• Spirit Hoarder is a support legendary card with main purpose is to cast triage and protect backline units.

• Looking at the basic stats of Spirit Hoarder, this card is not a offensive monster as it only deals a 1 to 2 magic damage which is then can be nullify and weaken by a void ability, a speed of 1 and a health of 3. By looking at those figures, this card basically a support card that mainly rely on its ability for a cost of 3 mana.

• In terms of the ability, the main ability that Spirit Hoarder have is the triage ability to heal and support backline units that are affected especially by a sneak, snipe and scattershot attack.

• Leveling up to ★2 gives the ability to dispel an opponents. This includes the removal of positive stats boost such as bloodlust and martyr effect. This is a pretty powerful thing recently as it was update to have an effect on the said abilities.

• Increasing another level unlocks the blind ability which is also a good use when dealing with physical attack as this effect gives the attacker a chance to miss the target.

• Spirit Hoarder for me I think is a utility monster that can be use from time to time depending on the ruleset and strategy. I do think that if you are expecting an attack from the backline, then a triage will be very useful.

Combo Cards

When it comes to summoner, since this card is a neutral any summoner will do but in my personal opinion, if you have a strategy to use backline taunt with a triage support, Lily Shieldpaw can be with Spirit Hoarder for a double triage.

On the other hand, Mimosa Nightshade totally disable Spirit Hoarder main function and Immortalis nullify its low magic damage.

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Card	Advantage/Disadvantage
Lily Shieldpaw	For a strategy such as a rear taunt with a sustained triage, A Lily Shieldpaw with triage and a Spirit Hoarder for a double triage could be a pretty good use. Just make sure that frontline can sustain as well else this strategy won't work.
Mimosa Nightshade	This summoner totally disable Spirit Hoarder. With the affliction effect, a triage won't be much of a work as it stops any monster in healing while the void ability then nullify Spirit Hoarder weak magic attack.
Immortalis	The same with Mimosa Nightshade where it can nullify Spirit Hoarder attack because of the void

In terms of monsters, those monsters with taunt that can attack in the backline would be a good choice to have with Spirit Hoarder.

Besides those taunt, expecting a snipe or sneak attack would also be a good use in order for Spirit Hoarder to support those backline that has been attacked.

Below are the monsters in the current modern format with Taunt ability that can attack in the backline:

Monster	Element	Remarks
Wave Brood	Water	Range Unit
Mycelic Slipspawn	Earth	Magic Unit
Agor Longtail	Dragon	Magic Unit

Below are the monsters in the current modern format with Taunt ability that can attack in the backline ONLY when melee mayhem, equal opportunity or super sneak ruleset is active

Monster	Element	Remarks
Magnor	Fire	Melee Unit
Shield Bearer	Life	Melee Unit
Dark Ha'on	Death	Melee Unit
Night Ghoul	Death	Melee Unit
Coeurl Lurker	Dragon	Magic Unit

Note: this list does not include the soulbound reward card

Counter Cards

In order to counter this card, there are a lot of ways:

• since this card is low health, this can be countered with opportunity
• with a weak magic attack, this can be countered with void
• with a main function is to perform triage, this can be countered with affliction

Ruleset

In terms of ruleset, Spirit Hoarder may be best to use in the following ruleset in my opinion:

Ruleset	Benefits
Equalizer	By increasing Spirit Hoarder health, this increases its survivability and could be able to provide a better sustained especially when healing a monster with a high health.
Little League	With Spirit Hoarder mana cost of 3, this card can be a good use for the little league to provide support in the backline.
Target Practice	Expecting an attack to the backline because of the target practice means that Spirit Hoarder triage is a good use.

There are ruleset that Spirit Hoarder is not recommended:

• Back to Basics
• Healed out

👽 The Battle and Outcome

Battle

Rules of Combat

Modifications: Noxious Fumes, Odd Ones Out
Mana Cap: 24
Playable Splinters: Life, Death and Dragon

With the noxious fumes ruleset in place and with a mana capacity of 24 mana, I have decided to use Lily Shieldpaw triage ability together with Spirit Hoarder and Djinn Renova to have a triple triage that can sustain poison damage.

• Summoner: Lily as the summoner for the extra triage and camouflage my backline unit. Also additional health for all monsters.
• 1st Position: Evelyn Auvera acts as the main tank as this card do have a high armor and an immunity in which it can't be affected by poison.
• 2nd Position: Stitch Leech as the backline attacker which also gains health everytime this card is attacking.
• 3rd Position: Djinn Renova as the next monster which do have strengthen ability to increase allied health by one and with the triage ability to nullify the damage taken to the poison.
• 4th Position: Spirit Hoarder simply for the triage to counter the poison damage.

Let's do the battle analysis per round:

Round 1

Analyzing the opponent's lineup, there were only two monster, Uriel which have a high health and healing power and Adelade Brightwing with immunity, repair and ressurect. This is pretty a good lineup as Uriel is the only one affected by poison but can be countered by its healing power. With Adelade ability, it can resurrect Uriel in-case defeated and with ressurect, his removes the poison status.

There are some main points in this battle:

1. Adelade level is only ★2, which means the immunity is not yet unlock. This should gives a good position to Adelade
2. Adelade health is much lower than Uriel, it means that Adelade may be defeated first before Uriel thus, voiding the ressurect ability.
3. Stitch Leech sneak attack will further hasten the elimination of Adelade Brightwing.
4. Three triage will be casted every round which is for each of my monster Stitch Leech, Renova and Hoarder. This is a sustained set-up as long as Evelyn can hold the frontline as much as possible.

Round 2 to 3

Adelade has been defeated in Round 2 by the combined poison damage and stich leech attack. This eliminates the ressurection of Uriel for poison removal. This means that every rounds Uriel is affected by poison and is now being ganked by the three monsters in the backline.

Looking at the health of Stitch Leech, Djinn Renova and Spirit Hoarder, the health are sustained by the triple triage.

Round 4 to 5

Evelyn Auvera has been defeated in Round 4 but provided a pretty good defense in the frontline holding Uriel enough in order for the team to reduce its high health.

In this battle, it may not shine too much for Spirit Hoarder but this show-case Spirit Hoarder triage ability in order to sustain damage taken.

BATTLE LINK

👽 Final Thoughts

In my opinion, Spirit Hoarder is a good utility card which main function is to support the team to sustain damage and win the battle. This card may not be good in attack and defense but is surely great in supporting other cards.

Overall I Spirit Hoarder is a good monster.

How do you think Spirit Hoarder is?

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