Sacred Trial

Sacred Trial
Artist: Zoltan Boros
Artist: Zoltan Boros
Collectible
Secret: After your opponent has at least 3 minions and plays another, destroy it.
Class:	Paladin
Card type:	Spell
Cost:	1
Spell school:	Holy
Keywords
SECRET
Full tags
RARITY=1 CLASS=5 COLLECTIBLE=1 ELITE=0 COST=1 CARDTYPE=5 ENCHANTMENT_BIRTH_VISUAL=0 ENCHANTMENT_IDLE_VISUAL=0 SECRET=1 SPELL_SCHOOL=5
Wiki mechanics
Destroy, Secret
Wiki tags
Battlefield-related, Summoning-related, Triggered effect
Availability
Formats	Wild Twist
Flavor
You have chosen poorly.
Card set:	The League of Explorers
Rarity:	Common
Background race:	Mechanical
dbfId:	2899
Card id:	LOE_027

Sacred Trial is a paladin spell card, from the League of Explorers set.

How to get

Type	Source	Quality	Count
Adventure	Defeat Temple Escape in The League of Explorers 1st wing - Temple of Orsis	Regular	2
Crafting	Craft a Regular copy for 40	Regular	1
Crafting	Craft a Golden copy for 400	Golden	1

Notes

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• Like the other Secrets that trigger when your opponent plays a minion from their hand (Mirror Entity, Snipe, Repentance), Sacred Trial triggers in the After Play Phase following the Battlecry Phase. This means that all effects and death processing related to the minion's Battlecry resolve before the game queues and resolves Secrets such as Sacred Trial. For example, if you have one minion and play Dr. Boom, an enemy Sacred Trial will trigger.
  • Sacred Trial, Mirror Entity, Snipe, Repentance and Potion of Polymorph all trigger in order of play.
  • Sacred Trial triggers if the minion is mortally wounded (such as by Snipe) or pending destroy (such as by Snipe + Acidmaw). This is probably a bug.
  • Repentance does not trigger if Sacred Trial sets the minion pending destroy before it. (Before Patch 7.0, it would trigger even though the minion will die anyway.)
  • Snipe does not trigger if Sacred Trial sets the minion pending destroy before it.
  • Mirror Entity does not trigger if Sacred Trial sets the minion pending destroy before it. (Before Patch 7.0, Mirror Entity would make a copy - that survives!)
  • Potion of Polymorph does not trigger if Sacred Trial sets the minion pending destroy before it.

Lore

Sacred Trial represents "a hallway filled with holy lasers and swinging axes", which the worthy can stroll through unscathed, while the unworthy are destroyed. It is original to Hearthstone.

Trivia

• This card is a reference to the trials at the end of the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. (See also: Harrison Jones.)
• Prior to Patch 9.2.0.21517 and while Lord Jaraxxus was a minion card, if you had Sacred Trial in play, and your opponent had 3 or more minions and plays Lord Jaraxxus, Sacred Trial triggered after the Battlecry finished and destroyed the Lord Jaraxxus hero, ending the game.

Gallery

Sacred Trial, full art

Patch changes

• Patch 20.0.0.77662 (2021-03-25):
  • Holy spell school added.
• Patch 4.2.0.12051 (2016-03-14):
  • Now reads: Secret: After your opponent has at least 3 minions and plays another, destroy it. (previously: Secret: When your opponent has at least 3 minions and plays another, destroy it.)
• Patch 4.1.0.10956 (2015-12-04):
  • Unlock requirement is now: "Unlocked in the Temple of Orsis, in the League of Explorers adventure." (previously: no special unlock requirement).
  • Golden card unlock requirement is now: "Crafting unlocked in the Temple of Orsis, in the League of Explorers adventure." (previously: no special unlock requirement).
• Patch 4.0.0.10833 (2015-11-10):
  • Added.