Bad Luck Albatross
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Bad Luck Albatross is a rare neutral minion card, from the Descent of Dragons set.
How to get
| Type | Source | Quality | Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Card packs | The Regular version can be opened from any of these packs:   | Regular | 1~2 (random) |
| Card packs | The Golden version can be opened from any of these packs: | 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 
Tess Greymane could resummon any played Albatrosses. This bug was later fixed.
Gallery
Bad Luck Albatross, full art
Patch changes
Patch 20.0.0.77662 (2021-03-25):
- Now costs 3 mana. (Down from 4)
Patch 17.0.2.45932 (2020-04-20):
- Now costs 4 mana. (Up from 3)
Patch 16.0.0.37060 (2019-12-05):
- Added.