Freeze

Freeze
Frozen characters lose their next attack.

A Frozen minion

A Frozen hero

Freeze is a mechanic that marks a minion or hero as Frozen. Frozen characters miss their next possible attack. After this, the Frozen status is removed.

Freeze only prevents attacking. Frozen heroes can take all other actions as usual, including using their Hero Power and equipping weapons. Frozen characters will also still defend themselves if attacked. Silencing a Frozen character will remove the Frozen status (unofficially called Unfrozen).

Notes

• During your turn, if your character hasn't attacked at least once yet while it can (or hasn't used up their attack(s)) and then has been Frozen, it will be Unfrozen at the end of your turn. This also applies to:
  • Minions with Rush but opponent has a minion to attack at the end of turn, or characters with Charge.
  • Characters that can attack multiple times (usually with Windfury or Mega-Windfury) but haven't used up all of their possible attacks yet
• During your turn, if your character has attacked and then has been Frozen, it will be Unfrozen at the end of your next turn. This also applies to:
  • Minions that have summoning sickness (just summoned or taken control, can't attack yet)
  • Minions with Rush but opponent has no minion to attack at the end of turn
  • Characters that can attack multiple times (usually with Windfury or Mega-Windfury) and have used up all of their possible attacks already
• Can't attack effect and 0-attack attribute do not prevent the characters who have it from being Unfrozen.
  • For example: You summon an Ancient Watcher and Freeze it afterwards. At the end of your next turn, it will be Unfrozen.
  • For example: You summon an Ancient Watcher. At your next turn, you Freeze it. At the end of that turn, it will be Unfrozen.
• Freeze cannot stop forced attacks (Lothar's effect, Illidari Inquisitor's effect, Warmaul Challenger's Battlecry,...).
  • However, if they are forced-attacking and Frozen, they are counted as having used up their attack and cannot be Unfrozen until the end of turn when they are not forced-attacking.
• If your hero is Frozen and you play a hero card, your hero will be Unfrozen.
• During your turn, when you Freeze your Charge minion and the opponent does not have any minion, but their hero is Immune or has Stealth, at the end of your turn, that Frozen minion will not be unfrozen.^{[citation needed]}
• During your turn, when you Freeze your Rush minion and the opponent has only minions which are Immune or have Stealth, at the end of your turn, that Frozen minion will not be unfrozen.^{[citation needed]}
• During your turn, when you Freeze your minion that has both Charge and Rush and the opponent does not have any minions, at the end of your turn, that Frozen minion will be unfrozen.^{[citation needed]}

Freeze and Windfury

Freeze and Rush with a minion on opponent's side.

Freeze and Windfury and Rush but no minion left for the second attack

Freeze with Force attack.

Cards with Freeze

For Wild format listings, see Freeze/Wild format

Related cards

For Wild format listings, see Freeze/Wild format

These cards have effect related to Freeze.

Achievements

	Category	Name	Description	Rewards
	Gameplay - Barrens - Mage	Shatter Combo	Destroy 50 Frozen minions.	20
	Gameplay - Barrens - Mage	Don't Move a Muscle!	Freeze 25 characters with Elementals.	10
	Gameplay - Barrens - Mage	Don't Move a Muscle!	Freeze 75 characters with Elementals.	20
	Gameplay - Alterac Valley - Shaman	Winter Vacation	Freeze 150 characters as Shaman.	10
	Gameplay - Alterac Valley - Shaman	Winter Vacation	Freeze 300 characters as Shaman.	10
	Gameplay - Alterac Valley - Shaman	Winter Vacation	Freeze 600 characters as Shaman.	20