Villentretenmerth

Villentretenmerth is a neutral Gold Draconid unit of high strength.

Strategy
Villentretenmerth is primarly used in Northern Realms decks, because of two reasons: Northern Realm easily can immunize his units with Promote while passive removes Villentretenmerth from the range of most of cards capable to remove Gold cards. Usually, he is played in the second or third round, when your opponent can't play enough unit during his timer to win the round.

When he is demoted (with Dimeritium Shackles, Dimeritium Bomb or Dijkstra), he can remove himself. If he is the strongest non-Gold unit on the board when his timer goes to zero, his ability only destroys him, and it doesn't trigger a second time.

It's generally considered a good move to play spies while Villentretenmerth's timer counting, since the high-strenght spies easily become the strongest or second strongest unit on the board, denying their strength from the oppoenent, while gaining a valuable card in your hand.

Patch History

 * Patch 0.9.10:
 * Now gains 3 Armor. Now Destroys all other Highest units on the board, so he can't Destroy himself anymore.
 * Patch 0.9.8:
 * Power changed from 4 to 8. Now only destroys the Highest Unit once, rather than twice in a row.
 * Patch 0.9.7:
 * Power changed from 6 to 4.
 * Patch 0.8.33:
 * Borkh's name changed to Villentretenmerth. Power reduced to 7 from 9.
 * Patch 0.8.25:
 * Dun Banner Heavy Cavalry's promotion will trigger before Borkh's Scorch.

Artist
Anna Podedworna

Trivia

 * Villentretenmerth is the father of Saskia (see The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings).
 * He saved once the life of the dragon Myrgtabrakke and get her cub as reward/payment (see "The Bounds of Reason" short story by Andrzej Sapkowski).

Gallery
Villentretenmerth