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Gun For hire & Close the Casket
Written By - Thomas NeilsonOctober 28, 2024
Souls Bound & Progress Stifled
Souls Bound & Progress Stifled
These newest two promos offer an enticing main deck or side deck option, giving a disruptive piece to break up any sort of discard or eradication abilities, whether Rift or Suffocate keywords, eradication or mill effect from Titans or Undead, and even stopping Perish effects out of any deck in the meta. Our first place promo isn't quite as universally applicable, but offers a fun build-around option for bounty decks, or decks looking to break up boards of Warriors.
Close The Casket
Close The Casket
Fortified
(Consume 5)
Negate the activation of an effect that activates in a discrd pile or eradication zone, and shuffle it into the respective owner's deck.
If this card is in your discard pile, except the turn it was sent there, you can pay (Consume 10), and eradicate this card face-up, then if you do, all cards in all discard piles cannot be targeted, moved, or activate their effects until the start of your next turn.
Close The Casket is likely to be a key sideboard card to pickup moving into the RTR tournament, as a tool to deal with some of the strongest decks in the Meta. Negating the activation of a card in discard or eradication makes this a negate with plenty of flexibility, being able to hit some of the strongest effects out of decks like Mal'ady and Gaia.
Against Mal'ady, this is one great way to deal with Asphyxia's Suffocate ability, but this can be a relevant tool against anything from Rift triggers to Mal'ady's Horrific Harvest.
For Gaia, the ability to deal with Latarr, The Daughter Of Destruction's perish ability is fantastic for protecting your boardstate, and it's got plenty of flexibility into any of her Eradication or Perish abilities.
Past these two clear cut options, anything from Zelfor'Tork's Perish to Dragon Protector Empowerment's eradication ability is a relevant target for this, and I expect it to be an incredibly flexible sideboard card against any eradication or discard focused deck.
The in-discard ability also has loads of flexibility, locking out revival, retrieve, and so much more.
Gun For Hire
Gun For Hire
Fortified
(Bloodbourne 5)
Search your deck for 1 "Ren Renegade, The Hired Gun", and Conscript the searched Warrior to your side of the field.
If this card is in your discard pile, except the turn it was sent there, you can pay (Bloodbourne 5), and eradicate this card face-up, then if you do, Revive 1 "Ren Renegade, The Hired Gun" from your discard pile to your side of the field.
Whilst I don't expect Gun For Hire to have quite the same impact as Close The Casket, it's certainly a fun bounty piece with some interesting potential as a removal/board control tool. Being an easy package with Ren Renegade, The Hired Gun may potentially make this a reasonable tool for dealing with aggressive Warrior decks like Sapphire Storm or Blastforge Aggro.
Marianas will likely be the main home for this card as a repeatable removal tool, and a way to get Bounty Warriors into play, but even there it will be competing with a variety of available packages and bounty options.
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