Sorcerer's Apprentice

Sorcerer's Apprentice is a common mage minion card, inducted into the Legacy set, formerly from the Classic set.

Strategy
With good stats for its cost and a special effect highly relevant to a mage, the Sorcerer's Apprentice makes for a useful addition to any spell-oriented deck. It is most commonly seen in tempo-focused decks which seize board control in the early game, not allowing the opponent to recover.

Notably it reduces the mana cost of both Arcane Missiles and Mirror Image to 0, and Frostbolt and Flamecannon to 1, allowing a mage to control the board and still have mana left to play minions. Multiple Sorcerer's Apprentice can be combined to enable powerful combos, such as infinite Fireballs from Archmage Antonidas.

This card's ability makes it a soft taunt in most situations, making it a good idea to protect it with a Taunt, as most opponent players will try to remove it at the earliest opportunity. However, in the late game it is generally less valuable and therefore less of a target, due to the larger pool of available mana and usually smaller hand size.

Trivia

 * The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "Through the Dark Portal" series, for the card Arcane Power.
 * "" is a poem by written in 1797. It is perhaps best known because of the classical piece composed by Paul Dukas, which was used in the 1940 Disney movie Fantasia.

Speculation

 * This card is often considered to depict, an apprentice of Jaina Proudmoore who was killed in the bombing of . However, Kinndy is described as having bright pink hair, bound up in ponytails, as opposed to this gnome's red, braided hair.

Patch changes

 * Moved from Classic to Legacy set.
 * Previously: Your spells cost (1) less. [2 mana, 2 attack, 2 health, Common]
 * Previously: Your spells cost (1) less. [2 mana, 2 attack, 2 health, Common]