New Mage Legendary Card Revealed - Varden Dawngrasp
IGN just revealed a new Forged in the Barrens card: Varden Dawngrasp
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This card is hype , i see why nova and blizzard had to die for this one. Btw iam mage main and would gladly play this card in every mage archetype ever existed. From tempo to highlander mage. Being a minion attached to a nova effect with 4dmg situational upside can only be a good thing. Bounce effects like Youthful Brewmaster and Potion of Illusion are still in standard. So imagine the potential. Actually you will be able to freeze the board for 4-5 times in a row or go for freeze and deal 4 leaving you with some bodies on board also.
My personal opinion is that this card will be staple in every mage deck regardless of if its built around freezes or not just because of how versatile and flexible it is. My no1 golden craft this set.
Frost Nova with a 3/3 for +1 mana, seems decent. The additional effect seems fringe.
If only it had "At the end of your turn" instead of "Battlecry" then it would be a real LEGENDARY (perhaps with less damage)
If it only targeted one enemy, I wouldn't hate that. End-of-Turn Ice Lance version of Ragnaros the Firelord or Runaway Blackwing would be kinda sweet, and there's now counterplay for the opponent. Meanwhile, a random-but-somewhat-controlled effect like that is really fun to use. Leverage removal and trading minions to have few targets to freeze. I think it would have been a lot more fun for everyone involved.
This card is way better than Frost Nova, a 3/3 body is worth 1 mana even without the upside and it is clearly meant to be used as part of a freeze package alongside cards like the newly buffed cone of cold & the 0 mana Flurry, which makes it more like flamestrike on a 3/3 body for 4 mana.
Even without running a freeze package this is probably good enough to see play in just about any Mage deck.
uh oh - this is abusable with anything that can duplicate or bounce minions in a way that Frost Nova never was. Probably only enough gas for this in wild, but I'm not looking forward to games where this somehow gets played for 5 turns in a row
Frost Nova died for this
Good combo with Frost Nova.
First of all, that would be a 7 mana combo to deal 4 damage (reminds you of another mage spell?)
Second of all, Frost nova is rotating out of the core set
Olvenmage don't even try, they only want to hype
Last time Freeze Mage dominated the meta, Silence Priest went to tier 2. Look at the positives, if freeze becomes a dominant deck, it'll also revive a bunch of niche/meme decks along with it. Infinite Armor Warrior and Infinite Armor Druid may all make a comeback if some kind of stall OTK mage takes off. Also Mill Rogue will likely jump to Tier 1 again. It'll be a fun new meta.
Mill without Coldlight? I dont think thats viable with aggro in play.
I think he's talking about wild meta ...
i dont see any problem at all, stalling for 1 turn is perfectly ok, stalling for 5-6 turns in a row that used to be the case is not
Fucking, come on. We just got rid of Frost Nova and Blizzard. Why did they do this? Best part of all is that now we get to deal with Frost Nova AND its “replacement” here in Wild. Hooray.
Dude, in wild you have to literally deal with every busted card that will ever be printed for eternity. If you play that mode what exactly are you expecting?
Freeze is a mechanic that mage has, not much way around it really. If they rotate two freeze cards(from the core set no less) they are bound to release new ones
It would be actual cancer??? Wow, that really would be bad.
That’s one way to repackage the spells they just took out. At least now Mages who like to stall have to spend 1,600 dust to Freeze my board.
It's also pretty relevant they can only do it once and not 4 times with double Frost Nova and Blizzard