Vinz and Odemian of Team Solary have revealed Mi'da, Pure Light - a new Legendary card for Onyxia's Lair, Hearthstone's upcoming Mini-Set for Alterac Valley!
- Naaru, sentient energy beings with great Holy Light affinity, finally grace us with their Hearthstone presence. Or at least one of them. Theme-wise, that's fairly unexpected. Not a dragon in disguise, as far as we can tell.
- We've seen several Naaru-related cards in the past: Shard of the Naaru, Gift of the Naaru, Light of the Naaru... you get the pattern.
- Priest value lovers, enjoy! Fragment of Mi'da is a Holy spell, which means a host of tutoring/card draw options exist.
- This is the 2nd Legendary card reveal for the mini-set, after yesterday's Kazakusan.
- It's also the initial reveal of Day 3, so we are expecting to see a few more cards later (check reveal schedule here).
- We've now seen 27 new cards of the 35 coming in Onyxia's Lair.
- Onyxia's Lair launches on February 15, 2022.
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New Card Revealed
Here is the new card revealed in Solary's reveal.
Flavor text: Unfortunately, Mi’da’s touch will not turn things to gold.
Hearthstone Design Insights
And some precious designer insights from Cora:
Quote From Cora Mi'da, meet Twitter. Twitter, this is Mi'da!
I went into this design wanting to make something that would be useful for a Deathrattle Priest deck ideally, because Xyrella's story this year was all about finding the shards to save her daughter.
It made sense that you would want to play this card in the same deck that you play Xyrella, the Devout. It's no secret that this has some similarities to Waxadred from Descent of Dragons, but this is a more refined design in a class that actually wants it.
Rogue was never really interested in having a perpetual resource, but Priest wants to go long. We tested some different keyword combinations (Lifesteal was even taken off the card for a while), but this is what we liked best. Hope you like it. :)
Oh, and how did we come up with the name "Mi'da"?
Naaru name generator. I just liked the way it sounded and nobody fought me on it sooo…
Comments
Shouldn't this be an elemental?
It's probably a balanceissue. Getting it back from nzoth and discovering and generating it from random elemental feels bad. Now you have to put it in your deck.
Technically Naaru also aren't classified as Elementals in the existing Warcraft/Hearthstone lore. Guess they weren't trying to break the mold at all cost.
Short on ideas? It's just a copypaste of Waxadred.
If Waxadred had divine shield and lifesteal, he probably would have seen more play. :-P
It's a better card, nothing to say about that. Just not an original one.
I've got news for you: Any design in Hearthstone that's not recycled is probably lifted from another game, usually Shadowverse or Runeterra. So if you're expecting anything that's mechanically novel or groundbreaking, you need to play something else.
Thanks for the news, but I don't care about other games. Also, not relevant about what I said.
It is relevant because expecting a ton of originality in Hearthstone is a pipe dream, and complaining about a lack of originality makes it look like you haven't been paying attention.
Yeah, but then new cards being inspired by old cards and some of the designs being cyclical has been a known pattern, and not just in Hearthstone. It's hard to avoid past a certain point.
Really dig the concept!
Man, this is going to be soooo annoying to remove.
Added some trivia and developer insights from Cora. She is quick!
If it had taunt as well, it'd be bonkers. Against hyper aggressive decks, it might be just too slow.
I am reborn.Wax, give me life!
Cool!
It seems very strong