Grim Patron

How to get

Regular Grim Patron is obtained x2⃂by defeating Grim Guzzler The subject of this article is part of theBlackrock Mountain adventure. Coren Direbrew Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Hero Health: 30 (Normal)30 (Heroic) Armor: 15 (Heroic) Before you can crush Ragnaros, you ll need to defeat these in 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 .

Once the regular version has been obtained, both regular and 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 versions can be crafted and disenchanted:

Card	Crafting cost	Disenchanting
Grim Patron	100	20
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 Grim Patron	800	100

Synergies

Info

Grim Patron

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
Type:	Minion
Rarity:	Rare 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:	5
Attack:	3
Health:	3
Abilities:	Summon For information on summoning minions, see Minion#Summoning. Summon is an ability which summons one or more minions. Distinct from regular summoning, a minion generated by the summon ability does not consume or come from an
Tags:	Damage-related, Death-related, 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

Whenever this minion survives damage, summon another Grim Patron.

If you love getting your face punched, come to the Grim Guzzler!

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Grim Patron is a rare 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 neutral Neutral is the term used to describe cards which are not limited to a specific class. Neutral collectible cards can be included in any deck, regardless of hero. Neutral cards use a plain, grey card minion Bloodfen Raptor, a simple minion card. A Beast-type minion, it has 3 Attack, 2 Health and a mana cost of 2. Minions are persistent creatures on the battlefield that will fight for their hero. Minion card, from 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 set.

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Strategy

Grim Patron serves as the centrepiece of the Patron Warrior You think he s angry now, just wait until he realizes he s spilled his pint. Patron Warrior is a warrior combo deck revolving around the use of Grim Patron. It uses cheap activators such as Whirlwind, deck, with various activating cards used to repeatedly damage the Patron, causing more Patrons to be summoned. Efficient trading and synergistic effects can result in good board control Board control is an unofficial term usually referring to a player s ability to keep the opponent from building up minions on the battlefield, or "board". Control decks are named after this strategy, aiming to control , allowing the warrior to deal overwhelming face See more: Hero The face is a slang term for a player s hero as the target for damaging attacks and effects, as opposed to minions. "Going face" or "attacking the face" refer to focusing one s damage from their army of Patrons. It can also generate good card advantage Sometimes, you’ll find yourself in a position where you can easily play your whole hand while your opponent is still holding on to close to the maximum of 10 cards. Unless you can win the , leading to a potential win condition A win condition is a specific means or strategy by which a deck can achieve victory. Decks may have one or more win conditions, and a win condition may be a specific aim of the in itself.

This can be a very sticky Sticky is a term used to refer to minions which are hard to remove from the battlefield, in general due to Deathrattles which summon other minions. Strategy edit | edit source] Sticky minions can be minion since his 3 Health will allow him to survive most AoE Area of effect (AoE) is the term for an effect which affects all characters of the specified type. Common targets for AoEs include all enemy minions, all minions, and all characters. AoE is defined in damage and spawn another copy. This can make it so that the opponent has to deal with this minion first using one of their bigger minions or spells. Grim Patron provides value either through 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 with enemy minions, or through passively providing additional Patrons by surviving damage. To make the most of the minion, combine it with trading and synergistic effects like Whirlwind Whirlwind Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Warrior Cost: 1 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Area of effect Deal 1 damage to ALL minions.The way to tell seasoned warriors from novice ones: the novices yell "wheeeee" while and Revenge Revenge Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Spell Class: Warrior Rarity: Rare Cost: 2 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Area of effect, Health-related Deal 1 damage to all minions. If you have 12 or less Health, deal 3 to simultaneously clear the opponent`s board and develop your own.

Good Grim Patron play can create strong board control, but no matter how many Patrons the warrior gains they can still be removed through AoE like 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 . The main challenge to the opponent is removing the Patrons without creating more. This is best achieved through powerful AoE damage or destroy effects, but is possible one by one. Small minions are a liability when playing against Grim Patrons, and the Patron player should trade into them as often as possible to create more Patrons. Note that the 7 minion limit means that with a full board no more Patrons will be summoned by the effect, allowing the opponent a little more room to deal with them.

Mages can damage friendly Grim Patrons using Fireblast Fireblast Type: Hero Power Class: Mage Cost: 2 Abilities: Deal damage Hero Power Deal 1 damage.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Fireblast is the mage s basic Hero Power. Contents 1 Notes 2 Strategy 3 in order to constantly have a minion on the board, allowing them to quickly overwhelm the opponent if the Patrons are not dealt with.

Minions like Aldor Peacekeeper Aldor Peacekeeper Set: Classic Type: Minion Class: Paladin Rarity: Rare Cost: 3 Attack: 3 Health: 3 Abilities: Battlecry Battlecry: Change an enemy minion s Attack to 1.The Aldor hate two things: the Scryers and smooth jazz.See , Shrinkmeister Shrinkmeister Set: Goblins vs Gnomes Type: Minion Class: Priest Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 3 Health: 2 Abilities: Battlecry Battlecry: Give a minion -2 Attack this turn.After the debacle of the Gnomish World Enlarger, gnomes , or Crazed Alchemist Crazed Alchemist Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 2 Attack: 2 Health: 2 Abilities: Battlecry Battlecry: Swap the Attack and Health of a minion."You ll love my new recipe!" he says... especially if you re not can be useful in lowering your opponent`s minion`s attack to allow Grim Patron to attack and summon another Grim Patron.

Effects like Baron Geddon Baron Geddon Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Elemental Rarity: Legendary Cost: 7 Attack: 7 Health: 5 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Area of effect, Triggered effect At the end of your turn, deal 2 damage to , Wild Pyromancer Wild Pyromancer Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 2 Attack: 3 Health: 2 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Area of effect, Spell-related, Triggered effect After you cast a spell, deal 1 damage to ALL minions.BOOM , Whirlwind Whirlwind Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Warrior Cost: 1 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Area of effect Deal 1 damage to ALL minions.The way to tell seasoned warriors from novice ones: the novices yell "wheeeee" while , Ravaging Ghoul and Tentacle of N`Zoth can be useful for damaging friendly Grim Patrons. Mad Bomber and Madder Bomber offer similar utility but are far less reliable.

Grim Patron synergizes well with Frothing Berserker and Whirlwind, allowing Berserker to significantly increase its attack.

In Arena, this card may be of poor value and unlikely to trigger its effect without the mage`s Hero Power.

Notes

• As usual, on-damage triggers like this one will not trigger if the damage Damage in Hearthstone is a particular infliction of harm upon heroes or minions, measured by a number which is deducted from their Health and/or Armor (if they have any). If a character s Health is reduced is prevented such as by Divine Shield An Argent Squire with Divine Shield in place Divine Shield is an ability which causes a minion to ignore the next damage it receives. Upon receiving any damage the Divine Shield is removed, and that effects.
• Whenever Grim Patron suffers damage, if its condition is satisfied, it summons a new Grim Patron. In particular:
  • Minions that have been set pending destroy 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 , such as by Acidmaw Acidmaw Set: The Grand Tournament Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Class: Hunter Rarity: Legendary Cost: 7 Attack: 4 Health: 2 Abilities: Destroy Tags: Damage-related, Triggered effect Whenever another minion takes damage, destroy it.With the help of or poison A Poisonous minion Poisonous is a minion ability that causes any minion damaged by them to be destroyed. Poisonous minions on the battlefield are marked by a bubbling vial of poison at the bottom of effects, are considered to be dying: if such effects trigger first, the condition will thus not be satisfied and Grim Patron will not trigger; else, if Grim Ptron triggers first, a new Grim Patron will be summoned. This also means the Dominant Player Bug order may matter.
  • Grim Patron checks immediately before activation to see if it is mortally wounded/pending destroy or not. For instance, if Grim Patron attacks an Imp Gang Boss Imp Gang Boss Set: Blackrock Mountain Type: Minion Subtype: Demon Class: Warlock Rarity: Common Cost: 3 Attack: 2 Health: 4 Abilities: Summon Tags: Damage-related, Triggered effect Whenever this minion takes damage, summon a 1/1 Imp.His which triggers first, summoning a minion which triggers a Knife Juggler Knife Juggler Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 2 Attack: 2 Health: 2 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Random, Summoning-related, Triggered effect After you summon a minion, deal 1 damage to a random enemy.Ambitious Knife which hits the Grim Patron reducing its Health to 0, no new Grim Patrons will be summoned, despite the fact that Grim Patron would have survived combat damage.
  • Since on-damage triggers are resolved before effects with two or more steps move to their next step, if Grim Patron is damaged by Bouncing Blade Bouncing Blade Set: Goblins vs Gnomes Type: Spell Class: Warrior Rarity: Epic Cost: 3 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Random Deal 1 damage to a random minion. Repeat until a minion dies.Only goblins would think this and survives, the newly summoned Grim Patron will be a valid target for the following "bounces" of Bouncing Blade, which can let the minion summon several Grim Patrons in a single turn.
  • If you play Grim Patron, Commanding Shout Commanding Shout Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Warrior Rarity: Rare Cost: 2 Abilities: Draw cards Tags: Damage-related, Ongoing effect Your minions can t be reduced below 1 Health this turn. Draw a card."Shout! Shout! Let it and Bouncing Blade Bouncing Blade Set: Goblins vs Gnomes Type: Spell Class: Warrior Rarity: Epic Cost: 3 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Random Deal 1 damage to a random minion. Repeat until a minion dies.Only goblins would think this , you do not get the expected result of a full board of 3/1 Grim Patrons: since the Commanding Shout Enchantment is only applied between Phases, Bouncing Blade is actually able to kill a newly summoned Grim Patron before he gains the Commanding Shout buff, and thus stop from bouncing before the board is full.
  • This card`s triggered effect is not a copy Copy effects produce copies of existing cards. When copying living minions, this includes copying all damage and enchantments. Be that as it may, when copying a minion that has been destroyed, only the basic minion is copied. Copy effects effect: the summoned minion will be a new Grim Patron, regardless of enchantments, effects and current Health of the summoning minion.
  • Grim Patrons summoned by a 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 Grim Patron will also be golden.

Quotes

Summon For information on summoning minions, see Minion#Summoning. Summon is an ability which summons one or more minions. Distinct from regular summoning, a minion generated by the summon ability does not consume or come from an

A fight, count me in!

Effect triggering

Everyone, get in here!

Attack

Hehe, pile on!

Trivia

• Prior to Patch 3.2.0.10604, Grim Patron was used in combination with Warsong Commander to grant Charge to each new Patron generated that turn, allowing warriors to decimate their opponent`s board in a single turn. See Warsong Commander#History for details.
• The innkeeper`s startup quote "Everyone - get in here and say hello!" is based on the summoning quote of Grim Patron. Its use here is likely due to the phrase`s high popularity among the community, especially in the months following the releaseAnnounce 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 , which saw the Patron Warrior You think he s angry now, just wait until he realizes he s spilled his pint. Patron Warrior is a warrior combo deck revolving around the use of Grim Patron. It uses cheap activators such as Whirlwind, deck become one of the strongest in the meta. The phrase`s popularity is also reflected in the creation of sites such as http://everyonegetinhere.com.

Voice

Grim Patron was voiced by Darin De Paul, who also voiced cards including Rend Blackhand, Axe Flinger and Baron Geddon Baron Geddon Set: Classic Type: Minion Subtype: Elemental Rarity: Legendary Cost: 7 Attack: 7 Health: 5 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Area of effect, Triggered effect At the end of your turn, deal 2 damage to .

Gallery

Grim Patron, full art