In my second Social Media Challenge post for the week I'll have a quick look at Kelan Gaines (announcement post HERE) - the new Voucher Shop card which is getting released on the 18th of March (in just 3 days).
First off, Kelan getting released really soon means that the previous card is getting rotated out during the maintenance window on Tuesday.
Be sure to pick Ulfga up from the shop if you have not already before she's gone forever, as she's a pretty interesting card with both uses in Low Mana/Little League battles as well as higher mana combos featuring the Dragon element.
Now for the new card in town:
As you can see from the card frame below, here's a Real beast at max level. He's a dual-element card - Death/Dragon, which means that you can use him not only with the Death and the Dragon element but through Dragon he can also be used in combination with cards from any other element as Dragon is acting as a bridge for that. That means that there are all sorts of fun combos to be discovered featuring Kelan and, of course, all the cards we have in Modern, Wild and the upcoming Conclave Arcana set.
As for his stats at max level - he's an 8-mana Magic attacker with 3 Attack, 6 Speed, 9 Health and 0 Armor. He's got the following abilities - Snipe, Phase, Backfire and Double Strike. The quality of the card is Rare which means that you need 115 copies of him to get him to max level. Well, just having a look at the combination of his stats tells you that he's an absolute beast in a lot of situations, specifically in Magic only rulesets, he can literally wipe out the enemy team all by himself if you place him in the tank spot and give him some support. 6 Speed + Phase + Backfire is obviously a great defensive combo with real offensive potential, and Double Striking with a total of 6 Magic damage per round is very strong as well. Not to mention that if he's not in the first spot he's doing damage to the 1st ranged attacker in the enemy line-up thanks to his Snipe ability (if there are no Taunt Monsters, of course).
Now let's have a look at his power curve at different levels after we've seen how strong he is maxed:
The picture of the stats, which has been provided by the team is a bit low-res, but I'll pull out the magnifying glass.. :D. So, at level 1 Kelan starts off with 2 Magic Attack, 5 Speed and 6 Health, and the ability he's starting with is Snipe. Not so great for 8 mana imho, unless you have no other option but ofc could be used in the rare occasion you get a high mana battle in wood/bronze league. As soon as you get 5 copies of him and hit level 2 you get an additional ability - Phase. Now Phase + 5 Speed and 6 Health is not too shabby for a low league Anti-Magic tank. At level 4 things get spicier and he also gains Backfire. Now that's a formidable foe in Silver for sure. He also has 7 Health (gained at level 3). At level 5 he gains 1 more HP for a total of 8 and at level 6 another one for a total of 9. Level 7 gets his Speed to his max potential of 6. And we finally get to his final stats, we've already had a look at, at level 8. I can say that apart from getting a maxed level of him. Worth having levels would be level 2 - for the phase (5 copies). Level 4 for the Backfire (26 copies). Not sure that level 5 and 6 are that worth it for 1 extra HP each considering the exponential increase in price. If you get him to level 7, you might as well get all the way up to max for that Double Strike.
I'm pretty hyped for him, and I had just 1,000 vouchers, so I had to go pick some up on HE (as they were cheaper). Had to beg the bots to sell me vouchers at lower rates for several hours, but I finally did it... :D
It has become a habit of mine of showing some AI character art in each Social media post so here it is for Kelan Gaines:
I then extract frames from these videos and use the most suitable ones to train a LoRA of the character. After the LoRA is trained, I then can use it in Stable Diffusion to generate whatever image I want featuring the character.
