Sad Dracula

### Text

You get the first attack each brawl.Your first character has "**Slay**: +2 Attack permanently."

**Sad Dracula** is a hero card. He (usually, see Notes) attacks first in a brawl, and the character in slot 1 gains a Slay ability that gives them +2 Attack permanently.

## Strategy

**Sad Dracula** has two things going for him - a built-in scaling mechanism, and a built-in Hermes' Boots. The former is quite useful for building up a character, while the latter is handy in a variety of boards, and critical in others. The priority means the scaling is relatively consistent, provided your first character has enough Attack to Slay on its opening salvo.

While **Sad Dracula** allows scaling a single character quite well, you often need to keep scaling the same one to be able to consistently Slay. As such, the character you build up can become statistically lopsided - a glass cannon, but one that struggles to do more than just trade 1-for-1, giving you little use out of your hero ability. Ranged characters like Sherwood Sureshot can somewhat make up for this by potentially trading 2-for-1 - on the attack and defense, but even then, she's susceptible to all kinds of Spells without some health.

The best candidates for **Sad Dracula**'s granted Slay ability are ones that have a way to buff their Health. Happy Little Tree, if you can get it Slaying, is a great candidate, though the first Slay takes some luck or perhaps a Mad Mim. Book of Heroes is also an intriguing treasure with **Sad Dracula** - if you have a Good character to put in slot 1, Book of Heroes will often trigger and give that character some Health as well, rounding out their stats somewhat.

If you can manage to get a Court Wizard or a Lightning Dragon Slaying, they can get additional Slays thanks to their bonus actions.

Look for characters and treasures with Slay synergies later on, such as Baba Yaga, Bad Moon, Bounty Board, and Jormungand, as all of these will trigger off of **Sad Dracula**'s granted Slay ability. Jormungand in particular really appreciates the priority that **Sad Dracula** gives too.

Note that **Sad Dracula** does not need to do Slay-focused builds - he does quite well with Doombreath, who goes first (and gets up to 3 Slays). **Sad Dracula** does quite well with other disruptor characters like Medusa and Lightning Dragon who appreciate the first attack too. Copycat strategies, that generally do not Slay but love going first, are great too.

## Notes

* If your opponent has Hermes' Boots (and isn't Celestial Tiger), it goes back to a 50-50 as to who attacks first.

* To understand **Sad Dracula**'s "always attack first" ability's interactions with Hermes' Boots that you or your opponents have, you can think of it as giving +1 "priority". Whoever has more "priority" always goes first in a brawl, and if "priority" is tied, who attacks first is random.

* If you take Hermes' Boots as **Sad Dracula**, you are guaranteed to attack first against opponents with just Hermes' Boots, as you now have +2 "priority". You could still be tied by an opponent with Mimic and Hermes' Boots, or Celestial Tiger with Hermes' Boots, as they have +2 "priority", and a Celestial Tiger with Mimic and Hermes' Boots would always attack first against you with +3 "priority". If you are **Sad Dracula** and have Mimic and Hermes' Boots, you have +3 "priority" and always attack first against everything except Celestial Tiger with Hermes' Boots and Mimic (against whom you tie).

* The Dr. Acula skin and emotes are by Kate (Ekaterina) Chesalova.

## Gallery

*Sad Dracula* card art*Dr. Acula* skin card art
## History

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