Sheepdog

About Sheepdog

Sheepdog, Action, designed by Jeff Laubenstein first released in September 2007 in the set Lords of the Night.

Sheepdog is most useful in a blood-hungry, high-capacity vampire deck—especially one using expensive vampires, strong untap effects, or multi-action tools such as Freak Drive, which can offset the lost normal unlock—but paying an action and effectively losing the vampire for the following turn makes four blood quite expensive; it is generally weaker than recurring sources such as The Coven or Hunting Ground, while Giant’s Blood is much better when its condition is met because it provides a dramatically larger refill without consuming a minion action, so Sheepdog should usually not see competitive play except as a budget, thematic, or metagame-specific one-of in decks that urgently need blood and can exploit untaps.