Old Murk-Eye
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- You might be looking for one of these cards: Battlegrounds/Old Murk-Eye (golden), Mercenaries/Old Murk-Eye, Mercenaries/Old Murk-Eye (64574), Mercenaries/Old Murk-Eye (64575), Old Murk-Eye (Classic).
Old Murk-Eye is a legendary neutral minion card, from the Legacy set.
Other versions
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 |
| Achievement | Mrglglglgl! (Collect all 4 Rare and Epic Classic Murlocs.). | Regular | 1 |
Sounds
- Play
- ▶️
EX1_062_Old_Murk_Eye_EnterPlay1.wav<summon sound> - ▶️
Pegasus_Stinger_Beast_Villain.wav<music stinger>
- Attack
- ▶️
EX1_062_Old_Murk_Eye_Attack1.wav<attack sound>
- Death
- ▶️
EX1_062_Old_Murk_Eye_Death1.wav<death sound>
Lore
Old Murk-Eye is a murloc leader who terrorises the coast of Westfall. He coerced the weaker minded murlocs to raid the Westfall Lighthouse with him, claiming the area for the murlocs.
This section uses content from the Warcraft Wiki.- Old Murk-Eye is a level 20 named murloc that patrols the shore of Westfall, near the old Westfall Lighthouse. Captain Grayson wants Murk-Eye killed. Murk-Eye is slightly stronger than his murloc lackeys around him.
In Hearthstone
If Old Murk-Eye is played during the 
Giantfin encounter, Giantfin responds "Middlefin, what are you doing here?" This suggests familiarity, possibly even a familial relationship between the two; note the scale of Tinyfin, Middlefin, Giantfin and Megafin. As Giantfin himself is original to Hearthstone, this is clearly a new piece of lore.
Trivia
- The card art for
Murloc Scout / Murloc, Murloc Raider and Old Murk-Eye originate from the same picture.
- Old Murk-Eye may have originally been inspired by Old One Eye, a unique Tyranid Carnifex from Warhammer 40,000.
- Prior to Whispers of the Old Gods Old Murk-Eye was not craftable but had to be earned through collecting each Classic Murloc.[1] The quest "Mrglglglgl!" awarded 1 regular copy to the player upon collecting regular copies of all Classic Murlocs, while "Golden Mrglglglgl!" awarded 1 golden copy to the player upon collecting golden versions of all Basic and Classic Murlocs. The accompanying patch removed the quests, and made Old Murk-Eye craftable instead.
- Prior to these changes, Old Murk-Eye was the cheapest legendary card in the game to obtain, requiring only 700 dust to craft one of each other non-Basic Murlocs, compared to the 1600 dust required to directly craft any other legendary. The cost could be considered even lower since most players would already have collected some of the required Murlocs, especially if intending to build a Murloc deck. However, obtaining the golden version required 4000 dust to craft the golden Classic Murlocs, and required levelling four different classes to 53 in order to obtain the golden Basic Murlocs. For players wishing to obtain both versions, this made it cheapest to craft only the golden versions of the required Murlocs.
- Old Murk-Eye was one of the only Murlocs whose effect was not changed on Patch 6.2.0.15181 (2016-10-20) to no longer have its card effect affected by enemy Murlocs. This was not an oversight, but something the developers "decided against" changing.[2]
Gallery
Old Murk-Eye, full art
Patch changes
Patch 22.6.0.133923 (2022-03-17):
- Removed from the pool of available minions in Battlegrounds.
Patch 20.0.0.77662 (2021-03-25):
- 2021-03-30: Moved from Hall of Fame to Legacy set.
Patch 19.0.0.65614 (2020-11-12):
- Can now once again be earned by collecting all 4 Rare and Epic Classic Murlocs.
Patch 8.0.0.18336 (2017-04-04):
- Moved from the Promo set to the Hall of Fame set.
Patch 5.0.0.12574 (2016-04-24):
- No longer a reward from collecting Basic and Classic Murlocs. Can now be crafted instead. [This change was later temporarily reverted, and finally reinstated in a hotfix on May 4.]
Patch 4.2.0.12051 (2016-03-14):
- Golden card unlock requirement is now: "Unlocked when you have all the Golden Murlocs from the Expert and Basic Sets." (previously: "Unlocked when you have all the Golden Murlocs from the Classic and Basic Sets.").
Patch 3.1.0.10357 (2015-09-29):
- Golden card unlock requirement is now: "Unlocked when you have all the Golden Murlocs from the Classic and Basic Sets." (previously: "Unlocked when you have all the Golden Murlocs from the Expert and Basic Sets.").
- Patch 3.0.0.9786 (2015-08-18):
- Unlock requirement is now: "Unlocked when you have all the Murlocs from the Classic Set." (previously: "Unlocked when you have all the Murlocs from the Expert Set.").
Patch 1.0.0.3890 (Closed beta, 2013-10-02):
- Artist is now Dan Scott (previously: no artist).
- Unlock requirement is now: "Unlocked when you have all the Murlocs from the Expert Set." (previously: no special unlock requirement).
- Golden card unlock requirement is now: "Unlocked when you have all the Golden Murlocs from the Expert and Basic Sets." (previously: no special unlock requirement).
- Patch 1.0.0.3388 (Alpha, 2013-06-22):
- Moved from the Classic set to the Reward set.
- Patch 1.0.0.3140 (Alpha, April or May 2013):
- Added.
External links
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Whirthun on Twitter (X). (2014-12-02).
- ↑ Ben Brode on Twitter (X). (2016-10-24).