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Blood Shard Bristleback

Blood Shard Bristleback

Blood Shard Bristleback is a 3 Mana Cost Rare Warlock Minion card from the Forged in the Barrens set!

Card Text

Lifesteal. Battlecry: If your
deck contains 10 or fewer
cards, deal 6 damage
to a minion.

Flavor Text

I'm bringin' bristle back (Yeah) Those other minions don't know how to act (Yeah) I think it's special how these crystals crack (Yeah) So turn around and I'll give you a smack (Yeah) (Take 'em to the Barrens)

Type
Minion
Rarity
Rare
Set
Forged in the Barrens
Class
Warlock
Cost
3
Attack
3
Health
3
Minion Type
Quilboar
Mechanics
Battlecry, Damage Minion, Lifesteal
Artist
David Kegg
Collectible
Yes

13 Comments

  1. Irish Seadog

    I suppose it's good for mid- to late-game stabilisation in a draw-heavy control deck. Difficult to predict how good it'll be as it largely depend on the existence of such a deck.

    1. Irish Seadog

      One other thing it theoretically has in its favour is synergy with the new deck-destroying cards, but I'm not sure about those anyway so we'll see. I think the deck needs a significant payoff density to warrant not needing to worry about chewing up random cards.

  2. EksSkellybur

    Yeah, this card is fine. But it seriously forces you to either play a REALLY Fast Deck, or a Controlock Deck.

    4 Stars.

    1. INeedHealing123

      Why would you play this in a fast deck tho?

      1. EksSkellybur

        Well, I thought of the idea that by around turn 4-6+ is when your opponent is your average opponent is starting to play some taunts to protect itself. So, with the idea of just shoving either Taunts or Soft Taunts out the way, though it's pretty unlikely since you need to draw out 20 of your cards out. Since you'd be going pretty much all in as a fast deck, You could try and use Blood Shard as a way to push some back.

        Then again, looking back at it now, I think I might have made a mistake, for unrealistic it allsounds. Being able to draw out 20 of your cards, and your still somehow behind does sound off, not gonna lie.

      2. Aiwen

        This card could be great ofheal in darkglare warlock in wild, it is already running zephyr because it cycles deck so fast. One of the best decks in wild atm, however it struggels against aggro decks. This can acutally help to stabilize if opponent pushed you to the mid game.

        1. EksSkellybur

          Huh. So my idea wasn't so crazy after all. Cool. I just thought it felt too unrealistic. I guess not.

  3. Jed

    Control card + small deck aren't generally conducive.

  4. Nerose

    This doesn’t seem good offhand, but I’ll wait for the card review.

  5. Flameblaze6

    Duels!!!

  6. solaris29

    so they took the deep mechanic from runeterra : D and prismatic cosmetic.

  7. DanzTheDeadly

    If "deal x damage" works with lifesteal, this is nice.

  8. guyopt

    6 to face would be much better.
    this seems unplayable, most of the time a dead card in hand
    zoo don't need this and control wants cards in the deck so this become effective very late in the game without much of an impact on late game.

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