Ghor-Clan Savage

Bloodthirst priced its bonus at the steepest tier here: deal an opponent damage first and this lands as a 5/6, hit nothing and you have spent five mana on a 2/3. That gap is the whole bet. Bloodthirst 3 is the most aggressive rung of a keyword that scaled its reward to its risk, and it only pays out as a late-curve threat in a deck that has already drawn blood. You need to have committed to the beatdown plan before casting it, which is also why it never quite earned its keep: by turn five, when the condition is reliable, the board wants a creature that does more than stand there at a fat rate. A plain berserker with no evasion, no trample, no second ability is a heavy payload for a deck that has to fight to switch the bonus on, and dead weight in any draw that stumbles. It is a clean illustration of the keyword's central tension: the more you load the reward, the more conditional the card becomes, until the floor sinks faster than the ceiling rises. The lower bloodthirst rungs survived as cheap aggressive filler; this one is what the mechanic looks like pushed past the point where the math pays you back.