Gnomeferatu

Gnomeferatu is an epic warlock minion card, from the Knights of the Frozen Throne set.

Strategy
Gnomeferatu has a disruptive effect. It has a chance of removing an important card from your opponent's deck, possibly causing them to unable to complete a combo or weakening their late game by removing a key card such as N'Zoth, the Corruptor, but since the removed card is effectively random, it has no net effect (besides revealing the card) until the game goes to fatigue. However, Gnomeferatu can be saved to disrupt certain effects after your opponent has manipulated their deck. For example: it can be used to destroy a Map to the Golden Monkey or Un'Goro Pack on the turn after Elise Starseeker/Elise the Trailblazer was played with an empty deck, destroy a key combo piece in response to Hemet, Jungle Hunter, or remove a shuffled card created by Baleful Banker.

In Arena, Gnomeferatu is a 2/3 for 2 Mana, which makes it a bit below average. It's likely to only be useful as a late pick to help fill out the draft's curve, as its ability is irrelevant in most cases.

Lore

 * ''s or vampyr are a type of who drink blood in order to sustain themselves. Up until the third invasion of the  on, knowledge of vampyr was mostly limited to the . With the people of Azeroth flocking to the , Sir Finley Mrrgglton of the  discovered an  in  who, upon being woken up from his slumber by human pirates, transformed them into vampires as well.

Notably, this is the first known example of a gnome becoming a vampire.

Trivia

 * The name "Gnomeferatu" is a reference to, an archaic synonym for vampire, notably used in the of the same name.
 * According to Mike Donais, one of the possible names for this card that Blizzard joked about during development was "Glampire". This alternate name is also referenced in the card's flavor text.
 * According to Donais, this card is "mostly just showing the dark evil flavor", which is "not something Hearthstone does a lot of."

Patch changes

 * Added.