Knowledge Vault: Witch Hunter

This bizarre love child of Prodigal Sorcerer and Time Elemental was originally printed in The Dark, but reprinted in foreign languages, Chronicles and Timeshifted, so it shouldn’t be too hard to get yourself a copy.

The first important bit of text to note is that Witch Hunter can only be used to directly “ping” an opponent or Planeswalker, not their creatures.  However, you’re probably not using a four-mana creature to take care of x/1s, so I guess it’s kind of cool that Witch Hunter is quasi-unblockable insofar as it damages your opponent while avoiding combat altogether.

More importantly, take note that Witch Hunter can only “bounce” an opponent’s creature.  Therefore, you can’t use Witch Hunter as a way to abuse your own enter/exit-the-battlefield triggers.  That certainly limits its uses, but repeatable removal is usually pretty good, especially in a singleton format like Brawl.  Speaking of Brawl, Witch Hunter is pretty effective against two very good Commanders: Stangg and Hazezon Tamar.  Bouncing the Stangg or Hazezon also triggers the removal of their respective tokens.

EXITING THE VAULT

Witch Hunter may be useful, but the flavor is way off.  The only witches in the format, Cuombajj Witches, make short work of Witch Hunter.

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