I think it might have potential in Sajj decks since you’re constantly trading your hp, going to experiment around with it once it gets released.
Blood Taura has arrived! (Monthly Card Preview)
I think this card is terrible considering the card pool we have today.
It looks extremely situational and even in the right set up this card won’t save you, in an environment where every good decks have good finishers (tiger roar, tiger kara, fae BBS , shadow nova, spiral technique , makantor…), trying to set up the card by taking damage sounds foolish. Even in an aggro deck that takes a lot of damage alone (with vindicator and warlock) this card will be a terrible finisher since it doesn’t deal any damage when it arrives.
Of course the card can be broken in some kind of combos but so far I cannot think of any.
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why bother with this when displacer does 10 damage already for just 5 mana, the 7/4 infiltrate deals 14 damage.
Vaath
Blood Taura
Flameblood Warlock
Dreamgazer
Adamantite Claws
Sworn Avenger
Sworn Defender
Blood Synja
Some Other Stuff
Get hurt lots. Own the board. Win hard.
Bounded Lifeforce 
When that works 
Oooh Vaath, how you will use the Taura… Would also love to see it in Kara for fun. My health is below 9? Look out, here come my 16/16 provokes.
This guy comes late to the party when his friend is already dead, he is only playable when you are well below the danger zone (in case you dont know, it is really easy to die in this game)…
Put 3 blood taura’s in your deck
Save them every turn until late game
Get down to 3 health
Play all 3 in one turn
???
Win game?
Good luck holding 3 cards in your and trying to survive at less then 10 health ( All faction have some way to kill you faster then you can drop down to 3 health…also you coud get rekt when you position yourself poorly…or you know…Makantor ruins your day)
yet in that scenario you could play this dude and then kill yourself lol.
i dont actually think this card is good, i mean, it needs a deck to be built around to somehow work, but there are some equally (or more) powerful options in the pool already, like unstable leviathan and yet no one make use of it.
i wonder how it would work with flash reincarnation or kujata.
Edit: so far i may see it in either magmar decks or lyonar, since they can both survive somehow after playing it.
Well unstable Leviathan is bad because 4 damage can really ruin your board by killing something important and it doesnt have provoke…
I feel it can work …BOUNDED LIFEFORCE! (please work )
Based on the card text, I would assume how they have no effect on it as the general health is directly proportional to the cost. I guess one could easily argue otherwise too though. Card text isn’t that clear, it could probably use “always” inserted somewhere in there.
Note: “Some Other Stuff” clearly includes the new Legendary, Sworn Fomentor. I mean, um, Ruby Rifter.
[edit]Stealth buff to Reaper of the Nine Moons confirmed.[/edit]
the only viable option is to run this in decks with reaper, grandmaster z’ir, lots of darkfire sacrifice. its greatest nemesis is mind steal, dominate will, or any other removal (hailstone prison would be especially humiliating)
as it is, i don’t think its worth having more than 1 copy in a deck
i think it would be perfect if instead of provoke, it simply took damage in place of your general
for example, faei uses her BBS and instead of your general taking 2 damage blood taura would take it.
or, you know, RUSH
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It was mentioned earlier in the thread, but I’m thinking a Vanar Replace deck that Focuses on cutting your wrists and feeling the dark forces embrace your edgy, teenaged soul until the Blood Taura ooze and crush your opponent with a rush of depressing poetry slamming.
Or, more specifically, this?
(+3 Blood Taura)
Like, basically a standard Faice deck, but with a secondary win condition in Blood Taura rushing? I personally get Faie’s health tenuously low when playing her, so it’d be the dream to get the [Dreamgazer->BT->BT->SotW] combo. Probably not much in the way of card draw, so maybe that Ruby Rifter might fit in this jumble somewhere?
Seems like a fun idea, at least.
It will be great for either Lyonar deck (DB/Heal)
Only Abyssian really has no-mana reliant on-board healing options, via Shadowdancer and Kelaino, so they’re the only option I see.
The point is get low and get Blood Taura for free or near free and heal out of danger.The dream scenarios for somelike for Lyonar or Magmar is down to the health where Taura is free and do something big.Lyonar can drop Grandmaster Zir and Blood Taura on same turn.Magmar can do some like play Elucidator ,drop free Blood Taura in the person face and Heal for 8.The healing abyss doesn’t really help it imo
This is the dream. You need to be on 2 hp (or 1) to drop Taura on same turn as Z’Ir.
You need, without Flash, to be at exactly 5 HP to Elucidator, Taura, and Earth Sphere.
You see how exact these requirements are? And you have to have 9 total mana. I really wouldn’t count on it. Ever. It’s like the “Triple Flash Elder into Fractal Replication it” dreams, so unlikely to happen, and not something you base serious decks’ strategies around.
Blood Taura is only free when you have 0 HP, and at that point, you’re not casting it.