Cruel Taskmaster

Cruel Taskmaster is a common warrior minion card, inducted into the Legacy set, formerly from the Classic set.

Strategy
This minion's Battlecry is excellent at empowering a friendly minion, essentially trading 1 Health for 2 Attack. It is especially useful to activate minions with enrage, or other effects that trigger on being damaged. A short list includes:
 * Armorsmith
 * Amani Berserker
 * Acolyte of Pain
 * Raging Worgen
 * Frothing Berserker
 * Grim Patron
 * Grommash Hellscream

This minion's battlecry can also be used to target enemy minions. This is ideally used to destroy low health minions, since the Attack bonus will also be granted to the enemy target, making it generally unwise to leave the minion alive to return the favour the next round. While this wastes the Taskmaster's potential for increasing damage output, it can be a very useful removal option, adding to this minion's versatility.

Trivia

 * The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "The Hunt for Illidan" series, for the card Blood Guard Gulmok.
 * The card art depicts, a quest giver found in.

Patch changes

 * Moved from Classic to Legacy set.
 * Previously: Battlecry: Deal 1 damage to a minion and give it +2 Attack. [2 mana, 2 attack, 1 health, Common]
 * Previously: Battlecry: Deal 1 damage to a minion and give it +2 Attack. [2 mana, 2 attack, 1 health, Common]