Jungle, the new Mage Niche?

So since I had some good experience with Lissandra jungle and now I read of some people trying out Zyra jungle... could it be that with Runic Echo the jungle has become open for mages, after they were completly shoved out of midlane by assassins?

Let's see what mages typically bring to the table:

• Damage -> often AoE Damage
• Some sort of CC

One helps with clearing, the other with ganking. However, they also have weaknesses, especially in their first jungle clear which is super painful. Often it's smarter to just clear two or three camps, recall, get hunters pots and then start for real.

Usually the argument was that mages are too mana hungry, but with blue buff early and an item that gives 150% base mana-regen while in jungle that is barely a problem from my experience. Also, once they have Runics clearing speed is not a problem either.

And the best part: ganks are brutal. This is what mages might excel in. Carry junglers like Yi don't really have good ganks due to the lack of cc. Tank junglers have the cc, but alone they often lack the damage to kill their target solo fast enough - unless you have something like AP Zac crashing in. Mages have both, especially when they are bursty. Gotta try Veigar jungle at some point, and I can also see Karma working with her shield and the root for ganks... Oh and don't forget Morgana! Free Sustain from the passive and some obscene amout of cc with level 6 ganks (if she hits the Q that is...).