Some cards don’t just belong in aggro—they scream it from the crow’s nest.
Kraken Hunter is a streamlined, buff-hungry damage rocket coming out of Bilgewater, and she’s the first clear signal that the pirate faction means business in Riftbound.
At just three mana, with scalable cost reduction and built-in combat power, this is a red-line tempo card that rewards deckbuilding precision and hand-state awareness.
Gameplay / Cool Mechanics
Kraken Hunter enters at 3-cost for a 3/5 body with Assault—+1 power while attacking. But here’s the kicker: she gets cheaper based on how many buffs you spend as you play her.
Each buff knocks off a red mana, and yes, she has Accelerate, which means for one extra red and a mana, she comes in ready to hit.
That makes Kraken Hunter a total menace in low-curve decks packed with cheap buffs. Stack two buffs? You’re slamming a 3/5 attacker with effective 4 power on the same turn for just a single red mana.
Or, if you’re playing mid-game, she’s a perfect stabilizer that can immediately threaten a point swing.
Her statline is also just clean—5 health is a sticky breakpoint, especially in mirror trades or early defense.
This is a case of reward-for-commitment design done right. The more buffs you jam into your list, the more explosive your tempo turns become.
No fluff, no delay. Just clean math and battlefield presence.
Visuals
The art captures exactly what the card wants to do—strike first, strike hard. Kraken Hunter is perched mid-deck with a massive crossbow, hair whipping in the wind, dead-eyed stare locked on a target we can’t see.
The lighting sells it: muted blues of sea and sky against her red-orange buffed outline, with that lean-forward posture telegraphing imminent violence.
She’s not waiting for the kraken. She’s hunting it.
Pull Rate & Value Speculation
Kraken Hunter is card 150/298, and while the rarity hasn’t been officially marked, everything from the statline to the art suggests a solid Rare slot.
We haven’t seen a foil version or overnumbered alt yet, but don’t be surprised if she ends up with one—especially if Bilgewater aggro breaks through early in the meta.
Budget players will chase her for decks, and collectors will want her for the pirate aesthetic.
Kraken Hunter is that mid-speed dagger you want just when things are slowing down.
Buff synergy is only going to get deeper as the set unfolds, and she’s poised to become a cornerstone for any deck trying to swing faster than its cost curve.
This card’s going to see play. Probably a lot.
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