Druid of the Scythe

Druid of the Scythe is a common druid minion card, from the The Witchwood set.

Choose One cards

 * Resulting minions

Combined
If played while in control of Fandral Staghelm or Ossirian Tear, both Choose One options will be chosen, resulting in the below minion.

Strategy
This minion has fairly average stats in both forms and offers decent flexibility. It can be either an average Taunt minion comparable to Squirming Tentacle or a 4-damage removal that is unlikely to survive trades. It's best used in decks that only run a few spells as an alternative source of removal; namely Spiteful Druid.

Lore

 * ''The are a sect of druids who advocated the use of the  during the . Originally calling themselves Druids of the Pack, they shapeshifted into a powerful yet unwieldy form that embodied the fury of the wolf, Goldrinn. They called this form the Pack Form, a form that turned them into wolves. Although powerful, the Pack Form tended to turn the druids feral. Malfurion Stormrage prohibited the use of this form because it couldn't be controlled. However, the Druids of the Pack continued to practice the form in secret, but eventually lost themselves to the form's feral rage. They were eventually brought under the leadership of , who promised them a way to tame the Pack Form.


 * ''Taught by Ralaar Fangfire, these Druids of the Pack sought to temper the uncontrollable rage inherent in their chosen form. To do so, they willingly submitted to the energies of the, a mystical artifact created from a Fang of Goldrinn and the Staff of.


 * ''Rather than abate the druids' fury, however, the weapon transformed Ralaar and his followers into worgen: bestial humanoids enslaved by their own primal instincts.


 * ''While in the worgen form, the druids eventually lost their minds to its violent nature. Blinded by all-consuming rage, Ralaar’s druids tore through friend and foe alike during battle with the s. Night elves wounded by the unruly beasts contracted a that turned them into worgen as well. Desperate to stanch the affliction’s spread, Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage mournfully banished the worgen beneath  in the, where they would be in peaceful slumber for all eternity.


 * ''For millenia, the worgen threat was contained until the day Arugal tampered with summoning worgen after looking into 's research, calling them into the world to combat the but accidentally unleashing the worgen curse on . Some of the worgen were also released from their slumber by  using the Scythe of Elune. Some of the worgen at  have been there since Velinde summoned the worgen, and so some of the worgen there are Druids of the Scythe. Likewise, the  in  are also night elven worgen.


 * ''Some of the Druids of the Scythe traveled as a pack in the Emerald Dream until they found their way to and went their separate ways. An  wielding the Scythe of Elune is able to return these feral worgen to their original night elf forms.

This card's artwork appears to depict a Druid of the Scythe wielding the Scythe of Elune itself.

Patch changes

 * Added.