Reverent Howl
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A strong, flexible common that is either instant-speed card advantage or a substantial combat trick with lifelink. It is especially valuable in BG, where the pump mode can temporarily create a 4-power creature and enable Ferocious attacks.
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Play around this
With three mana open, account for a creature receiving +2/+2 and lifelink; avoid blocks or damage-based interactions that fail if the target grows by two toughness.
Gameplay notes
Use the draw mode during the opponent's end step when possible. To enable Ferocious attack triggers, cast the pump mode during your beginning-of-combat step, before attackers are declared; casting it after attacking is too late for those triggers.
Key synergies
Casting Reverent Howl on Wargling before combat makes it a 4/4, so its Ferocious attack trigger gives it another +1/+0 and grants your whole team trample.
The pump mode turns The Chief Warg from 3 power into 5 power before combat, enabling its own Ferocious trigger to draw a card when you attack.
Pumping Ravening Warg before declaring attackers makes it a 4-power creature and turns on its Ferocious trigger; deathtouch plus the temporary size also makes blocking it especially difficult.
Reverent Howl adds 2 power before Quarrel and grants lifelink, so the damage Quarrel causes the creature to deal also gains you that much life.
After Desolation Prowler activates, Reverent Howl makes it a 6/6 with lifelink; connecting or trading in combat recovers the life spent and produces a large life swing.
Its draw-two mode guarantees a Councillors trigger and can do so during either player's turn, allowing additional mill beyond the usual once-per-own-turn pattern.
Its draw mode makes a player lose 2 life, so the Master also mills that player for two; targeting yourself both draws cards and advances your graveyard toward the Master's seven-card death payoff.
Reverent Howl is a noncreature spell, so either mode triggers Bothersome Noisemaker to amass Goblins 1 while providing cards or winning combat.