Depends on your turn 1 play to be able to damage the opponent for max efficiency. Otherwise it won't be as devastating when you play it later on.
BrutalJim
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(5 votes)
If you're sure you'll probably be playing a creature on turn 1 to attack with he's pretty good, but otherwise since you probably won't be able to play him as a 3/3 on turn 2, he's mediocre.
metalevolence
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(5 votes)
*** cool in the most brutal way; a concise and attractive embodiment of red/green//gruul. What's the best way to respond to all the problems with the world? Trade sentience for ravening, skull-bursting furor. Feels good, man
Ritius
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Can always throw him together with that one-to-cast gruul hybrid creature that sacks for mana and a straight burn spell. But... meh. There's more fun to be had on second turn drops than this dude.
Lunarblade
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
3/3 trampler for 2? Why not?
Bleack
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Turn 1: Play Seal of Fire or suspend Rift Bolt. Turn 2: Target Seal of Fire or Rift Bolt to the opponent, play Scab-Clan Mauler. Turn 3: Enchant Scab-Clan Mauler whit Moldervine Cloack and have fun.
Beastlygreen
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Combo for this: turn one: forest/ mountain into Wild Cantor. Turn two: either dual land (such as Rootbound Crag) or opposite of the first land, attack with the Cantor. If it's blocked, sack for a burn spell. If not, cast just cast the mauler. Gruul doesn't care for defense too much, and you have a good trampler on turn two!
Gabriel422
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Well, once upon a time Kird Ape into this into Char into Giant Solifuge was the most feared opening in Standard.
DacenOctavio
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Not a bad common. I like how threshold abilities such as triggered landfall, bloodthirst, and metalcraft allow you to cast several powered up spells in the same turn off of the trigger.
For instance, you could have some extra mana open, and drop two of these with bloodthirst triggered and get two 3/3s for 4 mana.
I like dropping lands for 4 turns and then casting 2 Searing Blaze for 3 damage each on the fourth turn. It's a bit of fun, and I'm surprised more players don't make plays like that. It's not as if you need a trigger for each spell.
I might play this guy in Zoo.
djflo
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
In Ravnica constructed, you could use Seal of Fire for a guaranteed bloodthirst activation.
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Pity this one wasn't reprinted in M12, which features Bloodthirst. But i guess being multicolored didn't help him find its way in a Core Set. Wizard keep those gold-card free: not a single one was printed so far.
Shadoflaam
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I dunno, it's really only a slightly different (potentially either stronger or much weaker) and more mana-intensive Garruk's Companion. That's certainly not a bad thing and it is a good card for its time, but still, it wouldn't hold up today except in a counter-based Gruul deck.
See Also: Watchwolf. Both are (effectively) 3/3s for 2, but this guy is more situational and has Trample. Generally speaking, the Wolf is more reliable and generally better, but it's not red, which could be a pretty big consideration in the era of cards like Char and Kird Ape.
If you chose to go G/W/R, however, you'd get both, along with the allmighty Lightning Helix. And that's Zoo in a nutshell, give or take a few years of nutty aggro creatures and burn spells to make it a top-tier deck
TherealphatMatt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I get feelings of nostalgia, but the fact is Stormblood Berserker is almost always better now that it's stolen these poor guys' glory. It's easier to cast, and in place of trample (which was more often than not less than terribly relevant) has a very tricky and useful form of evasion.
Corey_bayoudragonfly
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The art always makes me think of Blood Bowl. Anyone else?
TheWallinator74
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It will remain a mystery to me why most of the other, less attractive Bloodthirst cards from Guildpact weren't as well crafted as this Aggro-centric card. You don't feel awful for not getting Bloodthirst to work, like with Ghor-Clan Savage, but if you do get get it, you've got yourself a reasonably powerful critter for your efforts, like with Skarrgan Pit-Skulk.
MasterBlaster74
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
he's a beast in the right Pauper deck. drop this guy on turn 2, then turn 3 Volt Charge a tasty target, add a +1/+1 to the Mauler and attack with a 4/4 trample on turn 3. it requires the deck to be built around bloodthirst, but seriously, how difficult is that with red and green?
also not fair to compare this to Stormblood Berserker, which is an uncommon. direct card comparisons are only fair when the cards have the same mana cost and rarity.
by the way, he can also go into R/G human decks too.
4/5
Kariuko
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Stormblood Berserker does seem better in most occasions. But I still prefer this over it due to its interaction with cards like psychotic fury and knight of new alara. and because sometimes it's prefereable to make your opponent sacrifice creatures to block it than to just have him go "I can't block it anyway so I might as well do something else with my creatures" and attack you or something.preferable to me, at least
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Turn 2: Target Seal of Fire or Rift Bolt to the opponent, play Scab-Clan Mauler.
Turn 3: Enchant Scab-Clan Mauler whit Moldervine Cloack and have fun.
For instance, you could have some extra mana open, and drop two of these with bloodthirst triggered and get two 3/3s for 4 mana.
I like dropping lands for 4 turns and then casting 2 Searing Blaze for 3 damage each on the fourth turn. It's a bit of fun, and I'm surprised more players don't make plays like that. It's not as if you need a trigger for each spell.
I might play this guy in Zoo.
But i guess being multicolored didn't help him find its way in a Core Set.
Wizard keep those gold-card free: not a single one was printed so far.
If you chose to go G/W/R, however, you'd get both, along with the allmighty Lightning Helix. And that's Zoo in a nutshell, give or take a few years of nutty aggro creatures and burn spells to make it a top-tier deck
also not fair to compare this to Stormblood Berserker, which is an uncommon. direct card comparisons are only fair when the cards have the same mana cost and rarity.
by the way, he can also go into R/G human decks too.
4/5
But I still prefer this over it due to its interaction with cards like psychotic fury and knight of new alara. and because sometimes it's prefereable to make your opponent sacrifice creatures to block it than to just have him go "I can't block it anyway so I might as well do something else with my creatures" and attack you or something.preferable to me, at least