Bolvar, Fireblood

Bolvar, Fireblood is a legendary paladin minion card, from the Knights of the Frozen Throne set.

Strategy
This card is designed to be used in decks that run many Divine Shield minions. Divine Shield and 7 Health makes him very durable for his cost, but his low base Attack makes him a weak card on his own. It is best played on a board with multiple friendly undamaged Divine Shield minions or keep him protected behind Divine Shield Taunt minions like Righteous Protector plus enemy minions to trade with, potentially strengthening Bolvar quite a lot for a 5-cost minion. Even one other broken Divine Shield gives enough value for his cost. Note that Bolvar's own Divine Shield will also strengthen him, similarly to a card with Enrage, making him dangerous to leave on the board for too long, especially if the user can place more Divine Shields on him.

Gift of Luminance gives you a Round Two and potentially +4 Attack for each Bolvar.

Since his base attack is 1 and he don't recieve bonus health for Divine Shields, a effective summoning combining Sword of Justice and then a Rallying Blade for a multiple +1/+1 buff.

Lore
This minion represents Bolvar Fordragon as he appeared while a prisoner of the Lich King.


 * ''Highlord was a venerated paladin of the  and served as the Regent of  following the disappearance of King Varian Wrynn. Upon Varian's return, Bolvar was named the commander of the Alliance forces sent to take the battle to the  in . After the treachery of  at the, Bolvar was killed by the  and reanimated by the flames of the.


 * ''Bolvar's body was altered by the dragons' flame, and was taken by the Scourge into, where he was tortured by the Lich King in an attempt to bend him to his will. However, the noble spirit of Bolvar resisted the Lich King's depravations. After the death of , the mortal host of the Lich King, Bolvar demanded that Tirion Fordring place the , containing all of the powers of the Scourge, on Bolvar's head so that he would forever be the jailer of the damned - imprisoning the Lich King within the once more and containing the threat of the Scourge.

Patch changes

 * Now correctly gains attack when minions with Divine Shield die to Despicable Dreadlord’s end of turn effect.
 * Added.