New Priest Minion - Skeletal Dragon

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A new Epic Priest Minion, Skeletal Dragon, has been revealed!

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  • Arthas's Avatar
    Robot Black Lotus 1265 5754 Posts Joined 03/10/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    A new Epic Priest Minion, Skeletal Dragon, has been revealed!

    Skeletal Dragon Card Image

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  • YourPrivateNightmare's Avatar
    Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Gonna be pretty hard to keep that alive for more than one turn, but hey, at least it's some sort of lategame value generator and the taunt gives it some immediate impact.

    I tried having fun once.

    It was awful.

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  • GrayCatBlind's Avatar
    120 19 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Very good and another fantastic minion for the Alexstraza pool. :)

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Seems really good, and it having 4 attack makes it hard to remove in mirror matchups. Also because of it being 4 health it means it wont be removed by your own "Destroy all minions with 5 or more attack" board clear.

    RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.

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  • Xarkkal's Avatar
    Servant of Illidan 910 1321 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    I'm glad to see more Dragon stuff coming out. I feared there wasn't going to be a new Dragon for a while after DoD. 

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  • Xarkkal's Avatar
    Servant of Illidan 910 1321 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago
    Quote From Brandon

    Seems really good, and it having 4 attack makes it hard to remove in mirror matchups.

    But... Forbidden Words

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  • Brandon's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1350 2486 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    True, but still it's hard to remove if the opponent has not drawn it, or has already used them up.

    RNG is only fun as long as there is a 50/50 chance of getting something really good or trash level of bad. If RNG always results in something good, then it's not fun.

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  • Caro's Avatar
    Draconic Rager 2225 2544 Posts Joined 03/12/2020
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Ah... so this is how we get back to infinite Dragonqueen Alexstrasza

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  • dapperdog's Avatar
    Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Love it, but will almost never see play. Too expensive.

    Has taunt though. But at that point of time, you're either winning hard, or already lost as priest.

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  • PLANETCRUNCH's Avatar
    E.V.I.L. Dragon 820 1248 Posts Joined 07/19/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Dragon Priest still getting support? 

    wow, color me impressed, aight 

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  • Horus's Avatar
    Detective Pikachu 2575 3348 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Bone Drake wants a chat ... 
    Never mind, Bone Drake just wanted attention.
    Keep scrolling ^^

    Struggle with Heroic Galakrond's Awakening? I got your back : 

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  • Haffax733's Avatar
    Devoted Outlander 1035 297 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Probably not strong enough for constructed, but a great arena card.

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  • Emptyness's Avatar
    Supporter 520 525 Posts Joined 03/16/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    I really like the card, but you need to make it cheaper. Nightscale Matriarch didn't see that much of a play, because of the cost. I really don't want this one to follow the footsteps of the matriarch.

    “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” ― George Bernard Shaw

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  • Elfensilver's Avatar
    595 663 Posts Joined 03/14/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    You keep a dragon in your hand, which is the most important thing in dragon decks.

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  • Erodos's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 945 1019 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    It's a neat value generator, but I think that Priest gets enough random cards from Galakrond. Don't see it seeing much play outside of dedicated dragon decks, which I'm not sure will exist because they don't have a real win condition. Maybe Highlander Dragon Priest?

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  • DoubleSummon's Avatar
    Ancestral Recall 1585 2271 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Would say good ress target but it gives you random stuff that might or not be desirable for ressing.. I think the card has a decent power level, but I am not sure yet how priest wins.. value is not really a win condition most of the time..

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  • Guenh's Avatar
    Devoted Academic 725 633 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Decent stat for a taunt and this card generate value immediately, but i don't know if it's enough for standard. If Highlander prist will be a thing, this card can find a spot for sure in that deck

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  • Pezman's Avatar
    Staff Writer 2235 2285 Posts Joined 06/03/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Compare it to Emerald Explorer. One more mana for one extra health and the potential to get more than one free dragon, but you don't get to choose the dragon. Not a great bargain. Not terrible though.

    "Be excellent to each other." -Bill and Ted

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  • StormKnightSera's Avatar
    Senior Writer Serra Angel 1720 2915 Posts Joined 02/09/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Yeah not as good as Emerald Explorer, but I still like it. I like Taunts and I like Dragons, so more of both is always welcomed.

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  • liontail's Avatar
    Draconically Dedicated 210 277 Posts Joined 09/04/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    nice dragon generator on the turn of play but i can't recall dragon priest deck being good anymore so it seems a bit weak in the current meta.

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  • allthehype's Avatar
    Crossroads Historian 630 739 Posts Joined 07/26/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Taunt makes it playable. Could find a spot in dragon or Galakrond decks but won't break the game.

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  • economicaooc's Avatar
    460 464 Posts Joined 03/04/2020
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Doesn't really hold up compared to the rest of priest's big taunt suite from a "dragon-ness doesn't matter" perspective. Not really appropriate for resurrect decks due to random minion generation, but could see some play, if only because the rest of priest's dragon package is so good.

    This post is discussing the wild format.

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  • Vandaren's Avatar
    620 636 Posts Joined 06/05/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Good it got taunt, another support for dragon priest in standard is a welcome.

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  • KANSAS's Avatar
    Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    I don't like it. 7 mana it too much to only be playing a taunt minion. I don't expect you will get more than 1 random dragon off of this, and a single random dragon isn't worth the mana investment.

    Carrion, my wayward grub.

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  • slychd's Avatar
    Sparklepony 1175 484 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    I think this might see play in a dragon priest deck. I'm glad to see they are still giving dragon priest some support, it has been my favorite priest archetype since TGT.

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  • Almaniarra's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 1000 1509 Posts Joined 03/21/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    7-mana slot for dragon decks are always empty. This suits well for being a generator and a protector both.

    Unpopular Opinion Incarnate

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  • Meteorite12's Avatar
    670 696 Posts Joined 05/29/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Looks pretty great for value generation. With the lack of card draw, the card generation’s gonna be your best bet for staying in the game for too long

    Who needs consistency when you could have fun?

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  • Draketh's Avatar
    Darkmaster 1570 1395 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Amazing arena card, with solid stats and high chance of generating other big threats.

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  • ElSabidon's Avatar
    Salty Dog 1030 685 Posts Joined 06/07/2019
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    While it is good support for Dragon Priest, I don't believe Dragon Priest itself will topple Quest Priest as the go to Priest deck. Doesn't change the fact that this is a decent card, I'm just not sure the archetype is good enough.

    Rating cards on coolness factor rather than predicting power because I like screwing up rating averages (and because I suck at predicting real power levels, but we'll ignore that LUL)
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  • Car's Avatar
    185 226 Posts Joined 03/31/2020
    Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

    Kind of weak. Sure, an extra dragon is always nice, but it is just a high valued target

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