The Crone

The Crone is a boss found in the One Night in Karazhan adventure. She is the third boss of the second wing, The Opera.

Deck
The below classes are listen purely for reference, and have no effect on the boss' use of the cards during the battle.

Normal
The quickest strategy is to use Priest and get Inner Fire as one of your starting hand to use on Dorothee for a quick 3 turn victory.

Another quick way is to use a Paladin with Bolf Ramshield and Eye for an Eye, and destroy Dorothee. When The Crone uses Twister on you, she will be destroyed, while Bolf Ramshield will suffer 100 damage.

Heroic
The most significant difference between Normal and Heroic mode is that The Crone is specifically programmed to always draw Twisting Nether on every turn from turn 8 onwards, allowing her to destroy all minions (including Dorothee) before immediately defeating the player with Twister. While it is possible to stall for another turn by playing Counterspell or Loatheb on turn 8, or by casting Ancestral Spirit on Dorothee, it is generally wiser to focus on defeating The Crone before she has enough mana to play Twisting Nether in the first place.

One possible strategy as Priest is to use Divine Spirit and Inner Fire on Dorothee so that she can deal damage to The Crone and quickly deplete her health meter, while using other minions to defend her. Another way is by using Raging Worgen in a Warrior deck, although this is method is somewhat harder to achieve due to the presence of Abomination in The Crone's deck; if combined with Windfury Harpy, the player can perform massive quantities of damage during each turn.

Zoo Warlock also works well against the boss. Sticky minions, such as Possessed Villager and Imp Gang Boss, are best used as taunts to protect Dorothee, since the minions that they summon will also have taunt. Dreadsteed is especially powerful since The Crone will never be able to directly attack Dorothee after you summon it, allowing you to focus your remaining efforts on damaging the boss. Giving all your other minions charge can help you to win the game before turn 8.

Wing completion
As the final boss of The Opera, defeating The Crone also unlocks the following cards:

Dialogue
Before match
 * Barnes
 * ''At last, our final act! An evil witch pursues a young girl. Will she find her way home?

Introduction
 * The Crone
 * ''Ha hahahaha! Flee, my pretties!

Turn 1
 * Dorothee
 * ''Oh no, don't let her hurt me!

Turn 3
 * Dorothee
 * ''Here, link arms! We're strongest together!

Turn 5
 * Moroes
 * Majordomo Executus is downstairs. Shall I tell him he's arrived too soon?


 * The Crone
 * ''Bring me that girl!

Play / summon Huffer
 * Dorothee
 * ''Oh Huffer, I've a feeling we're not in Westfall anymore...

Play Call of the Wild (alternatively, with the presence of a lion, dragon, and bear on board at the same time)
 * Dorothee
 * ''Oh! Lions and dragons and bears! Oh my!

Emote Response
 * The Crone
 * ''Hehehehehe!

Twister
 * The Crone
 * ''Ah hahahahaha!

Death
 * The Crone
 * ''No! I'll get you! I'll get...

Victory
 * Moroes
 * ''Finally! We're off to free the wizard!

Wing completion
 * Moroes
 * ''Onward! Up those stairs, the Curator guards the menagerie. I hope it's not malfunctioning...

In World of Warcraft

 * ''"Woe to each and every one of you my pretties! *cackles*"

The Crone is the boss in the encounter, one of the three possible boss encounters initiated by Barnes in the.


 * '' is a troll boss in the Opera House in, who follows Dorothee, , , , and Dorothee's pet.

Trivia

 * This encounter is a reference to , as are its related characters: The Crone is the
 * The art for The Crone was created by the same artist as Wicked Witchdoctor (Rafael Zanchetin) and appears to have shared concept art, as can be seen in their respective gallery sections.

Patch changes

 * Added.