Hearthstone Card Review: Raging Worgen

Hello once more people of the internet, TKH here. So today we have the first of those Hearthstone card reviews I mentioned I'd start doing in the return article I did earlier this week. For those of you who don't know what the game is about, it is essentially a online card game where players battle each other and use cards to try to get the opponents health (which starts at 30) to 0. Whoever loses all their health first loses the battle. For today's card review we're looking at the Raging Worgen card (picture at the bottom of the post), one of the cards that has been in the game since it first began.

The card costs 3 mana to play and has 3 attack and 3 defence. In terms of vanilla stats this is not a particularly good distribution of them, but it also isn't a terrible stats spread either. The reason why the Raging Worgen can be such a powerful card is that it is an enrage creature, meaning if it takes damage it triggers a certain effect. For this card it gains 1 attack and also gets windfury, which means it can attack twice in one turn. This makes it's potential damage output per turn increase from 3 to 8, which is a very high amount to have to deal with.

This card generally is a good one to use to get the opponent to use removal cards on it, as the opponent tends to want to remove the card as soon as possible. Does this mean the card is not worth playing? This could certainly be argued, as 9 times out of 10 the card gets removed the moment or very soon after it is played. But, when the Worgen is able to be used to full effect it is an extremely powerful card. Personally I find that sometimes it can be a good card to play to get the opponent to use premium removal cards to eliminate it, as this means they don't have that card to use against a more powerful opponent. All in all however I do think the Raging Worgen is a good card with the potential to win you games if used in the right way in the right scenarios.

That's the blog post for today, the first of hopefully more Hearthstone card reviews to come. I hope you enjoyed the post and until the next post, bye for now.