War Golem

War Golem is a neutral minion card, inducted into the Legacy set, formerly from the Basic set.

Strategy
War Golem is a costly, but powerful and sturdy creature. Its stats are well balanced and among the best for this cost, but as a trade-off it has no additional abilities.

War Golem is rarely seen in constructed decks, as its lack of any additional abilities means it struggles to compete for a slot against a variety of other options, such as Blazecaller, The Curator or Volcanosaur. Even among the Basic set, Boulderfist Ogre is generally preferable, as it has the same health and only 1 less Attack for 1 mana less, which incidentally allows it to dodge Big Game Hunter. In Wild format, War Golem is objectively worse than Dr. Boom, providing the same body for the same cost, but without the powerful Battlecry.

However, it sees some play in Arena, where its solid body-to-cost ratio can be beneficial to a deck lacking late-game cards.

Lore

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Trivia

 * The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "Heroes of Azeroth" series, depicting the spell.
 * Prior to the release of Goblins vs Gnomes, Ben Brode described War Golem on Twitter as "so awful [as] to never be played", stating War Golem "might as well not exist."

Patch changes

 * Moved from Basic to Legacy set.