Front Porch Sentries
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A solid two-drop that makes blocking, trading, and sacrificing profitable by shrinking or finishing another opposing creature when it dies. It is best in BR sacrifice decks but remains reasonable curve filler in any black deck.
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Gameplay notes
Look for combat trades where the Sentries' death trigger can finish a second creature that survived combat. Remember that the -1/-1 lasts only until end of turn, so sacrifice it before combat damage or during the same turn that another creature has taken damage.
Key synergies
Azog can destroy Front Porch Sentries, causing you to draw a card and amass Goblins 2 from Azog while the Sentries' death trigger gives an opposing creature -1/-1.
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.
Because Front Porch Sentries is a Goblin, its death triggers The Great Goblin's temporary card access in addition to its own -1/-1 effect.
Sacrificing the Sentries pays Stir Up Trouble's additional cost; the spell destroys one creature while the death trigger can kill a separate 1-toughness creature or help finish another damaged target.
Bolg's Company can sacrifice the Sentries on demand, generating {B}{R} while triggering their -1/-1 death effect to finish a damaged creature or improve combat.
When Bolg sacrifices the Sentries, their death trigger can give Bolg's intended victim -1/-1 before his damage resolves. That effectively increases the removal's reach and lowers lethal toughness, making excess-damage amass easier to achieve.
Front Porch Sentries is productive fodder for Gollum's recursion ability: sacrificing it returns Gollum to hand while also giving an opposing creature -1/-1 for the turn.
Desolation kills Front Porch Sentries, whose death trigger can give an opposing creature that survived the initial damage -1/-1, allowing the sweep to finish off a 4-toughness creature.
Sacrificing Front Porch Sentries to the entry ability draws a card and creates a Treasure while also applying its death-triggered -1/-1, making it especially efficient sacrifice fodder.