New Mage Legendary Card Revealed - Gaia, the Techtonic
Automaton just revealed a new Voyage to the Sunken City card: Gaia, the Techtonic
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Are we going to get some more GvG cards in the Core Set this year?
We're definitely getting mechs (and probably dragons).
For Mage, I am more interested in the Nagas that it will get, not another 8-cost card. What Mage is starved of is enough, good low curve minions that are worth playing for the big spell archetype to work.
Edit: having said that, the animation is dope!
Thats pretty cool overall. Love the concept and the effects.
solid card, looks that mage theme this expansion is going to be nagas and mechs, interesting
So that means (for me) that there will be some expansion with theme focused on mechs - this card will stick with us for 2 years in standard, so...
Whether or not any of the Colossals become playable or not, I’m really liking the flavorful designs they’re giving them.
Do you think this is good on flavor for a mage? This is a warrior card, it has 0 representation of what a mage does.
Can't complain about the rest of the cards though.
You seem to forget that Mage is the OG class for mechs. Actually, it was pretty much the only class that had a very successful mech synergy deck, back in GvG. Other classes ran some mechs, but they actually had a Mech deck. As for flavor, it doesn't make any less sense than Mech Hunter or Mech Paladin, and those have been a thing too.
As for flavor too, how do you think mechs work in the warcraft universe? The predominant form of mechanical devices in that universe uses arcane magic as a power source. Not all of them, but most of them.
I was referring more to what the card does and not the class it’s in. Besides, some classes just get weird archetypes sometimes. I don’t recall Murlocs having anything to do with Paladins in WoW. Warriors getting a ton of Frost spells last set was kinda weird too.
And is that a good thing that back in the old days a deck existed? I think giving mechs to mage has 0 sense from a flavor perspective. Maybe it'd have sense if they were mechs infused with arcane magic that opens portals and cast random shenanigans would make sense. But a rocket firing mech?...
Yes, the card itself it's funny.
And I agree. This is a constant on Blizzard. When they run out of ideas they start creating random archetypes. Mech paladin triggered me the most. Paladins, masters of the holy and divine, throwing random big mechs. WTF.
Just giving you a headsup, all races in WoW used to be mechs too, built by the titans. Power source? Arcane magic. Why did they become fleshy thingies? Because the Old Gods cursed the mechs with the Curse of Flesh.
Like it or not, in the actual lore, mechs are intrinsically tied to arcane magic, which is the domain of mages.
This is flavorless. It should be a warrior card. What the fuck is doing a mage inside a machine like this one? A mage would use an air bubble to go to the deeps of the ocean, get inside a giant water elemental, grow himself a pair of gills or even transform into an aquatic beast/demon. Not this. Geez, sometimes Hearthstone designers don't even know about the game they're working for. I REALLY hope these are isolated cases. I'd be mad if they tried "Mech Mage" for real. That'd kill mage, not from a balance perspective but from a fun and class identity perspective.
Dumb card. Will see 0 play IMO.
IMO dumb comment..
Can you justify why you think this is flavorful with a mage? What's to do a mech like this with a Mage? Explain it to me from a lore perspective.
Tinkers as mechano-mages, using their intellect to build machines.
Mech Mage has a history dating back to GvG...