Voidwalker

Voidwalker is a warlock minion card, inducted into the Legacy set, formerly from the Basic set.

Summoned by
As well as being collected in decks, this card can also be summoned by the following card.

Strategy
The Voidwalker is a reasonably tough Taunt minion with a very low cost making it a great front line tank for a warlock deck. Not only is it one of the few Demons with no back-firing Battlecry, it is arguably better than Shieldbearer and directly superior to Goldshire Footman while retaining the same low cost. It has 1 more health than the Footman, and can synergize with Demon-play.

Lore
The ability to summon a Voidwalker is a skill first seen in World of Warcraft, where they are useful tanking minions, used by warlocks to take damage in their stead. s themselves, however, are seen earlier in Warcraft lore in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne.


 * s first appeared in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne as a type of creep. Lorewise, they served little purpose other than being random monsters fought by Kael'thas Sunstrider, Lady Vashj and Illidan Stormrage when Illidan fled to Outland in order to hide from Kil'jaeden (after failing his task of destroying the Frozen Throne - he later failed it once more) and Kael'thas, accompanied by Lady Vashj, later went to look for him. The voidwalkers they encountered were however guarding Magtheridon's Dimensional Gateways and his Black Citadel, which implies that they were either his slaves or soldiers. It was also possible to hire voidwalkers (and other Outland-creeps - even eredar) from a Mercenary Camp they found. Voidwalkers are even more trivial in custom maps where they only guard random treasures and/or points of interest such as gold mines. Some custom maps also have the same type of Mercenary Camp where voidwalkers can be hired. Eredar Diabolists are able to summon voidwalkers.

Trivia

 * Voidwalker used different art in the game's alpha, but was changed to better represent the classic Voidwalker image. The art was later used for Voidcaller.
 * The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "Scourgewar" series, for the card Jek'kresh.

Patch changes

 * Moved from Basic to Legacy set.
 * Golden art updated.
 * Unknown pre-release patch: Art changed to better match the classic voidwalker image. The original art can be seen here. (This art was later used for Voidcaller)