The Dark Portal

The Dark Portal is a rare warlock spell card, from the Ashes of Outland set.

Strategy
The Dark Portal is best used in Handlock decks that plan to take advantage of large hand sizes and big minions. Getting a -4 discount on minions like Enhanced Dreadlord and Dread Infernal can give a huge advantage. However, setting up this card typically results in a low tempo until you can play the discounted minion in a future turn. If you are forced to use cards consistently against particularly aggressive decks, then this card becomes less useful due to having a lower chance of the player having 8 or more cards in their hand.

Lore
is a gateway that connects to. The two sides were constructed by Medivh and Gul'dan through the manipulations of, allowing the to invade Azeroth.


 * ''The Dark Portal, also known as the Great Portal, is one of the two gateways between the worlds of and  (now ). The Azeroth side portal is located in what is now known as the  in southern Eastern Kingdoms, while its counterpart is in  on Outland, on the . Before the destruction of Draenor, it was located in the eastern section of.

This card's artwork possibly depicts —who reopened the portal prior to the events of —or his lieutenant.

Patch changes

 * Fel spell school added.
 * Added.