Been playing for 5 months now but never fully grasp the potential of the RESURRECT ability until I played brawl matches with Chaos Legion only frays where I always encounter cards like RIVER HELLONDALE and ADELADE BRIGHTWING. That's where I discover the usefullness of this ability. For now, let's start with the description of this ability.
RESURRECT
| When a friendly Monster dies it is brought back to life with 1 Health. This ability can trigger only once per battle. |
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For the first sentence, it says that a when a friendly monster dies, it will be brought back again with 1 HP. Monster with RESURRECT ability cannot use this ability to resurrect itself. Debuffs like Poison will be remove once it is resurrected. Aside from the Health, the resurrected Monster will have its stats back to normal including the Armor (this is very important if you want to utilized this ability).
Now for the 2nd part, "This ability can trigger once per battle." -> once you resurrected a friendly Monster with this ability, it will not trigger anymore for that Monster or Summoner. But if you have two Monsters, or probably a Summoner like Chanceus, this ability will be triggered per card (monster and/or summoner).
Monster with Resurrect ability:
| Cards | Splinter | Level |
|---|---|---|
| River Hellondale | Water | Level 1 |
| Spirit Druid Grog | Earth | Level 1 |
| Ancient Lich | Death | Level 4 |
| Angel of Light | Life | Level 1 |
| High Priest Darius | Life | Level 1 |
| Adelade Brightwing | Life | Level 2 |
Summoner with Resurrect ability:
| Cards | Splinter |
|---|---|
| Chanceus the Great | Life |
Main Strategy
I highlighted the word ARMOR in the above because it is the key in order to fully utilized this ability. Let's take LEGIONNAIRE ALVAR as the perfect example (I'll explain later why I consider it as the "perfect example")
This monster has a base Armor of 8. If in case this Monster dies, it will be resurrected with the same stats: 2 Melee damage, 2 Speed, 8 Armor but with only 1 Health.
If this Monster is up against a Melee or Ranged Monsters, they need to destroy first the Armor in order to kill this Monster again. With this huge armor, enemies will definitely take some turns to destroy it. Now if this Monster is up against Magic attacking monsters, you can say that magic damage will pass through the armor and directly hitting the Health. This is what normally happens for other monsters after being resurrected but take LEGIONNAIRE ALVAR differently.
With its VOID ARMOR, Magic damage will hit the Armor first before hitting the Health. So it means, when you resurrected LEGIONNAIRE ALVAR with 1 Health and 8 Armor, somehow you are resurrecting a Monster with 9 HP. And since it is Armor, AFFLICTION will not prevent ARMOR REPAIR ability from "healing" the armor.
Countering RESURRECT
The most effective way to counter Resurrect is simply killing the monsters that has this ability. As I mentioned earlier, Resurrect will only be trigger for friendly monster but not on the monster with this ability.
- This can be prevented by using proper positioning of the Monsters. Avoid positions that can be targeted by Snipe and Sneak. For Opportunity, placing a Monster with a lower Health would help but somehow will depend on the situation. Using Taunt ability will greatly help as well in order to focus enemy's attack to single monster.
Another way to counter this is using Magic damage. Resurrected Monsters will have 1 Health regardless of it's max HP. Even if the Monster has a high Armor, magic damage will directly hit the HP killing the resurrected Monster easily.
- As I mentioned, VOID ARMOR will solve this problem.
Our strategy heavily relies on the Armor in order to work, so ability like SHATTER will be a hindrance.
Perfect Allies
Friendly Monsters with high base armor, and abilities like VOID ARMOR and ARMOR REPAIR are definitely perfect combo if you have monsters with RESURRECT ability. In the case of ADELADE BRIGHTWING and CHANSEUS THE GREAT, both has the RESURRECT and ARMOR REPAIR abilities already. You'll only need to have some allies with VOID ARMOR ability.
Battle Rules
| Battle Rules | |
|---|---|
| Weak Magic | Magic attacks hit Armor before reducing Health. This is the equivalent of giving all monsters the VOID ARMOR ability. This is very favorable for our strategy as all monsters will have the VOID ARMOR. What we need to worry now is having monsters with high Amor to fully utilized it. |
| Armored Up | Monsters gains additional +2 armor. An additional armor greatly helps to execute our strategy. Combined this with the base Armor of Monsters with VOID ARMOR would be perfect. |
| Unprotected | Monsters do not have any armor and do not get armor from Abilities or Summoner Buffs This will definitely counter our strategy of using VOID ARMOR with RESURRECT. |
Final Thoughts:
It is somehow situational and may not be applicable all the time but I think it is definitely worth a try. If you are a fan of Life Splinter, there are a lot of cards that has this Resurrect ability (1 Summoner and 3 Monsters). Now imagine having this 4 cards with SHIELDBEARER as Tank with Weak Magic as ruleset. Exhibition time!!!
Let me know your thoughts as well with this strategy. Or if ever you tried this one, share us the link to your battle.
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