Emberscale Drake

Emberscale Drake is a rare warrior minion card, from the Rastakhan's Rumble set.

Strategy
The Emberscale Drake is a central card for Dragon Warrior decks. As Warriors have access to several other strong dragons like Dragonmaw Scorcher and Crowd Roaster, as well as ways to generate even more with Dragon Roar and War Master Voone, satisfying the requirement for it's battlecry should be easy. The Emberscale Drake's strong and balanced stats, in addition to the armor which is the equivalent to 2.5 hero powers, all make it a strong play from the mid-game onwards.

Lore
Emberscale Drake is a.


 * ''Proto-dragons (also known as proto dragons, protodragons or proto-drakes) are the feral, long-forgotten forebears of the dragon species. The vrykul frequently use them as mounts.


 * ''The proto-dragons descend from elementals who avoided being imprisoned in the and instead remained on Azeroth, where some of them gradually transformed into creatures of flesh and blood. More specifically, Brann Bronzebeard recently uncovered evidence, corroborated by reports from adventurers in, that proto-dragons may have origins in elemental drakes such as  and . The inhabitants of Deepholm, the , the , and the  are less than talkative on these matters, however, and most of them were not around when the elemental prisons were created.


 * ''The proto-dragons are thus early version of dragons before they evolved into the sapient, beautiful majestic creatures they are known as today.


 * '', a massive proto-dragon, is known as the "progenitor of dragonkind" and long ago resorted to cannibalism. This act of consuming other proto-dragons gave Galakrond unbelievable strength and increased his size, but horribly mutated his body as well. His breath reanimated the dead proto-dragons around him into a form of undeath. It is said that from Galakrond the s created the, but this is a rumor the Aspects actively encouraged so as to keep the truth about Galakrond a secret from the dragonflights.


 * ''Proto-drakes are generally bestial and display none of the great intelligence and wisdom of true dragons, though those that would later become the Dragon Aspects proved otherwise when they fought alongside against Galakrond.  noted in his visions of the past that this was extremely odd.


 * ''Proto-dragon whelps grow at an incredible rate and can devour nearly twice their weight in raw meat per day. Some proto-dragons have a wide array of strengths and abilities, with examples including incredible fortitude, massive size or the ability to unknowingly tap into latent elemental energies in order to breathe fire or frost at their enemies.

The name "Emberscale" specifically refers to black proto-dragons bred and used by the combined and  forces that occupied  during the. These include s, s, s, and the.

Patch changes

 * Added.