Harpy Matriarch - World of Warcraft TCG

What big... um... claws you have? Yes, we'll go with that.

The harpies are winged bird women, traditionally depicted as a large bird with the head of a woman, but in multiple card games have become women with feathers, bird claws, and practically no clothing. They're pretty much furries except with feathers.

In mythology, the king Phineus was sentenced to an island for pissing off the gods. Every day, there would be a grand banquet set up, but then the harpies would come and snatch away all the food before Phineus could taste a morsel of it. Following the tradition of people being punished until some great hero came to release them, the Argonauts showed up and solved the harpy problem. In Shakespeare's The Tempest, there is a scene that mimics this mythology, the castaways seeing a huge banquet before it disappears as Ariel arrives in the form of a harpy.

This card has nothing to do with that. It just feels like they took a random monster type and slapped it on a card. This could be a snake woman instead of a bird woman and it would feel the same. The effect is also very generic, one that could go on any card. Couldn't they have tried to match the flavor with the ability? Heck, they could have named the thing Harpy Snatcher and shown it taking something from some hero, and I would have felt the flavor matched the effect much more nicely.