Splinterlands Speculations: the new Fire Chaos Legion Teasers!
The new, 11/19 AMA led to previews of Water and Fire Chaos Legion cards being revealed! Including 2 Summoners, 2 Legendaries, 2 Rares, 2 Epics, along with two surprise reveals for a Death and Earth card. I will be doing 3 articles on this over the next 2 days, 1 for Water, which you can check out here, along with this one for Fire, and I'll show the surprise reveals in each one at the end!
As I said before, the new set will have TWO Legendaries of the main 5 Splinters, Fire, Water, Earth, Life, and Death. One of these legendaries from each set will be a 0 Mana legendary, with an ability that'll set it apart from the Chicken, and enhance the Splinter it is in.
So, let's check out these Fire Teasers, which, I'll be honest, Fire isn't exactly on my 'hype' list, but I'm looking forward to what CL brings to Fire's table!
Molten Ash Golem
Here we go, the first Rare Invader of the Fire Splinter, Molten Ash Golem. I'm willing to bet this guy is a fairly tanky, high health unit that acts as a sort of debuffer tank, when compared to Living Lava. As such, I believe he will cost around 5 Mana, and will likely have 1 Melee, 7 Health, and 2 Speed. This would make him a chunky card for the mana, and I think it would give him a role outside of Living Lava's anti-melee role. But, what about abilities?
This guy looks like he will have the Blind ability, IMO, as Molten Ash, and ash in general, has a tendency to obscure vision and hurt your eyes. I also think he will have something anti-magic, like Void, or Void Armor, to make him an anti-magick option for Fire, though, I believe this will be at Gold Level or higher, and he will not have Void to start.
Tarsa
The new Fire Summoner, I happen to be a sucker for redheads, so definitely a favorite of mine. This, along with the other recent summoners, strongly indicate +1 Magic as a possibility, BUT, because I think there would only be one +1 Magic summoner, I'm going to try to give other ideas that may fit with the cards...
So, this one could give all units Enrage, as a hot-headed Fire card, this would be a little powerful IMO, as it would effectively be a stronger buff than Malric OR Pyre, but require being hit first. That being said, Thorns was on the table for Mylor as a 3 Mana Rare, so anything is possible. This fits with her theme of being hot-headed and pyromaniac focused.
I also think we could see Retribution, as a sort of vengeful 'burn everything down' type, who goes out with a 'bang'. Again, in my opinion, while this is a hyper offensive ability, it may be a little too powerful to give every card Retribution on a 3 mana card.
I could also see Blast or Affliction, but because of Yodin and Mimosa, I believe these abilities will be skipped. Furthermore, Blast also seems far too powerful for a 3 Mana Summoner... It's already too powerful in most leagues for a 7 Mana afterall.
Finally, my best guess beyond those, is Oppress or Deathblow, which would be a very situational summoner, but would make her a good counter to non-attacking tanks and/or Llama Kron. It also still fits within the theme of burning and oppressing everything, and being downright merciless.
Djinn Inferni
The Fire Djinn has finally been revealed and he is NOT happy with Djinn Miurat. This is a fiery defender of Splinterlands, and he looks powerful. I believe he is a magic attacker, in keeping with all of the other Djinn thus far being Magic Attackers as well, and I believe he will be a very powerful, magic damage focused attacker, designed to destroy Djinn Muirat, and the Death Splinter.
As such, I think he will cost about 7 Mana, and he will have, let's say around 2 Speed, 7 Health, 3 Magic,(assuming he doesn't get a +1 Magic summoner!). At base, I believe he'll have something to handle the Death splinter, which is known for its debuffs and nasty status effects. As such, I believe he will have Immunity in his kit, in order to shrug off Djinn Muirat and his posse. I also think that he will have something like Last Stand or Deathblow for his 'final showdown' against Djinn Muirat. Finally, I'm expecting either Affliction or Blast, which may be a little generic, but I think it would suit his kit and pivot him to a more offensive role, which would be in line with taking down Djinn Muirat.
Here's some previews of his Animations AS WELL as a cool desktop background!:
Finally, the Fire Legendary...
Hellboy Unleashed (I mean Ifrit Rising!)
Look at THAT Fiery Behemoth of a monster! This is Lord of Darkness' cousin who decided to NEVER SKIP A WORKOUT DAY IN HIS LIFE. This guy probably GAVE Lord of Darkness his Flame Whip. Look at that horned demonic beast. Is he related to Harklaw too?! THIS GUY didn't skip leg day like Harklaw did.
I can't even fathom the stats here, but I'm thinking this is an INSANE High mana card, ala Kraken. Maybe 12 Mana cost, lets give him 5 Melee, 3 Speed, 13 Health. He's gunna have some crazy abilities, I'm willing to bet he will have a new ability entirely, similar to Oshannus and the other Legendaries, but I don't know what it would be. I do think he'll also have Enrage and Retaliate because LOOK at that roid rage! Maybe we'll even see Bloodlust on a non-Gladiator card! Who knows with this guy. All I know is I DON'T wanna fight this guy ever.
BONUS Shadow Snitch
A Common shown for the Death Splinter, he's a 4 Mana Reach Attacker (which means the Snake is most likely a Sneak or Opportunity Attacker) making him a perfect Little League Position 2. As he levels, he gains some great stats, ending at 3 Melee, 4 Speed, 7 Health, with Reach, Affliction, and Dodge making him an irritating card that ramps up heavily in upper leagues of play. His lower leagues, until Gold, are basically Magma Troll, and he will likely see the same usage as Magma Troll throughout those leagues. Unfortunately for Shadow Snitch, he has a LOT of Affliction competition, and that means that he will largely be used for his dodginess and Position 2 viability, and not for that Affliction...
Are you excited for these Deadly Chaos Legion additions? Which one is your favorite? Let me know in the comments!
Also, if you have ideas of different abilities or stat spreads please throw them in the comments as well!
Check back tomorrow for Speculations on the Fire cards Teased!
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