Aviana

Aviana is a legendary druid minion card, from the Grand Tournament set.

Strategy
Aviana's extremely low stats is made up by her potentially massive cost reduction effect. If left standing, the player can dump out many big minions in a single turn. However, her low Health and high upfront cost makes this situation uncommon. This can be avoided with Emperor Thaurissan, which causes all cost-reduced minions to be played for 0 mana. If played as a control value card, keep her protected behind a Taunt minion if possible.

Aviana is best combined with Kun the Forgotten King, who can restore all the mana spent playing Aviana and allows you to follow it up with other minions on the same turn. Aviana and Kun are essential cards in combo-based decks for this reason, allowing many different kinds of combos to be performed, such as summoning multiple copies of Malygos with Faceless Manipulator and Ixlid, Fungal Lord and deal direct spell damage with Moonfire and Living Roots, easy one-turn Star Aligner setups for massive AoE damage, or guaranteed permanent deck swapping with King Togwaggle and Azalina Soulthief. Since Aviana costs 10 Mana, this combo will require Innervate or other cost-reduction effects.

Lore

 *  is a winged demigoddess and mistress of the, . She was killed in the but was resurrected during Ragnaros' siege on .


 * Swift and ruthless, Aviana personifies the capricious nature of the winds, and her children are no different.


 * Ten thousand years after her death, Deathwing the Destroyer returned to Azeroth from . Under his command the fire elementals of Ragnaros marched upon, to make way for the Firelord himself to set fire to the World Tree . During their siege adventurers were called from across Azeroth to assist in the mountain's defense. One of the tasks assigned to them was to assist in the resurrection of the demigods, one of whom was Aviana. Besides resurrecting her, Adventurers were also assigned to destroy her fallen children, the harpies, who were attacking their mother's shrine. When all was done however the mighty Demigod of the Sky was reborn and Aviana returned to the world to help repel the invading Fire Elementals and to send Ragnaros back to the Firelands.

This is the original, uncorrupted version of Duskfallen Aviana.

Trivia

 * The artwork for this card comes from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "War of the Ancients" series, for the card Child of Aviana.

Patch changes

 * Cost increased from 9 to 10.
 * New animation added.
 * Added.