Rend Blackhand


 * ''For the boss of the same name, see Rend Blackhand (boss)

Rend Blackhand is a legendary neutral minion card, from the Blackrock Mountain set.

Strategy
Note that the successful activation of Rend's effect will signal to the opponent that you have at least one Dragon in your hand. While the number of Dragons, and which specific Dragon cards, will not be revealed, an experienced opponent may be able to deduce the likely candidates.

This card fills a niche for destroying legendary minions with 6 or less Attack, with Big Game Hunter able to target minions with 7 or higher Attack. You can target your own Sylvanas Windrunner if you want to control your opponent's big minion without lowering its Health. If the player has no Dragon to activate its Battlecry, this minion becomes costly and ineffective, although given the right conditions its high Attack can still be effective in a pinch. Be aware though that playing it with no Dragon will also highlight the player's lack of Dragons to the opponent.

Quotes

 * Summon
 * We are the true Horde!


 * Attack
 * Hahahahahahahahaha!

In Blackrock Mountain
''The Blackrock clan of orcs is led by the fearsome. You might be asking yourself, “What kind of name is Rend?” to which we’d answer, “His brother’s name is, so. . . .” Yeah, they’re that kind of family. True to form, Rend is kind of a jerk, and wants to overthrow Thrall and take control of the Horde so he can spread his version of family values across the face of Azeroth. With Nefarian’s help, Rend and the Blackrock orcs gained the upper hand over the Dark Iron dwarves that once occupied the spire. Now, Rend’s warriors serve as troops and guards while everyone else hangs out and hatches evil schemes (and sometimes dragon eggs). Tired of powerful heroes and minions cluttering up your opponent’s board? Rend can help.''

In World of Warcraft

 * '', commonly known as Rend, is the Warchief of the and is considered to be a great threat to Thrall's leadership of the . Rend is the bloodthirsty son of the former Warchief of the Horde, . He believes that he is the rightful Warchief of the Horde due to lineage, and seeks to overthrow . To this end, he has allied the forces of the Dark Horde with Nefarian. The two have used their combined resources to re-create the chromatic dragonflight, which they hope to unleash upon the world once again. His mount is a massive chromatic drake named.


 * Draenor
 * ''Rend and his brother and sister had a short childhood due to the warlocks' aging of children, but unlike other orc parents was happy to put forward his children first for artificial aging. After 'coming of age' Rend served with the other members of the  in the fight to exterminate the Draenei. After the Siege of,  was offered the city as reward for leading the raid on it. When Durotan turned it down, Blackhand and his family were more than happy to take Telmor as their own, even going so far as wearing the clothes and sleeping in the beds of the Draenei they had killed. This ended when the whole of the Orcish Horde was moved to  to better carry out the orders of Blackhand. After this, Rend alongside  accompanied Blackhand into , where an alliance of ogres and orcs was made. Eventually, both sons drank the blood of.


 * Second War
 * ''During the, Rend served as lieutenant to Warchief . He and his brother Maim often questioned Doomhammer's orders, as Orgrim killed Blackhand the Destroyer and took his place as Warchief but never disobeyed any order. However, Orgrim allowed the insubordination because the two brothers were leaders of the powerful clan. Doomhammer ordered Rend to gather his army and freed Zul'jin from . Rend was successful and later he and his brother were amongst the army who attacked.


 * ''During the siege of the, Rend was ordered by Doomhammer to have his clan break off and chase after the traitorous Gul'dan, who had taken to the sea in search of the . He and his army battled against , but once they learned that Gul'dan had perished within the they returned to Doomhammer.


 * ''Rend and Maim later personally fought at the, only to flee when it became evident that the paladin had the upper hand. Rend and Maim took control of the remaining Blackrock orcs and began to rebuild the Horde at.


 * ''About two years later, the Dark Portal reopened and emissaries from, led by , were immediately sent to Rend and Main asking them to rejoin the Horde, and to ask to borrow the red dragons held captive by the allied . Rend only laughed and refused. Not only did he call Ner'zhul a coward for staying safe in while he fought the  with Orgrim Doomhammer, but that Ner'zhul will fail in time. Unable to enter an agreement, Teron left the warchief to his bidding.


 * ''Not long after, Nefarian, sent by Deathwing, came to Blackrock Spire and took control of the Blackhand brothers and the forces under their control.


 * ''Rend was eventually dispatched by adventurers seeking to overthrow Nefarian.

Patch changes

 * Added.