Anti-Magic Shell

Anti-Magic Shell
	Anti-Magic Shell; Row 2 death knight talent; 1 min cooldown; Instant; Surrounds you in an Anti-Magic Shell for 5 sec, absorbing up to (30% of total health) magic damage and preventing application of harmful magical effects. Damage absorbed generates Runic Power.;
Properties
Class	Death knight
School	Shadow
Cooldown	1 minute
Talents
Talent required	[Death Strike]
Improvements	[Anti-Magic Barrier], [Blood Feast], [Spellwarden]
Related buff
	Magic ; Anti-Magic Shell ; Absorbing up to X magic damage.; Immune to magic debuffs. ; Duration: 5 seconds ;

Anti-Magic Shell is a Death knight ability that absorbs magic damage for 5 seconds. The caster is also immune to harmful magic effects for the duration of the shell. It does not, however, remove existing magic effects.

Background

Anti-Magic Shell was originally an ability available to Banshee units in Warcraft III. It has also appeared in World of Warcraft, where it was used by the Shadowfang Moonwalkers in Shadowfang Keep (as Anti-Magic Shield), and in Burning Crusade, where it is used by the Banshees in the Battle for Mount Hyjal raid instance.

Gallery

Anti-Magic Shell in the TCG.
"Shield of Distortion" in the TCG, used to represent Anti-Magic Shell in Hearthstone.

Patch changes

Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 2 class talent (was a level 14 ability).
Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Now learned at level 14 (was 9).
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 9 (was 57).
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Magic damage absorbed now scales with health.
Patch 6.2.0 (2015-06-23): Now absorbs 100% of all magical damage (up from 75%). However, damage absorbed no longer causes [Resolve].
Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now restores 2 Runic Power per 1% of max health absorbed.
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now causes damage absorbed to generate Runic Power.
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Runic Power cost removed.
Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): The tooltip for this ability will now reflect modifications from the [Magic Suppression] talent.
Patch 3.1.2 (2009-05-19): Tooltip error corrected.
Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): The amount of damage this ability can absorb is now limited to 100% of the death knight's health.
Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): The cooldown has been lowered to 45 sec from 60 sec.
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.