Mercenary card
Drawing the Mercenary card will immediately generate a durably summoned mercenary which will offer you its services for a fee. The fee is roughly equal to the monster's XP value, plus or minus 15 percent. A hired mercenary will be friendly, but if the player cannot or chooses not to purchase the ally, it will be hostile.
As a durably summoned monster, a mercenary gives no experience, cannot be abjured, never times out, and will not leave a corpse or any equipment behind upon death. However, they increase in strength as they deal the killing blow against enemies, and can grow into a more powerful creature after it gains enough experience. This is the list of possible mercenaries in ascending order of power:
- K
Big kobold - m
Merfolk -> grows into 
Merfolk impaler - N
Naga -> grows into either 
Naga warrior or 
Naga mage and then into 
Greater naga - H
Tengu -> grows into either a 
Tengu conjurer or 
Tengu warrior and then into 
Tengu reaver - e
Deep elf conjurer -> grows into 
Deep elf annihilator - o
Orc knight -> grows into 
Orc warlord - 6
A random base demonspawn - O
Ogre mage - H
Minotaur - d
Draconian -> grows into a random coloured Draconian - e
Deep elf blademaster
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High card power increases the chances of getting a stronger mercenary.
Tips & Tricks
- You can match your speed to your slowest ally by pressing CTRL + e. This is helpful for having slower mercenaries keep up with you, such as nagas.
History
It is going to be removed in 0.19.
Prior to 0.15, the list of possible mercenaries, in ascending order of power, was as follows:
- Big kobold
- Merfolk
- Naga
- Tengu
- Orc knight
- Centaur warrior
- Spriggan rider
- Ogre mage
- Minotaur
- Random base draconian
- Deep elf blademaster
The Mercenary card was added in 0.11, and could be found in the following decks in the past:
| 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.13 | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 0.18 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
