Ironbark Protector

Ironbark Protector is a druid minion card, inducted into the Legacy set, formerly from the Basic set.

Strategy
Costing 8 mana, Ironbark Protector is fairly pricey. However, its 8 health and Taunt ability means it is a good defender, and with 8 attack, it will likely kill whatever it is blocking.

Ironbark Protector is a great target for removal due to its bulk and cost to play. Be cautious when playing this minion and try to bait out removal on weaker minions to set up Ironbark Protector. Otherwise, you could spend an entire turn playing it for it to be the target of a cheap spell, such as Shadow Word: Death, Sap, or Polymorph, and lose all tempo you had as your opponent is able to deal with Ironbark and set up minions of their own.

Lore
s are a type of, giant leafy defenders of , the and the s.  In , the name "Ironbark Protector" refers to a group of corrupted ancients found in. However, given this minion's flavor text, this card may not specifically refer to those particular ancients, but to a general type of ancient protector who also share the epiphet "".

Trivia

 * The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "Fields of Honor" series, for the card Treebole.
 * The card art depicts, a wandering level 70 quest giver located at in the contested territory of.
 * There is a humorous reference in Flametongue Totem's flavor text that the wood of Ironbarks are rumoured to sometimes be used for the construction of totems. This is likely a joke, as the druids would not take kindly to the shamans' attempts to 'recycle' one of their Protectors.

Patch changes

 * Moved from Basic to Legacy set.