Thinking Tribal: Draenei

If you know me well enough, my might know I love tribal decks or theme decks. That's why I've been playing this Gnome tribal deck for the past days. Not because it's so strong, but because it's really fun. In my Thinking Tribal articles, I'd like to brainstorm about playing certain tribal / theme decks. This time I’m thinking about Draenei.

In my opinion Draenei seem unrepresented by Hearthstone. Yes they are in a lot of Spells, but for a tribal deck you need minions as well. And those seem to be very scarce. The minions below are the Draenei I’m aware of in Hearthstone:

Prophet Velen | Priest | 7 Mana | Doubles heal and damage spells.
Windspeaker | Shaman | 4 Mana | Give a minion Windfury.
Defender of Argus | Neutral | 4 Mana | Give adjacent minions Taunt.
Aldor Peacekeeper | Paladin | 3 Mana | Reduce a minions attack to 1.
Shieldbearer | Neutral | 1 Mana | 0/4 Taunt
Lightwarden | Priest | 1 Mana | I something is healed +2/+0
Auchenai Soulpriest Priest |  5 Mana | Heal becomes damage.

Looking at these cards, it's easy to notice that Priest has the most and rarest Draenei minions. That doesn’t say too much of course, but they all seem to have synergy with each other as well. All revolve around health, healing and taunt. Which is a great combination, because you can heal those taunt creatures while your Lightwarden is cowering behind them.

There is however one problem if you want to play Draenei only. There are no draenei for the 2, 3 and 6 mana slot. This might not look that problematic, but if you think about it... Why would you play Defender of Argus if you don't want to give anything Taunt. It has no use to give Shieldbearer taunt and you don't want your Lightwarden to have it. Therefor a strong 2 or 3 drop is missing.

Aldor Peacekeeper would be perfect for the job, however he's only playable by Paladin decks. Besides that, the 3 drop shouldn't be an rare, epic or legendary card, since this holy tribe seems to be rare. 

Earthen Ring Farseer is perfect. He heals minions, is a wreckingball combined with the Soulpriests and has e decent body to use for Taunt. However, he's still an Orc and not a Draenei. So why isn't there a card similar to that? This brought me to the following card. 

Aldor Champion is similar to Misha. They both cost 3 mana and give you a 4/4 body. However, you only get a chance of drawing Misha with the Animal Companion, but you will always get this minion. But it doesn't have Misha's taunt ability and comes with the downside of giving our opponent 3 health. But is that really a downside? If you combine this with the Soulpriest or with the Defender of Argus, I think you have a decent card for your Draenei deck. 
I hope you liked this article and the Aldor Champion. Let me hear what you think about it in the comments.