Another Bounty Package picks up a few new pieces, with a pair of fun and potentially powerful bounty Warriors for the Brackus package. The Brackus Bounty tools found power in an older Campaign Promo with Healing Herbs Of The Brackus, a DCM recovery piece which can also be used to tutor your Brackus pieces in deck.

The other two older Brackus Tools which seem likely to be key components of this package are Spirits Of The Brackus Pond, and Blessed By Brackus Waters. Spirits is a hate piece which eradicates cards sent from deck to discard for one turn on play, but has a more interesting face-down ability. When destroyed by a card effect, Spirits lets you eradicate up to 5 cards out of discard. For some decks like Dragons, this ability can be used more proactively as a way to trigger your own eradication effects out of discard, whilst the ability can also be used for resource denial with almost every deck in the game having some way to use their discard pile.

For some decks like Grimm Midrange, the benefits of hitting cards out of discard is clear, but against decks with Retrieve Warriors or even decks using generic tools like Gone But Never Forgotten, this can be an easy way to deny your opponent resources.

Blessed By Brackus Waters is a consume heavy, but effective board presence tool. The main ability is interesting, as a way to lock out decks focusing on Warriors with minimal ways to remove Warriors on board apart from battle. The main power comes in the discard ability, letting you pay 15 AP to revive 2 bounty Warriors from discard. This piece has seen play in Marianas as a way to bring back powerful bounty Warriors, but might become much more appealing with the new Brackus Pieces.

The two new Brackus Warriors offer some powerful generic tools, creating a mini-archetype which looks to have plenty of potential inevitability and resource denial/attrition.

Brackus Bitterbug is the first of these, with Swipe alone being a nice way to hate out cards from your opponent's side. The Perish ability retrieving a Brackus Fortified gets both of your strong Brackus fortified cards in Spirits From The Brackus Pond and Blessed By Brackus Waters, and even retrieves Blessed By Brackus Waters straight from Eradication.

This immediately points towards one strength of this archetype, in it's recursive capabilities. Brackus Waters revives Bitterbug, which in turn retrieves the Brackus Waters. Brackus Jitterbeetle then offers another piece of attrition to add to your revival pile, paying for 10 of the 15 AP price. 

As mentioned, Brackus Jitterbeetle helps to pay for the Consume price of Blessed By Brackus Waters, and any other AP expensive cards or packages, such as potentially the Twilight package with Twilight Thorn's Consume and Twilight Princess, Hyacinth's Swift.

Jitterbeetle's Perish offers a nice removal tool and board wiping potential, which also plays quite nicely with your two fortified cards: Blessed By Brackus Waters and Spirits Of The Brackus Pond. The board ability of Brackus Waters isn't bad, but is more niche in comparison to it's discard ability, and doubles the already heavy Consume cost. Blowing it up with Jitterbeetle lets you skip that first payment to get to your revival more quickly.

Now Spirits Of The Brackus Pond is the more exciting piece to blow up, giving you that discard clearing ability to ruin Mortis' day, mess with Retrieve, and cut down on your opponent's more recursive tools.

All things considered, the Brackus package may end up being too awkward to find use in a tiered deck, spinning wheels more than actively helping to win the game. As it stands though, there's a lot of potential here for an attrition focused gameplan, with the package offering a plethora of ways to win an attrition based matchup:

And again, the package may very likely prove too slow, but it offers an interesting way to make good usage of some older cards, complimenting the Brackus Package with your Legion's respective control tools and more efficient win-conditions. At the moment, Marianas is likely to be the strongest Warlord for this package, with her very efficient win-condition setup, and existing reliance on Bounty tools. I could however see other Legions picking this up as a way to support slower win-conditions and make use of strong generic legion-based tools.

For those interested in the archetype, December's Campaign Promos continue to level up the package, with another Brackus Warrior, and a Left Side piece which you can check out here!