Lakkari Sacrifice

Lakkari Sacrifice is a legendary warlock spell card, from the Journey to Un'Goro set.

Generated cards

 * Summoned minions

Strategy
This quest is rather difficult to fulfill because it requires you to amass a huge number of cards. This means that in addition to the six cards you have to discard, you will need several cards with discard effects to actually complete the quest. On average, this takes nine to twelve cards in order to fulfill this quest, which is the most of all Un'Goro quests. By topdecking, amassing this many cards takes seven to ten turns (minus one if you go second). Luckily, warlocks are not reliant on topdecks alone. Their hero power can accelerate the drawing process, though it costs mana and, thus, valuable time. With Howlfiend, it accelerates the progress on the quest as taking damage with discard cards but it may discard Nether Portal in the process if Howlfiend takes multiple hits at once.

Another big problem with completing this quest is, obviously, that you may throw away valuable cards. Because of this, your deck should not rely on a few key cards as alternate win conditions and focus on overall value, as well as discard synergy. Clutchmother Zavas and High Priestess Jeklik are pivotal for completing the quest as they gain in value from getting discarded. Cruel Dinomancer and Blood-Queen Lana'thel directly benefit from discard, making them good picks. Soulwarden serves as a powerful late-game value generator by reclaiming lost value. In Wild, Silverware Golem and Malchezaar's Imp help maintain tempo or resources.

Despite the quest's overall difficulty, the reward is extremely powerful. Once the Nether Portal is in play, there's nothing your opponent can do about it. The portal cannot be interacted with by them, meaning it will endlessly spawn 3/2 minions until the game ends. The 3/2s can be used to cheaply and securely maintain board control by trading into your opponent's minions for free. They can also be used to put on pressure, amassing an extra 6 damage to the opponent's Hero each turn, and growing in size if not dealt with. Due to the nature of Nether Portal's constant value generation, this card is more suitable in control style decks than aggro decks, as aggressive versions of Discardlock gets around the negatives of discard by trying to avoid cards from getting discarded by playing them quickly than actively discarding them.

With the addition of Cataclysm in Kobolds and Catacombs, you can easily complete the quest on curve by hoarding at least 7 cards, which is accomplished by aggressively drawing cards early game. With this, an alternative use for this quest is to only run Cataclysm (and optional Deathwing) as your discard effects, keep a steady hand count, and save it for when you can afford discarding your hand to complete the quest. This allows you to play important cards before using Nether Portal to close out the game.

Cards related to discarding
All current discard-related effects activate only when discarding from the hand, and not removed from the deck or other zones.

Lore

 * The are, as the name implies, tar pits found in northern, just below . Flowers, Tarblossoms grow at the bottom of these pits, which have gone unnoticed for a long time. s live in the area among several giant bones of creatures that got stuck here.

Trivia

 * Lakkari Sacrifice's flavor text is a reference to the opening cinematic for . In the cinematic, Gul'dan urges Grommash Hellscream to drink the, but instead of drinking, Grommash asks "And what, Gul'dan, must we give in return?" Gul'dan simply replies "Everything". The exchange has since become a meme in the World of Warcraft community.

Patch changes

 * Added.