Trophy Hunter

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Your **Last Breath** abilities are also **Slay** abilities. Your **Last Breath** characters have +2 Attack.

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Grafit Studios

**Trophy Hunter** is a hero card. His character's Last Breath abilities are also Slay abilities, and his characters with Last Breath abilities have +2 Attack as an Aura-based effect.

## Strategy

**Trophy Hunter**'s Hero power is obviously only relevant for characters that have Last Breath abilities.

The immediate problem for **Trophy Hunter** is that characters with Last Breath abilities do not tend to have a lot of Attack, making it difficult for them to Slay. While the +2 attack is enormously helpful, especially in the early game, this boost in power quickly begins to drop off in the later game. Trophy Hunter heavily relies on finding Black Cat or Wretched Mummy early in the game, often with support from spells and Supports like Mad Mim, Worm Root, or Labyrinth Minotaur.

On Level 4, Friendly Spirit becomes available, and while it is no exception to the general weakness of Last Breath characters, it does have intriguing upside if you invest in it and manages to Slay, as this will give you an additional use of its ability. Monster Book is perhaps the most user-friendly of the Last Breath abilities thanks to its high attack, and can open the door to an unconventional Mages board, such as Monster Book + Aon + Baba Yaga.

On Level 5, Baba Yaga enters the picture - and it can make Slay abilities activate an additional time, including Last Breath turned Slay abilities. Combining Baba Yaga, Evil Eye, and massive last breathe characters is what makes a late-game **Trophy Hunter** fearsome. Multiple Wretched Mummy, Monster Book, or Friendly Spirit activations can end a brawl before it even really starts. Even characters such as Tweedle Dee and Wombats in Disguise can be great characters if they can reliably slay.

On Level 6, Good Boy becomes available as a more potent substitute for Friendly Spirit, allowing a good portion of your board to become very powerful if you have a few Good characters. Jormungand also becomes available, which can be a great option.

Summoning Last Breath abilities, such as Tweedle Dee's, Romeo's, and others also work with **Trophy Hunter**'s hero power and can be stopgap solutions if the above are not available, though these tend to be less reliable and powerful, as they can only work if you have board space to summon.

Treasure-wise, Bad Moon can beef up your base stats for each Slay, buffing Friendly Spirits, Good Boys, and others, making your combo more potent and more reliable. Many key Last Breath characters like Wretched Mummy, Friendly Spirit, and Monster Book are Monsters, making Monster Manual very valuable. Evil Eye and Horn of Olympus can help Baba Yaga further amplify your combos - often to the point of being nuclear. Hermes' Boots helps you get the all-important first attack to get your combo going before your opponent can disrupt it. Bounty Board produces mostly steady income even in the early-to-midgame, and once Baba Yaga gets involved can make it feel like you have The Holy Grail every turn!

If **Trophy Hunter** is able to get his strongest combos online, it can often end up in winning in just one or two attacks. They can attempt "scam" strategies like Medusa and Rotten Appletree to remove a key piece of the combo, and cast Pigomorph for the same effect, but the odds are stacked against them. However, **Trophy Hunter** can struggle to survive long enough to execute his combos, because until his combos are online he is quite unreliable, as he relies on both finding certain characters and getting lucky slays.

If you're trying to get that elusive Puff Puff win, **Trophy Hunter** is the hero that can best take advantage of Puff Puffs - scaling them on Slay as well as Last Breath. However, even in the best case scenario, this is still an awful strategy.

## Notes

* **Trophy Hunter** gives all characters that have a Last Breath ability a Slay ability with the same effect. This interacts accordingly, e.g. Cloak of the Assassin will buff characters given Slay abilities this way, they will trigger Bad Moon, Shadow Assassin, etc. The Last Breath ability and Slay ability can trigger simultaneously if a character with a Last Breath ability Slays and dies at the same time, causing the effect to activate twice.
	+ Baba Yaga's support will affect the created Slay ability, *and* the original Last Breath ability, so if a character supported by Baba Yaga Slays and dies at the same time, the ability will activate 4 times in total - twice from the doubled Slay ability, and twice from the original Last Breath ability.

## Gallery

*Trophy Hunter* card art*Trophy Hunter* card art pre Dec 9, 2022
## History

 June 18, 2021 | Released in *Storybook Brawl's* Early Access launch.