New Mage Minion - Mana Giant

Cute Quest and Cyclone Support...

a target for Conjurer's as well, but seeing how not even Flamewaker brought that deck back to relevance I have lowered my expectations accordingly.

dude!!! what the hell blizz?  when will you learn from yours mistakes?!  Conjurer's Calling says hello

This is very situationally good. In wild in specific where Mage can really generate a ton of cards this can be super cheap and the elemental tag can also be very relevant. In current standard I think its still fine, I mean its an 8 mana 8/8, so playing even one card makes this fine on tempo, and getting it discounted to 4-5 means its in the range of Mountain Giant most of the time. Being able to do that early enough is the issue, but its always good tempo late game which can be fine. The elemental tag means less atm but makes sense for the card.

Pretty good card, all of the giant's have seen play in some form with the exception of Jumbo Imp.

The starting cost of 8 mana is really what makes this card good, it shouldn't be too difficult to get it down to around 4 mana for a very strong and cheap minion. Luckily this doesn't need to be in hand for the cost reduction.

Great payoff for something Cyclone Mage already does a lot. Most giants see play, and this one seems like it will too.

8 mana isn't a lot to reduce, this will 90% of the time cost 3 or less when you play it. At the very least I will enjoy this in my Casino Mage. Mage plays a lot of cards that don't start in their deck, so this will probably be around in a lot of mage decks that could take advantage of a 0 mana 8/8 elemental.

a new giant been a while, its one of those card you need to play with to see how good it is.

Sorcerer's Apprentice, Mana Cyclone, Conjurer's Calling, Chenvaala... YAAAAY... fml

more cyclone stuff, a very good addition to the archetype 

Seems pretty good with all the card generating spells that mage has.

So twin spells, cyclone, main quest, Mage's general spell adding with all these it's going to almost always cost 0 also I'm surprised that this giant isn't 12 mana or something all the other giants have been even the other class giant snow fury or whatever.

More cards for cyclone mage is always appreciated.

i mean... for mage this is almost a free 8/8 lol

I'm generally a fan of giants but this one leaves me lukewarm. Would've preferred it as a neutral, since mage isn't the only one who likes playing with cards outside of their deck.

Another Giant to run that can be really cheap easily. Bit less flexible than the other giants though

I think this will find a home. Obvious Cyclone mage value, but also works with Quest, any twinspell cards, all the new Discover cards, etc. I'm sure it's also an automatic add to any Wild Time Warp Mage deck.

In the stream was played in reno mage, i think that in that deck could work fine

Cyclone quest mage will like this one!

More support for Quest and Mana Cyclone mage is appreciated. But this seems good enough on its own since it works with any cards, not just spells.

8 mana 8/8 Elemental Tribe is already a vanilla minion.

this card is good enough i think.

The giant of this set! I find it cool that the team always finds new ways to create different minions of this kind.

Cyclone Mage support but it's very slow though, idk if I would run it personally

I guess this kind of support makes the cyclone archetype more interesting in my hopes that it becomes meta relevant.

In mana cyclone mage? Why not <3

Pride Parade Giant very effective with Quest and Cyclone. And Wild Arcane Giant.

Mage is now Magic Rogue.

pretty op and easily activated with cyclone mage..will definitely be a free minion in cyclone mages..

This card fits in both Cyclone Mage and Quest Mage. But archetypes are not very popular at the moment but might get stronger by including this card.

Conjurer's Calling got nerfed, but it still exists.. now with so many spell generators in mage and also some new ones this expansion it's easier than ever to reduce this to 0 mana..

mage is gonna be insane this expansion.. so many strong cards.

This and the newly revealed side quest get me excited. 

Mage have a lot of tools to ger new spells so this could fit in to many deck. Especially cyclone of course, were this serves well as a late-game punch.

I think this card is too slow and to inconsistent to be a reliable 8/8. Cyclone Mage has other win conditions, and whilst this is a good tempo play for 0 mana, the potential of it breaking your hand in the early game is too weak compared to the upsides. Another (useless) 8/8 in the evolve pool without an effect on board is nice though.

This card is symptomatic, since it's a giant with full stats, which never happened in the old day, before the dragons descended.

This card is very interesting, mages in general have an easy time generating spells, and mage decks that purposely want to generate a lot of spells do it pretty well.

Maybe it will gives the cyclone mage the consistency of pressuring the opponent.

is still an elemental so Sandbinder has another target in those decks, the new legendary included

Pretty slow card for cyclone mage. I don't think it will see much play as dragon mage seems a much more interesting archetype.

Looks like a very powerful addition to a cyclone deck! Mage can easilly make this tough guy cheap in a 1 good turn with [Hearthstone Card (Mana Cyclone) Not Found]. So i'm sure we'll see this card in mage decks. Strong enough to be played.

Good Cyclone Support, but maybe it's too slow for that deck. I will try it for sure

Cyclone mage might be pretty spooky

Giants are always welcome :) Can be a big tempo play in some mage decks, but i think those type of archetypes doesnt need a big guy to close games. Arcane giant wasnt used in tempo mages, only in quest mage for the OTK potential. Nice card, but i dont think we will see it too much.

Very gooooooooooood card for my quest giants deck, I love it!!!!

Thief mage inc? wasn't thief rogue and thief priest a thing? hmm.

Could be a fun addition to cyclone mage, and a decent addition to old quest mage in Wild.

Simple design, cool concept ; a new Giant is born.

Very cheap as far as Giants go, has the Elemental tag, and Mage is very good at generating lots of spells. Extremely good card.

Of course it is good, why wouldnt it be good? But maybe, maybe, its too good. twin spells are still a thing, as is magic trick, mana cyclone and the new 1 mana elemental that gives arcane missiles.

In theory, you could play this for 0 mana turn 2, with aprentice - ray of frost(x4) - magic trick(x2) - random 1 manas from magic trick - elemental invocation - arcane missiles from 1 drop -mana cyclone - random 1 drop spells you got from mana cyclone.

And it doesn't even sound like an impossible scenario. I've done similar things in the first 4 turns of the game many times.

Say on turn 2 with coin you have 6 cards in your hand + coin. If these are apprentice/ray-of-frost x2/giant/magic-trick/elemental invocation

If the ray-of-frost twinspells indeed are considered new then you can do it on turn 2 if you discover a 1 mana spell.

Bummer you then have to wait until turn 4 to do a conjurer's calling on it :) Might be better to wait until turn 3 then lol.

I am sure this card will create some rage quits here and there.

Seems scary, can get cheap really fast, and you can't counter it. But it's boring design for me.

I can only think of open the waygate in wild dropping this alongside the arcane giants. I'm sure there are better uses, but that just sounds fun.

Insane with Conjurer's Calling, here we go again.

Mmmm.. This looks way slower than arcane giant and therefore probably won't make the cut in wild quest mage. Maybe in standard if cyclone mage can keep up with the absurd amount of sheer power this expansion brings.

Fits into cyclone mage very well, but still on the slow side, as you really don't want a card like this in your hands for many turns. 

A really great addition to Cyclone Mage. Awesome in Wild too because it's cheaper than Arcane Giant

8 Mana, eh? Same cost of an evolved [Hearthstone Card (Mogu Fleshaper) Not Found], eh? We got some mad cards, eh?

Conjurers be calling again.

A strong card, as the condition to reduce its cost is not that difficult, particularly with the new cards Violet Spellwing and Cobalt Spellkin. Should certainly see inclusion in 'Small Spell Mage' decks alongside Mana Cyclone and Chenvaala.

Mage has so many card generation right now I believe this will easily finds way into cyclone decks.

With a name like "Mana Giant" I would expect the card text to read "for each MANA spent on cards not found in your deck."

Yep, probably this will give some headaches in tempo spell mage. Won't win much games because it will require quite a set up to be effective