Lucentbark

Lucentbark is a legendary druid minion card, from the Rise of Shadows set.

Strategy
While an okay minion on its own, Lucentbark works incredibly well with healing effects, turning what is normally a slow play into tempo by summoning a 4/8 with Taunt for free. Some good sources of healing for Druid are Crystal Power, Earthen Ring Farseer, and Ancient of Lore.

If you're not running consistent healing effects, you're better off playing Ironbark Protector, which has +4 Attack over Lucentbark, or Primordial Drake (in Wild), which has a useful Battlecry.

Lucentbark is even more potent if he can be copied, as they will all be revived once the healing threshold is met. Faceless Manipulator, Gloop Sprayer, and Flobbidinous Floop are good additions to decks that run Lucentbark.

Lore
Lucentbark is unique to Hearthstone. He is a wise, powerful, and resolute Ancient of Lore hailing from. While he may look grumpy, the small woodland creatures that inhabit his forest (and even his own branches at times) always brings a smile to his face. He is quite friendly toward and so immediately comes to its aid to drive out the invaders.

Trivia

 * Lucentbark started off as a card simply titled "Tree" that went dormant and returned to life after the controlling player healed a certain amount. Team 5 initially thought that —a treant who serves as a fruit vendor in World of Warcraft's Dalaran–would be a perfect identity for "Tree". However, this design didn't last long, since adding Treant synergy to the card might lead to unexpected issues. With Applebough being the only druid-adjacent character in the World of Warcraft version of Dalaran, the team had to get creative and eventually decided that since 's Crystalsong Forest is a beautiful blend of nature and magic, druids would pull from there to aid Dalaran. This is when the idea for the character of Lucentbark took shape.

Patch changes

 * Now reads: "Taunt. Deathrattle: Go Dormant. Restore 5 Health to awaken this minion."
 * Previously: "Taunt. Deathrattle: Go dormant. Restore 5 Health to awaken this minion."
 * Added.