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Blood Witch

Blood Witch

Blood Witch is a 4 Mana Cost Rare Warlock Minion card from The Witchwood set!

Card Text

At the start of your turn, deal 1 damage to your hero.

Flavor Text

Like a sloppy joe for vampires.

Type
Minion
Rarity
Rare
Set
The Witchwood
Class
Warlock
Cost
4
Attack
3
Health
6
Minion Type
Mechanics
Damage Hero
Artist
Qinghao Wu
Collectible
Yes

Card Review & Interactions

It obviously synergizes with the other cards – both the good old Lesser Amethyst Spellstone and the other two new cards revealed, but… the stats are mediocre – 3/6 for 4 is kind of normal. And then you deal 1 damage to yourself every turn. Yes, if you’re holding lots of cards that benefit from it, it can be nice. For example, upgrading Spellstone means that you get more healing anyway. Upgrading the new Spider means that it gets Lifesteal, so you can potentially heal back. But not only you might not want to play all of those cards (to be completely fair, they are far from auto-include, besides Spellstone), and you might also not have them in your hand.

As a point of comparison - Kobold Librarian also has normal stats (2/1 for 1) and also damages yourself, but it has a huge upside. This one doesn’t.

Right now, this isn’t too good. It might work when more “damage yourself” synergies will be revealed, but I don’t think it will be played with the ones we have right now.

Card rating: 3/10 (more if some good “damage yourself” synergy card gets revealed)

25 Comments

  1. blackcatss163

    Cute artwork

    1. Vincent

      Damn you beat me. I want this card in gold!

  2. synergylove

    love dat synergy <3

  3. GlosuuLang

    So vanilla stats and a downside... which could actually be an upside if you want to play the other two revealed Warlock cards on curve. It obviously has a niche role, but I don't think this is THAT necessary to activate the other cards or Amethyst Spellstone. 2.5 out of 5 stars.

  4. Thraben

    I'm actually happy that these cards aren't that good. Warlock didn't really need nor deserve more good cards than it already got. 2.5/5 except the artwork is 5/5, love it!

  5. puiuWarrior

    Go Blood witch,deal 1 dmg to me , come on :)))
    Is op 3/5

  6. Nightfall

    I like what this brings to the table

    the opponent probably wouldn't want to remove it because it's dealing damage to you, so it potentially allows you to have a minion on board untill you deside to trade with it.

    that said, vanilla stats with a downside is never gonna work 1/5 stars

  7. Piterno

    Activates "Your hero took damage this turn" effects for free. Pretty cool.

    I'll definitely try to make this deck

    1. Stonekeep

      Technically not for free - for the cost of your health :)

  8. Maverick Zero

    Does this work with amethyst spellstone?

    1. Stonekeep

      Yes, why wouldn't it?

      1. Ned

        Because you aren’t taking damage from a card but a minion.

        1. CypherC

          Ned, so you want to say minions are not cards? (lol)

          1. Ned

            Pretty much. Blizzard made a point way back in the beta that minion cards become minions on the board and are no longer cards. That’s why they go through the dramatic animation change when you play them. Not saying I think you are wrong. I do think you are right, but it is a legitimate question

  9. serjohn

    did they fiorget to make this 3 mana ?

  10. Rell

    Can’t wait to treachery lethal someone with this

  11. TheEyeszlade

    Sad this cool artwork was wasted

  12. MockRock

    I get what they were going for with this card, but it's still pretty underwhelming. Warlock already has masochist cards where the damage is treated as a penalty to pay in order to utilize something very powerful, whereas here Blizzard is claiming that it's a bonus (we know this because we already have a neutral 4/6 with upside). Clearly, you're intended to play this so that the spider and bat are activated for "free," but are you seriously going to put an otherwise vanilla 3/6 into your deck when you can just use Librarian/Bloodbloom/Homunculus/Hellfire/etc? I really don't think so, certainly not in control decks. With Zoo, there's maybe a bit of synergy as you don't care about the actual life loss and it's a reasonable body that activates your effects without making you spend mana to do so. But even then...I highly doubt you're going to play the spider in a Zoo deck, and the bat is a 3 drop. I just don't feel particularly optimistic here.

    1. MockRock

      Can't edit comment, but I obviously meant "neutral 3/6"

  13. Cyclick

    Waifu Material (Card art): 6/5
    Actual Card: 2/5
    But guy,s please watch for this card in a year or a year in a half, or less. All Blizz has to do is print some more damage beneficial Warlock cards. I mean, they already did. Point is, watch out for this card in the future, could be actually 6/5 on power level as well.

  14. Soup And Salad

    This will end up being an enabler of some sort in the future, probably next year when Kobold Librarian leaves standard. The stats are fair, but there isn't enough self damage synergies out there even with the other cards revealed at the moment that would necessitate playing this along with Kobold Librarian, Hellfire, and just tapping.

    1. Howls

      A 10 mana card that requires you to have taken damage that turn would be interesting and require an enabler like this. I wonder if we will be getting something like that this expansion. :)

      1. Soup And Salad

        That could be interesting, but that 10 mana card with a conditional battlecry would need to win the game in the same was as Rin can.

  15. Howls

    I bought my first hearthstone expansion ever and it was 90% purely because of this blood witch and azalina soul thief art. :D
    If this card really ends up being unplayable i will be a sad panda :'D

  16. InFlames

    Very beutyful card.
    Art 5/5
    Card 1/5

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