New Mage Legendary Card Revealed - Balinda Stonehearth
Wronchi just revealed a new Fractured in Alterac Valley card: Balinda Stonehearth
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Beautiful art
how can we turn this into a 1/1 besides potion of illusion?
Potion of Illusion with her to play a 1 mana, overstatted minion and draw two 1-cost big spells!
It would be a 1 mana 1/1 not 1 mana 5/5
It would be a 1 mana with stats equal to the cost of the spells drawn. The only question is whether the spells drawn will cost 5 or 1, depending on whether the cost switch happens before or after the 1/1 illusion "buff".
Yea you're right
Can we have more cards with a classical design like this?
There actually are a lot of big spells, none that *really* synergize very well with this, though. Even including Ring Toss, Fire Sale and Arcane Overdraft (which see play in current Big Spell) are all kind of low rolls for this.
Mostly just Mask of C'thun, Flamestrike and Deep Freeze. Which are... pretty good for the type of tempo deck this is suited to, but I'm hoping we get a new expensive frost spell that can do some face damage and close out games.
plz no face damage spell... they will more likely benefit Quest Mage and not other Mage archetypes..
Blizz time to give us Iceblock back in the next rotation.
because the only reason to play mage is to play spells that cost 0 and draw your entire deck and hit face
Or you could... try something else. Even with current big spell mage the win rate at this point is about the same honestly.
you know that a recent patch...well, changed a bit ? you live in the past dude
People are ready and excited for new Mage archetypes, the thing you're talking about was nerfed and is now Tier 4 (check HSreplay global winrates of Quest mage 44,1%)
This Card is just great for big spell mage, we havent seen all Mage cards yet - in particular the Mage Hero wich is guaranteed to support big spell mage
From logics perspective, it's not guaranteed, it's even unlikely. Blizzard rarely give 1 class 2 legendaries with the same theme and this is clearly a "big mage"-related card. So, nah, Hero Card would probably do something else
i like big spell mage as an idea but it still needs big spells that make the deck worthwhile
Was... Balinda always a mage? By the time I got into the room she was always already dead. Also this is the most dwarven name for a mage ever.
I think this is a really good card. Draw 2 on a potentially overstated body, with a cost reduction? Insanely powerful card. I still think big spell mage will have early game issues, though. But I'm getting excited about it.
She was, yeah. Has a Water Elemental and casts Arcane Explosion IIRC
5 Mana draw 2 Spells and get the stats (like maybe 4/8) is just super nice
How can someone say this is bad !?
These people are traumatized with "card out of meta". 99% of the revealed cards are for slow meta control and they keep writing as if aggro is the only possible meta. good card