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In card games, healing cards are often overvalued by new players. They can save you in specific situations, but a healin♛g card that does nothing else is useless if you’re winning, and they won’t actually save you from dyin🍸g if your opponent is in complete control of the board.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hearthstone’s Lifesteal mechanic gives you a way to heal while dealing damage, either to opposing minions or to your opponent's life total directly. The keyword got an influx of new cards with the introduction of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Death Knight class, so now is as good a time as any to look at the most effective ways to use Lifesteal to regain health in Hea🍷rthstone.
9 Blackwater Behemoth ♒
Blackwater Behemoth is a powerful defensive tool for Control Priest decks. The Behemoth’s Lure forces your opponent to trigger your L✨ifesteal, ideally killing their minion and healing you at the same time whꦰile leaving you with a decently sized threat left over.
The trouble is, the Behemoth is quite expensive. In the current state of Standard Hearthstone, an eight-mana anti-aggro card will be too slow to save you from death. Ideally, the Behemoth will be played just in time to help you stabilize, but there will be games when your opponent kills you wꦡhile it is sitting idle in your hand.
8 D♏e﷽ath Strike
Death Strike might be the simplest Lifesteal card imaginable. It deals a bunch of damage and heals you while doing it. But sometimes, simple is good. Six damage won’t ki🦹ll ev♏erything, but it will kill pretty much anything you need it to.
And six health is more than enough to make a difference between winning and losing games against aggro or even midrange deckཧs. The card may not be complicated, but Death Strike can still be a valuable piece for any Blood D✤eath Knight deck.
7 ✱ Void Shard ꧂
Four mana for four damage isn’t great, but there are a c💜ouple of factors that make Void Shard perform better than it looks, particularly in aggressive decks. First of all, the card can target both minions and the enemy hero, bucking the recent trend of damagꦜe spells that can only hit minions.
Additionally, while Lifesteal generally won’t be relevant wཧhen trying to beat control decks, it is especially good when you are facing other🐽 aggressive decks. Those matchups often boil down to a race to see which of you can kill the other faster, and the eight-health swing Void Shard provides can be enough to give you the lead.
6 Murlocula
Murlocula can be played for free. There really isn&rs🐲quo;t anything more to be said about the card. As it turns out, anything better than a 1/1 with no effects looks like a good deal when it costs zero mana. Even a 3/4 with Lifesteal — which isn’t all that great in a vacuum — is exceptional at that cost.
That said, to get that deal you need to run Murlocula in a deck that can 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:trigger its Infuse effect, and trigger it quickly. Y🐬ou’ll want a lot of low-c♍ost minions, so Murlocula can be played fast enough for a 3/4 with Lifesteal to be relevant on the board.
5 🐼 Aldrachi Warblades
Demon Hunters have a lot of ways to gain attack, and Aldrachi Warblades allows you to turn that attack into healing. With the right setup, you can gain well over ten attack, then convert it into pure healing🍬 if you hit your opponent’s face.
Alternatively, the Warblades allow you to attack and kill bi🍨g minions without 🍰putting yourself at a dangerously low life total. Playing the Warblades, then following them up with a slew of spells, often results in a game over for your opponent.
4 Gnome M🍒uncher
Gnome Muncher does a lot for six mana. The card will heal you right away the turn you play it (assuming it doesn’t attack into 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a Divine Shield minion), either hitting one of your opponent's minions or dealing damage to their life total if played on an empty board. And if Gnome Muncher survives until your next turn, it will restore ten health, since it gets both its normal attack and the extra attack from its ability.
The card has Taunt as well, so your opponent couldn’t just ignore it and go face even if they wanted to. These effects combined make Gnome Muncher a perfect anti-aggro threat. And unlike a lot of defensive cards, it is useful against control and combo d꧅ecks as well because the extra attacks help you get consistent damage on empty boards.
3 🅺 Sire Denathrius 𝕴
Despite receiving a massive nerf, Sire Denathrius stilไl sees play in certain decks as a finisher. Doubling his Infuse cost means he needs significantly more minion deaths to become effective, and it makes him even more reliant on being drawn early.
However, Denathrius was arguably the best card in the gamওe before his nerf, so even a substantial decrease in power ✤level leaves him as a solid option. In decks that run a lot of small minions, like Imp Warlock, he can deal massive damage.
2 ✤ 🌞 Unleash Fel
Unleash Fel only gets Lifesteal when you reach six mana, but it becomes a real powerhouse once you get there. Even just a single point of Spell Damage turns Unleash Fel into a board clear that also heals you for🔯 a massive amount.
The ability to do b🍌oth of those things in a single card — and for just one mana — is exceptionally powerful. It makes Unleash Fel a vital tool for control and combo Demon Hunter deck♒s, especially since the combo decks are often running Spell Damage anyway.
1 Za&rsqﷺuo;qul
Za’qul doesn’t have Lifesteal, and its text doesn’t say anything about the keyword either. But what the card literally does is make your Curses “heal you for the damage they deal,” giving them Lifesteal in all but name. Za'qul only doesn’t have the keyword written on it because the Curse is technically your opponent’s card, so Lifesteal would actually heal them.
Since Curses trigger at the start of your opponent’s turn, there’s no way for them to avoid healing you. Even if they play the Curse, it will always trigger at least once. And given how quickly Curses build up, Za’qul will heal you for a significant amount, assuming the Curses don't kill your opponent outright, at which point healing becomes irrelevant.