The Headless Horseman
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- For other uses of The Headless Horseman, see Headless Horseman (disambiguation).
The Headless Horseman is a legendary death knight hero card, from the Whizbang's Workshop set.
How to get
| Type | Source | Quality | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Card packs | The Regular version can be opened from any of these packs:   | Regular | 1 (random) |
| Card packs | The Golden version can be opened from any of these packs:  | Golden | 1 (random) |
| Crafting | Craft a Regular copy for 1600  | Regular | 1 |
| Crafting | Craft a Golden copy for 3200 | Golden | 1 |
| Run | Complete an Arena run. | Regular | 1 (random) |
| Achievement | Climbing the Ranks (Reach Legend in Ranked (any format).). | Regular | 1 (random) |
Related cards
Tied Hero Power
Notes
- The Headless Horseman features a lot of flavor text in its card text and the tokens. The card functions as follows:
- The Headless Horseman destroys the highest-attack enemy minion, then shuffles
Horseman's Head into the player's deck. - The initial Hero Power granted is Pulsing Pumpkins, which deals 3 damage.
- After Horseman's Head is drawn, the Hero Power is upgraded to Pulsing Pumpkins, which deals 3 damage and Discovers an Undead.
- The hero portrait is also subsequently changed to The Headless Horseman, which is purely a cosmetic change during gameplay.
- The Horseman's Head's "When Drawn, this Casts" ability is no different from the regular Casts When Drawn ability.
- The hero portrait is also subsequently changed to
- The Headless Horseman destroys the highest-attack enemy minion, then shuffles
Sounds
| Type | Transcript | |
|---|---|---|
| Play | ▶️ | Stand and fight in darkest night! |
| Play stinger | ▶️ | <music stinger> |
Trigger:  Death Strike | ▶️ | Ahahahaha! |
| Trigger: Grave Strength | ▶️ | My soldiers arise and brutalize! |
Trigger:  Tomb Guardians | ▶️ | Disturb the tomb and face your doom! |
| Attack underlay | ▶️ | AHAHAHAHA! |
| Death underlay | ▶️ | <underlay sound> |
| Emote: Greetings | ▶️ | Harken my verse or feel my curse! |
| Emote: Well Played | ▶️ | You are a worthy foe, as far as they go. |
| Emote: Oops | ▶️ | Confounding! Astounding! |
| Emote: Threaten | ▶️ | It is over, your search is done. Let fate choose, now the righteous one. |
| Emote: Thanks | ▶️ | I owe you, through and through. |
| Unused: Sorry | ▶️ | My apologies, if you please. |
| Concede | ▶️ | Fate has spoken! I am broken! |
| Running out of time | ▶️ | Time is short, I must retort! |
| Thinking | ▶️ | Hm... |
| Thinking | ▶️ | Who to burn on this turn? |
| Thinking | ▶️ | I'll beat them all... and they will fall! |
| Almost out of cards | ▶️ | My cards are low! Where did they go? |
| Out of cards | ▶️ | No cards are left—I am bereft! |
| Emote: Greetings [Mirror] | ▶️ | As we converse, it will reverse! |
Lore
This section uses content from the Warcraft Wiki.- "Prepare yourselves, the bells have tolled! Shelter your weak, your young and your old! Each of you shall pay the final sum. Cry for mercy, the reckoning has come!"
- The Headless Horseman is the boss of Hallow's End. In the open world, the shades of the horsemen terrorize six starting towns, three of each faction. The Horseman also appears as the sole encounter in a special version of the Scarlet Monastery Graveyard, queued for via Dungeon Finder.
- The Horseman was once a Knight of the Silver Hand, but is now cursed. He is of the belief that he is alive, while those who face him are dead. When defeated, he is revealed as Sir Thomas Thomson.
Gallery
The Headless Horseman, full art
Headless Horseman in the WoW TCG
Headless Horseman in World of Warcraft
Patch changes
Patch 29.0.0.195635 (2024-03-11):
- Added.