u/Budget-Teaching3104

I know in the age of 7 sets per year + commander + jumpstart releases, we're looking at like 2000-3000 new cards every year, but [[Bloodthirsty Blade]] is still just one of the best goad-cards around, especially in colours that otherwise don't goad well.

All the usual goad reasons apply:

- instead of simply removing a threat, you're basically using it to make other player's life totals go down. It's like a [[Control Magic]] in disguise.
- removes a blocker from an opponent, which makes them more likely to get attacked and easier for you to attack into them.
- as it turns threats into other player's problems, they might be forced to spend creature removal/resources on it instead of your own threats.
- in a pinch, if can act as pseudo removal, forcing your opponent's utility creatures to attack into an opponent who will just block and kill it if's a big enough problem (e.g. [[Bood Artists]] and the like), though your opponent still get's a full turn of value out of the creature.

But what makes Bloodthirsty Blade so good is that it keeps goading creatures beyond just one round. Few things feel better in EDH than watching your opponents having to deal with each others stuff, while you sit back and enjoy the show, not having to spend tempo and cards on each other beyond your initial investment.

And it's not an enchantment that falls off like most of the impetus auras, which I also DO like very much. But there's a reason [[Ghoulish Impetus]] crept up in price until the reprint. It's more or less the same card for black decks with much the same advantages.

[[Eye of Nidhogg]] also got pretty popular. But recasting it costs 3 mana. Meanwhile Bloodthirsty Blade is just a single colourless mana to re-equip.

And then it actually gives a sizable +2/+0 making it more difficult to block profitably.

And It keeps being a problem for your opponents until it itself is actually answered or you're down to 1v1 and even then you can attach it to creatures that your opponent doesn't want to attack with (e.g. a [[Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy]] and other small-ish utility commanders). Most of the time, if Bloodthirsty Blade sticks around for two turn rotations it will have provided plenty of value to you.

Edited because I misread Ghoulish Impetus.

Probably too late to the party but:

[[Karolina Dean, Runaway]] is a 5-color commander that ramps you to 10 mana on the turn after you play her (e.g. sT2 signet into Karoline T3, T4 -> 10 mana if you don't miss your land drop). As part of the 99 in EDH she might be slightly iffy, since you need to be in 5 colors AND care about spending mana on activated abilities/impulse draws/graveyard.

On Cardmarket Europe currently 32 copies available, basically starting at about 7€. There's a couple for under a buck but the Swiss is not part of the EU and shipping is like 15 bucks so that's irrelevant. -> If you can find it for under a buck in your part of the world, probably worth.

She can be found roughly once per two six Jumpstart Booster Boxes (51 themes, 24 theme boosters per jumpstart box. No idea whether certain themes are more common) She's in the Fantastic Four theme boster.

Jumpstart uncommons can also be in Collector Boosters. There's always one in there but there's over a hundred jumpstsart uncomons so her being a 1% or less pull in a collector pack probably won't do much for her numbers.

I "specked" on 5 copies at 75 cents each from one seller, will send pictures of my Lambo in a couple weeks.

Edit: some people here seem to assume that I think this is a cEDH commander and that it will be a hundred bucks or something. That is not the case. It's a card that some people might thing is cool and fits in their deck but has a very low availability. It's not a spec at 10 bucks. It WAS a spec 1 buck.