I think it's less broken than it looks. You need to run quite a few dragons to have this consistently active turn 2, and most of the dragons in standard are kind of bad. That said, if highlander teaches us anything, it's that making your deck trash for the sake of 1 or 2 broken cards is a perfectly valid strat. I'm expecting this to see play.
How a 4/X for 4 manas that see a lot of play before and a 4/8 taunt for 6 manas get another dragon is "making your deck trash"?
How often do you have more than 4-5 cards in hand by turn 4 (or 3) as Druid? Chillwind yeti is not a good card. 1 more health would not make Yeti a good card. Twilight Drake usually sees play in classes with arcane intellect, or classes with life tap. Otherwise it's usually just a yeti. You're right about the 4/8. That's very good card, but I didn't know it existed when I made my post.
This broken card draw a card, you ramp without spend any resource in hand, the dragon will be a 4/5 if you start or a 4/7 if you have the coin, nothing insane but it is ok.
This card is for a specific type of deck but if the condition is acquire put all previous ramping cards in garbage tier in comparison, it is just insane.
Some things I will never understand in Blizzard.
They think a 7 manas 5/5 can draw 2 cards OR restore 5 life was too good and need nerf, few months later they release UI, a card so insanely broken put the 5/5 into shame how bad it is.
They think a 2 manas gain a empty crystal and draw a card only in the late game too good and nerfed, now they release a card powercreep the pre nerf version.
Dragon Decks and their "if you are holding..." mechanic exist since the Blackrock Mountain Adventure, and I can tell you, triggering the condition was NEVER, absolutely never a problem. Typically they are always active in a dedicated deck.
Alot of people seem to be over estimating this card. It might be good in a malygos deck but so far what's been revealed for Druid, I doubt this will see play. Ysera and the other dragon Druid got are pretty bad for a Malygos deck.
I mention Malygos specifically due to the reason of OTK, I'm still sceptical about Druid trying out another big archetype where almost all other have failed and yet the dragons don't seem that good.
One of the most broken cards I've ever seen. 10/10. A+. The times this card doesn't work turn 2 will be long forgotten when it brokenly works the rest of the time.
I do not think this card will be too OP. Ramponiert for druid was always for doing great thing with spells or their minions. This basically limits your ability to include said spells and other strong high mana minions to get the effect constantly.
Wild growth is 3 mana and 100% consistent and sees 0 play. This will be either highly consistent or allows good druid tools to stay in the deck. Good card but surely not overpowered.
Everyone chill tf out. Druid hasn't had good ramp in a while, which is part of it's class identity. It's druid's turn to be good, just like how every other class has a dominant phase. I guarantee that everyone whining about it being broken only plays quest shaman.
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Everyone chill tf out. Druid hasn't had good ramp in a while, which is part of it's class identity. It's druid's turn to be good, just like how every other class has a dominant phase. I guarantee that everyone whining about it being broken only plays quest shaman.
Nope, I play only Wild where Quest Shaman is a low tier deck.
I also don't think this card will change the wild meta without any really broken dragons to accompany it.
Still, this card is broken. Straight upgrade from pre-nerf Wild Growth as the condition is completely irrelevant in a Dragon deck.
It will seem broken until you play it as a two mana card draw one card spell enough times. The odds of drawing this card early plus a dragon early aren't high enough for it to be broken. That being said, a good card.
It will seem broken until you play it as a two mana card draw one card spell enough times. The odds of drawing this card early plus a dragon early aren't high enough for it to be broken. That being said, a good card.
Via Mulligan, easy. Dragon Synergy has been around since Blackrock and fulfilling the condition was never a problem. There is a 1-cost dragon for priest and a 2-drop for Warrior with the condition and and in the Blackrock meta they were good cards.
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This broken card draw a card, you ramp without spend any resource in hand, the dragon will be a 4/5 if you start or a 4/7 if you have the coin, nothing insane but it is ok.
This card is for a specific type of deck but if the condition is acquire put all previous ramping cards in garbage tier in comparison, it is just insane.
Some things I will never understand in Blizzard.
They think a 7 manas 5/5 can draw 2 cards OR restore 5 life was too good and need nerf, few months later they release UI, a card so insanely broken put the 5/5 into shame how bad it is.
They think a 2 manas gain a empty crystal and draw a card only in the late game too good and nerfed, now they release a card powercreep the pre nerf version.
This just don't make sense.
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Don't even have to mulligan away your expensive Dragons when you have this
save the card for nerfs, ez dust
Dragon Decks and their "if you are holding..." mechanic exist since the Blackrock Mountain Adventure, and I can tell you, triggering the condition was NEVER, absolutely never a problem. Typically they are always active in a dedicated deck.
So this card is indeed over the top powerful.
Alot of people seem to be over estimating this card. It might be good in a malygos deck but so far what's been revealed for Druid, I doubt this will see play. Ysera and the other dragon Druid got are pretty bad for a Malygos deck.
I mention Malygos specifically due to the reason of OTK, I'm still sceptical about Druid trying out another big archetype where almost all other have failed and yet the dragons don't seem that good.
Draw a card AND gain a mana crystal!
Wild Growth was too strong though....
I guess every Druid deck will have some form of Dragon variation as this card is nuts!
To be fair, the good classes are going to need all the help they can get against Malakrond.
So yes, this is powerful compared to a Basic card, but it's not even close to overpowered as a third-set-of-the-year card.
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One of the most broken cards I've ever seen. 10/10. A+. The times this card doesn't work turn 2 will be long forgotten when it brokenly works the rest of the time.
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I do not think this card will be too OP. Ramponiert for druid was always for doing great thing with spells or their minions. This basically limits your ability to include said spells and other strong high mana minions to get the effect constantly.
Wild growth is 3 mana and 100% consistent and sees 0 play. This will be either highly consistent or allows good druid tools to stay in the deck. Good card but surely not overpowered.
This card is going to be insane good in dragon decks. 10/10.
I'm not so sure about meta defining until we see more druid cards. Dragon druid AT THE MOMENT, is very VERY niche.
TBH - I'm not sure the Quest isn't just better.
Ramp Druid is alive again
Everyone chill tf out. Druid hasn't had good ramp in a while, which is part of it's class identity. It's druid's turn to be good, just like how every other class has a dominant phase. I guarantee that everyone whining about it being broken only plays quest shaman.
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Nope, I play only Wild where Quest Shaman is a low tier deck.
I also don't think this card will change the wild meta without any really broken dragons to accompany it.
Still, this card is broken. Straight upgrade from pre-nerf Wild Growth as the condition is completely irrelevant in a Dragon deck.
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It will seem broken until you play it as a two mana card draw one card spell enough times. The odds of drawing this card early plus a dragon early aren't high enough for it to be broken. That being said, a good card.
Via Mulligan, easy. Dragon Synergy has been around since Blackrock and fulfilling the condition was never a problem. There is a 1-cost dragon for priest and a 2-drop for Warrior with the condition and and in the Blackrock meta they were good cards.