Exploring the Chaos: Core Neutral Commons

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Introduction

Hi! @saydie here playing Splinterlands everyday!

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.

For the latest series of my review, I finally have the opportunity to take a deep dive on the core Chaos Legion set after finally being done with the rewards and subset so I started with the core commons. So far, I am done with the Fire, Water, Life, Earth and Death Elements and for Dragon, I won't be able to review them until I'm in Legendary so for this week, I will go to review the Neutral Element.

Common Neutral Cards

Chaos Agent

Chaos Agent's Lore

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	1
Element	Neutral
Rarity	Common
Card Type	Default
Abilities	Dodge Phase Backfire
RF Burn Value	5
GF Burn Value	125

Card Stats

Stats	Cards Printed

Chaos Agent is a 1- mana non-damage card that has the dodge ability when it reaches level 3 which increases the chance of dodging melee and range attacks by 25%.
When it reached level 6, it gains the Phase ability which allows Chaos Agent to evade magic attacks.
At level 10, it gains the Backfire ability which allows it to return 2 damage when an opponent misses attacking Chaos Agent.

Scavo Hireling

Scavo Hireling's Lore

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	3
Element	Neutral
Rarity	Common
Card Type	Default
Abilities	Repair Camouflage Slow
RF Burn Value	5
GF Burn Value	125

Stats	Cards Printed

Scavo Hireling has the Repair ability starting at level 1 which restores the armor of an allied monster every turn.
Direct attacks would not be able to hit Scavo Hireling as it has the Camouflage ability that hides it from opponent attacks.
Slow is the last ability that Scavo Hireling gained which reduces the speed of all opponent monsters as long as this card remains on play.

Supply Runner

Supply Runner's Lore

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	6
Element	Neutral
Rarity	Common
Card Type	Range
Abilities	Swiftness Stregnthen
RF Burn Value	5
GF Burn Value	125

Stats	Cards Printed

Supply Runner has the Swiftness ability that increases the speed of all ally monsters as long as this card remains on play.
As it reaches level 10, Supply Runner gains the Strengthen ability which increases the health of all ally monsters as long as it is not defeated.

Disintegrator

Disintegrator's Lore

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	3
Element	Neutral
Rarity	Common
Card Type	Melee
Abilities	Demoralize Trample Knock Out Retaliate
RF Burn Value	5
GF Burn Value	125

Stats	Cards printed

Disintegrator has the Demoralize ability which reduces the melee damage of all opponent monsters starting at level 1.
Trample allows Disintegrator to do another attack if it was able to defeat a monster.
Knock Out allows Disintegrator to deal twice the damage when the opponent is stunned.
Disintegrator also has Retaliate which gives a chance that it will attack the melee monster that attacks it.

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Common Neutral Cards In Action

Battle 1: Chaos Agent

Conditions	Description
^{Diamond League Modern Format}	23 Mana Cap Available Elements: Water, Life ^{^{Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_d7e80bc5e60a7ac4e72f27a5537c0ad8&ref=saydie}}
^{Equal Opportunity}	All monsters have the Opportunity ability.
^{Keep Your Distance}	Monsters with Melee attack may not be used in battle.

For this battle, I only have 23 mana to use with and come with the Equal Opportunity rule set and since I have spare mana and monster slot, I placed Chaos Agent as my 3^rd monster so that the enemy will target it first before the rest of my monsters. As the card has the dodge ability, it was able to dodge attacks when Venary Marksrat and Igor Darkspear and was able to damage their armor even if it cannot attack because of the Backfire ability.

Battle 2: Scavo Hireling Supply Runner

Conditions	Description
^{Diamond League Modern Format}	31 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire, Water, Life, Death _{^{Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_006d0f548a252a8a9f1bd3b9230696db&ref=agonyaccepted}}
^{Weak Magic}	Magic attacks hits armor before reducing health.
^{Lost Legendaries}	Legendary monsters may not be used in battle.
^Counterspell	All monsters have the Magic Reflect ability.

For this battle, I have 31 mana to spare with the Weak Magic and Counterspell rule set in play so it is less likely that my opponent will focus on melee and range and since I cannot use Baakjira on with the available rule set, I improvised and placed Scavo Hireling in place of it to make my opponent slower and it did a good job at slowing my opponent team and has allowed my team to be able to attack while at the same time, it also was able to dodge some attacks before it was defeated.

On the other hand, Suppply Runner not only makes my team faster, it also increases the health of my team which has allowed them to last longer in play. It was also able to deal some armor damage on Diemonshark before it was placed on the 1^st where it cannot attack and despite it was also able to evade some attacks because of its speed.

Battle 3: Disintegrator

Conditions	Description
^{Diamond League Modern Format}	53 Mana Cap Available Elements: Death, Dragon _{^{Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_7fbdc1450126925929e77eeb9e44b1c2&ref=saydie}}
^{Super Sneak}	All Melee monsters have the Sneak ability.
^Equalizer	The initial health of all monsters is equal to that of the monster with the highest health.
^{Little League}	Only monsters with Melee attack may be used in battle

This battle has 53 mana cost and can only use melee monsters but at the same time, there was Super Sneak so all of the monsters have gained the sneak ability. There was really nothing special in particular of this battle where I have the same set of monsters with my opponent and the only different thing was the positioning but at the same time, although Disintegrator does not contribute much on the damage part, it's absence could immediately cause my defeat as the opponent team would be able to have more damage than me in this battle of attrition match.

Final Thoughts

I'm now on the sixth week of my review for the core common cards of Chaos Legion and has tackled the Neutral element. Compare to the other elements, it has way fewer number of cards available but this was filled with the cards flexibility to be able to be able to be played with other elements. Among the 1 mana CL cards, Chaos Agent was the best and can really come in handy even against magic attacks for its ability to dodge them and to inflict damage afterwards. Speed is also a very vital to gain better advantage on most battles so having Supply Runner easily accessible increases the chance that a match could be win. I also have won many games with the armor repair and slow of Scavo Hireling so its nice that it was a neutral card.

And that was it for this review. See you on my next post!

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