Keening Banshee

Keening Banshee is a rare neutral minion card, from the Knights of the Frozen Throne set.

Strategy
Keening Banshee is a 4 mana 5/5, which is a 1 attack upgrade compared to the baseline 4-mana card, Chillwind Yeti. As a tradeoff for the above-average stats, it has a drawback similar to Fel Reaver, but with the trigger reversed, causing it to remove 3 cards from your deck whenever you play a card. This can force the player to either play few high-cost cards, or play little to no cards at all in most decks to prevent losing game-winning cards, as well as prevent losing in Fatigue. Due to this, it should be played in a deck that aims to kill the opponent early in the game, where the player shouldn't have to worry about entering Fatigue.

Keening Banshee is a decent card in arena due to it's above-average stats, and the fact that arena matches very rarely enter fatigue. When played on-curve in arena, it's unlikely the opponent will be able to remove it easily.

If playing Keening Banshee, it should typically be the last card played at the end of your turn, or you will unnecessarily discard extra cards.

One way to bypass the drawback is to silence the effect, although there are generally better silence targets in a deck aiming to utilize the mechanic, such as Ancient Watcher and Humongous Razorleaf.

Lore

 * s are incorporeal undead women, known for their unholy screams and the unsettling ability to possess the bodies of their enemies.  and night elf banshees have existed since the time of the, but many were also created when the  invaded  and slaughtered the majority of the kingdom's  inhabitants during the . Many banshees now serve the ruler of the , the "Banshee Queen" Sylvanas Windrunner.


 * The male counterpart of the banshee is the .

Trivia

 * Keening Banshee's summoning and attack quotes are references to lines spoken by the unit in .

Patch changes

 * Added.