Southsea Captain

Southsea Captain is an epic neutral minion card, inducted into the Legacy set, formerly from the Classic set.

Previous availability

 * Regular Southsea Captain could also be obtained as a first-time reward for first time reaching Platinum 10 and Diamond 10 in Ranked mode from April 1, 2020 to March 25, 2021 (or as a reward of Climbing the Ranks (6/10) and (8/10) achievements).

Strategy
Use the Southsea Captain for a pirate-themed deck. Southsea Captain is most useful when you have a number of pirates out and you need to keep them alive or deal extra damage. As a 3/3 for 3 mana, he may be a good early drop if you do not have a better minion available. Play two at once and you will have two 4/4 minions for 6 mana and your other pirates will have +2/+2.

Southsea Captain is a good (non 1-drop) pirate to pull Patches the Pirate with, giving you 5/5 worth of stats in turn 3 alone, and even more with additional pirates.

Lore

 * ''The, a small fleet of pirates, have no landward home — at least none that authorities have found — but are a common sight along the coast of the Barrens and Tanaris, and have even recently appeared in the flooded Thousand Needles. Their connection with the Northsea Freebooters is unclear, but the Northsea Freebooters seem to have a severe disliking of the Southsea ones.


 * ''The Southsea Freebooters have several bases located along the southeastern coasts of Kalimdor.

Trivia

 * This card depicts, a tauren pirate found in , as in the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game "Heroes of Azeroth" series. This is a little odd, since Seahorn is neither a captain nor is found in the South Seas.
 * A tauren pirate very similar in appearance to the Southsea Captain appears as a minor character in Forest for the Weary and Freedom, two of the web comics released prior to the launch of Knights of the Frozen Throne.

Patch changes

 * Moved from Classic to Legacy set.
 * Text changed from "Battlecry: Return a hero's weapon to his hand." to "Your other Pirates have +1/+1."