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Getaway Barrel
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A slow build-around artifact that can turn a sacrifice into a large creature, but it needs a reliable sacrifice outlet and enough creatures in the deck to avoid wasting four mana. It is strongest in BR sacrifice and is otherwise risky, low-tempo filler.
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Gameplay notes
Do not cast this without a credible way to put it into the graveyard; simply leaving it in play for Storied is a modest fallback. Keep the creature count high, and remember that creatures outside the top thirteen cannot be selected and the trigger can miss entirely.
Key synergies
Sacrificing Getaway Barrel makes Stir Up Trouble cost only one black mana and triggers the Barrel to put a random creature from your library directly onto the battlefield.
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 Getaway Barrel to Gollum's graveyard ability both returns Gollum to hand and triggers the Barrel to put a random creature onto the battlefield, converting the recursion cost into a major tempo and card-advantage swing.
Stone-Giant can sacrifice the Barrel to deal 4 damage to any target, and the Barrel then replaces itself with a random creature from the top thirteen cards.
The Sackville-Bagginses can sacrifice the Barrel when they enter, drawing a card and creating a Treasure while also triggering the Barrel's creature-cheating ability.