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Starlight Caravan was Splinterlands' most recent set, but unlike the typical card set that is designed to be on Modern Ranked, this new set was specifically made for Frontier Mode, though just like Frontier cards, you can also use Starlight Caravan in Modern to some extent. This set consisted of 6 Archons and 30 units, all of which are capped at Silver level. They also had a far higher mana cost in contrast to their stats and abilities so that they would not overshadow Modern cards with the same card level.
In this post, I want to take a look at the Earth cards under the Starlight Caravan.
Starlight Caravan Earth Cards
There are a total of 5 cards under the Starlight Caravan Earth Element. Four of them were Earth units, while the remaining one is an Archon. Their stats and abilities were not that strong were not that strong in comparison to other modern cards at the same level, but if it is mainly for Frontier use, then having more cards gives the player more flexibility and advantage than his opponent.
High matriarch Zura is a non-damage unit with the Gnome Bloodline, meaning that it does not have an attack. Furthermore, it has the Untrainable debilitation, so players can't use Weapon's Training to give an attack on this card. That said, it has the Deflect ability, which could help prevent splash damage through Blast attacks or whenever there was an Explosive Weaponry ruleset. When it comes to its general stats, it has a maximum health of 5 and a maximum speed of 2, for only 3 mana. There also hasn't been a 3-mana card in Frontier until Starlight Caravan was introduced, so the addition of this card will certainly change how some matches are played.
On the other hand, Jax Nigel is a melee unit with the Awakened Beast Bloodline, but it doesn't have an ability that will allow it to attack on positions other than the first, so it was not that great of a card, particularly since for 4 mana, it only has 2 damage, 3 health, and 3 speed. It has the Cripple ability, though, so the target will lose 1 max health whenever this card inflicts damage to the opponent.
For the only epic unit, "Gideon, which is another melee Earth unit with the Golem Bloodline. Just like Jax Nigel, it does not have any ability that will allow it to attack from any position aside from the first. For a 6 mana cost, the card is also very slow, with only 1 speed, and for its other stats, it has a maximum of 6 health and 3 damage. But this card has the Thorns ability, which will return damage to the melee units that attack this card, so it can be a good option to use when the Up Close and Personal ruleset was active.
And for the Earth Legendary unit, we have Ronrick Traceur, who has the Awakened Beast Bloodline. At max level, it has a max health of 4, max speed of 4, max armor of 1, and a max range damage of 3, making it quite a powerful card despite its low health, but it also costs 8 mana to use, so it is not really a spammable card.
For its abilities, it has the Focus Guard ability, which will give additional ranged damage to the unit that is behind it, and at the same time, it can also use Poison to inflict -2 damage towards the target each turn.
Finally, with the only Earth Archon of the Starlight Caravan, Kennepsis. There was not much to say about this Archon, since it does not give any type of abilities to units, and even though it's an Awakened Beast Archon, it does not have a Bloodline Dominion, so you cannot really use it to summon Awakened Beast units from other elements. Its saving grace is that it only costs 4 mana to use, so it is far cheaper than the other Frontier Archons and makes it possible to have Little League Battles in Frontier.
Closing
And those were the Earth cards under the Starlight Caravan. Some great takeaway from it is that Frontier now has a 3-mana card, a less mana-hungry Archon, and a new ability that could help players win their matches when properly utilized.
Thank you, and see you on the next post!
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