Exploring the Chaos: Core Life Legendaries

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Introduction

Hi! @saydie here playing Splinterlands everyday!

This is Exploring the Chaos where I take a look on Chaos Legion core 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.

It's been more than 3 months since the last Exploring the Chaos and as a refresher, the topic for last time was about the core Earth legendary cards of Chaos Legion and this time, I will be talking about the core legendary cards of the Life element which contains 1 summoner and 3 units.

Core Legendary Life Cards

Adelade Brightwing

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	7
Element	Life
Rarity	Legendary
Card Type	Magic
Abilities	Lvl 1 - Flying Lvl 1 - Repair Lvl 2 - Resurrect Lvl 3 - Immunity Lvl 4 - Swiftness
RF Burn Value	500
GF Burn Value	12500

Stats	Cards Printed

Adelade Brightwing is a 7- mana legendary magic card which at level 1, have the Flying ability that gives 25% evasion chance against melee and range attack together with Repair which restores the armor of an allied monster that has been attacked.
When it reaches level 2, it gains Resurrect which revives 1 ally monster that have been defeated with 1 health.
At level 3, it gains Immunity which makes it immune to all negative status effects such as Poison.
At max level, it increases the speed of all ally monsters with Swiftness.

Soul Fiend

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	0
Element	Life
Rarity	Legendary
Card Type	Melee
Abilities	Lvl 4 - Swiftness
RF Burn Value	500
GF Burn Value	12500

Stats	Cards Printed

Soul Fiend is a 0- mana legendary melee card with the Swiftness ability at level 4 that increases the speed of all ally monsters.

Uriel the Purifier

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	4
Element	Life
Rarity	Legendary
Card Type	Range
Abilities	Lvl 1 - Flying Lvl 1 - Recharge Lvl 3 - Heal Lvl 4 - Redemption
RF Burn Value	500
GF Burn Value	12500

Stats	Cards Printed

Uriel the Purifier is an 11- mana legendary monster with the Flying ability at level 1 which gives 25% evasion chance against melee and range attacks together with Recharge which allows it to deal up to 3x its damage at the cost of skipping a turn.
As it reaches level 3, it gets the Heal which allows it to restore its health when damage.
Reaching max level, it gains Redemption which deals -1 damage on all the opponent monsters when this monster dies.

Grandmaster Rathe

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	6
Element	Life
Rarity	Legendary
Card Type	Summoner
Abilities	+1 Void Armor Amplify
RF Burn Value	500
GF Burn Value	12500

Stats	Cards Printed

Grandmaster Rathe is a 6- mana legendary summoner that gives +1 armor on all opponent monsters as well as the Void Armor ability that makes magic attacks to damage armor first before the health and Amplify which increases the damage from reflected damage by +1.

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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}

Core Legendary Life Cards In Action

Battle 1: Soul Fiend

Conditions	Description
^{Diamond League Modern Format}	17 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire, Life, Death, Earth, Dragon ^{Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_f03d3b910bbfaa1726d55d09af8e6be3&ref=crimepoet}
^{Taking Sides}	Neutral Monsters may not be used in battles.
^Stampede	The Trample ability can trigger multiple times per attack if the trampled Monster is killed.
Holly Protection	All Monsters have the Divine Shield ability.

This battle only has 17 mana where we cannot use neutral monster due to Taking Side but all mosnters get the Divine Shield ability with Holy Protection and for those with Trample ability, they can attack once again when they defeat their target due to Stampede.

The legendary card that I used in this battle was Soul 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 my other monsters from being attacked like in this battle where it became the target of Celestial Harpy but also was a melee monsters so there is a chance that it can also inflict damage in some situations.

Battle 2: Uriel the Purifier and Adelade Brightwing

Conditions	Description
^{Diamond League Modern Format}	57 Mana Cap Available Elements: Life, Dragon _{Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_974dfb76c0e48f74cd1103227a4b0b7e&ref=bltzr-wizard-726}
^{Briar Patch}	All monsters have the Thorns ability.
^{Are You Not Entertained Yet?}	One additional Gladiator card may be used in battles.

On this battle, there was a bigger mana cap where the active rulesets where Briar Patch which give all monsters the Thorns ability and Are You Entertained Yet which makes 1 Gladius card useable in ranked battle.

With Adelade Brightwing on this battle, all my monsters have increased their speed by +1 and every turn, it restores the armor of Uriel the Purifier with repair which takes armor damage either through the opponents attacks or when it attacks due to the thorns given by the Briar Patch ruleset. At the same time, it can also revive an ally monster that was defeated on battle which in this battle was meant to be Iziar but due to some RNG damage, it was did not happen though, its increased speed and repair greatly helps to prevail on this battle.

Meanwhile, although there is Briar Patch and Uriel the Purifier would take damage from Thorns damage, I still choose this card given that it has huge amount of armor and health. At the same time, it has the Heal ability that can sustain the damage it receives and the Recharge also helps to limit the damage it sustain since it was only attacking every second turn.

Battle 3: Grandmaster Rathe

Conditions	Description
^{Diamond League Modern Format}	29 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire, Water, Life _{Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_4edcb32706db12d9c7f6da0f42b31fa0&ref=crimepoet}
^{Equal Opportunity}	All Monsters have the Opportunity ability.
^{Reverse Speed}	Monsters with the lowest Speed attack first and have the highest chance of evading attacks.
^{What Doesn't Kill You}	All Monsters have the Enrage ability.

This 29- mana match comes with Equal Opportunity that gives the Opportunity ability on all monsters and What Doesn't Kill You which give the Enrage ability on all monsters though with Reverse Speed, the slower monster gets to attack first.

I used Grandmaster Rathe as my summoner which gives Void armor so that magic attacks need to reduce all the armor of the target first before they can damage the health which makes it harder to defeat my monsters and at the same time, it has Amplify which increases the damage from reflected damage which in this case was the Thorns from Dumacke Orc and Magic Reflect from Pelacor Conjurer.

Final Thoughts

For the Life set of legendary monsters in Chaos Legion, the cards that I most often used was Adelade Brightwing since it was really good to use both on Earthquake and Noxious Fumes ruleset together with its ability to increase speed and repair armor which works in good combination with Grandmaster Rathe. Most of all, it can also revive an ally monster once which really do its wonders specially on Martyr play.

That was all for this post and see you on the next one!

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