Commencement

Commencement is a rare warrior/paladin spell card, from the Scholomance Academy set.

Known bugs

 * Casting Commencement while your board has 7 minions will not summon a minion from your deck. It will, however, give a random minion in your deck Taunt and Divine Shield.

Strategy
This card can be used to cheat a large minion from your deck, with the added benefit of giving it Taunt and Divine Shield. Despite a steeper mana cost, this gives it an advantage over Duel! and Gather Your Party, since the minion will have an immediate impact on the board.

Using Commencement requires specific deck-building. You need to have only large minions, particularly those with high-impact effects. Some good cards include Plagued Protodrake, Rattlegore, and Turalyon, the Tenured. The rest of your deck has to be board control and survivability spells, to ensure Commencement only has good targets and you can live long enough to cast it.

Lore
This card's art depicts Lord Alexei Barov.


 *  was the lord of, , and . He was the father of , , and Jandice Barov and husband of Lady Illucia Barov. Like Jandice and Illucia, he is now an agent of the  found in .

Patch changes

 * Added.