Snowslope Hunter
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A solid 2/3 that turns expendable creatures and artifacts into repeatable impulse-card advantage. Snowslope Hunter is a premium engine in BR sacrifice decks and remains playable elsewhere if you have enough disposable permanents.
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Gameplay notes
Activate after combat when possible so expendable creatures can attack, block, or threaten trades first. Because the exiled card remains playable through the end of your next turn, you can sacrifice a permanent even when most of your mana is already spent; lands exiled this way may also be played, subject to normal land-play limits.
Key synergies
Hunter supplies a repeatable sacrifice trigger for the Bee. When sacrificing on your turn, you can stack the triggers so the Bee scries first, then Hunter exiles the card you deliberately left on top.
Snowslope Hunter can sacrifice the Barrel on demand, triggering its ability to put a random creature onto the battlefield while also providing an exiled card to play.
Sacrificing the Pair to Snowslope Hunter both exiles a card to play and triggers amass Goblins 4, turning a 1/1 into substantial board presence plus card advantage.
Snowslope Hunter can sacrifice a nontoken creature each turn for an impulse-draw card, while Part in Friendship replaces that sacrificed creature from the library, creating a repeatable value engine.
Snowslope Hunter converts the Sentries into an impulse-drawn card, while the death trigger can finish a damaged blocker or remove a 1-toughness creature.
When the amass trigger creates a new Army, one two-mana card supplies two creatures, letting Snowslope Hunter sacrifice the less useful body to generate an extra card without exhausting your board.
The tapped Treasure cannot make mana immediately, but Snowslope Hunter can sacrifice it during your turn to generate an impulse-draw card instead.
When Hunter sacrifices another Goblin, The Great Goblin also triggers, so one expendable body generates two separate cards that may be played through the end of your next turn.
The Saga's Goblin Army provides sacrifice fodder for Snowslope Hunter, converting the chapter II token into access to an additional card when preserving the Army is less valuable.
Snowslope Hunter can sacrifice Gollum after combat to generate an extra playable card; Gollum can then be recovered by sacrificing another expendable artifact or creature and replayed for its drain trigger.
Supper for Spiders can create several Food artifacts at once, giving Snowslope Hunter expendable artifacts to sacrifice for repeated impulse-card advantage on later turns.
Snowslope Hunter repeatedly converts creature or artifact tokens into impulse cards, and each token sacrificed to it also triggers The Sackville-Bagginses to drain the opponent.
Snowslope Hunter's once-per-turn sacrifice ability triggers Elrond, so one expendable creature or artifact yields both Elrond's card draw and access to the exiled card.
If reaching eight mana for the Boulder's destruction ability is unrealistic, Snowslope Hunter can cash it in for access to an extra card after its scry value has already been realized.