This is Exploring the Chaos where I take a look on Chaos Legion cards including their subsets such as Riftwatchers and the Reward cards, as they brought new abilities and strategies that changes how the game was played.
The topic of my review for some time now was about the core cards of the Chaos Legion which is the third major card expansion of the game with over 100 cards and so far, I have come to finish with the core cards under the common, rare and epic rarity and have began with the legendary rarity, containing 29 cards including the airdrop cards. With my last post, covers the legendary units of the Water Element so for this week, I will proceed with the Earth Element.
Iza the Fanged is a 4- mana legendary range monster with the Sneak ability at level 1 which allows it to attack backline monsters together with Scavenge that increases the health of this monster every time a unit dies.
As it reaches level 3, it gets the Stun that has 50% chance to prevent the target to attack for a turn.
Immortalis is a 6- mana legendary summoner that gives -1 health on all opponent monsters as well as the Void ability that reduces damage from magic attacks and Shatter which will remove all the armor of the target unit.
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Print rates of the card was taken by the time of writing this post and is subject to change depending on when you check on it. Source: Peakmonsters, Splintercards
This battle only has 16 mana where the only ruleset was Aimless that adds the RNG factor to magic and range attacks.
The legendary card that I used in this battle was Fungus Fiend which has a big help in regards with low mana battles since it does not consume any mana and though it does not have much health, it can serve as damage sponge to protect your other monsters from being attacked but also was a melee monsters so there is a chance that it can also inflict damage to the target like you can see how it removed the armor of Venari Wavesmith before it was finally defeated.
On the other hand, Queen Mycelia here provides armor on all ally monsters with its Protect ability which allows melee and range attacks to have a harder time defeating my monsters while dealing magic attacks which it can do regardless of its position.
All healing abilities are removed from Monsters and Summoners.
Noxious Fumes
All Monsters start the battle Poisoned.
Going the Distance
Only monsters with Range attacks may be used in battles.
On this battle, there was a bigger mana cap but this time, it was only range monsters that can be used due to Going the Distance add to the fact there was Noxious Fumes that poisins them every turn and that they cannot heal due to Healed Out.
This is where the Scavenger ability of Iza the Fanged becomes very helpful since for every monster that dies, it gains additional health which allowed it to sustain the damage that it received due to poison and was able to attack back line opponents with its sneak which at most of the times, were among those that have the lowest health.
Only monsters with Magic attack may be used in battles.
This 23 mana match also has a very set of rule set where it only allows magic units to be used because of Wands Out while Counterspell was in effect that would reflect the damage from magic attack though magic units can be revived again with Born Again.
To protect my monsters towards magic attacks I have chosen the earth summoner Immortalis which provides the Void ability and reduce magic attacks and those that would be reflected due to Counterspell and at the same time its shatter will remove the armor of the target no matter how many it is though at this case, it does not really matter since magic can get through most armor.
On the other hand, Queen Mycelia not only provides armor using its Protect, it also removes the armor of the opponent with rust. At the same time, it increases the damage that Counterspell could inflict on the opponent with its Amplify ability and restore the health of my backline monsters with Triage.
Final Thoughts
For the Earth set of legendary monsters in Chaos Legion, the cards that I most often used will was Queen Mycelia as a low mana magic unit that can increase the reflected damage to the attacker while also providing health restoration to backline monsters adding to its ability to give armor to allied monsters while removing the armor for the opponent. Another one would be Immortalis as an excellent anti-magic summoner as magic was one of the most difficult attack type to fight. Fungus Fiend was by any mean was a bad card but I have less often use this card among the 0- mana cost monsters for some reason while Iza the Fanged were mostly used on niche situations since.
That was all for this post and see you on the next one!
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