestrike. Simultaneously the Micro Machine, Mad Scientist and Knife Juggler die and are removed from the board. Then one by one, their consequences of death are resolved:

1. The Micro Machine has no consequences of death.
2. The Mad Scientist has one consequence of death - the Mad Scientist`s Deathrattle, which puts Avenge into play.
3. The Knife Juggler has one consequence of death - the newly played Avenge, which buffs the only surviving minion, the Chillwind Yeti.

• If the Mad Scientist were played after the Knife Juggler then the Avenge would not be able to go off, since there would be no later minion`s death to activate it.

• It doesn`t need to be an alive minion, either - it can be a minion spawned by a deathrattle if a third minion is resolved later in the simultaneous deaths. If the player instead played a Haunted Creeper Haunted Creeper Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 1 Health: 2 Abilities: Deathrattle, Summon Deathrattle: Summon two 1/1 Spectral Spiders.Arachnofauxbia: Fear of fake spiders.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] , a Mad Scientist and a Knife Juggler, this would happen:

1. The Haunted Creeper has one consequence of death - the Haunted Creeper`s Deathrattle, which spawns two Spectral Spiders Spectral Spider Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Cost: 1 Attack: 1 Health: 1 See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Spectral Spider is an uncollectible neutral minion card, from the Naxxramas set. Two Spectral Spiders are .
2. The Mad Scientist has one consequence of death - the Mad Scientist`s deathrattle, which puts Avenge into play.
3. The Knife Juggler has one consequence of death - the newly played Avenge, which buffs one of the surviving minions at random, in either case a Spectral Spider.

• In this case, if the Mad Scientist or Haunted Creeper died last, at no point can the Avenge trigger.

Combinations

Combining Avenge with other secrets like Redemption Redemption Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Paladin Rarity: Common Cost: 1 Abilities: Copy, Secret, Summon Tags: Death-related, Resurrection effect, Triggered effect Secret: When a friendly minion dies, return it to life with 1 Health.I am and Noble Sacrifice can be used to manipulate your opponent.

Noble Sacrifice will tempt the opponent to attack with their low Health minions first, which will either result in them killing your weaker minion, triggering Avenge, buffing your stronger minion forcing your opponent to prioritize killing or they attack with their weak minion, realize it is not Noble Sacrifice, attack with their other minions, killing your bigger minion, and trigger Avenge on your weaker minion whom of which will be easier to kill.

Redemption Redemption Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Paladin Rarity: Common Cost: 1 Abilities: Copy, Secret, Summon Tags: Death-related, Resurrection effect, Triggered effect Secret: When a friendly minion dies, return it to life with 1 Health.I am can be used instead of Avenge if your opponent thinks that your secret is Noble Sacrifice, because when they realize that it is not Noble Sacrifice they will focus on killing your bigger minions, but to their surprise your Redemption will revive your bigger minion, forcing them to attack with their remaining minions, use up the rest of their mana, or wait until their next turn. If they think your remaining secret is Redemption they will focus on killing your weaker minion which to their surprise will trigger Avenge instead. If both Redemption and Avenge are played you can give your big minion some decent staying power.

Trivia

• The card`s flavor text references the Justice League.
• The card art depicts Crusade Commander Entari.

Gallery

Avenge, full art