Little Ivory Raptor

Little Ivory Raptor is a miniature Horde ground mount summoned by a whistle of the same name. It is a shrunken copy of the ordinary ivory raptor from Durotar: essentially a "pocket" version of the classic riding raptor that looks amusing next to full-sized mounts. The item entered the game with patch 3.2.0 in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion and was distributed exclusively through the Trading Card Game.

The mount is faction-bound: the Horde receives the ivory raptor, while the Alliance gets the Little White Stallion Bridle as its counterpart. Both variants come from the same Tiny loot card of the Scourgewar set. The mount does not appear in the collection as a separate entry; instead, you receive the whistle itself as a stack of charges. Today it is an item for collectors and lovers of rarities, and it can only be obtained by purchasing a physical card on the secondary market.

• Unique miniature model — one of the few "mini-mounts" in the game, visibly smaller than the ordinary raptor. Looks great in screenshots and rare-item collections
• Rarity and status — the WoW trading card game has long been discontinued, and no new codes are printed. Each year, fewer sealed cards remain, and the mount itself is gradually becoming truly rare
• Horde faction exclusive — Alliance characters who activate the same code receive a horse, so the raptor will belong only to Horde players. A good way to stand out from standard collections
• Speed scales with riding skill — the mount speeds up as your riding skill grows, and at maximum level it travels just as fast as any epic ground transport
• Paired mount for the Alliance — if you have characters of both factions, the same code grants different mounts depending on your side, which lets you fill two collection slots at once if you have two codes

This item does not drop in-game and is not sold for gold. The only path to the mount is the physical Tiny loot card from the Scourgewar set of the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game.

1. Purchase a Tiny loot card or a sealed Scourgewar booster on the secondary market (platforms like eBay, dedicated collector forums, local marketplaces). The insert rate is roughly 1 card per 11 boosters, so you will most likely find ones that are already activated
2. Scratch off the protective layer on the card to reveal the 25-character promo code
3. Open Blizzard's promo-code activation page, enter the code, and select the region, server, and character to receive the reward. If the character is Horde, you receive the whistle; if Alliance, the horse reins
4. A stack of 50 whistles, Little Ivory Raptor Whistle, will drop into your inventory

Unlike most modern mounts, the Little Ivory Raptor Whistle is not added to the mount collection as an entry. Instead, it remains in your inventory as a stack of whistles, and each summon of the mount uses one charge.

• One activation code grants a stack of 50 charges
• The stack can be built up to 250 by activating additional codes on the same character
• The whistles are bound to the character; you cannot pass them to an alt or sell them
• When the charges run out, the whistle disappears, and to keep using it you must activate a new code
• The mount is available only on the character credited with the reward on the activation site

This is an important difference from card mounts of later sets: most TCG mounts from Cataclysm onward are already granted as full-fledged collection spells with no charge limit.

The Scourgewar set was released in December 2010 and was one of the last full print runs of the Trading Card Game. The publisher Cryptozoic discontinued the TCG in 2013, after which no new boosters have been printed.

• Sealed Scourgewar boosters — the most reliable source of unactivated cards. Look for lots marked "sealed" with photos of intact packaging
• Standalone Tiny loot cards — sold both on foreign platforms (eBay, TCGPlayer) and on collector forums that trade WoW rarities
• Scourgewar boxes and displays — a full display contains 24 boosters, which statistically should include 1–2 Tiny loot cards. This is a costly option, but it lets you count on several mounts at once along with other collectible items

When buying, always check that the protective layer on the card is undamaged — an activated code is already useless and will not work. Sellers usually post a photo with the layer intact.