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

World of Warcraft is once again diving into the pool of rare World of Warcraft Trading Card Game mounts for its latest Twitch drop promotion.

From May 9-17, those who watch four hours of WoW: Dragonflight content from approved streamers on Twitch will be able to unlock the Blazing Hippogryph, a mount once exclusive to the now-defunct WoW Trading Card Game that ended in 2013. While the mount is the main draw, another formerly TCG-exclusive item is also up for grabs. The Ethereal Portal toy can be claimed by watching four hours of qualifying Dragonflight content from May 2-9. Players will need to link their Battle.net account with their Twitch account to claim the drops.

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.