Captain's Parrot

Captain's Parrot Card Image

Card Stats


Card Text

Battlecry: Draw a Pirate from your deck.


Flavor Text

Pirates and Parrots go together like Virmen and Carrots.


Keywords

Battlecry - Does something when you play it from your hand.


How to Unlock Captain's Parrot

Unlocked when you have all the Pirates from the Classic Set.


How to Unlock Golden Captain's Parrot

Unlocked when you have all the Golden Pirates from the Expert Set.


Captain's Parrot Sounds

Play VO_NEW1_016_Play_01

Attack VO_NEW1_016_Attack_02

Death VO_NEW1_016_Death_03


Game Accessories

Mercenaries

Card Balance and Changes

Patch Change
Whispers of the Old Gods

No longer obtainable as a reward. Became craftable.

Comments

  • rahmann's Avatar
    160 9 Posts Joined 06/01/2019
    Posted 4 years, 6 months ago

    Someday, I will craft yo

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  • og0's Avatar
    Red Riding Hood 1570 1062 Posts Joined 03/31/2019
    Posted 4 years, 6 months ago

    Still don't have!

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  • Hydralisk's Avatar
    Mountain 540 356 Posts Joined 05/28/2019
    Posted 4 years, 7 months ago

    shoulda been 1 mana

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  • chWolfgang's Avatar
    815 198 Posts Joined 03/13/2019
    Posted 4 years, 7 months ago

    I had fun earning this card back in the day. Didn't use that much but I liked when you could earn cards as achievements. 

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  • elbkind's Avatar
    655 47 Posts Joined 03/15/2019
    Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

    As it was before my HS days why did this card was HoFed

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    • ArcticFox's Avatar
      Zombie 375 118 Posts Joined 05/30/2019
      Posted 4 years, 8 months ago

      Hi elbkind,

      I would like to answer your question by directing you to an archived reddit post that Ben Brode replied to. (Ben Brode was the Game Director of Hearthstone) 

      https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/6hzkxt/why_was_oldmurkey_removed_as_a_collection_reward/

      HAHAHAHA

      683 points·2 years ago
       

      "Hey there!

      We had to make a call on "promo" cards: Should they be Standard forever? Or Wild?

      I think it could have gone either way, but the opportunity to remove another Charge minion in Standard (Charge has been the cause of a lot of balance issues, historically), was hard to pass up. We also stopped Captain's Parrot from showing up in "random Beast" drops in Standard.

      At the end of the day, we felt like Standard would be more fun without those cards. Maybe we should have just nerfed Murk Eye to remove Charge instead, but I actually like that it exists in Wild.

      We removed it as a reward because we didn't want players to randomly unlock Wild before our yearly rotation, or before they initiated the unlock themselves by crafting a Wild card. Ideally new players move through the cards in this order: Basic > Classic > Standard-Legal > Wild.

      In game design, you can eventually get players to very high levels of complexity, but starting with the most complex thing can turn new players off. We call it the "complexity curve", start with the basics, then layer in complexity. It's why you take Algebra before Calculus, and not the other way around. It's also one of the reasons why new players don't start with everything unlocked.

      In some of the comments here I think players see it as a lost opportunity for a free Legendary. If we want to give out some other free Legendary (and that might be a good idea), I don't think doing it for this specific card (Charge, unlock Wild) is the right solution."

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