Herald Volazj

Herald Volazj is a legendary priest minion card, from the Whispers of the Old Gods set.

Strategy
This Battlecry is ideal to summon 2-3 other minions with useful Deathrattles or ongoing effects. This card's value lies in the minions available to copy, and given its stat-reducing effects, is primarily effective for minions with useful abilities. To copy a single high-stat minion, use Faceless Manipulator instead.

If you run a Silence Priest deck, typically one with low-cost, high attack minions that can't attack e.g. Ancient Watcher, this card will combo in perfect synergy with Wailing Soul.

In Arena it will vary from being good to not so great based on what you have on the board.

Quotes

 * Summon
 * Gaze into the void.


 * Attack
 * Your mind betrays you!

Lore

 * "They who dine on lost souls know only hunger." - Herald Volazj

is a faceless one in service of the Old God Yogg-Saron.


 * , a, is the last boss of . He is located within the . He is a herald of and enemy of the nerubians.


 * ''Quotes:


 * ''Aggro
 * ''Shgla'yos plahf mh'naus
 * ''(They who dine on lost souls know only hunger.)
 * ''Insanity
 * ''Gul'kafh an'shel. Yoq'al shn ky ywaq nuul.
 * ''(Gaze into the void. It is the perpetuity in which they dwell.)
 * ''Killing a player
 * ''Ywaq puul skshgn: on'ma yeh'glu zuq.
 * ''(They drink your fear: it is the blood of life.)
 * ''Ywaq ma phgwa'cul hnakf.
 * ''(They are the whisper on the shivering wind.)
 * ''Death
 * ''Ywaq maq oou; ywaq maq ssaggh. Ywaq ma shg'fhn.
 * ''(They do not die; they do not live. They are outside the cycle.)
 * ''Iilth vwah, uhn'agth fhssh za.
 * ''(Where one falls, many shall take its place.)

From the Dungeon Journal:


 * Amid the 's invasion of, many of the kingdom's denizens tunneled underground to escape the 's minions. Yet some of them dug too deep, exposing the tendrils of Yogg-Saron. Roused by this disturbance, the entity has sent one of its most ancient warriors - Herald Volazj - to cull the beleaguered nerubians and annihilate anyone foolish enough to threaten the .

Trivia

 * The original design for this card was "Become a copy of your opponent." The opponent's hero, minions and cards (including both hand and deck) were copied.
 * This card's final effect may have its origins as a Hero Power for the original Y'Shaarj, which saw any hero whose deck included Y'Shaarj replaced at the very start of the match by Y'Shaarj itself, with 15 Health and a "crazy new Hero Power". Several different designs were tried for the Hero Power, including "Draw a card. If it’s a minion, put it into play as a 1/1."

Gallery

 * Promotional

Patch changes

 * When Herald Volazj copies a silenced minion, the copies it creates will now correctly also be silenced.
 * Added.