Book Wyrm

Book Wyrm is a rare neutral minion card, from the One Night in Karazhan set.

Strategy
This minion draws many similarities with Stampeding Kodo, trading below average stats for cost for a powerful source of removal. However, Book Wyrm allows you to target specific minions instead of a random target, thus avoiding the Kodo's problem of triggering disadvantageous Deathrattles, and has a wider range of applicable minions due to the increased Attack range of 3, but requires you to have another Dragon in your hand. For this reason, Book Wyrm largely only works in a deck dedicated to other Dragons, compared to the Kodo's ability to be added anywhere.

Paladin Dragon decks can make the best use of this minion. Similar to the Kodo, Book Wyrm can synergize with Aldor Peacekeeper and Humility to remove an enemy minion regardless of how much Attack it originally had, while Dragon Consort can help a player get around Book Wyrm's otherwise prohibitive cost.

Netherspite Historian is an excellent card to use in conjuction with Book Wyrm regardless of class - the Wyrm's presence lets Netherspite Historian generate a Dragon when played, which Book Wyrm can subsequently make use of to activate its own effect.

Quotes

 * Summon
 * Let reading dragons lie.


 * Attack
 * Eugh, barbaric.

Lore
A is a dragon that has reached senior age, typically at about 500 years. This explains the dragon's reading glasses and curmudgeonly attitude.

This blue dragon is clearly a fan of literature, and may be a visiting member of the, researching magical matters at the tower. It is original to Hearthstone.

Trivia

 * Contrary to this card's flavor text, ' is not usually considered to be a tragedy, but it's easy to see how a Book Wyrm could make the mistake, as the story has a dragon who is killed by the protagonists. Similarly, ' is a retelling of the epic poem , told from the perspective of the antagonist. Both versions of the story include the killing of a dragon, although the retelling appears to depict the character in a more sympathetic light as an "omniscient and bored character", a role to which the Book Wyrm can perhaps relate.

Patch changes

 * Added.