This isn't a card I've ever been crazy about but in certain situation's it can be a suitable 4 drop. I just hate giving my opponent anything for free. Since LOE introduced pit snake however, I've been on the beneficial end of a pit snake being summoned by a Hungry Dragon 2-3 times. If it's on turn 4, or the player who played hungry dragon can't remove the snake, it's basically game over in terms of tempo. Although it's a relatively low likelihood of happening (not sure how many unique 1 drops there are) I'm going to be lowering Hungry Dragon in my personal rankings to a below average card instead of a slightly above average one. I'd probably take an ogre Magi or some other very mediocre 4 drop over it, depending on the deck flavor.
I never pick the card.. it's worse than Pit Lord.. and instead of knowing that you take 5 damage to face, the effect could be waaay worse.. the 1 drop you are giving is probably worth more than a +1/+1 on yeti so always pick yeti over hungry dragon.. sadly sometimes it's wisp/tinyfin/hungry dragon.. well then it's better.. still on average a 5/4 tempowise.
Whoa I pick this card a lot and have great success with it, but I never thought about this possibility or encountered it. Now I'm scared of picking this card again... :/
I would still put it medium though, it depends on what class you are drafting for, when it summons a tunnel trogg for a mage or pally, it is great, as you said it would suck if it summons a pit viper on turn 4
The card is pretty horrible imo. Its +1+1 in stats but average 1 drop is better than 1/1. Especialy qualdir,snak,chow are horrible results. Would pick most 4 drops over it actually picking it under average.
Hungry Dragon is fine in arena decks where you expect to have early control of the board (for example because you have a lot of 1 and 2 drops). In those situations you usually drop Hungry Dragon. and then kill the one-drop with your other minions and it doesn't matter too much if it's a pit snake.
If you play a Hungry Dragon with no backup and leave yourself at the mercy of the RNG gods then, well, that's less good. But it's not like Hungry Dragon is the only minion on the game that needs a board presence to be good.
So when is it worth having hungry dragon and when isn't it worth having in a deck (arena or ranked)? I haven't thought much about it until this post... and for some reason I feel it could fit in zoo or a deck where having board advantage is a given or very typical; it could be an easy 5-6 minion at the cost of a lesser minion that's already on the board.
-Just a thought since I've in general heard that it's a bad card.
Take it if it's up against Frozen Kobob, or Maiden of the Lake.
It's average card probably in the same vein as Rockjaw, Purifier X, Dragonkin Sorcerer, etc- slightly better in Rogue class, or if you have another easy way to take care of the 1-drop.
You can only go wrong picking the dragon if you take it over great 4 drops like Yeti, Shredder, class 4-drops, etc
The card is pretty horrible imo. Its +1+1 in stats but average 1 drop is better than 1/1. Especialy qualdir,snak,chow are horrible results. Would pick most 4 drops over it actually picking it under average.
Chow can be a good result sometimes if you need the health (I've won games from it before), but generally hungry dragon really sucks.
I don't think its that bad. Not like a high priority pick, but I do take him pretty regularly when the other cards aren't particularly good.
I've had some bad summons from him here and there, but generally speaking he usually turns out being pretty useful. Kind of surprised at how many people don't like it.
If you have a strong control base for the early turns, hungry dragon is great. I'll only draft it if I already have 6+ 1-2 drops in my deck (and a handful of 3s), or if the other options are all god awful, but I've had tremendous success with it of late simply due to being able to ensure I have another minion on the board to kill whatever the dragon spawns for the enemy player.
It's good in this week's tavern brawl, decent in constructed if and only if you have a small minion or hero ping capability to clear the one-drop, and pretty miserable otherwise.
I'm still laughing about the guy that came here on HearthPwn the day Hungry Dragon was released, insulting everyone to be a metasheep not realizing that Hungry Dragon was "far stronger" than Piloted Shredder, and saying that "in two weeks, when pro will finally play it, you will all follow and we'll see an Hungry Dragon meta".
So fun how hipsters can be wrong and arrogant in the same time.
Even Rogue, the only class able to ping the 1-drop on turn 4 (with hero power and Backstab) just can't play this trash. But hey, Blizzard thought it would be an auto-include in every Dragon deck !
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This isn't a card I've ever been crazy about but in certain situation's it can be a suitable 4 drop. I just hate giving my opponent anything for free. Since LOE introduced pit snake however, I've been on the beneficial end of a pit snake being summoned by a Hungry Dragon 2-3 times. If it's on turn 4, or the player who played hungry dragon can't remove the snake, it's basically game over in terms of tempo. Although it's a relatively low likelihood of happening (not sure how many unique 1 drops there are) I'm going to be lowering Hungry Dragon in my personal rankings to a below average card instead of a slightly above average one. I'd probably take an ogre Magi or some other very mediocre 4 drop over it, depending on the deck flavor.
Yeah hungry dragon sucks I never pick it
I never pick the card.. it's worse than Pit Lord.. and instead of knowing that you take 5 damage to face, the effect could be waaay worse.. the 1 drop you are giving is probably worth more than a +1/+1 on yeti so always pick yeti over hungry dragon.. sadly sometimes it's wisp/tinyfin/hungry dragon.. well then it's better.. still on average a 5/4 tempowise.
Whoa I pick this card a lot and have great success with it, but I never thought about this possibility or encountered it. Now I'm scared of picking this card again... :/
I also had it summon Pit Snake twice! It seems to be biased indeed, which is sad...
however I think it's still a decent card even in constructed, if you can clear the 1 drop immediately. Check it out
I would still put it medium though, it depends on what class you are drafting for, when it summons a tunnel trogg for a mage or pally, it is great, as you said it would suck if it summons a pit viper on turn 4
The card is pretty horrible imo. Its +1+1 in stats but average 1 drop is better than 1/1. Especialy qualdir,snak,chow are horrible results. Would pick most 4 drops over it actually picking it under average.
Hungry Dragon has always been a bad card. Now its even worse.
Hungry Dragon is fine in arena decks where you expect to have early control of the board (for example because you have a lot of 1 and 2 drops). In those situations you usually drop Hungry Dragon. and then kill the one-drop with your other minions and it doesn't matter too much if it's a pit snake.
If you play a Hungry Dragon with no backup and leave yourself at the mercy of the RNG gods then, well, that's less good. But it's not like Hungry Dragon is the only minion on the game that needs a board presence to be good.
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So when is it worth having hungry dragon and when isn't it worth having in a deck (arena or ranked)? I haven't thought much about it until this post... and for some reason I feel it could fit in zoo or a deck where having board advantage is a given or very typical; it could be an easy 5-6 minion at the cost of a lesser minion that's already on the board.
-Just a thought since I've in general heard that it's a bad card.
Take it if it's up against Frozen Kobob, or Maiden of the Lake.
It's average card probably in the same vein as Rockjaw, Purifier X, Dragonkin Sorcerer, etc- slightly better in Rogue class, or if you have another easy way to take care of the 1-drop.
You can only go wrong picking the dragon if you take it over great 4 drops like Yeti, Shredder, class 4-drops, etc
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If you can kill the drop right away, it's okaaaay.
But... that usually means you are ahead anyway.
I don't think it's trash, but certainly risky...
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I don't think its that bad. Not like a high priority pick, but I do take him pretty regularly when the other cards aren't particularly good.
I've had some bad summons from him here and there, but generally speaking he usually turns out being pretty useful. Kind of surprised at how many people don't like it.
In Hungry Dragon's defense, there are few combos more satisfying than playing Hungry Dragon and MCT on the same turn for a big swing.
If you have a strong control base for the early turns, hungry dragon is great. I'll only draft it if I already have 6+ 1-2 drops in my deck (and a handful of 3s), or if the other options are all god awful, but I've had tremendous success with it of late simply due to being able to ensure I have another minion on the board to kill whatever the dragon spawns for the enemy player.
It's good in this week's tavern brawl, decent in constructed if and only if you have a small minion or hero ping capability to clear the one-drop, and pretty miserable otherwise.
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Never gonna pick it again.
I'm still laughing about the guy that came here on HearthPwn the day Hungry Dragon was released, insulting everyone to be a metasheep not realizing that Hungry Dragon was "far stronger" than Piloted Shredder, and saying that "in two weeks, when pro will finally play it, you will all follow and we'll see an Hungry Dragon meta".
So fun how hipsters can be wrong and arrogant in the same time.
Even Rogue, the only class able to ping the 1-drop on turn 4 (with hero power and Backstab) just can't play this trash.
But hey, Blizzard thought it would be an auto-include in every Dragon deck !