Spirit of the Dragonhawk
Spirit of the Dragonhawk is a 2 Mana Cost Rare Mage Minion card from the Rastakhan's Rumble set!
Card Text
Stealth for 1 turn. Your Hero Power also targets adjacent minions.
Flavor Text
Dragonhawks aren’t known for their accuracy.- Mana Cost: 2
- Attack: 0
- Health: 3
- Crafting Cost: 100 / 800 (Golden)
- Arcane Dust Gained: 20 / 100 (Golden)
- Rarity: Rare
- Class: Mage
- Card Type: Minion
- Set: Rastakhan's Rumble
- Mechanics: Stealth
Spirit of the Dragonhawk Card Review
It seems like Hero Powers will be one of the Mage’s themes this expansion. However, as much as I really like the Mage’s Loa, this card seems a bit clunky to use. This + Hero Power is a 4 mana version of Shooting Star. It’s true that if you play it one turn, you can Hero Power again next turn (assuming it doesn’t die to AoE), but then it’s 6 mana for 2x Shooting Star – still not a great deal. In order to make it work, you really need your Hero Power synergies, such as the new Daring Fire-Eater. But then it’s basically the same thing as Cosmic Anomaly + Shooting Star, but it leaves a less scary board behind. Of course, you can add more pieces to the combo – e.g. Pyromaniac, but it makes it even more expensive and less consistent (8 mana 3 cards combo is not something you want to hoard in a Midrange deck like that). Then, cards like Daring Fire-Eater of Pyromaniac are quite mediocre by themselves, with no other synergies.
Of course, the dream is to have Frost Lich Jaina up, play this and shoot three one health minions. But let’s be real here – it’s hard to find a single 1 health minion against a good player, let alone 3 of them.
Regular (non-Odd) Hero Power Mage looks like one of the “deck recipes” of the expansion – cool synergy, fun gameplay, but not actually competitive enough, because it requires too many synergies and the outcome is not THAT good. But so far, Odd Mage looks a bit more promising, and it obviously can’t run this 2 mana card.
Card rating: 3/10
4mana shooting star is not good.
Even against odd paladin, if you manage to kill 3 recruits twice, you still paid 6mana and 1card when the paladin only paid 6mana and 0card.
Combo with Ice Walker to freeze 3 targets
We saw on stream that it doesn’t work (happened on turn 9 of the card reveal match). Maybe they’ll change the interaction tho.
if that’s the case… then this card sucks 0/5
With this wording it should freeze three minions, hopefully they fix it before the expansion releases.
While Spirit of the Dragonhawk is up, it will turn your Hero Power into Shooting Star, which isn’t that bad. It can be very useful against Odd Paladin or in BSM, but that usefulness probably won’t push it into constructed play.
Garbage, the worst spirit of the pack so far
JAINA HERO POWER FOR 3 WATER ELEMENTALS REEEEEE
Wow this is so good I really thinks this could push odd mag- *checks mana cost*
Wow! This is worthless!
2/5 eat jorts
Wow this is so good I really thinks his could push odd mag- *checks mana cost*
Wow! This is worthless!
2/5 eat jorts
Even Mage?
Everyone is like “oh this isn’t odd” but this guy gets it!
No, they don’t get it. This card is bad if not to set up the new Loa. But the Loa is odd :7
Well this one posted for some reason enjoy me twice I guess.
Hmmm…maybe makes Jan’alai playable in general Control Mage? I kind of doubt it, though. You can also obviously use this to set up swing turns with Frostlich Jaina and create multiple elementals, but that seems like gross overkill and not worth a deck slot. It’s weird to say, because the effect is quite powerful, but I have a hard time seeing this in Constructed with the cards we’ve seen so far.
Would be powerful in odd mage but not possible
I’m fairly certain they did that on purpose otherwise odd mage would be too powerful.