Medivh, the Guardian

Medivh, the Guardian
Artist: James Ryman
Artist: James Ryman
Collectible • Elite
Battlecry: Equip Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian.
Class:	Neutral
Card type:	Minion
Cost:	8
Attack:	7
Health:	7
Keywords
BATTLECRY
Full tags
RARITY=5 CLASS=12 COLLECTIBLE=1 ELITE=1 COST=8 HEALTH=7 ATK=7 CARDTYPE=4 BATTLECRY=1 COLLECTION_RELATED_CARD_DATABASE_ID=40360
Wiki mechanics
Battlecry, Equip
Wiki tags
Weapon-generating
Availability
Formats	Wild Twist
Flavor
If you think the party's great now, just wait 'til he invites the orcs over!
Card set:	One Night in Karazhan
Rarity:	Legendary
Voice actor:	Cam Clarke
Character:	Medivh
Race:	Human
dbfId:	39841
Card id:	KAR_097

For other uses of Medivh, see Medivh (disambiguation).

Medivh, the Guardian is a legendary neutral minion card, from the One Night in Karazhan set.

How to get

Type	Source	Quality	Count
Adventure	Complete One Night in Karazhan 4th wing - The Spire	Regular	1
Crafting	Craft a Regular copy for 1600	Regular	1
Crafting	Craft a Golden copy for 3200	Golden	1

Weapons generated

Notes

To edit these notes, go to Template:Medivh, the Guardian notes.

• Atiesh's triggered effect summons a minion randomly selected from all collectible minions with a base mana cost equal to the mana cost of the triggering spell, regardless of class.
• The final mana cost of the triggering spell is used to determine the selection, including any cost-modification effects (such as due to Emperor Thaurissan, Loatheb or Millhouse Manastorm).

Example: If you have 10 mana and cast Forbidden Healing with Atiesh equipped, a 0-Cost minion will be summoned: despite the spell's text consumed 10 mana to boost the healing effect, the spell's mana cost was actually 0.

• In particular, if Cho'Gall's effect is used to play a spell spending Health instead of mana, Atiesh will still summon a minion matching the spell's cost.

Example: Suppose you have Summoning Stone in play, Atiesh equipped, and a Shadowflame in hand with mana cost reduced to 1 by Emperor Thaurissan. If you play Cho'gall and use its effect to play the Shadowflame for 1 Health, you will spend no mana but both Summoning Stone and Atiesh will summon a 1-Cost minion.

• If there is no minion matching the final mana cost of the triggering spell (for example, a 15-mana DOOM! due to Loatheb's effect played through Cho'gall), no minions will be summoned but Atiesh will still lose Durability.

• If the triggering spell is countered by Counterspell, no minion will be summoned and Atiesh will not lose Durability.
• If minions can't be summoned due to the board being full, Atiesh will not lose Durability.

Sounds

Play

• ▶️ VO_KAR_097_Male_Human_Play_01.wav A game? So kind of you to join me.
• ▶️ MedivhGuardian_Play_Stinger.wav <music stinger>

Attack

• ▶️ VO_KAR_097_Male_Human_Attack_01.wav I always win!

Death

• ▶️ VO_KAR_097_Male_Human_Death_01.wav <death sound>

Lore

This card represents a reimagined, younger version of the archmage, when he was not only the guardian of Azeroth, but also its most eligible bachelor.

For lore on the main character, see Medivh. For background lore on One Night in Karazhan, see One Night in Karazhan#Lore.

Trivia

• This card marks the first time in Hearthstone's history where a character is available both as a collectible hero and a collectible minion.
• Atiesh is notable as the first neutral weapon in Hearthstone. Medivh, the Guardian is also only the second neutral card to equip weapons, the first being Blingtron 3000.
• This card's text refers to the weapon as "Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian", despite the weapon card's name being simply "Atiesh". However, this may be due to a translated error.
• The music that plays when this card is summoned is from the ending cinematic in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos when Medivh departs for the last time.

Gallery

Medivh, the Guardian, full art

Patch changes

• Patch 6.0.0.13921 (2016-08-09):
  • Added.