Nightmare Lord Xavius

Identity: A burst hero who gets a free Dark Gift minion every four turns and uses mid-game quality to pressure the lobby.

Profile

• Trait: Passive “Feel Devastation” triggers every four turns, Discovering a minion with a Dark Gift for free — no Gold spent, and it doesn’t use the Dark Gift button’s once-per-turn or three-per-game limit. This hero starts with only 6 Armor.
• Mechanics: The offers share the Dark Gift button’s turn-based tier table: the first trigger on Turn 4 offers only about Tier 2–3, Turn 8 offers Tier 4–5, and a Turn 12 trigger offers Tier 5–6.

Playstyle

1. Early game: You get nothing from the Hero Power for three turns and have only 6 Armor, so buy the strongest board on curve; the Turn 4 Discover is only a bridge, so don’t bleed Health or level greedily for it.
2. Key turns: On the first trigger, take the minion that can hit the board and fight this turn — the gift is free tempo. The Turn 8 trigger is higher-tier; prioritize a minion that can become your core or fill a missing role, and let it reshape your comp.
3. Mid to late game: Keep using the Dark Gift button on your own schedule, staggering it from the Hero Power so every stage adds a gifted minion. You choose only the minion — the gift is random — so check the gift before committing your build around it.

Strengths

• Each trigger is worth a 3-Gold Dark Gift Discover, up to about 9 Gold of free value per game, without touching your own button uses.
• The Turn 8 trigger hands you a Tier 4–5 gifted minion, a power spike most heroes cannot match at that point.

Weaknesses

• With 6 Armor and a blank Hero Power for three turns, weak shops can cost a lot of Health before the first trigger.
• Neither the minion nor the gift is chosen, so a mismatched gift can leave the free Discover as little more than a vanilla body.