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Set: | Blackrock Mountain "Have you heard the rumblings? The mountain stirs once more. Beneath its crags, cliffs and rocks, there s evil in its core. Fire made flesh! Dragon s breath! Teeth and claw and flame! Calling any heroes out |
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Type: | Hero A hero is a character in the Warcraft universe representing the player. In Hearthstone, this concept is expressed in three interrelated but distinct ways: Heroes are gameplay characters representing players or bosses within a match. |
Health: | 50 (Normal) 50 (Heroic) |
Armor: | 30 (Heroic) |
Don`t let Nefarian fool you. He`s a real bad dude. So is Drakkisath.
General Drakkisath is a boss Bosses are unique computer-controlled heroes encountered in adventures, the tutorial, and some Tavern Brawls. Each boss presents a unique encounter, featuring their own Hero Power and decks. Bosses use a combination of regular cards and encounter found in the Blackrock Mountain "Have you heard the rumblings? The mountain stirs once more. Beneath its crags, cliffs and rocks, there s evil in its core. Fire made flesh! Dragon s breath! Teeth and claw and flame! Calling any heroes out adventure 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 . It is the second encounter of the adventure`s third wing 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 , Blackrock Spire "Have you heard the rumblings? The mountain stirs once more. Beneath its crags, cliffs and rocks, there s evil in its core. Fire made flesh! Dragon s breath! Teeth and claw and flame! Calling any heroes out .
Strategy
Drakkisath`s hero power Intense Gaze (Heroic) strongly affects battles fought against him, with all cards costing 1 mana and the player being limited to 1 mana crystal. This generally means the player will be limited to 1 card per turn, and also prevents the use of any hero power. Be that as it may, it also allows the player to play any card, on any turn.
This obviously encourages the creation of a deck featuring very powerful cards, with their cost irrelevant, matching Drakkisath`s own deck. Mind Control is also a very strong card for this encounter, as is Lightbomb, and Resurrect can act as a filler, allowing you to focus on a deck filled with only the most powerful minions. Steadily putting out high power minions like Ragnaros the Firelord, Dr. Boom, Boulderfist Ogre Boulderfist Ogre Set: Basic Type: Minion Cost: 6 Attack: 6 Health: 7 "ME HAVE GOOD STATS FOR THE COST"See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Boulderfist Ogre is a neutral minion card, from the Basic and War Golem War Golem Set: Basic Type: Minion Cost: 7 Attack: 7 Health: 7 Golems are not afraid, but for some reason they still run when you cast Fear on them. Instinct, maybe? A desire to blend is sufficient in Normal mode to defeat the General. Kel`Thuzad can be useful for trading (although Drakkisath`s removal means he may not last long) while Deathrattles can be useful for recovering from removal, but this is secondary to the importance of choosing high power minions, Attack being more important than Health.
Drakkisath alternates between playing powerful, high cost minions, and using removal like Twisting Nether Twisting Nether Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Warlock Rarity: Epic Cost: 8 Abilities: Destroy Tags: Area of effect Destroy all minions.The Twisting Nether is a formless place of magic and illusion and destroyed minions.See this and Brawl Brawl Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Warrior Rarity: Epic Cost: 5 Abilities: Destroy Tags: Area of effect, Random Destroy all minions except one. (chosen randomly)Do you know the first rule of Brawl Club?See this card to wipe the board. Drakkisath also has a few weapons, but will tend to use them to go face rather than trade, unless the minion is small enough to be destroyed outright.
An alternate strategy would be to run Majordomo Executus Majordomo Executus Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 9 Attack: 9 Health: 7 Abilities: Deathrattle, Replace, Replace Hero Power Tags: Hero Power-related Deathrattle: Replace your hero with Ragnaros, the Firelord.You thought Executus turned in your deck (see #Work-arounds, below).
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Hero power
Normal | Heroic |
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- Notes
- As a passive hero power, Intense Gaze will be active throughout the match, including during the mulligan The mulligan stage The mulligan or card selection stage occurs at the very start of each match. Each player is shown their randomly selected starting hand, and given the option to redraw as many of (unless replaced by another hero power).
- Intense Gaze`s sets the cost of all cards to 1. This cannot be affected by cards such as Emperor Thaurissan Emperor Thaurissan Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 6 Attack: 5 Health: 5 Abilities: Modify cost Tags: Triggered effect At the end of your turn, reduce the Cost of cards in your hand , Venture Co. Mercenary Venture Co. Mercenary Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Common Cost: 5 Attack: 7 Health: 6 Abilities: Modify cost Tags: Ongoing effect Your minions cost (3) more.No Job is too big. No fee is too big.See , Pint-Sized Summoner, Sorcerer`s Apprentice Sorcerer s Apprentice Set: Classic Type: Minion Class: Mage Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 3 Health: 2 Abilities: Modify cost Tags: Ongoing effect, Spell-related Your spells cost (1) less.Apprentices are great for bossing around. "Conjure me , Mana Wraith Mana Wraith Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 2 Attack: 2 Health: 2 Abilities: Modify cost Tags: Ongoing effect ALL minions cost (1) more.They come out at night to eat leftover mana crystals. "Mmmmmm," or Loatheb Loatheb Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 5 Attack: 5 Health: 5 Abilities: Battlecry, Modify cost Tags: Spell-related Battlecry: Enemy spells cost (5) more next turn.Loatheb used to be a simple Bog Beast. This .
- As the mana crystal cap is 1, playing Innervate Innervate Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Druid Cost: 0 Tags: Mana-related Gain 2 Mana Crystals this turn only.Some druids still have flashbacks from strangers yelling "Innervate me!!" at them.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] will cost 1 mana, and the player will gain back 1 mana. (This is similar to playing Innervate at 10 mana in a normal game, you are still capped at 10 mana).
- If General Drakkisath`s hero power is replaced (via Jaraxxus Lord Jaraxxus Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Demon Class: Warlock Rarity: Legendary Cost: 9 Attack: 3 Health: 15 Abilities: Battlecry, Equip, Replace Hero Power Tags: Hero Power-related, Weapon-generating Battlecry: Destroy your hero and replace it , Majordomo Executus Majordomo Executus Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 9 Attack: 9 Health: 7 Abilities: Deathrattle, Replace, Replace Hero Power Tags: Hero Power-related Deathrattle: Replace your hero with Ragnaros, the Firelord.You thought Executus turned or Shadowform Shadowform Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Priest Rarity: Epic Cost: 3 Abilities: Replace Hero Power Tags: Hero Power-related Your Hero Power becomes Deal 2 damage . If already in Shadowform: 3 damage.If a bright light shines ), the casting cost of cards immediately revert back to their usual costs. Both players still have only 1 mana crystal, but will start gaining 1 mana crystal at the start of all subsequent turns normally.
Special cards
Deck
Note that the below classes are listed purely for reference, and have no effect on the boss` use of the cards in the encounter.
- Normal
Class | Card | Quantity |
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Mage | Fireball Fireball Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Mage Cost: 4 Abilities: Deal damage Deal 6 damage.This spell is useful for burning things. If you re looking for spells that toast things, or just warm them a little, | 2 |
Flamestrike 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 | 2 | |
Priest | Mindgames Mindgames Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Priest Rarity: Epic Cost: 4 Abilities: Copy, Summon Tags: Random Put a copy of a random minion from your opponent s deck into the battlefield.Sometimes it feels like this is | 2 |
Warlock | Twisting Nether Twisting Nether Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Warlock Rarity: Epic Cost: 8 Abilities: Destroy Tags: Area of effect Destroy all minions.The Twisting Nether is a formless place of magic and illusion and destroyed minions.See this | 2 |
Warrior | Death`s Bite Death s Bite Set: Naxxramas Type: Weapon Class: Warrior Rarity: Common Cost: 4 Attack: 4 Durability: 2 Abilities: Deal damage, Deathrattle Tags: Area of effect Deathrattle: Deal 1 damage to all minions."Take a bite outta Death." | 2 |
Brawl Brawl Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Warrior Rarity: Epic Cost: 5 Abilities: Destroy Tags: Area of effect, Random Destroy all minions except one. (chosen randomly)Do you know the first rule of Brawl Club?See this card | 1 | |
Neutral | Antique Healbot Antique Healbot Set: Goblins vs Gnomes Type: Minion Subtype: Mech Rarity: Common Cost: 5 Attack: 3 Health: 3 Abilities: Battlecry, Restore Health Battlecry: Restore 8 Health to your hero.They don t make em like they used | 3 |
Leeroy Jenkins Leeroy Jenkins Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 5 Attack: 6 Health: 2 Abilities: Battlecry, Charge, Summon Tags: Dragon-generating Charge. Battlecry: Summon two 1/1 Whelps for your opponent.At least he has Angry Chicken.See this | 1 | |
Boulderfist Ogre Boulderfist Ogre Set: Basic Type: Minion Cost: 6 Attack: 6 Health: 7 "ME HAVE GOOD STATS FOR THE COST"See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Boulderfist Ogre is a neutral minion card, from the Basic | 2 | |
Drakonid Crusher Drakonid Crusher Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Minion Subtype: Dragon Rarity: Common Cost: 6 Attack: 6 Health: 6 Abilities: Battlecry Tags: Health-related Battlecry: If your opponent has 15 or less Health, gain +3/+3.Drakonids were created to | 2 | |
Mogor the Ogre Mogor the Ogre Set: Goblins vs Gnomes Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 6 Attack: 7 Health: 6 Abilities: Forgetful Tags: Area of effect, Random, Triggered effect All minions have a 50% chance to attack the | 1 | |
The Beast The Beast Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Rarity: Legendary Cost: 6 Attack: 9 Health: 7 Abilities: Deathrattle, Summon Deathrattle: Summon a 3/3 Finkle Einhorn for your opponent.He lives in Blackrock Mountain. He eats Gnomes. | 1 | |
Volcanic Drake Volcanic Drake Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Minion Subtype: Dragon Rarity: Common Cost: 6 Attack: 6 Health: 4 Abilities: Modify cost Tags: Death-related, In-hand effect, Ongoing effect Costs (1) less for each minion that died this | 2 | |
Core Hound Core Hound Set: Basic Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Cost: 7 Attack: 9 Health: 5 You don’t tame a Core Hound. You just train it to eat someone else before it eats you.See this card on | 2 | |
Troggzor the Earthinator Troggzor the Earthinator Set: Goblins vs Gnomes Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 7 Attack: 6 Health: 6 Abilities: Summon Tags: Spell-related, Triggered effect Whenever your opponent casts a spell, summon a Burly Rockjaw Trogg.He keeps | 1 | |
War Golem War Golem Set: Basic Type: Minion Cost: 7 Attack: 7 Health: 7 Golems are not afraid, but for some reason they still run when you cast Fear on them. Instinct, maybe? A desire to blend | 2 | |
Boss | Drakkisath`s Command The subject of this article is part of theBlackrock Mountain adventure. Drakkisath s Command Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Spell Cost: 1 Destroy a minion. Gain 10 Armor.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Drakkisath s Command is | 2 |
- Heroic
Class | Card | Quantity |
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Mage | Flamestrike 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 | 2 |
Priest | Mindgames Mindgames Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Priest Rarity: Epic Cost: 4 Abilities: Copy, Summon Tags: Random Put a copy of a random minion from your opponent s deck into the battlefield.Sometimes it feels like this is | 2 |
Rogue | Kidnapper Kidnapper Set: Classic Type: Minion Class: Rogue Rarity: Epic Cost: 6 Attack: 5 Health: 3 Abilities: Combo, Return to hand Combo: Return a minion to its owner s hand.He just wants people to see his vacation | 2 |
Ogre Ninja Ogre Ninja Set: Goblins vs Gnomes Type: Minion Class: Rogue Rarity: Rare Cost: 5 Attack: 6 Health: 6 Abilities: Forgetful, Stealth Tags: Random, Triggered effect Stealth 50% chance to attack the wrong enemy.He didn t have | 2 | |
Sprint Sprint Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Rogue Cost: 7 Abilities: Draw cards Draw 4 cards.Rogues are not good joggers.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Sprint is a rogue spell card, from the Basic set. * | 2 | |
Warlock | Twisting Nether Twisting Nether Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Warlock Rarity: Epic Cost: 8 Abilities: Destroy Tags: Area of effect Destroy all minions.The Twisting Nether is a formless place of magic and illusion and destroyed minions.See this | 2 |
Neutral | Boulderfist Ogre Boulderfist Ogre Set: Basic Type: Minion Cost: 6 Attack: 6 Health: 7 "ME HAVE GOOD STATS FOR THE COST"See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Boulderfist Ogre is a neutral minion card, from the Basic | 2 |
Core Hound Core Hound Set: Basic Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Cost: 7 Attack: 9 Health: 5 You don’t tame a Core Hound. You just train it to eat someone else before it eats you.See this card on | 2 | |
Drakonid Crusher Drakonid Crusher Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Minion Subtype: Dragon Rarity: Common Cost: 6 Attack: 6 Health: 6 Abilities: Battlecry Tags: Health-related Battlecry: If your opponent has 15 or less Health, gain +3/+3.Drakonids were created to | 2 | |
Force-Tank MAX | 2 | |
Hungry Dragon | 2 | |
Lord of the Arena | 2 | |
The Beast The Beast Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Rarity: Legendary Cost: 6 Attack: 9 Health: 7 Abilities: Deathrattle, Summon Deathrattle: Summon a 3/3 Finkle Einhorn for your opponent.He lives in Blackrock Mountain. He eats Gnomes. | 1 | |
Troggzor the Earthinator Troggzor the Earthinator Set: Goblins vs Gnomes Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 7 Attack: 6 Health: 6 Abilities: Summon Tags: Spell-related, Triggered effect Whenever your opponent casts a spell, summon a Burly Rockjaw Trogg.He keeps | 1 | |
War Golem War Golem Set: Basic Type: Minion Cost: 7 Attack: 7 Health: 7 Golems are not afraid, but for some reason they still run when you cast Fear on them. Instinct, maybe? A desire to blend | 2 | |
Boss | Drakkisath`s Command The subject of this article is part of theBlackrock Mountain adventure. Drakkisath s Command Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Spell Cost: 1 Destroy a minion. Gain 10 Armor.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Drakkisath s Command is | 2 |
- Sprint Sprint Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Rogue Cost: 7 Abilities: Draw cards Draw 4 cards.Rogues are not good joggers.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Sprint is a rogue spell card, from the Basic set. is always the 5th card in his deck. That is, the first card he draws on his Turn 1 is always Sprint (he starts with 5 cards in hand of which 4 are from his deck and the 5th one is The Coin). He will almost never play The Coin unless it is to activate Combo on Kidnapper Kidnapper Set: Classic Type: Minion Class: Rogue Rarity: Epic Cost: 6 Attack: 5 Health: 3 Abilities: Combo, Return to hand Combo: Return a minion to its owner s hand.He just wants people to see his vacation with no other cards in his hand, or his passive hero power is replaced. This is because The Coin costs 1 mana to play only to gain back 1 mana.
Heroic
Heroic Drakkisath is very punishing. Heroic Intense Gaze ensures an incredibly unfair playing field, with Drakkisath getting 2 cards each turn to counter your 1.
The main approach and strategy as outlined above remains the same - use high power minions to deal devastating damage. Kel`Thuzad in particular is extremely effective for allowing you to trade your minions with his, providing a way to break Drakkisath`s 2-for-1 advantage. Be that as it may, Drakkisath can use removal including Twisting Nether Twisting Nether Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Warlock Rarity: Epic Cost: 8 Abilities: Destroy Tags: Area of effect Destroy all minions.The Twisting Nether is a formless place of magic and illusion and destroyed minions.See this to overturn any advantage.
Victory against Drakkisath is very tricky, and appears to be heavily dependent on RNG for both your card draw and his. In general, managing to establish a board advantage with 2-for-1 minions is the key to defeating him, but maintaining that advantage is difficult. Minions with more than 7 Health can usually survive 2 attacks, while 7 Attack is required to reliably trade with Drakkisath`s. Force-Tank MAX is a star player, while 8/8s like Mountain Giant, Nozdormu and Fel Reaver are solid staple minions for the deck. Ragnaros the Firelord can be hugely effective (with a little luck), while Kel`Thuzad may be the key to the whole encounter. Cards which generate other cards such as Dr. Boom and Illidan Stormrage can be useful for providing some additional targets or to remove divine shield from enemy Force-Tank MAXs, although this is a relatively minor advantage. Alexstrasza can be very effective in reducing his substantial Health, and is not banned from the match.
Be that as it may, regardless of your play, Drakkisath can and will use removal including Twisting Nether to reset the board, generally guaranteeing his subsequent victory. The right luck with his card draw is therefore a prerequisite to ensure you have even a fighting chance of finding the right cards to defeat him. Players intent on beating Drakkisath would therefore be well advised to restart the match unless they have a strong opening hand.
Note that to make the best use of Kel`Thuzad in a starting hand, another minion with comparibly low health like Core Hound Core Hound Set: Basic Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Cost: 7 Attack: 9 Health: 5 You don’t tame a Core Hound. You just train it to eat someone else before it eats you.See this card on should be played in turn 1 so that it can be revived immediately in turn 2. Starting with a Force-Tank MAX even allows to delay the playing of Kel`Thuzad to turn 3. To save Kel`Thuzad from death by Twisting Nethers or Drakkisath`s Command The subject of this article is part of theBlackrock Mountain adventure. Drakkisath s Command Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Spell Cost: 1 Destroy a minion. Gain 10 Armor.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Drakkisath s Command is , a peculiar strategy can be deployed by mages, by having Duplicate and Counterspell in the deck (plus some other secrets maybe), and using ever-dying Mad Scientists to basically play one secret and one other card per turn.
Work-arounds
One cheap work-around to the encounter is to include Majordomo Executus Majordomo Executus Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Minion Rarity: Legendary Cost: 9 Attack: 9 Health: 7 Abilities: Deathrattle, Replace, Replace Hero Power Tags: Hero Power-related Deathrattle: Replace your hero with Ragnaros, the Firelord.You thought Executus turned in your deck. If Drakkisath uses Mindgames Mindgames Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Priest Rarity: Epic Cost: 4 Abilities: Copy, Summon Tags: Random Put a copy of a random minion from your opponent s deck into the battlefield.Sometimes it feels like this is and draws Executus, you can destroy the minion in order to transform Drakkisath into Ragnaros. This has several effects: it reduces his 50 Health and 30 Armor to only 8 Health (no Armor); and it replaces Intense Gaze with DIE, INSECT!, thus removing the special restrictions from the encounter. In many cases, the player will be able to deal 8 damage to the boss either that same turn or the next, providing an easy solution to what is otherwise a very difficult encounter.
- Guides and decklists
- Heartpwn.com - Blackrock Spire Heroic Boss Guides - Omokk, Drakkisath, Rend Blackhand
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Bugs
General Drakkisath will sometimes use Drakkisath`s Command The subject of this article is part of theBlackrock Mountain adventure. Drakkisath s Command Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Spell Cost: 1 Destroy a minion. Gain 10 Armor.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Drakkisath s Command is on his own Kidnapper Kidnapper Set: Classic Type: Minion Class: Rogue Rarity: Epic Cost: 6 Attack: 5 Health: 3 Abilities: Combo, Return to hand Combo: Return a minion to its owner s hand.He just wants people to see his vacation .
Rewards
Dialogue
NB: The order of the following dialogue is partly speculated, based on the content of the strings.
Encounter selection
- Nefarian
- Did you take a wrong turn? The Back button is at the bottom of your screen.
General Drakkisath
- General Drakkisath
- Introduction
- What are you doing here?
- Drakkisath`s turn 1
- Lord Nefarius! I thought this was the one who took care of Ragnaros for us.
- Nefarian
- Drakkisath`s turn 1
- Yes, Drakkisath. Adventurer - you are still on the wrong side of the mountain!
- Drakkisath`s turn 3
- Look. Go play some ranked mode. This adventure is not for you.
- General Drakkisath
- Turn 1 (alternative)
- Are you here to help me destroy the mortals of this world?
- Emote response
- Why?! Tell me why! Please, I liked you.
- Drakkisath`s Command The subject of this article is part of theBlackrock Mountain adventure. Drakkisath s Command Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Spell Cost: 1 Destroy a minion. Gain 10 Armor.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Drakkisath s Command is
- I will protect the Spire.
- Death
- Rrh. Aah! Noooooo!
Victory
- Nefarian
- I am starting to get annoyed.
Blackrock Mountain
This dragonkin general leads Nefarian⃢₀ₙs armies within Blackrock to inflict corporal punishment on the minions of Ragnaros. Ragnaros might also be a bad guy, but sometimes it turns out that the enemy of your enemy is still kind of a jerk. Don⃢₀ₙt listen to that colonel of doubt: Drakkisath might be anti-Firelord, but in private he⃢₀ₙs still pro-evil.
World of Warcraft
From Wowpedia:
General Drakkisath was the dragonspawn ruler of the armies of Nefarian, son of Deathwing. From the pinnacle of Blackrock Spire "Have you heard the rumblings? The mountain stirs once more. Beneath its crags, cliffs and rocks, there s evil in its core. Fire made flesh! Dragon s breath! Teeth and claw and flame! Calling any heroes out , he oversaw his forces in their war to drive out the Dark Iron dwarves from the bowels of Blackrock Mountain "Have you heard the rumblings? The mountain stirs once more. Beneath its crags, cliffs and rocks, there s evil in its core. Fire made flesh! Dragon s breath! Teeth and claw and flame! Calling any heroes out .
- Dungeon Journal
A cunning and ruthless strategist, Drakkisath commands Nefarian`s armies in the war with Ragnaros. After securing victories against the Dark Irons, General Drakkisath`s forces are positioned to drive the dwarves out of Blackrock Mountain once and for all.