Cleave

Cleave is a warrior spell card, inducted into the Legacy set, formerly from the Basic set.

Strategy
Cleave is a relatively inexpensive area of effect (AoE) card with two caveats. You cannot choose which targets to attack.

In the right conditions, Cleave can be very effective for removing low health minions or lowering their health to vulnerable levels. Ideally used against precisely two minions, allowing the warrior to be certain of the spell's targets.

Lore

 * "Two bodies are better than one."

is a ability from World of Warcraft. It is a melee attack that instantly deals a small amount of damage to the target and one additional nearby target. Cleave plays the role of a multi-target 'rage dump', allowing the warrior to burn off their excess using the ability, rather than simply wasting it. As such, Cleave is an inefficient attack, but is not on the, allowing it to be used in-between other attacks in the warrior's rotation. Heroic Strike is a single-target alternative to Cleave, and is preferable for use on single targets.

This card has a similar function and shares artwork with the Cleave ability seen in the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

Trivia

 * The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "Heroes of Azeroth" series, depicting the spell.
 * As of Patch 14.6.0.31761, multi-target cards are eligible to be played even if there is only one viable target on the board. Previously, multi-target cards were ineligible to be played if there were less than two viable targets.

Patch changes

 * Moved from Basic to Legacy set.
 * Now can be cast even if there is only one viable target on the board.
 * Unknown alpha patch:
 * Unknown alpha patch: