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I find it hilarious that people is complaining about this in a meta where Pirate Warrior kills you by turn 5.

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I find it hilarious that people is complaining about this in a meta where Pirate Warrior kills you by turn 5.

On the other hand, its the only card rn making priest worth anything alongside talonpriest...

Remeber what is being lost soon though - Nef, Rend, Corrupter, Technician, Chillmaw & Guardian not to mention the ones I may have forgot.  Unless we get a bunch of dragons in the next expansion Dragon decks will be very hard to play. I am fine the way it is considering all of the other cards that have been printed for Warrior / Shaman

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 First of all lern to write before commenting, so many errors already make you look stupid. Secoundly Dark Cultist wasn't that good and Auchenai Soulpriest doesn't have premium stats (3/5 not 4/5 or 3/6). And last put not least listing 6+ mana cards to compare their stats with a 5-cost Drakonid Operative, who can trade evenly with them (exept for Ragnaros the Firelord) only shows that he really is overpowered. Sure use premium removal to remove my 5-drop, so you won't have anything for my actual threats 2-3 turns later, while I Discover a card from your deck.

 Ad hominem right off the bat invalidates your entire wall of text and any argument you made previously. Grow up.

 Oh no, I made 1 error instead of 100 like your_swan _song did. It also doesn't invalidate anything, you just don't have anything useful to add so you try to be cleaver (you're not). Its also funny how the Priest-Zelots are desperately trying to prove that Drakonid Operative is not overpowered, which he very clearly is based on all the facts listed in previous comments (which they don't address at all).

This isn't some sort of rant, but we clearly saw how these kinds of swingy effects can end up with Tuskarr Totemic, but this time its an insane value-swing instead of a tempo-swing. If Drakonid Operative is fine, then Hunter should get their 8-mana Call of the Wild back and other classes need to get stronger cards aswell, which won't happen as far as we have seen.

Yep 5/6 is way too much. 5/4 or 5/5 should be fine. Compare to 4/3 DR guy - he gives random card, not a choise one.

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Yep 5/6 is way too much. 5/4 or 5/5 should be fine. Compare to 4/3 DR guy - he gives random card, not a choise one.

Why is the thread still a thing? Can't we all just let it fade away. It's obvious that the original poster is a complete dimwit and craves for attention.

The only thing that kind of pisses me off about this card is when someone chains like 10 of them together while your playing Priest with one in your deck. Happens infrequently enough that i'm going to get up in arms about it though.

 Nerf threads need to be nerfed.

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Why is the thread still a thing? Can't we all just let it fade away. It's obvious that the original poster is a complete dimwit and craves for attention.

 Why is your comment a thing? Can't we have an actual discussion about a card being too strong without derailing every Page? You obviously crave for attention. :P

Shamans get a 4 mana 7/7 and this guy is complaining about a vanilla-statted 5-drop smh

Other players mad that Priest has a sticky 5-drop, but 0 mana 5/5 taunt is okay in Shaman. 

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The card itself it's really strong, but probably not as much as broken as it may seems.
The real problem is the Netherspite Historian Discover Rate, that is terribly unbalanced: figth against 2 Drakonid Operative can be quite intense, sure, but doable; fight against 3-4 of them (happens quite often, sincerely) it's gamebreaking - considering also as the game goes on, chances you are going to copy something big and impactful are probably higher.

If it was a 4/5 it still would see play so... yes, it's a fucking retarded card and it tilts me even more than pirates going to my face.

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Other players mad that Priest has a sticky 5-drop, but 0 mana 5/5 taunt is okay in Shaman. 

Who the fuck said thing from below was balanced and okay? Potential 0 cost cards with such an easy condition to meet like thing and arcane giant are not okay, you won't find anyone defending this. Can people stop scapegoating other broken cards when doubts and opinions are raised on something they like? A 5/6 dragon with discover a card that gives you insight into what your opponent is playing is objectively overstatted for having such a powerful effect. I think this much is very obvious.

Guys. It is just card for only one archetype and not like shamans Doomhammer,0 mana 5/5, Dr. Boom and so on that just fits in every deck. So stop crying over nerfing a freaking one archetype card that is just Pit Fighter with better thoughtsteal effect which cost cant be reduced (except Thaurissan and Shadowfiend)

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Ok, since people constantly try to derail this discussion without any real counter-arguments, I'm going to list all the reasons why Drakonid Operative is too strong.

1. He is a 5mana 5/6 at worst, so you can just play him without meeting his condition if you need to and he will never be bad unlike all other cards that require you to hold a Dragon.

2. Holding a Dragon is a very easy condition to meet, since even with the next rotation we still have Twilight Drake, Azure Drake, Book Wyrm, six possible 9+ cost Dragons depending on your deck-list/type and of course Drakonid Operative as viable Dragons. Netherspite Historian helps adding even more to your deck to meet that condition.

3. Shifting Shade is a simular card that saw play in N'zoth-Priest and loses 2 statpoints to get a random card from your opponent on Deathrattle (which usualy discount effects for ~2 Statpoints as seen on many Deathrattle-minions). Drakonid Operative can Discover a card from your opponents deck as a Battlecry, which should cost at least 4-5 Statpoints or ~2 mana.

4. The Discover gives you vital information about your opponents deck in its current state, so you know he didn't draw a specific card yet and you add the most useful card to your hand (and every opponent only runs good/useful cards).

5. You can outright get someones win-condition and use it against them, for example Anyfin Can Happen, Lord Jaraxxus, Ragnaros the Firelord, Elise Starseeker/map/monkey, etc

6. It leaves no room for counterplay, because you have no control of what your opponent Discovers or when he has a Dragon in his hand.

Did I miss something? Also a single card should not be this powerful, even if the class is weak, since thats bad design. Multiple cards should make a class good like we see with Pirate-Warrior now or Midrange Shaman in the past.