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Rhovanion Rampager
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Rhovanion Rampager is a premium three-drop that converts expendable creatures into a large attacker, then replaces itself with an Army equal to its final power. It is excellent in both sacrifice-Amass and Wolf/Ferocious decks, though exile and ability-removing effects answer it cleanly.
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Play around this
If possible, remove or disable Rampager before its controller declares attackers, since its sacrifice choice is made only as the attack trigger resolves. Exile or ability-removing effects prevent the large death-trigger Army, while ordinary destruction may simply convert it into another major threat.
Gameplay notes
The sacrifice happens before blockers, so use creatures that have already generated value or beneficial death triggers rather than sacrificing something you could trade in combat. Growing Rampager to 4 power enables Ferocious after its trigger resolves, but it will not turn on attack-conditioned Ferocious triggers for that same combat.
Key synergies
Rampager's death amasses a potentially large number onto a Goblin Army, triggering The Great Goblin for 2 damage. Sacrificing another Goblin to Rampager also triggers The Great Goblin's death ability, providing an additional card to play.
Azog can destroy your Rampager after it has grown: Azog amasses equal to Rampager's power and draws a card, while Rampager's own death trigger amasses that much again. This effectively doubles its power as Army counters while replacing the card.
Sacrificing the Pair to Rampager grows Rampager by 1 while the Pair's death trigger amasses 4. Rampager can later die to amass again based on its increased power, turning one expendable creature into two separate waves of growth.
Rhovanion Rampager can sacrifice the Army made or grown by chapter II to gain counters equal to its power; when the Rampager later dies, those counters increase the size of the replacement Goblin Army it amasses.
Sacrificing the Rampager to Bolg deals damage equal to its power, then its death trigger amasses Goblins for that same power; any excess Bolg damage can add still more counters to the resulting Army.
Rhovanion Rampager can accumulate +1/+1 counters by sacrificing another creature, at which point Great Ugly-Looking Goblin gives it menace; when the Rampager dies, it amasses equal to its enlarged power, producing another large counter-bearing threat that also has menace.
Rampager sacrifices another creature while attacking to gain counters, and Part in Friendship immediately replaces that creature; if the enlarged Rampager later dies, it also leaves behind a large Goblin Army.
Sacrificing Rhovanion Rampager to Allure of Power draws two cards and triggers the Rampager to amass Goblins equal to its power, replacing the sacrificed body with a sizable Army.
Rhovanion Rampager counts toward the two other Wolves needed for Chief Warg's Company to attack, while the Company's recurring 2/2 Wolf tokens provide expendable sacrifice fodder that gives the Rampager two +1/+1 counters each turn.
After Rhovanion Rampager sacrifices another creature and gains counters equal to its power, Tom, Bert, and William can sacrifice the enlarged Rampager to draw a large number of cards; its death trigger then amasses Goblins equal to that same boosted power.
Rampager can sacrifice another creature while attacking, immediately triggering the Bee while growing into a larger threat; its own eventual death also creates an Army, though it does not trigger the Bee if the Bee is no longer present.
Bejeweled Warg can place its combat-damage counter on Rampager because it is a Wolf. Every counter both improves Rampager in combat and increases the size of the Army created when Rampager dies.
Desolation Prowler can activate before being sacrificed to Rhovanion Rampager, giving the Rampager four +1/+1 counters instead of two and increasing its eventual death-trigger amass.
When both attack, Galion can first make the Rampager base 4/4, after which the Rampager's sacrifice trigger adds permanent +1/+1 counters on top of that base, creating a much larger attacker and increasing its eventual amass value.
After Rhovanion Rampager dies and amasses based on its power, Gathering of Darkness returns it to hand while adding three more counters to the Army its death created or enlarged. Recasting the Rampager sets up another sacrifice and death-amass cycle.
Rhovanion Rampager can sacrifice Gollum while attacking to gain two +1/+1 counters, while Gollum's recursion lets you recover and replay the sacrificed creature for another drain.
Rhovanion Rampager can sacrifice a creature as it attacks to grow to 4 power or more before Scrounger's Ferocious trigger checks. Scrounger's counters then further increase Rampager's power, which increases the size of the Goblin Army created when Rampager dies.
When Desolation kills Rhovanion Rampager, its death trigger rebuilds your board with a Goblin Army whose size equals the Rampager's power, leaving a threat after the battlefield is swept.