Disciplinarian Gandling

Disciplinarian Gandling is a legendary priest/warlock minion card, from the Scholomance Academy set.

Strategy
Gandling provides indirect synergy to cards that rely primarily on Battlecry and Deathrattle effects and don't mind being destroyed, making him an interesting pick for aggressive Priest and Warlock decks which focus more on field presence via cheap minions. Lackey cards in particular can be treated as 1-mana 4/4s on top of their already advantageous effects, which both classes have access to.

This strategy extends to in Wild, where minions like Scarab Egg or Sylvanas Windrunner have additional positive outcomes provided by instantly killing them off with Gandling's effect.

Lore
Gandling's title "Disciplinarian" is unique to ''Hearthstone to depict him as a professor of Scholomance Academy. In , he is referred as.


 * ''Darkmaster Gandling served as the headmaster of at the  and, along with, oversaw the atrocities committed and many  . Gandling himself was the student of Ras Frostwhisper.


 * ''One of the few bosses of the Scholomance to survive until after, Gandling took up sole rulership of the Scholomance and the remaining  of the . After  of  as well as losing    servants during the , he is confronted and killed by s allied with Lilian Voss and.

Trivia

 * While looking at a video posted by the PlayHearthstone Instagram, we can see that Disciplinarian Gandling summons 5/5 Students, rather than the 4/4's we see in game. This is most likely due to Gandling being nerfed before the announcement of the card, but after the Instagram video was made.

Patch changes

 * Added.