Hello everyone! I’ve counted the votes and the card you wanted me to talk about most
is the one and only: “I am mal’ganis, I am a turtle!”
I love it when you pick a card with some actual story behind it, makes my job so much easier.
Let’s talk about this turtle shall we?!
Mal’Ganis is part of the race of vampiric demons called the Nathrezim or the Dreadlords.
They come from the twisting nether, a realm outside the borders of the physical universe,
where energies and beings sometimes force their way into the physical world. In this
realm demonic forces were born like the void hounds, pit lords, but also the Nathrezim.
Cunning and manipulative, they dedicated their existence to mastering the arts of shadow
magic. The nathrezim relished infiltrating mortal civilizations, sowing unrest, and turning
nation against nation. As these societies devolved and crumbled from within, the nathrezim
would corrupt their populations, twisting innocents into new and horrific breeds of
demon. As their spirit is linked to the twisting nether, they can not truly be killed within
the physical realm which is why we’ve seen the return of many defeated Nathrezim, Mal’ganys included.
The first time that Mal’ganys enterd the story was during Warcraft 3. The Lich King
was send to Azeroth by Kil’jaeden to weaken the world and get it ready for another Legion
invasion. To this end, the cult of the damned lead by Kel’thuzad had been spreading the
plague across Lordaeron killing its citizens and turning them into the undead. Young prince
Arthas, together with Jaina Proudmoore and Uther the Lightbringer, did their very best
to investigate what was going on and put a stop to it. They even brought down Kel’thuzad himself,
but plans beyond their comprehension were set in motion. The Lich King wanted to turn
the holy prince to the dark side and Mal’ganys was send to taunt the prince and place him
on the right track. Within stratholme the plagued grain had been given out to the people, turned into
bread and Arthas knew that his people would soon be part of the undead. He did the only thing that
he thought he could do, purge the city and take down his people before they were turned
against them. Jaina and Uther could not stand at the prince’s side, could not join him
in this massacre so Arthas was left with but a few troops to purge the entire city. There he
met Mal’ganys who was busy with turing the prince’s people house hold by house hold.
Arthas battled on and tried to confront the dreadlord, but Mal’ganis wasn’t quite ready:
In the cold lands of Northrend Arthas found the runeblade Frostmourne and upon picking
it up, he sacrificed a piece of his soul. Mal’ganis thought that their plans had worked
out, that Arthas was now part of their dark team, but the Lich King had other plans in mind.
He didn’t like working for Kil’jaeden and the dreadlords or even the Legion and he wanted to merge with
Arthas and break out of his prison. First though, the prince was to be rewarded for his sacrifice, granted what he wanted most and he got his revenge:
Like I said, Dreadlords can not die upon Azeroth so despite Arthas giving up everything that he had, everything that he
knew in order to get his revenge... It didn’t mean much and Mal’ganis made a return during Wrath of the Lich King.
Similar to how his brother Balnazzar had infiltrated the Scarlet Crusade, Mal’ganis decided to infiltrate
the Scarlet Onslaught under the disguise of Admiral Barean Westwind. Adventurers eventually
figured out that Mal’ganis had infiltrated and corrupted the organisation so they confronted
him and send him back to the twisting nether. With his final words Mal’ganis warned us
that we would never be able to take down the Lich King without his forces, that he would
have his revenge upon him and us, but thankfully we would prove him wrong. Time will tell when
and how Mal’ganis might will make a return into the story, perhaps the expansion Legion will have a part
for him to play, but for now that’s the end of his story.
When we look at the flavor text that they gave to Mal’ganis within Hearthstone, it reads that he doesn’t like being betrayed,
so if you discard him, watch out and this is of course a reference to the moment where he was betrayed
by the Lich King. Funny enough, the art that they used for Mal'ganis's card is showing the wrong dreadlord. This card has been used before in
the Warcraft Trading Card game only then it was used to illustrate one of his brothers,
namely Varimathras. Which means that this card is a phony, a big fat phony and it’s not
actually Mal’ganis that you play, it’s not even a turtle, it’s Varimathras pretending to be Mal’Ganis.
This is probably to hide himself from Sylvanas her wrath, but that’s a whole different story.
For now, this is what I have for you on the story of Mal'ganis. As always I’ll leave it up to you guys and girls to decide what card we’re going to
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