Card of the Month: Soul of a Sacrificed Hunter

Overview

Soul of a Sacrificed Hunter is a creature that enters the board with 0 life and 1 defense on each side and immediately gains +1 life for each creature in your discard and +1 strength on all sides for each artifact in your discard when placed.

Role and core idea

This card functions as a conditional finisher that converts your losses into an immediate, lane-agnostic threat. It is designed to reward self‑sacrifice and discard-driven strategies by turning a stocked discard pile into survivability and multi-directional attacking power.

How to use

Play the card once your discard pile contains a meaningful number of creatures and artifacts so it arrives with enough life to survive removal and enough strength on each side to threaten multiple lanes. Treat it as a payoff rather than an early board piece; timing its placement after you have executed discard, sacrifice, or artifact-loss lines maximizes its value.

Synergies and combos

Include cheap fodder creatures, repeatable self-destruction or discard engines, and artifacts you can willingly lose to inflate both the creature and artifact counts in discard. You can combine it with the origin Priest to maximize the “sacrifices”, or you can use the origin “Healer” to heal yourself while you are heavily discarding cards and sacrifice your life points.

Weaknesses and counters

Its single fundamental weakness is dependency: played too early or without setup it remains a fragile 0-life body and can be ignored or removed cheaply. Opponents who accelerate pressure before you execute your discard plan blunt its power. Opponents that punish wide or high-strength attackers can also reduce its impact.

Deck building advice

Center a deck around intentional discard and controlled sacrifice. Prioritize low‑cost creatures and controllable artifacts, add repeatable discard/sacrifice effects, and keep a few protective answers so the Hunter can be deployed when it represents a real swing rather than a liability. Use it as the centerpiece of an attrition/control hybrid that treats the discard pile as a resource.