Malfurion the Pestilent

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Malfurion the Pestilent

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Last updated:

August 30, 2023

Wiki mechanics
Choose One, Gain Armor, Replace Hero Power, Summon

Wiki tags
Beast-generating, Hero Power-related, Poisonous-generating, Taunt-generating

Flavor

Voice actor:

Ed Trotta

Races:

Night elf<br/> Undead

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Lore

Malfurion the Pestilent is the death knight version of Malfurion Stormrage. He has completely abandoned the traditional path of the druid and its association with animals such as panthers or bears, and has now instead fully embraced spreading plagues through insects.^[1]

Malfurion the Pestilent in . — Malfurion the Pestilent in *Forest for the Weary*.

In the web comic Forest for the Weary, a Pompous Thespian tells a tale of how the master hunter Rexxar one day discovered that a great evil had descended on his forest home — the air was frigid, and the forests and everything that walked within them were dying. The thespian's story is interrupted by a fortune-teller, who announces that choosing Malfurion as the story's villain is a bold choice. The audience rebuke her by saying that her powers have failed her, since having the noble Malfurion, guardian of nature, as the bad guy makes no sense, and that no storyteller would take such liberties. As the thespian continues with his tale, he reveals that it actually was Malfurion, but not as the listeners knew him, for "he was the pestilent. Bane of the forests. Corruptor of nature." Rexxar fired his bow at the corrupt druid, but Malfurion's insects chewed apart his arrows and poisoned his companions, Misha and Huffer. However, Rexxar was transformed into Deathstalker Rexxar by the vampiric death knight Gul'dan, allowing him to grant his beasts unholy immortality and stitch together an army of Zombeasts to strike against Malfurion. For all his corruptive might, Malfurion could not withstand the fury of claw and fang. However, as Rexxar moved in for the killing blow, Malfurion whispered that he, too, had accepted dark power from a hooded stranger in an attempt to protect his land from a draining presence: the druid and the hunter had fallen victim to the same force.

Malfurion's affinity for plagues and insects appear to suggest an association with the Unholy death knight specialization.

This section uses content from Wowpedia.

"While free from the Lich King’s grasp, some death knights still embody the ever-corrupting nature of the Scourge plague that once threatened to consume Azeroth. No matter their allegiance or cause, they remain defilers of life; and nowhere is their callousness more on display than when threatened. Inflictors of the most aggressive of diseases—and masters of raising unhallowed minions from the ground—these unholy death knights are vicious melee combatants, capable of striking with the force of an undead legion and unleashing pestilence that would bring their foes to ruin."

For more information, see Knights of the Frozen Throne.

Trivia

Malfurion the Pestilent underwent a few redesigns during devleopment of Knights of the Frozen Throne. An early name for the card was "Malfurion, Plaguebringer". One of the designs involved it being a 5-Mana card with the effect "Destroy all your mana crystals, all your cards cost (2)", where as another was 7-mana with the effect "Choose One - Spider Form; or Scarab Form". The latter design was kept for "a while" during development, with the effect allowing him to either gain 10 Armor and "defensive minions", or no Armor and "more aggressive minions".^[2]^[3]

When the developers were discussing the names for all of the Knights of the Frozen Throne death knight heroes, they were in a group with Ben Brode, who proposed to name Malfurion "Malfurious". Matt Place is not certain if he was being serious or not.^[4]