Bad Luck Albatross

Regular
Golden

Artist: Melvin Chan

Collectible

Deathrattle: Shuffle two 1/1 Albatross into your opponent's deck.

Cost:

3

Attack:

4

Health:

3

Minion type:

Beast

Keywords
`DEATHRATTLE`

Full tags
`CLASS=12` `RARITY=3` `COST=3` `CARDTYPE=4` `ATK=4` `HEALTH=3` `COLLECTIBLE=1` `CARDRACE=20` `DEATHRATTLE=1` `COLLECTION_RELATED_CARD_DATABASE_ID=55437`

Wiki mechanics
Deathrattle, Generate, Shuffle into deck

Wiki tags
Beast-generating

Availability

Formats

Wild

Flavor

Legend holds that it's bad luck to harm it. So maybe just pat it on the head, okay?

Card set:

Descent of Dragons

Rarity:

Rare

Race:

Bird

dbfId:

55421

Card id:

DRG_071

Bad Luck Albatross is a rare neutral minion card, from the Descent of Dragons set.

How to get

Type	Source	Quality	Count
Card packs	Open one of these card packs:	Regular Golden	1~2 (random)
Crafting	Craft a Regular copy for 100	Regular	1
Crafting	Craft a Golden copy for 800	Golden	1

Related cards

Sounds

Play

▶️ DRG_071_BadluckAlbatross_Play.wav <summon sound>

Attack

▶️ DRG_071_BadluckAlbatross_Attack.wav <attack sound>

Death

▶️ DRG_071_BadluckAlbatross_Death.wav <death sound>

Trivia

This card is a reference to The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, an 18th century poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In the story, an albatross, typically seen as good fortune due to flying on favorable winds, is shot and killed for meat by a sailor. As a result, the crew suffers nothing but bad winds and rough seas. Thus, they tie the corpse of the albatross around the offending sailor's neck for bringing bad luck onto them.

The

Albatross tokens created by Bad Luck Albatross originally had no class defined in the game's code (neutral cards are internally defined as their own class), so they were not treated like neutral cards. This meant that

Lightforged Zealot and

Lightforged Crusader could still trigger their Battlecries even with Albatrosses in the deck and