Every deck needs a closer, and in this frontier the closers wear shiny badges and bigger guns. The best goblins and gunslingers legendary cards are the haymakers you build your 52 around: the bombs that win races, clear boards, and force the other gunhand to fold. In this guide we ride through standout legendaries faction by faction, list their real stats in the format (Mana/Gold, Attack/Defense), and tell you how to play each one without burning daylight.
New to the saloon? You can study the full roster on the card gallery, brush up on the rules over on how to play, and keep the keyword glossary open in another tab so terms like Overshot and Flip make sense at a glance.
Humans: lawmen who hit first and demand attention
The Humans win by controlling who gets shot, and their legendaries lean hard on the Warrant keyword to dictate combat.
- High Marshal Carver (5M/3G, 4/5) — Quickdraw; Warrant. Warrant forces enemies to attack the Marshal first, and Quickdraw means he strikes before they do. Drop him to soak a swing, kill the attacker on the punch-in, and keep your fragile shooters safe.
- Silver Star Justicar (5M/3G, 4/5) — Quickdraw; Warrant. Same lawful menace, different badge. Run both in a Humans build and your opponent is forced to throw bodies at walls that shoot back first. A 5 Defense frame plus Quickdraw makes a clean trade nearly impossible for them.
Goblins: chaotic tinkerers who blow up twice
Goblins want to deal damage now and leave a crater on the way out. Their legendaries are built to swing fast and punish removal.
- Boss Boom Brakka (5M/3G, 5/4) — Double Barrel; Last Stand: when it dies deal 3 damage. He attacks twice a turn, and if they finally kill him, the Last Stand blows for 3 more. There is no good answer here, which is exactly the point.
- Ironjaw Fireboss (5M/3G, 5/4) — Double Barrel; Overshot. Two attacks, and any excess damage spills over to the next target or the enemy hero. Point him at a weakened blocker and watch the leftover lead crash into their face.
Desert Devils: demonic heat that flies over your cover
The Devils ignore your defenses entirely. Flying lets them attack over Cover Tokens, so chump blockers do not save anyone.
- Calamity of Cinders (5M/3G, 5/4) — Flying; Overshot. She sails over Cover Tokens and spills excess damage past the blocker she does kill. A brutal finisher when the opponent thinks their wall is holding.
- Ifrit of Red Noon (5M/3G, 4/5) — Flying; Quickdraw. Flying gets him through, Quickdraw means he wins the exchange first, and 5 Defense keeps him on the board. Use him to pick off key flyers and high-value targets safely.
Dwarves: fortress walls that refuse to fall
Dwarves grind you down behind stacked defense. Fortify bumps their Defense the moment they land, and Barricade keeps the line locked.
- The Mountain King (5M/3G, 4/5) — Fortify 2; Barricade. He enters as an effective 4/7 thanks to Fortify 2. Anchor him in a Middle lane and dare them to chew through it.
- King Beneath Blackstone (5M/3G, 4/5) — Fortify 2; Barricade. A second immovable object for your Dwarf wall. Two of these on the board turns a stalemate into a slow, inevitable win.
- Tunnel Queen Dagra (4M/2G, 0/0) — Off-Board: friendly Dwarves with Tunnel cost 1 less mana. She is an engine, not a fighter. Keep her working from off-board to discount your Tunnel Dwarves and flood the field a turn ahead of schedule.
Straw Elves: untargetable nature that pays you back
The Elves protect their best bodies and turn death into resources.
- Barrowfield Sovereign (5M/3G, 4/5) — Wanted; Last Stand: restore 4 HP when it dies. Wanted means it cannot be targeted by any effect, so spot removal is useless against it. They have to fight through it in combat, and when it finally goes, you heal 4. A nightmare to race.
Beasts: neutral muscle for any deck
Beasts are neutral, so these legendaries slot into any build regardless of your two main factions. That flexibility makes them some of the most-played bombs in the game.
- Burrowmaw Colossus (5M/3G, 5/5) — Overshot. A clean 5/5 statline with damage spillover. Smash a blocker and the leftover damage rolls onward. Splashable in literally anything.
- Thunderhoof Tyrant (5M/3G, 5/4) — Double Barrel. Ten damage a turn off a single body. Pair it with a way to clear blockers and it ends games in a hurry.
Golems and Gnomes: the Flip engine
Gnomes flip into their Golem counterparts, triggering big effects. This pair is the payoff for building around Flip and Flip-Charged.
- Iron Rail Titan (5M/3G, 5/5) — Flip-Charged: destroy a creature with 2 or less Defense. A 5/5 that also assassinates a small threat the instant it flips onto the board. Removal and a beater in one.
- Grand Detonation (5M/3G, spell) — Flip all friendly Golems; each deals 3 damage to all enemy creatures. The Golem deck's nuke. Load the board with Golems first, then detonate to wipe their side clean.
- Archinventor Helix Vale (5M/3G, 4/5) — Double Barrel; Flip: deal 2 damage to opponent. Attacks twice, and flipping pings the enemy hero for 2. Reliable pressure that closes out the last sliver of HP.
The cross-faction board wipe
- Ashfall Reckoning (5M/2G, spell) — Destroy all enemy creatures. The great equalizer. Fall behind on board, then cast this to reset the table and rebuild from a clean slate. Hold it for the moment they overcommit.
How to actually win with your legendaries
Legendaries are heavy, so respect the curve. Most of these cost 5 mana and 3 gold, and remember gold is flat at 1 per turn plus 1 for each instance of damage you deal to the opponent, carrying over between turns. That means you need to be poking face early to bankroll your bombs. Tuck High-Rise threats where single-target removal cannot reach them, lean on Warrant and Quickdraw bodies to win combat math, and save board wipes like Ashfall Reckoning for the swing turn. Browse all eight factions to find the two that fit your playstyle before you lock a deck.
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