Like the Feldrake and Big Battle Bear before it, another previously rare mount is being made widely available

$2000 WoW Trading Card Game Mount Will Soon Be A Free Twitch Drop

Like the Feldrake and Big Battle Bear before it, another previously rare mount is being made widely available

While the cards associated with unlocking the Blazing Hippogryph and Ethereal Portal in-game can still be used to do so (via a 25-digit code scratch-off code included on each card), their steep price on sites like eBay made it so only the most dedicated mount or toy collectors ever got the chance to add these to their respective collections. A Blazing Hippogryph card with an unused code can sell for upwards of $2,000 on eBay, with the Portal Stone card used to unlock the Ethereal Portal going for several hundred dollars.

It's not the first time Blizzard has offered previously rare mounts via Twitch. The first TCG mount the developer offered for free was the Feldrake back in October 2022, a mount that previously went for around $3,000 and caused a bit of controversy at the time. For the last month, Blizzard has offered another TCG mount, the Big Battle Bear, as part of an Amazon Prime Gaming promotion. That has led fans to believe even more TCG mounts could be on the way, including the highly coveted Spectral Tiger mount.

The upcoming Twitch drop campaign is timed with the release of Dragonflight's major 10.1 patch, Embers of Neltharion, which will add a new raid and dragonriding zone, and will kick-off new Mythic+ and PvP seasons. The update will also bring with it the long-awaited arrival of cross-faction guilds. Embers of Neltharion is the first of two major content updates planned for 2023, according to WoW's content roadmap.

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This story originally appeared on: GameSpot - Author:Cameron Koch