Spirit of the Tiger

Spirit of the Tiger is a rare paladin minion card, from the Rastakhan's Rumble set.

Strategy
Spirit of the Tiger is a card that can generate a lot of value, so it's more effective if it can be protected by buffing its Health or hiding it behind a Taunt.

Despite being value-oriented, it can provide huge tempo swings in the right situation, for example by using Consecration against a board with small minions.

The Spirt can be used along Shrink Ray as a Last Resort. It will weaken the Spirit, all the enemy board, and summon a 5/5 Tiger.

The Tigers don't have any instant impact, so, Defender of Argus, Righteousness and similar effects can help minimize this weakness.

Lore
The Spirit of the Tiger is, as the name suggests, a spiritual manifestation of Shirvallah, the tiger.

Trivia

 * Originally during the development of Rastakhan's Rumble, before Spirit cards were referred to as "Spirits", Spirit of the Tiger was known as "Shrine to Shirvallah". Shirvallah herself was designed really early on in the development process, but it took a while to find the right design for her accompanying Spirit. At one point, Shrine to Shirvallah was a 6-mana minion with the card text "Can't attack or be attacked. Your spells cast twice", but this ended up being fairly extreme when used in combination with powerful spells like Avenging Wrath or Holy Wrath. The card's design instead shifted to summoning Tiger minions; not only did this accomplish the team's goal of wanting the card to generate value on the board rather than just bursting down the opponent, commanding a group of tigers to attack one's enemies also felt more suitable for the paladin class fantasy than supercharging one's spells.

Patch changes

 * Added.