Valdera Highborne

Valdera Highborne is a boss that can be encountered in Chapter 1 of The Dalaran Heist adventure.

Decks
The below classes are listed purely for reference, and have no effect on the boss' use of the cards during the battle.

Strategy
Valdera's hero power keeps him up and running by ignoring most of the damage he takes. You have no choice but to kill him slowly, while first dealing with whatever he throws at you. If you have 1 damage-dealing at a time spell like Arcane Missiles, use it.

Dialogue
Before match
 * Heistbaron Togwaggle
 * ''Fancy adventurer wearing shiny-loots as armor. Not fair to loots!

Introduction
 * Valdera Highborne
 * ''Come at me!
 * Hah! You wish. (vs. Rakanishu)
 * Leather on... leather? Haha! Nothing compared to plate! (vs. Captain Eudora)
 * A rat? Eugh. In scraps? EUGH. (vs. Squeamlish)
 * Your armor may be... plentiful, but nothing compared to mine! (vs. Tekahn)


 * Mr. Chu
 * ''It will be my pleasure.
 * George the Fallen
 * ''Your ignorance reminds me of those fools in the catacombs!

Emote Response
 * Valdera Highborne
 * ''Even your pathetic words fail to penetrate my MASTERWORK armor!

Hero Power
 * Valdera Highborne
 * ''Are you going to keep trying? Just give up!
 * ''Hmm hmm hmm, la la la!
 * ''I barely felt a thing!
 * ''Not today, swine!
 * ''Nuh-uh-ah!
 * ''Oh were you... trying? Bahaha!
 * ''There's a reason I spent a fortune on this set.

Hero Power prevents death
 * Valdera Highborne
 * ''Oh. I planned it that way. Haha!
 * ''Whew. That was... too close!

Idle
 * Valdera Highborne
 * ''I wish I had some flashier cards to go with this armor.
 * ''I'm so... shiny!
 * ''The worst part about this is all the polishing I need to do...
 * ''Can we wrap this up? I'm heading to Warsong Gulch after this.

Player gains armor
 * Valdera Highborne
 * ''Did you craft that yourself? Hahaha!
 * ''That armor is just... is just... embarrassing!
 * ''That's your armor? Ha!

Boss cards
 * Valdera Highborne
 * Eye for an Eye activates
 * ''Haha! My armor can even deal damage!
 * Humility
 * ''What's wrong? Afraid of my ARMOR?
 * Lay on Hands
 * ''I can do more than just sit here and look nice!

Player's cards
 * Valdera Highborne
 * Deathrattle of Plated Beetle
 * ''Ha! Nice HAT!
 * Orb of the Untold
 * ''Cursed orb! It will be my undoing!
 * Alexstrasza
 * ''You dirty little cheat!

Death
 * Valdera Highborne
 * ''How?!

Defeat
 * Valdera Highborne
 * ''You should consider some better armor, haha!

Lore
Valdera Highborne is unique to Hearthstone.

Patch changes

 * Increased the power of Heroic deck.
 * Added.