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This is a very strong combo that you can use in both Modern and Wild modes. It's also an affordable strategy because it doesn't require a lot of set ups.
This mini core can be added in a lot of your builds with the only condition that it must be water build as the summoner required is a water Summoner.
Found in the flooded realm of Lemell, these webbed fingers and toed creatures dwell. Aquatus is one of them. However, since the first time the Riftwatchers visited their place, he became interested, or rather, obsessed with the knowledge.
Once the Riftwatchers visited the next time, without second thought, Aquatus joined their ranks with the promise of being taught how to harness the power of the runes.
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A shadowy figure that can only be seen by few, Phantom of the Abyss dwells in the dark waters, same where the Water Elementals go after accomplishing their set orders.
No one had seen this powerful creatures and the best description are simply stories told by people in the Azmare Archipelago.
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Aquatus
Market Price | Buy
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You can buy Aquatus for a really low cost of $2.05. He's not used as much and there's a lot of supply. You also aren't getting any bonus stats when using him so there's not a lot of use for his Backfire ability except on some cheesy picks like Phantom of the Abyss.
Market Price | Rent
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Aquatus's rental price is really low despite him being an epic summoner. This is due to his high supply and low demand. Aquatus's ability is hard to pull off unless you're going with specific monsters. Right now, Aquatus is more like a "fun substitute" than a competitive summoner.
Phantom of the Abyss
Market Price | Buy
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Phantom of the Abyss's is actually quite expensive. This is because first, he's a legendary monster meaning he's more limited than most monsters. and there's no way to purchase Untamed packs unless buying on other players.
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Phantom of the Abyss's rentals depends on the season. By the time of this writing, you can rent him for 3.81 DEC per day for a level 1 for the cheapest but there were times I saw his rental price went up to 30 DEC per day. Both of the rental prices are justified as there were times he's not popular due to how easy you can counter him with a full magic damage composition but there are times he's really wanted especially on silver and gold where you normally have higher mana cap battles.
Stats | Aquatus
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Aquatus is an epic summoner. At level 1, Epic summoners allow you to summon level 2 commons, level 1 rares, level 1 epics and level 1 legendaries. In order to abuse this in Bronze league, unfortunately, you still need to have at least level 2 epic summoners.
Stats | Phantom of the Abyss
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Phantom of the Abyss's stats are actually quite low for the current stats average. Despite the high damage and glaring 6 speed, it only has 7 health without armor for a 10 mana cost card. In comparison, Djinn Oshannus, a Chaos Legion card only needs 8 mana to summon, but has 5 speed, 10 health and Void ability to reduce the magic damage. He does have 2 magic damage but it's more balanced. The melee and range attacks may miss with his 5 speed and the magic damage that doesn't miss is halved with the Void ability.
In contrast, Phantom of the Abyss focuses entirely on countering melee and range units by making them miss but no protection whatsoever for magic damage. He would be best in the rule of battle where players cannot use magic damage units but Phantom of the Abyss is also one of them so that's out the window.
However, on games like what I had where opponents didn't use magic damage, Phantom of the Abyss is close to being god of the battlefield.
Abilities
At level 1, Flying and Dodge are unlocked. Flying gives the monster an additional 25% chance to evade melee and range attacks against monsters without the Flying ability. It also negates any damage on Earthquake rules of combat.
Dodge basically does what Flying do but with a few tweaks. It doesn't negate any damage from any rules of combat however, the extra evasion chance works on all monsters regardless of their abilities except magic damage type due to its innate mechanics.
At level 2, Demoralize is unlocked. Demoralize reduces all opponent's melee damage by 1. This effect does not work on monsters with 1 melee damage before the effect applies.
At level 4, Headwinds is unlocked. Headwinds reduces all opponent's range damage by 1. This effect does not work on monsters with 1 range damage before the effect applies.
Aquatus gives Backfire to all of your monsters. Backfire inflicts 2 damage to any opponent that misses its attack. With the combination of high speed, Flying and Dodge abilities, this makes your opponent's melee and range monsters take a ton of damage whenever they miss their attacks on Phantom of the Abyss.
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Battle Highlights
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Other Battles
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Rules of Combat
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14 Mana Cap. Total mana cost of all monsters must not exceed 14 mana.
Standard Rules of Combat.
All elements unlocked. Summoners and Monsters from all elements can be used during this battle.
Abilities Used During This Battle
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Those in BLACK font are mine.
Round 2
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- Phantom of the Abyss's attack killed Blinding Reflector.
- Phantom of the Abyss's attack killed Xenith Archer.
- Phantom of the Abyss's attack killed Stitch Leech.
Round 3
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- Phantom of the Abyss's attack killed Gargoya Scrapper.
- Phantom of the Abyss's Backfire killed Celestial Harpy.
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Yes, I like Phantom of the Abyss and Aquatus combo. However, due to its weakness to magic damage, it's quite hard to pull off. Not to mention that if your opponent has high speed, the effectiveness of this strategy decreases as well.
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Summoner: Aquatus : Gives Backfire ability to all of your monsters.
- Phantom of the Abyss : High speed monster with Flying and Dodge abilities for extra evasion.
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Yes, with flying colors. Fortunately, my opponent have low speed monsters which helped with my strategy a lot. Also, this strat is quite weak against magic damage monsters as their attacks never miss. Since my opponent didn't use such monsters, they were actually outclassed despite the number difference.
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This game is the perfect example to highlight this strategy so, no change whatsoever. However, if you're going to use this in other matches, I suggest to add monsters with Swiftness and/or Slow on your side of the board. The main idea is to play around Speed in order to outplay your opponents.
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