i think the problem with quest druid is, that it wont work with zephrys and elise. also the nomi option would not work that well. and you dont know what kind of dragons you get...
I honestly think Neutral Ysera is better and this is still just too slow. The set probably will come out with small dragons too so this looks worse than it already is. Druids already have King Phaoris if they want to flood the board with big things, it has a more immediate impact than this.
I think this is a strong card if you go to fatigue, then it is like a second chef nomi without having the restriction. It's very slow so it is bad in an aggro matchup, but i think quest druid can handle most aggresive decks fine. You only really have a problem as questdruid if the enemy snowballs in the turns 1 - 4. after the quest finishes questdruid can usually stabalize. I also think that nowadays there aren't many snowball- aggrocards like fledgling or razormaw. Hunter has good snowball-tools vs questdruid but only if they get lucky like secretkeeper into a lot secrets and druid having no removal or Hyena when you have a lot of beasts to trade in other than that i can only think of priest with innerfire doing good before the quest finishes. Maybe evolving but that has to do with a lot of luck. So this card should help against controlldecks. Aggro should be the counter of questdruid but it usually isn't good enough and i think this card will not change that.
Edit: i think it may not be played because druid has a lot of value cards, but if it goes to an controllmeta this might help druid to get an edge over the others
It's okay, nothing to go crazy about. It's a decent curve topper in a dragon deck, but I'm not sold on dragon druid atm. They need way better threats to ramp to if that decks going to work out.
I think Alex goes to Hunter and Deathwing goes to no one. That way, the good classes will get an Aspect, while EVIL gets Galakrond, the Nightmare
They said that all 9 classes will get their own legendary dragon though, deathwing is an evil dragon, warrior is E.V.I.L so there's that... Maybe priest gets Murozond? And warlock gets some important twilight dragon.
Shaman gets dragons that breath lightning, I have no idea which dragons do that in the wow lore.
But that makes sense about Alexstrasza.
The breaths and explorer's give a hint which class gets which legendary dragon.
Hunter's have primordial Drakes, so:
Druid - Green Dragonflight, Ysera
Hunter - Primordial Drakes,???
Mage - Blue Dragonflight, Malygos
Paladin - Bronze Dragonflight, Nozdormu
Priest - Unknown
Rogue - Wax Dragon, Waxadred
Shaman - Unknown
Warlock - Unknown
Warrior - Black Dragonflight, Deathwing.
Absent so far are the Red, Nether, Twilight, Infinite and Chromatic Dragonflights as well as Frost Wyrms and Fel Wyrms and probably more, last played WoW 6 years ago, typically they added new Dragons every xpac.
I think Priest is Infinite as the 4 Mana 3/6 Invoke twice cost reducer is from them. That would make their Dragon Murozond.
Shaman could be Twilight Dragonflight since the Twilight's Hammer is associated with Shamans. Their Dragon would then most likely be that huge Raid Boss from the Deathwing Raid, forgot the name though. Shaman's breath is lightning and I think think some Twilight Drakes could also do that.
Warlock, no idea.
Red Dragonflight and Alexstrasza will likely be neutral. If Priest is indeed Infinite, they would have to be. Shaman's lightning breath doesn't fit them and Warlock doesn't fit them at all, identity-wise. Druid would have fitted but they already got Green.
I can't come up with an excuse to run this one instead of the old Ysera. It is not a bad card, it is decent but it is worse than the original.
How is this worse? Ysera gets you one card in most cases, which might just be a Laughing Sister. This gets you 7 dragons. Which, even if you get all fairy dragon's, is still better than one dreamcard. In the games where you would want to play normal ysera (value/ control games) this seems better in almost any scenario.
I can't come up with an excuse to run this one instead of the old Ysera. It is not a bad card, it is decent but it is worse than the original.
How is this worse? Ysera gets you one card in most cases, which might just be a Laughing Sister. This gets you 7 dragons. Which, even if you get all fairy dragon's, is still better than one dreamcard. In the games where you would want to play normal ysera (value/ control games) this seems better in almost any scenario.
Ysera gives you immediate value and, if you aren't bad and you've baited removal prior to playing her, she is a powerful minion to have on the board. This one gives you 7 portals that you might not even get to draw by the time that the match is over.
I can't come up with an excuse to run this one instead of the old Ysera. It is not a bad card, it is decent but it is worse than the original.
How is this worse? Ysera gets you one card in most cases, which might just be a Laughing Sister. This gets you 7 dragons. Which, even if you get all fairy dragon's, is still better than one dreamcard. In the games where you would want to play normal ysera (value/ control games) this seems better in almost any scenario.
Ysera gives you immediate value and, if you aren't bad and you've baited removal prior to playing her, she is a powerful minion to have on the board. This one gives you 7 portals that you might not even get to draw by the time that the match is over.
Considering how much draw power Druid has right now, I'd say getting all 7 of those dragons on board before the game is over would be pretty easy.
I think Alex goes to Hunter and Deathwing goes to no one. That way, the good classes will get an Aspect, while EVIL gets Galakrond, the Nightmare
They said that all 9 classes will get their own legendary dragon though, deathwing is an evil dragon, warrior is E.V.I.L so there's that... Maybe priest gets Murozond? And warlock gets some important twilight dragon.
Shaman gets dragons that breath lightning, I have no idea which dragons do that in the wow lore.
But that makes sense about Alexstrasza.
The breaths and explorer's give a hint which class gets which legendary dragon.
Hunter's have primordial Drakes, so:
Druid - Green Dragonflight, Ysera
Hunter - Primordial Drakes,???
Mage - Blue Dragonflight, Malygos
Paladin - Bronze Dragonflight, Nozdormu
Priest - Unknown
Rogue - Wax Dragon, Waxadred
Shaman - Unknown
Warlock - Unknown
Warrior - Black Dragonflight, Deathwing.
Absent so far are the Red, Nether, Twilight, Infinite and Chromatic Dragonflights as well as Frost Wyrms and Fel Wyrms and probably more, last played WoW 6 years ago, typically they added new Dragons every xpac.
I think Priest is Infinite as the 4 Mana 3/6 Invoke twice cost reducer is from them. That would make their Dragon Murozond.
Shaman could be Twilight Dragonflight since the Twilight's Hammer is associated with Shamans. Their Dragon would then most likely be that huge Raid Boss from the Deathwing Raid, forgot the name though. Shaman's breath is lightning and I think think some Twilight Drakes could also do that.
Warlock, no idea.
Red Dragonflight and Alexstrasza will likely be neutral. If Priest is indeed Infinite, they would have to be. Shaman's lightning breath doesn't fit them and Warlock doesn't fit them at all, identity-wise. Druid would have fitted but they already got Green.
So far all the "Good" aspects are the explorer classes, though. So it'd only make sense if Hunter had Alexstrasza, but the dragon cards we've seen from Hunter have all been green primordial dragons (which... isn't even technically a flight).
So I'm not sure.
The set probably will come out with small dragons too so this looks worse than it already is
The presence of small dragons has always bugged me. Everything about the dragon tribe is generally about dragons being big, threatening and imposing. Even their play-mechanic is based on the idea that you have dragons in your hand, rather than played onto the field.
So HOPEFULLY they'll keep that to a minimum.
As to this card itself, it's REALLY going to depend on the pool. I think on average the worst you're going to get is a 4/4. The low roles (Twilight Drake, Faerie Dragon, Brightwing) are few and far between. And really, odds are you're getting 7 8/8 vanilla minions because that's the most common result.
I think Alex goes to Hunter and Deathwing goes to no one. That way, the good classes will get an Aspect, while EVIL gets Galakrond, the Nightmare
They said that all 9 classes will get their own legendary dragon though, deathwing is an evil dragon, warrior is E.V.I.L so there's that... Maybe priest gets Murozond? And warlock gets some important twilight dragon.
Shaman gets dragons that breath lightning, I have no idea which dragons do that in the wow lore.
But that makes sense about Alexstrasza.
The breaths and explorer's give a hint which class gets which legendary dragon.
Hunter's have primordial Drakes, so:
Druid - Green Dragonflight, Ysera
Hunter - Primordial Drakes,???
Mage - Blue Dragonflight, Malygos
Paladin - Bronze Dragonflight, Nozdormu
Priest - Unknown
Rogue - Wax Dragon, Waxadred
Shaman - Unknown
Warlock - Unknown
Warrior - Black Dragonflight, Deathwing.
Absent so far are the Red, Nether, Twilight, Infinite and Chromatic Dragonflights as well as Frost Wyrms and Fel Wyrms and probably more, last played WoW 6 years ago, typically they added new Dragons every xpac.
I think Priest is Infinite as the 4 Mana 3/6 Invoke twice cost reducer is from them. That would make their Dragon Murozond.
Shaman could be Twilight Dragonflight since the Twilight's Hammer is associated with Shamans. Their Dragon would then most likely be that huge Raid Boss from the Deathwing Raid, forgot the name though. Shaman's breath is lightning and I think think some Twilight Drakes could also do that.
Warlock, no idea.
Red Dragonflight and Alexstrasza will likely be neutral. If Priest is indeed Infinite, they would have to be. Shaman's lightning breath doesn't fit them and Warlock doesn't fit them at all, identity-wise. Druid would have fitted but they already got Green.
So far all the "Good" aspects are the explorer classes, though. So it'd only make sense if Hunter had Alexstrasza, but the dragon cards we've seen from Hunter have all been green primordial dragons (which... isn't even technically a flight).
So I'm not sure.
Yeah but Alexstrasza as the Guardian of Life doesn't make much sense in Hunter.
Lore-wise Priest and Druid would fit best, maybe Warrior as well. But Druid has the green flight which fits even better, and Priest and Warrior are the bad guys in this expansion.
However Alexstrasza is also known as the Dragon Queen, so as a neutral Legendary with a tribe-supporting effect, that would be the best fit.
Especially if we consider both formats, the Dragon tribe still needs a scaling Win-condition of the power level of cards like N'zoth, Gul'dan or Shudderwock. Alexstrasza could be it. Especially since big minions alone don't form a strategy and Galakrond is limited to the Evil classes.
Lorewise, Alex was once imprisoned by orcish warlock and served the horde.
Gameplay wise, I think each explorer class gets a "good" dragon. Hunter is the only explorer class left for Alex.
But her attributes make no sense for Hunter. If it were Alex, the Breath and Explorer Cards would depict the Red Dragonflight. But they depict primordial Drakes instead and a primordial drake would also make the most sense as they are tameable like pets. This Dragon would still be "good" as it would be Bran's new pet.
i think the problem with quest druid is, that it wont work with zephrys and elise. also the nomi option would not work that well. and you dont know what kind of dragons you get...
A strong effect on druid because it has a lot of card draw in addition to the Quest it is very easy for Druid to steal his deck
I honestly think Neutral Ysera is better and this is still just too slow. The set probably will come out with small dragons too so this looks worse than it already is. Druids already have King Phaoris if they want to flood the board with big things, it has a more immediate impact than this.
I think this is a strong card if you go to fatigue, then it is like a second chef nomi without having the restriction. It's very slow so it is bad in an aggro matchup, but i think quest druid can handle most aggresive decks fine. You only really have a problem as questdruid if the enemy snowballs in the turns 1 - 4. after the quest finishes questdruid can usually stabalize. I also think that nowadays there aren't many snowball- aggrocards like fledgling or razormaw. Hunter has good snowball-tools vs questdruid but only if they get lucky like secretkeeper into a lot secrets and druid having no removal or Hyena when you have a lot of beasts to trade in other than that i can only think of priest with innerfire doing good before the quest finishes. Maybe evolving but that has to do with a lot of luck. So this card should help against controlldecks. Aggro should be the counter of questdruid but it usually isn't good enough and i think this card will not change that.
Edit: i think it may not be played because druid has a lot of value cards, but if it goes to an controllmeta this might help druid to get an edge over the others
I can't come up with an excuse to run this one instead of the old Ysera. It is not a bad card, it is decent but it is worse than the original.
It's okay, nothing to go crazy about. It's a decent curve topper in a dragon deck, but I'm not sold on dragon druid atm. They need way better threats to ramp to if that decks going to work out.
The breaths and explorer's give a hint which class gets which legendary dragon.
Hunter's have primordial Drakes, so:
Druid - Green Dragonflight, Ysera
Hunter - Primordial Drakes,???
Mage - Blue Dragonflight, Malygos
Paladin - Bronze Dragonflight, Nozdormu
Priest - Unknown
Rogue - Wax Dragon, Waxadred
Shaman - Unknown
Warlock - Unknown
Warrior - Black Dragonflight, Deathwing.
Absent so far are the Red, Nether, Twilight, Infinite and Chromatic Dragonflights as well as Frost Wyrms and Fel Wyrms and probably more, last played WoW 6 years ago, typically they added new Dragons every xpac.
I think Priest is Infinite as the 4 Mana 3/6 Invoke twice cost reducer is from them. That would make their Dragon Murozond.
Shaman could be Twilight Dragonflight since the Twilight's Hammer is associated with Shamans. Their Dragon would then most likely be that huge Raid Boss from the Deathwing Raid, forgot the name though. Shaman's breath is lightning and I think think some Twilight Drakes could also do that.
Warlock, no idea.
Red Dragonflight and Alexstrasza will likely be neutral. If Priest is indeed Infinite, they would have to be. Shaman's lightning breath doesn't fit them and Warlock doesn't fit them at all, identity-wise. Druid would have fitted but they already got Green.
How is this worse? Ysera gets you one card in most cases, which might just be a Laughing Sister. This gets you 7 dragons. Which, even if you get all fairy dragon's, is still better than one dreamcard. In the games where you would want to play normal ysera (value/ control games) this seems better in almost any scenario.
Ysera gives you immediate value and, if you aren't bad and you've baited removal prior to playing her, she is a powerful minion to have on the board. This one gives you 7 portals that you might not even get to draw by the time that the match is over.
Considering how much draw power Druid has right now, I'd say getting all 7 of those dragons on board before the game is over would be pretty easy.
Bad card. Druid can do without this.
Good way to disrupt your Elise and Zephrys 😎
I don't think it will be played in highlander. Zephyrs is surely out.
The Dream Portals cost 9. Would that trigger Atiesh if you had it equipped or work with Spiteful Summoner and Grand Archivist? Just wondering if there's some combo potential here.
So far all the "Good" aspects are the explorer classes, though. So it'd only make sense if Hunter had Alexstrasza, but the dragon cards we've seen from Hunter have all been green primordial dragons (which... isn't even technically a flight).
So I'm not sure.
The presence of small dragons has always bugged me. Everything about the dragon tribe is generally about dragons being big, threatening and imposing. Even their play-mechanic is based on the idea that you have dragons in your hand, rather than played onto the field.
So HOPEFULLY they'll keep that to a minimum.
As to this card itself, it's REALLY going to depend on the pool. I think on average the worst you're going to get is a 4/4. The low roles (Twilight Drake, Faerie Dragon, Brightwing) are few and far between. And really, odds are you're getting 7 8/8 vanilla minions because that's the most common result.
Yeah but Alexstrasza as the Guardian of Life doesn't make much sense in Hunter.
Lore-wise Priest and Druid would fit best, maybe Warrior as well. But Druid has the green flight which fits even better, and Priest and Warrior are the bad guys in this expansion.
However Alexstrasza is also known as the Dragon Queen, so as a neutral Legendary with a tribe-supporting effect, that would be the best fit.
Especially if we consider both formats, the Dragon tribe still needs a scaling Win-condition of the power level of cards like N'zoth, Gul'dan or Shudderwock. Alexstrasza could be it. Especially since big minions alone don't form a strategy and Galakrond is limited to the Evil classes.
Lorewise, Alex was once imprisoned by orcish warlock and served the horde.
Gameplay wise, I think each explorer class gets a "good" dragon. Hunter is the only explorer class left for Alex.
It doesn't trigger Atiesh because you yourself don't cast it. It casts automatically. It does works with the other two.
But her attributes make no sense for Hunter. If it were Alex, the Breath and Explorer Cards would depict the Red Dragonflight. But they depict primordial Drakes instead and a primordial drake would also make the most sense as they are tameable like pets. This Dragon would still be "good" as it would be Bran's new pet.
This card is playable but they seem to be pushing Dragon Druid hard...