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Shirvallah, the Tiger is a legendary paladin minion card, from the Rastakhan's Rumble set.
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This section uses content from Wowpedia.- Shirvallah is a loa of tigers revered notably by Zandalari, Gurubashi and Darkspear trolls. Their last champion was
High Priest Thekal, and at some point, their high priest was a Zandalari, who wielded The Warmace of Shirvallah, a brutal mace with an ornate frame which claimed many lives in an unbidden attempt to honor Shirvallah. Long ago, it was lost to the sea with the high priest who wielded it.
- Shirvallah was held in Zul'Gurub against their will when the Hakkari were attempting to summon Hakkar the Soulflayer. By the time of the war against the Iron Horde, troll druids created a way for all druids to take on a half-tiger form like those of Shirvallah's champions, called the Claws of Shirvallah.
While Shirvallah is a long-established character in Warcraft lore, she has never previously been directly pictured nor described in much detail, making her Hearthstone appearance the first time she has been officially depicted. In Hearthstone lore, Shirvallah serves as the patron loa of Shirvallah's Tigers, the paladin team in Rastakhan's Rumble, and is described as a proud and noble loa, much like the paladins who worship her.[1] Much like her physical appearance, Shirvallah's association with the paladin class is unique to Hearthstone, as Zandalari paladins in World of Warcraft instead tend to be associated with the devilsaur loa Rezan.
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- Shirvallah was designed "super early on" in the development of Rastakhan's Rumble.[2] She was originally a 30-mana 9/7 minion but was downscaled to 25 mana partially due to a one-turn-kill combo that used Shirvallah in combination with Holy Wrath to instantly deal 30 damage to the opponent's hero.[2][3] Peter Whalen comments that "we used to have a whiteboard with the number of people [Dean Ayala]'s killed with Holy Wrath today".[2] However, Ayala himself stresses that while there was the risk of instantly bursting down opponents with the Holy Wrath combo, Shirvallah being changed to 25 mana also means that the designers don't have to go out of their way to create high-Cost paladin spells every set just in order for the card to work.[2]
- Shirvallah's appearance is extremely similar to the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth depiction of Eraka no Kimbul, another tiger loa, albeit with added armor and a slightly broken left fang.
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- ↑ Blizzard Entertainment (2018-11-02). BlizzCon 2018 Opening Ceremony. YouTube. Retrieved on 2018-11-04.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Cam Shea (2019-02-04). Hearthstone: Peter Whalen and Dean Ayala on Designing Key Rastakhan Cards. IGN. Retrieved on 2019-02-05.
- ↑ Skiffington (2018-11-07). Interview With Hearthstone Game Designers Liv Breeden & Peter Whalen At BlizzCon: Discussing Rastakhan's Rumble!. Hearthstone Top Decks. Retrieved on 2018-11-12.