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Colossal minions, first introduced during the Voyage to the Sunken City expansion, are a unique category of minion in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hearthstone. They have extra minions that are always summoned along with them🗹, no matter how they arrive on the board. That makes them different from the far more common Battlecry effects, which only trigger if the minion is played from han𓆏d.
This creates a lot of unique synergies, since the extra bodies of Colossal minions appear even when they are summoned from your hand, deck, or back from the dead. They also tend ꦜto be powerful cards on their own. If you’re looking to add some heavy hitters into your deck, the minions on this list are the perfect candidates.
10 💛 Nellie, the Great Thresher
When it was first released, the Pirates created by Nellie, the Great Thresher𝓀’s effect cost one mana. Not one mana less; one mana overall. That version of the card was an absolute beast, and was played in basically every Warrior deck.
Then Blizzard hit Nellie with the nerf bat, changing the reduction to the Pirates to a one mana reduction instead, at which point Nellie was essentially unplayable. However, Nellie was then later buffed again, so the Pirates' cost was reduced by two instead.
That’s still a far cry from Nellie’s original power level, but it might be enough to ♒bring Nellie back into the meta in certain decks.
9 Blaไckwater Behemoth
The Behemoth’s Lure's ability to force attacks against the Blackwater Behemoth allows the minion to get around the biggest problem with most Lifesteal minions: they don't heal you the turn they're played. That ability can win you the game on the spot in certain situations.
If your opponent has a board with a bunch of small minions, ꦅthey will either have to sacrifice their minioღns to kill the Behemoth’s main body, healing you at the same time, use a burn spell that would otherwise be aimed at your face, or just concede.
It has uses against combo decks as well, since even if they don’t have minions for th▨e Behemoth to hit, it still has Lifesteal, which can push you out of range of their burn combo.
On the other hand, against 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:control decks it﷽’s just a slightly oversized pile🍸 of stats, making its usefulness highly meta-dependent.
8 Gigafin
Gigafin is one of the most unusual board clears in Hearthstone. It’s a one-sided effect that will remove all of your opponent’s minions, which is basically unheard of, but it is also a 💝conditional one.
Of course, most aggressive decks won’t have the tools to kill Gigafin’s main body without going through the Maw first, triggering 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:its Deathrattle and guaranteeing the🍷 permanent deaths of their minions.
And even if they do have a removal spell of some kind, Gigafin will at least have slowed them down, altho🎀ugh you won’t have done much to advance your gameplan either. That said, against decks that don’t play many minions, G🌃igafin doesn’t do anything, although that is true of most board clears. Still, the card is no pushover if the meta is right for it.
7 The Leviathan 🌌
The Leviathan’s bodies both have Rush and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Divine Shield, giving them an immediate board impact and making them difficulဣt to deal with unless your oppon𒁃ent is playing hard removal.
They also come with powerful additional effects: the combination of Dredge and card draw allows you to take a card from the bottom of your deck and immediatel🍃y put it into your hand.
It gives you both board control and value at the same time. And of course, if it survives you opponent's turn, you can do it all again.
6 ♎ Gaia, the Techtonic ♑
Gaia, the Techtonic comes with a pair of rush minions. They can do some damage on their own, but Gaia&rsquღo;s ability makes those attacks far more devastating, dealing an extra two damage to your opponent’s entire board and life total (assuming your opponent has minions to attack into).
And Gaia’s power only improves the more Mechs you already have on the board. With enough Mechs, you can wipe out your opponent’s entire board while sending all your minions at 🦹their face. It’s no surprise that Gaia makes a great finishe🎐r for a Mech Mage decks.
5 ꦇ Xhilag of the Abyss 🅺
Xhilag of the Abyss has fallen out of favor in Demon Hunter lists recently, but it remains a must-kill threat if 𝔉it ever hits the board. Xhilag’s Stalks will always deal at least eight damage, either clearing your opponent’s board or just punching them in t🍨heir face.
And that damage will only increase if your opponent can’t clear enough of Xhilag’s bodies. Although, if Xhilag and his Stalks survive your opponent’s 🍃turn, that either means you’ve won the game, or your opponent is about to kill you.
4 🍰ꦺ Neptulon the Tidehunter
Neptulon the Tidehunter is a rare ten-mana card that is high-impact enough to see play. As with many cards in that category, Neptul💃on has Rush, and is capable deal 16 damage to your opponent’s board immediately after you play it.
Of course, ten mana is 👍still quite slow, which is why Neptulon has most often seen play in decks that are able to cheat out big minions.
Currently, the deck making the best use of Neptulon is Evolve Shaman, which both has synergies with high-mana cards and can cheat out Neptulon as early as turn fi🦋ve thanks to Shadow Hunter Vol’jin’s ability to switch 💞itself with a minion in your hand, summoning both Neptulon and his Hands.
3 Glugg the Gulper 𒀰
Initially, Glugg the Gulper seemed like one of the weaker Colossal minions. It’s not a bad card by itself; it puts a few Taunts in the way of your opponent’s minions and grows as they die. That can be tricky to deal with if your opponent doesn’t have an answer to the main body, but it wasn’t enough to find a consis꧙tent place on the Standard ladder.
However, the rise of Evolve Shaman has pushed Glugg into the meta. Everything about it has synergy with what that deck tries 🏅to do. Glugg summons a bunch of minions with a single card, which can then be transformed. Evolve Shaman also has the ability to cheat Glugg out early, which will make any card🦩 better, especially one with such size.
2 Crabatoa
Crabatoa deals a ton of damage as soon as it hits the board. Between the Crabatoa's Claws with Rush and the first weapon hit, it will deal 12 damage, with another four on the way from the final weapon. That is an absurd amount of damage for six mana.
Of course, in the worst case, your opponent doesn&rsquoꦺ;t have any minions in play, and they kill the Crabatoa and his Claws, leaving you with on🐻ly a 2/1 weapon.
They’ll need to invest resources, but the difference between the ꦐbest and worst cases is definitely significant. Fortunately, playing minions is something your opponents are likely to do relatively often. As a result, it is rare that Crabatoa is going to be dead in your hand.
1 Hydralodon 𝔉
There are few minions in Hearthstone with a higher immediate board impact than Hydralodon. In the best-case scenario, it will deal six damag🎉e and summon a total of 17/9 in stats; stats that are extremely difficult to remove thanks to Hydralodon’s effect.
It is a powerful play at seven mana, but what really makes Hydralodon great is Hunter's ability to reduce the cost of Beasts. A Hydralodon played on turn five is almost impossible to deal with completely even for the most removal-heavy decks, at which point it will rapidly snowball out of control.