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Spirit of the Raptor is a rare druid minion card, from the Rastakhan's Rumble 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 |
Sounds[]
- Attack
- ▶️
SpiritOfTheRaptor_TRL_223_Attack.wav<attack sound>
- Death
- ▶️
SpiritOfTheRaptor_TRL_223_Death.wav<death sound>
Lore[]
The Spirit of the Raptor is, as the name suggests, a spiritual manifestation[1] of Gonk, the raptor loa.
Trivia[]
- Originally during the development of Rastakhan's Rumble, before Spirit cards were referred to as "Spirits", Spirit of the Raptor was known as "Shrine to Gonk" and had the card text "Can't attack or be attacked. Your hero has Windfury."
Gonk, the Raptor himself instead gave a bonus when the player's hero attacked and killed minions. The effects of Gonk and the Spirit were eventually swapped since the designers found that giving their hero the ability to "attack a whole bunch" was the more exciting of the two and thus belonged better on Gonk. Furthermore, the accompanying deck needed more resources since players would spend so many of their resources on buffing their hero's Attack, so they felt that it made sense to give a card draw effect to the Spirit.[2]
Gallery[]
  Spirit of the Raptor, full art |
  Composition sketches. |
Patch changes
- Patch 25.0.0.158725 (2022-11-29):
- Minion types are now Beast / Undead (previously: no minion type).
- Patch 13.0.0.27845 (2018-11-29):
- Added.
References[]
- ↑ Blizzard Entertainment (2018-11-02). BlizzCon 2018 Opening Ceremony. YouTube. Retrieved on 2018-11-04.
- ↑ Cam Shea (2019-02-04). Hearthstone: Peter Whalen and Dean Ayala on Designing Key Rastakhan Cards. IGN. Retrieved on 2019-02-05.