Information on the cards | Minions Hearthstone Guide

The basic function of each minion is to inflict damage to the opponent's cards and his hero. Each minion card has two values: Attack and Health. The attack value is on the left, within the circle with yellow background. This value corresponds to the damage dealt by the card, with one attack. The second value is the health and it is located on the left within the drop with red background. If this value drops to zero, or lower, the card is destroyed and removed from the table. Both of these values can be increased or decreased, depending on the effects on that card. For example, the River Crocolisk (2) card shown above, has 2 pt attacks (the yellow field) and 3 Health points (the red field).This means that the card can deal 2 pt damage to the card of the opponent or the hero, and can, itself, take 3 points of damage before it is destroyed.

Some of the cards also have special abilities or effects. All of the information is presented in the field at the bottom of the card, below the name. It refers to all the abilities like, e.g. Charge or Taunt, but also to the effects unique to that card, and the ones that do not fall into the category of abilities. In the case of the River Crocolisk (2), this field is empty because this card has no special effects or abilities , unless they are endowed by another card.