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Deathwhisper's hero power damages your minions until they have 1 health. She begins with 90 armour over her 30 health, but you begin with Valithra Dreamwalker on your board, a 30/5 dragon that cannot attack or be attacked while she's injured.

* LoopholeAbuse: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] You may think you're being clever by silencing Valithra to remove the text preventing her from attacking unless she's on full HP. However, Valithria's text prevents her from being attacked, and silencing her removes that protection.[[note]]Similar to the secret perma-stealth a summoned Mr. Bigglesworth has during the battle against Kel'Thuzad in Naxxramas that causes him to ignore Mr. Bigglesworth even if you give it Taunt.[[/note]] If you silence Valithra, she'll be able to attack ''once,'' but that text will be cleared along with the rest and Deathwhisper will immediately kill her. If you didn't do it just to deliver the final blow, you've just screwed yourself.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: For a death cultist, Lady Deathwhisper doesn't directly do a lot of killing, though her Hero Power makes it ridiculously easy for her minions to do so. The Lich King is exasperated that she lacks Arcane Explosion to finish off the player's minions.[[note]]This is intentional to keep her from easily killing off Valithra and making the fight effectively unwinnable.[[/note]]

A servant of Queen Azshara who guards the pearl. Her hero power causes her to use the power of the pearl to replace all minions on the board with minions that cost 1 more. In Heroic, only her minions cost one more; your minions retain the same cost.

* GradualGrinder: The Lich King prioritizes keeping your board as empty as possible with spells and minion trades, aiming to wear the player down over time. After all, you're the one on a timer in this fight.

* GradualGrinder: He slowly wears you down with his healing hero power.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Well, technically he's an ape, but it's thematically the same, what with all the bananas.

Illidan was originally a Legendary 6 mana 7/5 that summoned a 2/1 Flame of Azzinoth each time the player played a card. However, the card was later replaced with Xavius (who is functionally identical outside of replacing the Flames of Azzinoth with Satyrs with the same stats)?and Illidan became the basic hero of the new Demon Hunter class.

* MythologyGag: The key gimmicks of each fight are largely based on their actual boss fights from ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.

* PurposelyOverpowered: Simply put, the bosses would have been impossible if the Hearthstone AI wasn't [[ArtificialStupidity less than stellar]]. Their cards and hero powers are extremely powerful when compared to what is available in the core game, but are at least beatable.

Illidan was originally a Legendary 6 mana 7/5 that summoned a 2/1 Flame of Azzinoth each time the player played a card. However, the card was later replaced with Xavius and Illidan became the basic hero of the new Demon Hunter class.

* LogicalWeakness: Here's a boss that wraps your minions and sends them back to hand - this leaves them unable to fight normally on the board unless you summon a lot. But battlecries do not care for that, and neither does charge minions! Stack your deck with any of these and go straight for the big spider - you'll be outhealing or outdamaging her spiders in short order.

* TacticalSuicideBoss: Eruption always hits the left-most minion on your board, making it easy to just park a beefy minion there to soak the damage up.

Many of the humans and their loyal mounts who were once soldiers in Lordaeron’s army now find their martial talents put to use in Naxxramas’s Military Quarter. Here, in service to Kel’Thuzad and the Lich King, they hone their skills far past what they could have accomplished in life. Leaders, trainers, and military coordinators—all use their talents to coordinate the Scourge into a powerful fighting force rather than a mindless horde. Many Death Knights begin their training within this quarter under the direction of its powerful lieutenants.

* KryptoniteFactor: Doomsayer and Equality are prime cards for taking out the horsemen and rendering the hero vulnerable. [[spoiler: Like with Loatheb, playing these cards on heroic will cause Kel'Thuzad to intervene]]
** On a lesser note, defeating the normal version unlocks the Deathlord card, a 3 cost 2/8 minion with taunt and a deathrattle which summons an opponent's minion from the deck onto the field. You'll want this one in your deck for heroic attempts as they themselves have no other minions than the horsemen they start out with - rendering the deathlord's negative deathrattle useless.
** The big danger of fighting the horsemen on Heroic is that they start with 6 damage per turn on the board and have a LOT of removal. You can make them look absolutely pathetic by casting Power Word: Glory [[note]]A Priest buff that costs 1 mana and causes you to gain recover 4 life every time the chosen minion attacks.[[/note]] on one of the horsemen on your first turn. Since Power Word: Glory was released after the Naxxramas adventure, Rivendare's AI isn't coded to refrain from attacking with the buffed horseman. If you can remove another horseman with something as simple as Shadow Word: Pain, then Power Word: Glory will heal you each turn for as much damage as they can deal. Even the Runeblade will run out of durability before it can do any serious damage and you can simply outlast Rivendare with relative ease.

-->'''Kel'Thuzad:''' "'''NOTH''' ''ing can defeat Noth!''"

The sooty stone halls of Blackrock Depths form a dim, sprawling city whose subterranean streets are filled with Dark Iron dwarves. The Dark Irons are enslaved to the will of Ragnaros the Firelord, and that’s a pretty time-consuming job. When they’re not slaving away, however, they make time for fun! Brawls in the Grim Guzzler, brawls in the Ring of Law . . . really just brawling everywhere they feel like brawling.

* BadGuyBar: The Grim Guzzler in a nutshell, where there's constant [[BarBrawl Bar Brawls]] going on and eventually ''everyone'' gets dragged into them!

As a card, Majordomo Executus is a 9 mana 9/7 who's Deathrattle replaces your hero with Ragnaros. All tropes applying to Ragnaros should go under his own entry in the ''Summonable Heroes'' folder.

* FriendlyEnemy: He seems to be under the impression that the Hero was a friend. His response to the player's emotes is apparently "Why?! Tell me why! Please, I liked you."

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* CripplingOverspecialization: Executus' deck contains a whopping TEN Molten Giants (8/8 which originally cost 20, but reduce the cost by each point of damage taken). His primary strategy was to wait until you whittle him down to ten life then fill the board with giants, guaranteeing a one turn kill. However, the downside to this is that a third of his deck is unusable till the late phase of the game. And if you manage to kill him in one shot, then Ragnaros won't be able to play the giants either (Since his Max HP is 8, he won't be able to reduce the cost of the giants enough to play them). The nerf to Molten Giant at the start of Whispers of the Old Gods, which increased their cost to 25, basically turned this UpToEleven, making it almost impossible to lose to him on normal.

* EvilIsPetty: His entire motivation in the adventure is that ''he's pissed because he didn't get an invite''. Taken UpToEleven once Medivh defeats him, pulling a TakingYouWithMe and potentially ruining the entire party.

* UnusableEnemyEquipment: [[UpToEleven Basically its entire deck]], which is completely built around the Plates summoned by its hero power.

* YouNoTakeCandle: Togwaggle speaks like this as per usual, but takes it UpToEleven for the aforementioned gag. His interrogation involves a rambling {{Metaphorgotten}} series of questions comparing dragons to big candles. It takes Askaara several turns to figure out what he's even trying to say.

* TheNecromancer: His hero power is the first passive hero power to grace Naxxramas; every time one of your minions die, it will summon a [[CannonFodder 1/1]] skeleton, which is bumped up to a [[SurprisinglyEliteCannonFodder 5/5]] on heroic.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: He runs a dragon-centric deck. His Heroic deck is more about [[TheBeastmaster Beasts]] than Dragons, but he still has a few.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: If [=YouTube=] comments are to be believed, some players just kept conceding retrying until they succeeded in beating Skruk as Chromie, not knowing that the FissionMailed trope awaited them (see below).

A ferocious Gronn released by Lazul to wreak havoc on the Dragonflights' ranks, and Chromie has taken on the duty of ending his rampage. Skruk's hero power, Gronnic Strength, is auto-cast for free (1 mana on Heroic) and gives ''all'' of his minions +1/+1, wherever they are.

* TheComicallySerious: His entire personality, basically. He has a perpetual air of menace to him and a very deep voice, and all things considered he'd be a pretty creepy villain if he wasn't constantly talking about how great he is at ''Hearthstone''. WordOfGod is that the original draft for him was a much more straightforward, LaughablyEvil villain, but they felt it wasn't in the spirit of the character, so they took to this trope to strike a balance between serious and silly.

* AchillesHeel: You'll want Acidic Swamp Oozes in your deck for this guy, trust us.

* AchillesHeel: Patchwerk has multiple weaknesses because of his straightforward nature. Taunts are a good way to buy time if you can field enough of them, and the freezing mechanic will completely[[note]]Outside of his hero power[[/note]] shut him down for a turn. Surprisingly, Acidic Slime Ooze is not an effective counter since Hook's deathrattle is to put another copy into his hand- since it's 3 mana the only way this will slow him is if you coin into your ooze on turn 1. However, Kobold Stickyfinger is a ''very'' effective counter, leaving Patchwerk completely defenseless as you casually beat him to death with his own weapon.

* MagikarpPower: '''Dragonteeth''' can get out of control if a player doesn't do something about it, and it highly limits how many cards they can play per turn.

* BigCreepyCrawlies: You get attacked by a pair of Giant Insects at one point.

* SchmuckBait: The event prior to the CollapsingCeilingBoss above. No matter what you do, it summons a 10/10 to the field.

* NighInvulnerable[=/=]TacticalSuicideBoss: During the final battle with him, Rafaam is Immune and only drops his shield every 3 turns to summon a very powerful minion.

** '''[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Bronze]]''': Whine in a hand, this reduces the cost of Chromaggus's minions by one. On Heroic, the cost of minions is instead reduced by three.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Being a free adventure, Icecrown doesn't reward the player specific cards for beating each boss, and the PowerCopying trope of the previous adventures doesn't apply. Nearly all the bosses in this adventure can be obtained as legendary cards from the ''Knights of the Frozen Throne'' expansion. It also lacks a Heroic difficulty.

Kel'Thuzad also appears as a collectible Legendary minion with 6/8 stats and a mana cost of 8. As long as he's in play, all of the player's minions that die are revived at the end of the turn.

* DenserAndWackier: ''Far'' goofier than his canon counterpart.

* FauxAffablyEvil: In some moments, he comes off as having a facade of smugness - it's all very clear that it is just a facade.

As a card, Illidan is a Legendary 6 mana 7/5 that summons a 2/1 Flame of Azzinoth each time the player plays a card.

* BiTheWay: Accuses the player of flirting with her and laments how well you were getting along with her when defeated regardless of Hero gender.

** The big danger of fighting the horsemen on Heroic is that they start with 6 damage per turn on the board and have a LOT of removal. You can effectively ''emasculate'' their damage by the simple process of casting Power Word: Glory (a Priest buff that costs 1 mana and causes you to gain recover 4 life every time the chosen minion attacks) on one of the horsemen on your first turn. Since Power Word: Glory was released after the Naxxramas adventure, Rivendare's AI isn't coded to refrain from attacking with the buffed horseman, and if you can remove another horseman with something as simple as Shadow Word: Pain then Power Word: Glory will heal you each turn for as much damage as they can deal. Even the Runeblade will run out of durability before it can do any serious damage and you can simply outlast Rivendare with relative ease.

* PurposefullyOverpowered: Once the ritual is complete, you resurrect Galakrond. He is represented by a '''5/300''' minion with Mega-Windfury and a cleave effect. He will obliterate anything in his path. Anduin and Sylvanas have pretty ridiculous hero powers that summon 5 minions from their deck for free, and grant them +3 Health and Taunt or +3 Attack and Rush respectively. Both are no threat to Galakrond... unless he is silenced, hexed, polymorphed, executed or hit by a poisonous minion. However, given the decks Anduin and Sylvanas have, it is highly unlikely.

* TakeThatScrappy: Not a fan of TheAlliance and/or TheHorde, especially after the events of ''Battle for Azeroth''? Galakrond can take care of that little issue...

* LuckBasedMission: Reno can easily prove to be this even on normal, particularly if he manages to play Lei Flamepaw or his Medivh cards early (and/or gets particularly good rolls on his random spells.)
* PurposefullyOverpowered: Once the ritual is complete, you resurrect Galakrond. He is represented by a 5/300 minion with Mega-Windfury and a cleave effect. He will obliterate anything in his path. Anduin and Sylvanas have pretty ridiculous hero powers that summon 5 minions from their deck for free, and grant them +3 Health and Taunt or +3 Attack and Rush respectively. Both are no threat to Galakrond.