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.

Mi'da, Pure Light Card Image

Fragment of Mi'da Card Image


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…