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Let's nerf some Priest cards, they should all be equally useless!
The card is really op but priest needs card like this to be competetive.
If priest gets really strong new dragon synergy cards in the next expansion, a nerf might be correct but currently its not.
On the scale of grasping for strawmen, this is a solid 8.
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Dragon decks have too many cards that suck without holding a Dragon. At least this is decent when played without the effect, just remember Pit Fighter doesn't see any play and Drakonid Operative is a class card, it's supposed to be better than the neutral equivalents. It does seem really powerful, but I didn't ever feel like my opponent got an unfair advantage from it. I'm no legend player, but that's how I feel about the card.
PS: Post nr. 666! OK, something's evil about this card. Kappa
Many of the last posts have discussed the value of Drakonid Operative in terms of the quality/usability of the card that you get from your opponents deck. That makes sense, but what if we looked at it a little differently?
Would you play a 5 mana 5/6 that allows you to simply look at 3 of your opponent's cards? I would say hell yes.
Ok, so then the fact that you can actually CHOOSE TO KEEP one of those three cards is just gravy. Yes, you have to be holding a dragon to activate the effect, but that is more than compensated for by the fact that it is a dragon itself.
I love being able to play priest again and I think it's cool that Blizzard answered our prayers. I do however think that Drakonid might be a bit too pushed and the fact that it only works with other dragons limits the way you can build Priest decks. It seems to me that if you are playing priest and you aren't playing dragons (highlander or otherwise) you are doing it wrong. That's a shame. I'd rather have a dozen of really good priest cards than one really broken and a couple of decent ones. But you can't have it all.
For now I think that the card is fine.
Having played a small amount of Dragon Priest, I'm going to echo what others have said, which is Netherspite Historian is probably what breaks this card. 2 of is very, very strong - but remember Blizz does not nerf very, very strong. If they did Thing from Below would have been hit. However, when you can get 3 or 4 - or more in a mirror match - it creates so much value that it's scary. I think priest really needs the mid-range 5 attack, so I think taking it to a 5 / 4 (not a 4 / 5) would be fair.
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My mandibles which are capable of pressing down and tearing, my talons which are known to intercept and hold.
It does depend on the situation though. if you are against Aggro you would want a board clear, instead of one of three tiny minions that you probably didn't want in your deck the first place
Obviously Drakonid is a very strong card, but it does not break the game in any way
because of blizzard terrible balancing classes need strong cards to be a good class (see savanna highmane, thing from below, shield slam)
It's a very strong a good card but is no where near the power of dr. Boom or mysterious challenger
The card will be nerfed naturally when the rotation comes. Many dragons will dissappear. And "if you have a dragon" will be a big downside
Exactly. Wyrmrest Agent, twilight guardian, Blackwing Corrupter, Twilight Whelp. These are key cards to Dragon priest and they are all leaving in a few months.
Scaled nightmare is unreliable and poor, and you are predicting many unsure things. Dragon priest wasn't even good until this expansion came out, so after it loses all those key cards predicting it is going to be great or good is really hasty. Mana Geode takes a lot of work to get value out of.
Anyways the thread is dumb as is any asking for a nerf this soon for anything in the expansion. The stats with effect thing, already proven wrong with Ethereal Peddler, Malchezaar, Usher of Souls, Darkmender. I predict the other classes will get 5/6 with effect cards that don't have it yet.
Remember Dark Cultist? First 3/4 in the game, priest card plus had an effect. Now most classes have a 3/4 with effect. Master of Evolution 4/5 with effect. Priest is finally viable, and at the same time not close to the most powerful class atm and yet people still complain.
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The stats are far too much for the effect. That's not even debatable, it has vanilla stats with a stupidly OP text. You can't balance a game with forced designs like this. Terrible.