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This card will be in battlegrounds. I can really see it working as a Tier 4 card.
The 'All' tag makes me think otherwise, since if the tag is on a too early of a Tier, we can have the OG Battlegrounds dilemma all over again, and the meta would again devolve into who gets the beefiest Amalgam the fastest.
Oh, I was there back then. Sweet Sweet Nightmare Amalgam into Annoy-o-Module meta. Kind of miss it.
Looks like a solid card to be added someday to Battlegrounds, actually. An amalgam with Primalfin Lookout attached sounds nice to be a new addition to the game mode.
A nice little addition for quest pirate warrior, being a card that generates more pirates is no bad thing. But it does suffer from the fact that you need first a pirate to stick on board.
Most useful to discover from tribes that have small pools like quilboar, and perhaps naga. In most others, the selections are just so vast in terms of quality it'll hardly ever be worth including this card into your deck.
But if Im honest, probably seen nowhere else other than quest pirate warrior. Just too fair for consideration in standard.
A lot of the Standard dragons will be rotating out, and I doubt we'll see a ton of new dragons in a Sunken City/Naga themed set. The most of any neutral minion type in today's Core Set is 8 (i.e. there are 8 beasts and 8 dragons, and everything else is lower), so it's probably fair to guess there won't be more than ~8 dragons in the new core set. Assuming the Aspects will still be in the Core Set after rotation, the majority of dragons in Standard will be Aspects or cards from the Alterac Valley Miniset.
So this discover could end up being a tool to fetch bonus copies of high impact dragons like Lightmaw Netherdrake or Onyxian Drake or Kazakusan.
Side note - a limited dragon pool after rotation could mean Lady Prestor's value increases significantly, which should make for some pretty wacky games.
As you say, there is actually not many dragons left, and we're left assuming that the aspects and cards like Brightwing actually stick in core. But since this card also requires said tribe minion to actually be on board, it could be a funny situation whereby you simply can't use this minion on a dragon because they're all so high costed.
I still doubt it'll be in anything other than quest pirate warrior, but smaller pools and more consistent payoffs may prove me wrong.
Yeah, the reason I think it could see play in as a dragon synergy is because a) those decks often want more dragons in hand and b) the "fail state" for the card is a reasonable vanilla minion for a deck that will mostly have expensive cards. So a Control Dragon deck can use this for late game value in a control mirror, or early game tempo in an aggro match.
There's a lot of 1 and 2 costs Pirates, you can easily combo this on 3 or 4 Mana.
From the reveal video. Lifedrinker in the Core Set and this is definitely the Year of the Hydra.
Hail Hydra!
...and welcome back Lifedrinker. A nice addition not just for aggro.
Unfortunately, throughout its lifetime that's really all it did - being used by aggro. The only other deck that isn't aggro which included this card was shudderwock shaman.
Because if you need defensive healing you're probably better off just playing Death's Head Cultist.
It is not inherently unfortunate when a card is primarily used by aggro.
That's true. Im just saying its unfortunate that non-aggro decks usually dont use it, even though its healing, because there's usually more efficient healing cards available.
pirate warrior card
Exactly what I was thinking. Oof!