Spoiler season is in full swing and the Hex community is in hype mode for Frostheart. Today at Battle Shopper is no exception as we have a sweet new spoiler for you! Without further adieu I bring you the bane of removal everywhere...Blightbramble!

Blightbramble is a 6/6 for 6 with crush that gives us three Blightbushes on it’s way out that then give us two Blightblossms a piece when the bight the bullet. In case you lost count that is TEN count ‘em TEN bodies from one card! This is an army in a can that brought a backup army just in case. Blightbramble also has plenty of friends waiting for him.

Bloombringer is a troop that has never seen much play in standard but slides in nicely next to our plant based pile of idiots. If you have a sacrifice outlet like an Emperor's Lackey in play and a few bodies in the crypt already this card comes down on the same turn as the Blightbramble. You can sacrifice the Blightbramble and the three Blightbushes and put them back in your deck to play Bloombringer for free buffing up the Blightblossoms left behind 24 Steadfast power!

Blightseed Cultivator is another spoiled plant troop for our Bloombringers that comes down and lets us trigger the first deathcry to get a few free Blightbushes into play. This card also combos nicely with Heart of the Wrathwood to spew out some Seed Pods.

The new champion Plagueroot the Hollow is the perfect champion for a grindy plant based deck. With the Blightblossms being relevant in our deck as both plants and free bodies and our deck wanting to go until at least turn 7 to attack with a supercharged plant board from Bloombringer activating this twice in a game is very doable. Stacking this on a reoccurring body like Freak of Nature is also VERY good.

The decklist below is a rough shell of where I could see this archetype going. The BW deathcry deck is clearly going to be a supported archetype and the majority of the set is still unknown to us. We’re able to generate some raw card advantage by playing eight coins alongside Cottontail Explorer along with grinding our opponent out with our value troops and quality removal. All in all I’m glad to see some crypt based strategies getting some love in Frostheart and look forward to sacrificing Blightbramble with a Bloombringer in play I hope to see some sweet tribal plant decks floating around.

Champion: Plagueroot the Hollow2x Freak of Nature 3x Bloombringer 2x Heart of the Wrathwood 4x Emperor's Lackey 4x Naive Lackey 4x Cottontail Explorer 3x Tilling the Soil 4x Acolyte of Shoku 3x Herofall 2x Rot Cast 4x Monsagi Lily Pad 4x Well of Ancients 4x Monsagi Coins 4x Necropolis Coins 3x Blightbramble2x Blightseed Cultivator4x Wild Shard4x Blood Shard

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-Mike Kletz (Androod)

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