Sneed's Old Shredder

Sneed's Old Shredder is a legendary neutral minion card, from the Goblins vs Gnomes set.

Strategy
This minion's Deathrattle makes it an excellent target for Feign Death, or to destroy with Baron Rivendare on the board.

If the Deathrattle summons a minion with Battlecry, it will not trigger, but you can use cards like Youthful Brewmaster, Ancient Brewmaster, Shadowstep or Zola the Gorgon to return the minion to your hand so you take advantage of powerful Battlecries.

Possible summons
The below table lists all collectible legendary minions available in Wild format, representing the full range of possible summons from Sneed's Old Shredder.

Lore
was a formerly found in the, serving as Edwin VanCleef's lumbermaster. He was one of the earlier bosses of the instance, climbing into to assault anyone who dared venture into his chamber.


 * ''The is an impressive  mechanical creature which is usually piloted by a goblin. Shredders are used for lumbering, but they can serve in war because of the solid metal construction of the machine and the great saws they wield. The first machine designed to mimic the humanoid form, goblin shredders use the steamsaws attached to their arms to cut down lumber at an incredible rate that is unmatched by peasant work crews.

Trivia

 * This card's Deathrattle Summon effect is intended to depict the shredder's pilot hitting the "big shiny red eject button" and parachuting onto the field to continue the fight. The controls for Sneed's Old Shredder are described as being sufficiently tricky that "only a Legendary minion could possibly master them", hence explaining why the minion summoned is always legendary.


 * Previously, this card's Deathrattle was capable of summoning another Sneed's Old Shredder. However, a change in an Hotfixes prevented cards from generating copies of themselves, making this impossible.
 * One of the strongest and most improbable Sneed's sequences recorded in actual play is Unstable Portal -> Sneed's -> Sneed's -> Sneed's -> Kel'Thuzad, with a total likelihood of 1 in 109,477,732.

Patch changes

 * The word 'legendary' is now written as 'Legendary'.
 * Added.