New Mage Minion - Aegwynn, the Guardian

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A new Legendary Mage Minion, Aegwynn, the Guardian, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    A new Legendary Mage Minion, Aegwynn, the Guardian, has been revealed!

    Aegwynn, the Guardian Card Image

    Discuss this card below or head on over to the card page to give it a rating!


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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    So if I understand this correctly, this essentially means infinite +2 spell damage until your deck runs out of minions or she gets silenced.

     

    It's hard to evaluate but double spell damage is very strong as demonstrated recently through SD Mage.

    The main issue is that she's really slow and you're probably not going to be able to properly make use of her the turn you play her (which then leaves her vulnerable to silence and morphs)

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • Me0203's Avatar
    Design Champion 750 497 Posts Joined 06/13/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    This is a bit costly to play alongside a spell. It doesn't have bad stats, though, and it provides infinite silencable value. Think of the next card - that could be a 1-mana minion with +2 Spell Damage! That situation isn't so unlikely, given how many small bois Mage usually runs. 

     

    Power level aside, I love cards with loose, themed text. And the color scheme! *swoon* This is beautiful.

    Better call Thrall!

     

     

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  • Anathemos's Avatar
    540 133 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I wonder what exactly "inherits these powers" means. I assume it means "gets +2 spell damage & this deathrattle". That is, I assume it doesn't mean "gets all the enchantments and buffs this card has", because that would snowball--if you drew Sorcerer's Apprentice, then its deathrattle would give "+2 spell damage, spells cost one less, and this deathrattle", and so on.

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Okay so it's universall spell damage (works with any spell tribe/tag) from what i can tell, and it goes infinte.. well untill you run out of minions or it gets silenced. This seems like a REALLY strong effect that both spell-damage mage and control mage can make use of. I'm kinda looking forward to experimenting with this card, it seems solid!

    Also i like that we finally got Aegwynn, the Guardian in HS, i'm don't know much about WoW lore but isn't she like Medivh's mom? (If i got that right, i hope she has some unique dialogue/voicelines when played by someone who has a Medivh skin. Would be cool for the people that have that skin!) Oh and is that Aluneth in her hands?

    RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.

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  • Skorpionex's Avatar
    Headless Horseman 1445 426 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Hard to evaluate because not sure what it is doing. Is it one trick or infinite value? If infinite, does it give powers from new minions too? For example - this dies, you draw Sorcerer Aprentice, it gets +2 spell power and deathrattle, you play it, it dies, you draw minion and it gets +2 spell power+deathrattle+spell discount.

    What's the most powerful card in Hearthstone?

    A credit card.

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  • edennnnnn's Avatar
    325 108 Posts Joined 11/16/2020
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    does this mean the deathrattle chains forever until u run out of minions? or just the next minion also has +2 spell damage.

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  • DarkFrostX's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 830 1229 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    It seems a good setup card for burn decks, since if you deck has many spell damage minions you can have a +3 or +4 minion, or even buff a Sorcerer's Apprentice and that's really good.

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    No more apprentice, no more Arcane Missiles, no more Frostbolt, no more Pyroblast. Not even Arcane Explosion, the one card that might have benefited immensely by spell damage.

    And then this card gets printed.

    So assuming you get permanent +2 spell damage. The only thing you can conceivably do with this would be Combustion and Shooting Star, while there are only 2 burn spells in standard, Apexis Blast and Fireball. Both of which are too expensive to justify playing a minion with +2 spell damage.

    Unless Barrens come out with some of the most ridiculous cheap spell for mage, can't say Ive much hope for this card.

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  • FortyDust's Avatar
    Pumpkin 1205 1912 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago
    Quote From Anathemos

    I wonder what exactly "inherits these powers" means. I assume it means "gets +2 spell damage & this deathrattle". That is, I assume it doesn't mean "gets all the enchantments and buffs this card has", because that would snowball--if you drew Sorcerer's Apprentice, then its deathrattle would give "+2 spell damage, spells cost one less, and this deathrattle", and so on.

    Note that there's no such thing as Sorcerer's Apprentice in Standard. The "girl" is moving to Wild.

    Quote From dapperdog

    No more apprentice, no more Arcane Missiles, no more Frostbolt, no more Pyroblast. Not even Arcane Explosion, the one card that might have benefited immensely by spell damage.

    And then this card gets printed.

    Unless Barrens come out with some of the most ridiculous cheap spell for mage, can't say Ive much hope for this card.

     

    I'm sure there will be at least a few burn spells in the Barrens. I'm not too concerned about it.

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  • PLANETCRUNCH's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 820 1248 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    I like the card art, and I hope she has a unique opening line when played against Medhiv.

    Or even if Medhiv plays her...

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  • Hydrafrog's Avatar
    Gul'dan 1840 3268 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Silence cards will now be main decked again

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  • KanzakiGin's Avatar
    Lion's Guard 750 208 Posts Joined 03/02/2021
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    Seems like a powerful card

    Rogue DH

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2285 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago

    This seems very good to me. Think about sticking that DR on an Imprisoned Phoenix: spell damage +4 that you can safely bank into a dormant minion for a massive burst later on.

    "Be excellent to each other." -Bill and Ted

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