Now Azerbaijan seems odd to me

I wanna agree with WizNan. I belive most people underestimate this card. If aggro pala plays this on turn 1 with the coin, you get a 3/6 which protects your other minions (ON TURN 2!). This is so impressive, that I feel like this card is a faster and harder to count fladshling. The only thing your opp could do is permanently waste 2 mana to ping your face but then you have the value of 2 wild growth in a 2 mana card. I don’t say this works everytime but I think that if it works on turn 2 (or earlier) you win in 90% of the matches. Of cause this is a bad topdeck if you fall behinde but for that enorm potential this is instantly a 5/5

Yaeh anyway since this card has no impact on your hand the minions you already drawn don’t increase in cost

Honestly I think not including neutrals is not as bad as not playing duplicates while this eff has similar power as zephrys (but u can run 2 of them + the truesilver guy). So this will be played and the card which swaps neutral is trash and won’t see play even if it now has a counterpart

best 1 drop in game

But you also get the minions your opp played last turn I guess. So if you know your opp is runing i.e. Ysera you can also have ysera + 8/8 dragon body for one mana less. And in the worst case? If your opp. plays a removal you don’t need it and even if he got a very terrible minion on turn 8 (like 3/3) a 8/8+ 3/3 for 8 mana would be awesome. Don’t see much downsides.

You worry about the early game, but this card does not influence the minions you already drawn, which stay one mana less. So in the early game you can use that and after that swap to the op minions with +4/+4

One of the best cards of the expansion. The downside only hurts in the first turns but there u still have the minions from your start hand. Better keleseth for 2 mana less without restriction 2 times playable. Insane

I like to see this in response to Thekal 😀
I think it is good we get the possibility to counter armor but it is really depending on the format. For now I guess in 90% a dead card so 2/5 but if the meta shifts this will be insane.

Well I have a complete other pov then the most here:
You should not compare to duskbreaker but fatespinner.
Fatespinner was a bad card which has imo a slightly better eff by slithly worse stats but does not need a dragon. I don’t know what you expect of this card. In best case the opp. has much minions. Then the opp use them to trade and the deathrattle doesn’t really matter.
I guess this card will not be played at all 1/5 but we’ll see

This card will be the only reason waxadread deck will be a deck because it makes it consistent. 5/5

Yaeh I think you got my point wrong. I totally agree that you can troll with this card like with weasels. In my opinion weasel was a troll card because it was kind of funny/stupid but on average a deck with weasels can’t hold up with normal meta decks.
I do not think that Albatross is a troll/meme card because I see this card including in meta control decks just for the value but not for decks build around this. I would add 2 of them in a control warlock without more synergie to it.
So I think this is not troll because IMO this becomes a good card in meta decks.

This is not troll. You basically draw 2 in the long run since your opponent has 2 turns without drawing anything except a useless albatross. This is not only a tech card but a value card for control while control always lacking on 3 drops. It’s awesome

Besides Highlander your opponent have basically 2 dead draws. So in the long run this card draws 2 cards besides good states and mess with highlander 4.5/5

I totally agree. But in the kingsbane rouge meta this would have been awesome 😀
or maybe you run this + harrison if the meta is that strange

Vulcanic potion was played and this is better in all terms

Yaeh I know. But useless seemd to hard for a 5star card anyway U played 3/4 combo destroy for 5 mana which was awesome. This is better

Looks awesome in the first moments but not on secound thought for some points:
-You don’t want this for turn 2 since you don’t get the eff (2/3 is okay but there are better options)
-In later turns a 2/3 body is not that important and normally you prefer to play e.g. a 7 mana minion instead of 5+2/3 body.
-You have to control a dragon so you can’t even use the eff every time you want.

Wouldn’t it more reasonable to just play another copy of the dragon you wanna copy (or something similar if you reached the limit)? I think yes
Maybe good for combo

You think a 4/4 destroy a minion is bad against highlander? 4 mana removels are awesome and 2 additional mana for a 4/4 body is quiet solid. This copy effect is even a strong bonus but this card is 5/5 without it as well

Aktually 2 1/1 bodys which become 2/1. I would pay 2 mana just for this. Since they are also imps, galvakrond gets invoked + all other minions get +1 attack this seems really really solid