Enrage

An "Enraged" minion

For the treasure card in Duels, see Enrage (Duels).

Enrage is the informal name for a minion ability where the stated effect becomes active only when the minion is damaged. If the minion regains undamaged status, either through healing or a forced resetting of its maximum Health, the Enrage effect will be cancelled.

Enrage was once an official keyword ability in Hearthstone, but it was removed due to its infrequent use in cards and its narrow design space. Enrage no longer exists as a keyword, but it is the unofficial term for the card text, "while Damaged."

Notes

A video explaining Enrage in Hearthstone made by the Curse Gamepedia YouTube Channel.

Enrage effects become active whenever the minion's current Health is below their current maximum Health. Restoring a minion to full Health will cancel the Enrage effect. Resetting an Enraged minion's maximum Health so that they are no longer considered 'damaged' will also cancel the effect.

• Example: A damaged Amani Berserker has its Enrage effect active, increasing its attack by 3. Later, its attack and health is set to 3/3 by Keeper of Uldaman. The Enrage effect of Amani Berserker is now no longer active.
• Example: A damaged Spiteful Smith has its weapon-buffing effect active. Later, its attack and health is set to 10/10 by Dinosize. The weapon-buffing effect of Spiteful Smith is no longer active.

Enrage effects are either active or inactive. While active, these effects are constant, and will not be re-applied by further damaging the minion.

Enrage effects are sometimes confused with triggered effects which activate on damage, such as that of Gurubashi Berserker or Frothing Berserker. Unlike Enrage effects, these effects can be triggered repeatedly, and will not be removed by healing the minion.

Tips

There are many ways of triggering Enrage effects:

• Making a minion with Enrage attack an opponent minion with low Attack is a good way to activate their Enrage effect while taking minimal damage.
• Many damaging spells and effects can be cast on your own minions, such as Shiv or Cruel Taskmaster's battlecry.
  • Mages can use Fireblast on their own minions to activate their Enrage effects.
  • Some AoE and randomly targeted spells can be used to trigger minions' Enrage effects, such as Whirlwind or Mad Bomber.
• Minions and heroes cannot attack their own allies so you can't force an Enrage on a friendly minion through combat with your own forces.

Healing effects can sometimes be useful for canceling enemy Enrage effects. For example, Priests can use Lesser Heal to reduce the threat from enemy minions who have powerful effects when damaged.

Cards with Enrage

Name / Desc	Rarity	Type	Subtype	Class	Cost	Atk	HP	Description
Grommash Hellscream	Legendary	Minion	General	Warrior	8	4	9	Charge Has +6 Attack while damaged.
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Wild format

This section concerns content exclusive to Wild format.

Name / Desc	Rarity	Type	Subtype	Class	Cost	Atk	HP	Description
Angry Chicken	Rare	Minion	Beast	Any	1	1	1	Has +5 Attack while damaged.
Warbot	Common	Minion	Mech	Warrior	1	1	3	Has +1 Attack while damaged.
Amani Berserker	Common	Minion	General	Any	2	2	3	Has +3 Attack while damaged.
Dozing Marksman	Common	Minion	General	Any	2	0	4	Has +4 Attack while damaged.
Redband Wasp	Rare	Minion	Beast	Warrior	2	1	3	Rush Has +3 Attack while damaged.
Spellzerker	Common	Minion	General	Any	2	2	3	Has Spell Damage +2 while damaged.
Temple Berserker	Common	Minion	General	Any	2	1	2	Reborn Has +2 Attack while damaged.
Raging Worgen	Common	Minion	General	Any	3	3	3	Has +1 Attack and Windfury while damaged.
Tauren Warrior	Common	Minion	General	Any	3	2	3	Taunt Has +3 Attack while damaged.
Aberrant Berserker	Common	Minion	General	Any	4	3	5	Has +2 Attack while damaged.
Bloodhoof Brave	Common	Minion	General	Warrior	4	2	6	Taunt Has +3 Attack while damaged.
Quartz Elemental	Common	Minion	Elemental	Priest	5	5	8	Can't attack while damaged.
Spiteful Smith	Common	Minion	General	Any	5	4	6	Your weapon has +2 Attack while this is damaged.
Grommash Hellscream	Legendary	Minion	General	Warrior	8	4	9	Charge Has +6 Attack while damaged.
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History

Prior to Patch 11.0.0.23966, "Enrage" appeared as a keyword, written as Enrage: Has X. However, it was decided to be removed due to its narrow design space, lack of synergy, and overall unpopularity. At the time of its removal, Enrage was only featured on a total of nine minions: six from the Classic set, one from Goblins vs. Gnomes, and two from Whispers of the Old Gods.

Peter Whalen gave the following explanation for its removal:

How well, then, is Enrage serving us as a keyword? First, it’s not clear that Enrage is actually any easier to understand than “while damaged”. It is certainly flavorful though, and does shrink the card text a little. On the other hand, we haven’t made any cards that key off of Enrage minions and aren’t likely to in the future. Overall, Enrage isn’t doing very much work for us, we haven’t used it in a while, and it isn’t on very many cards, so we’re cleaning up the game a little bit and removing it.

Trivia

• Enrage is the first keyword to be removed from the final version of the game.

Patch notes

• Patch 11.0.0.23966 (2018-04-10): Removed and replaced with "while damaged".
• Unknown: Added.

References

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	Other abilities	Can't attack Cast spell Copy Deal damage Destroy Discard Draw cards Elusive Enrage Equip Force attack Forgetful Gain Armor Generate Highlander Joust Modify cost Put into battlefield Put into hand Recurring Refresh Mana Remove from deck Replace Restore Health Return to hand Shuffle into deck Spend mana Steal Summon Take control Transform Unlimited attacks Upgradable
	Non-Constructed	Auto-Attack Auto-cast Shrine Start of Combat
By effect type	Area of effect In-deck effect In-hand effect On-discard effect On-draw effect Ongoing effect Positional effect Random effect Resurrection effect Triggered effect
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	Wild	Hall of Fame Curse of Naxxramas Goblins vs Gnomes Blackrock Mountain Grand Tournament The League of Explorers Whispers of the Old Gods One Night in Karazhan Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Journey to Un'Goro Knights of the Frozen Throne Kobolds & Catacombs The Witchwood The Boomsday Project Rastakhan's Rumble
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