Anub'Rekhan


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Curse of Naxxramas banner.jpg The subject of this article is part of the Curse of Naxxramas "Whispers of an ancient tomb… holding horrors in every room. Ghastly ghouls, poisons galore… but in the shadows lurks something more. Knights of death and abominations… cleaving your bits for new creations. And if by hearthstone adventure

Anub`Rekhan is a boss Bosses are unique computer-controlled heroes encountered in adventures, the tutorial, and some Tavern Brawls. Each boss presents a unique encounter, featuring their own Hero Power and decks. Bosses use a combination of regular cards and hearthstone found in the Curse of Naxxramas "Whispers of an ancient tomb… holding horrors in every room. Ghastly ghouls, poisons galore… but in the shadows lurks something more. Knights of death and abominations… cleaving your bits for new creations. And if by hearthstone adventure Choosing an adventure Game formats Each Standard year, any adventures released prior to the previous calendar year are marked as Wild format. The adventures are removed from the Shop, and players will be unable to hearthstone . He is the first boss of the adventure`s first wing Choosing an adventure Game formats Each Standard year, any adventures released prior to the previous calendar year are marked as Wild format. The adventures are removed from the Shop, and players will be unable to hearthstone , the Arachnid Quarter "Whispers of an ancient tomb… holding horrors in every room. Ghastly ghouls, poisons galore… but in the shadows lurks something more. Knights of death and abominations… cleaving your bits for new creations. And if by hearthstone .

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Hero Power

Normal Heroic
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Special cards

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Deck

Anub`Rekhan, full art

Normal and Heroic

Normal

On Normal difficulty, the key to defeating Anub`Rekhan is to not get overrun in the early game. His 2-cost 3/1 Nerubian will trade A trade is the loss of one or more cards in exchange for the elimination of one or more enemy cards. Most often, trading refers to minions dying in combat, but the term may be efficiently with most of your cheap minions, and Nerub`ar Weblord Nerub ar Weblord Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 1 Health: 4 Abilities: Modify cost Tags: Battlecry-related, Ongoing effect Minions with Battlecry cost (2) more.Weblords spend all day making giant trampoline parks.See this hearthstone will make it considerably harder to play minions like Novice Engineer Novice Engineer Set: Basic Type: Minion Cost: 2 Attack: 1 Health: 1 Abilities: Battlecry, Draw cards Battlecry: Draw a card."Half of this class will not graduate… since they ll have been turned to chickens." - Tinkmaster hearthstone or Elven Archer Elven Archer Set: Basic Type: Minion Cost: 1 Attack: 1 Health: 1 Abilities: Battlecry, Deal damage Battlecry: Deal 1 damage.Don t bother asking her out on a date. She ll shoot you down.See this card on Hearthpwn hearthstone . In addition, Anub`Rekhan has spells like Frostbolt Frostbolt Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Mage Cost: 2 Abilities: Deal damage, Freeze Deal 3 damage to a character and Freeze it.It is customary to yell "Chill out!" or "Freeze!" or "Ice ice, baby!" when hearthstone and Mortal Coil Mortal Coil Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Warlock Cost: 1 Abilities: Deal damage, Draw cards Tags: Death-related Deal 1 damage to a minion. If that kills it, draw a card.If your spells look like horrifying hearthstone and minions like Haunted Creeper Haunted Creeper Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Subtype: Beast Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Attack: 1 Health: 2 Abilities: Deathrattle, Summon Deathrattle: Summon two 1/1 Spectral Spiders.Arachnofauxbia: Fear of fake spiders.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] hearthstone to ensure he has complete control of the board in the early stages.

Thus, if you cannot play your own minions, the only way to survive is to eliminate his early minions. The best classes for this are mage and rogue. Mage`s Hero Power can destroy his 3/1 Nerubian, negating Anub`Rekhan`s otherwise very powerful Hero Power. The mage also should take advantage of spells like Arcane Missiles Arcane Missiles Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Mage Cost: 1 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Random Deal 3 damage randomly split among all enemies.You d think you d be able to control your missiles a little better since hearthstone , Arcane Explosion Arcane Explosion Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Mage Cost: 2 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Area of effect Deal 1 damage to all enemy minions.This spell is much better than Arcane Implosion.See this card on Hearthpwn hearthstone , and of course Frostbolt Frostbolt Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Mage Cost: 2 Abilities: Deal damage, Freeze Deal 3 damage to a character and Freeze it.It is customary to yell "Chill out!" or "Freeze!" or "Ice ice, baby!" when hearthstone to keep his minions off the board. Turn 3 Secrets are also a good way to prolong and secure your survival. Rogues can also use their Hero Power to eliminate Nerubians (although it will cost some Health), and should make use of Backstab Backstab Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Rogue Cost: 0 Abilities: Deal damage Tags: Damaged-related Deal 2 damage to an undamaged minion.It s funny how often yelling "Look over there!" gets your opponent to turn around.See this hearthstone , Deadly Poison Deadly Poison Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Rogue Cost: 1 Tags: Weapon-related Give your weapon +2 Attack.Rogues guard the secrets to poison-making carefully, lest magi start incorporating poison into their spells. Poisonbolt? Rain of Poison? hearthstone , Shiv Shiv Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Rogue Cost: 2 Abilities: Deal damage, Draw cards Deal 1 damage. Draw a card.Rogues are experts at SHIV-al-ry.See this card on Hearthpwn data page] Shiv is a rogue spell hearthstone , Blade Flurry Blade Flurry Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Rogue Rarity: Rare Cost: 4 Abilities: Deal damage, Destroy Tags: Area of effect, Attack-related, Weapon-related Destroy your weapon and deal its damage to all enemy minions."Look, it s not hearthstone , Fan of Knives Fan of Knives Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Rogue Cost: 3 Abilities: Deal damage, Draw cards Tags: Area of effect Deal 1 damage to all enemy minions. Draw a card.I wouldn t say I LOVE knives, hearthstone , and SI:7 Agent to avoid getting overrun.

If you can make it to turn 4 or 5 with either of these classes without losing much Health, then you have pretty much won. Anub`Rekhan does not have much of a late game. He may put up cards like Deathlord Deathlord Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 3 Attack: 2 Health: 8 Abilities: Deathrattle, Put into battlefield, Taunt Tags: Random Taunt. Deathrattle: Your opponent puts a minion from their deck into the battlefield."Rise from hearthstone or Abomination Abomination Set: Classic Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 5 Attack: 4 Health: 4 Abilities: Deal damage, Deathrattle, Taunt Tags: Area of effect Taunt. Deathrattle: Deal 2 damage to ALL characters.Abominations enjoy Fresh Meat and long hearthstone to try to stop you. Rogues should Assassinate Assassinate Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Rogue Cost: 5 Abilities: Destroy Destroy an enemy minion.If you don t want to be assassinated, move to the Barrens and change your name. Good luck!See this card on Hearthpwn hearthstone or Eviscerate Eviscerate Set: Classic Type: Spell Class: Rogue Rarity: Common Cost: 2 Abilities: Combo, Deal damage Deal 2 damage. Combo: Deal 4 damage instead.There is a high cost to Eviscerating your opponent: It takes a long hearthstone these cards, as they can take advantage of the positive Deathrattles. Mages can use Fireball Fireball Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Mage Cost: 4 Abilities: Deal damage Deal 6 damage.This spell is useful for burning things. If you re looking for spells that toast things, or just warm them a little, hearthstone or Ice Lance Ice Lance Set: Hall of Fame Type: Spell Class: Mage Rarity: Common Cost: 1 Abilities: Deal damage, Freeze Tags: Frozen-related Freeze a character. If it was already Frozen, deal 4 damage instead.The trick is not hearthstone to kill these cards if they really want or need the Deathrattle effect, but it is often better to save those cards for the endgame and just use Polymorph to be done with it. Anub`Rekhan may also play Shade of Naxxramas Shade of Naxxramas Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Epic Cost: 3 Attack: 2 Health: 2 Abilities: Stealth Tags: Triggered effect Stealth. At the start of your turn, gain +1/+1.The Shades of Naxxramas hate the living. hearthstone , but you need not worry too much about it as it develops slowly and is in general easy to deal with after its Stealth is broken.

Once you get to turns 6 and 7, you begin to have access to some powerful minions, combos, and (for mages) board clears that Anub`Rekhan has no answer to. Taunt minions are especially effective, because he has to run all his puny minions into them, which will probably flip board control in your favor. The best is probably Sunwalker, which would take all 3 of his Locust Swarm Locust Swarm Set: Naxxramas Type: Spell Rarity: Common Cost: 7 Abilities: Deal damage, Restore Health Tags: Area of effect Deal 3 damage to all enemy minions. Restore 3 Health to your hero.See this card on hearthstone spells to destroy, and her 4 attack will crush most of his minions. Anub`Rekhan also has no hard removal in his deck, so he will likely not be able to remove late game threats with high Health, such as Gruul, Ragnaros the Firelord, giants, any of the dragons, and even common cards like Boulderfist Ogre. Make sure you have some powerful minions like those in your deck to get board control and chip away at his Health. Once you get his Health low enough, finish him with Fireball Fireball Set: Basic Type: Spell Class: Mage Cost: 4 Abilities: Deal damage Deal 6 damage.This spell is useful for burning things. If you re looking for spells that toast things, or just warm them a little, hearthstone or Leeroy Jenkins.

Hunter can be a viable class to use as well, thanks to cards like Arcane Shot, Explosive Trap, Eaglehorn Bow and Unleash the Hounds being useful in staying competitive early. Be that as it may, be warned that Anub`Rekhan can play Nerubian Egg Nerubian Egg Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 2 Attack: 0 Health: 2 Abilities: Deathrattle, Summon Deathrattle: Summon a 4/4 Nerubian.Eggs are a good source of protein and Nerubians.See this card on Hearthpwn data hearthstone , which could punish you for an early Explosive Trap. Emperor Cobra, Hunter`s Mark and Deadly Shot are strong options to deal with an early drop of Deathlord Deathlord Set: Naxxramas Type: Minion Rarity: Rare Cost: 3 Attack: 2 Health: 8 Abilities: Deathrattle, Put into battlefield, Taunt Tags: Random Taunt. Deathrattle: Your opponent puts a minion from their deck into the battlefield."Rise from hearthstone , which can provide the hunter with a quick minion advantage.

Heroic

Please note: most of the above strategies for Normal mode also apply to Heroic mode, with minor changes. Below are some alternative strategies for Heroic mode.

One approach is to build a paladin deck with lots of Battlecry healing effects, weapons, and cards that lower minions` Attack to 1. Essentially, you want to fill the boss side with 1 Attack minions so that he cannot summon anything larger. Once Anub`Rekhan`s side is full (7 minions) you can focus on self-healing and using weapons to directly attack him.

Decklists
  • Hearthpwn.com - The Arachnid Quarter Heroic Boss Deck Guides
  • Hearthhead.com - Decks for Defeating Anub`Rekhan

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Rewards

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Anub`Rekhan

Opening remark
Welcome to my parlor.
Emote response
It speaks!
Hero Power
Closer now, tasty morsels!
Cards

Locust Swarm:

Just a little taste!
Defeat
Why... oh... why?

Kel`Thuzad

Introduction
Anub`Rekhan is one of my finest Spider Lords. Good luck, interloper.
On defeat
NOOO!!! I mean.... Irrelevant. You`ll never defeat the Grand Widow.

In World of Warcraft

"Anub`Rekhan, one of the finest Spider Lords of Azjol`Nerub, was brought under control of the Scourge when he and his commander, Anub`arak, were finally defeated by the Lich King many years ago. It is said he was the most loyal of Anub`arak`s commanders."
- Commander Eligor Dawnbringer

Trivia

Senior UI Designer Derek Sakamoto shared the following unused flavor text for Anub`Rekhan:

"Anub`Rekhan is scary on the outside, thoughtful on the inside and also chitinous on the outside and then squishy when we`re talking about his insides again."

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Anub`Rekhan, full art
Anub`Rekhan in World of Warcraft