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Animated Avalanche

Animated Avalanche

Animated Avalanche is a 7 Mana Cost Common Mage Minion card from the Galakrond's Awakening set!

Card Text

Battlecry: If you played
an Elemental last turn,
summon a copy of this.

Flavor Text

Always sliding down mountains because it can't stop talking with its hands.

Type
Minion
Rarity
Common
Set
Galakrond's Awakening
Class
Mage
Cost
7
Attack
7
Health
6
Minion Type
Elemental
Mechanics
Battlecry, Copy Minion, Summon
Artist
Ludo Lullabi
Collectible
Yes

7 Comments

  1. sonriks6

    OK, Elemental Mage is a thing right now!

  2. Lluadian

    Yikes now this is scary I'm thinking of blowing the dust off my old wild frost lich jaina just because of this card. In standard it's not to bad either and is alot better than certain other play an elemental turn before card.

  3. LegendaryBot

    Imagine this turn two (going second): turn one you play violet spellwing, and turn two you play coin + 2x elemental evocation + Animated Avalanche.

    Still solid without that unfair play above, 5/5 ;)

  4. OldManSanns

    I would like this card a lot more if it cost less--then it would synergize better with Cyclone / Elemental Allies decks, which tend to bide their time for one big play and as such could use a nice early board boost. As is, I just don't see where this card fits--it's jumping through a lot of hoops to put an extra 7/6 on board. Early game: there aren't many good elementals at 6 and it feels REALLY bad to pay 7 mana for a single vanilla 7/6, so you're probably never dropping this on curve. Late game: maybe you drop this as a must-answer threat, but two vanilla 7/6s just aren't as intimidating as a lot of other late-game threats right now.

    1. nickus89

      Two words: elemental evocation.
      Might not be the most consistent, but putting 2 7/6 bodies on turn 5 or even turn 3 is not something to underestimate.

      1. OldManSanns

        Perhaps. Except you still need to have played an elemental the turn before, so now you're asking for 3 cards.

        Compare this against the classic Mountain Giant/Conjurer's Calling shenanigans, which are a lot more consistent, give you more stats, combo easily with Khadgar, and are still just too inconsistent for this meta. Is this it exactly the same thing? No, if you get the EE you can pull off the former a little sooner, whereas the latter is a little slower but also a little easier to pull off (MG on Turn 4 was fairly common during RoS) and gives you twinspell and possibly taunts. But given that NOONE is still playing the latter, I believe the only way this Animated Avalanche sees play is if someone invents a clever way to synergize this with Cyclone and/or Elemental Allies...and 7 mana just isn't conducive to either.

  5. GlosuuLang

    We were complaining that 2x 5/6 with Taunt for 5 mana was OP not too long ago. Now we have 2x 7/6 for 5 mana (3 mana if you hit the nuts). It's certainly going to make a deck.

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