Exploring the Chaos: Core Dragon Legendaries

3 months ago

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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.

With this post, I finally reach the last chapter for the core legendary cards for the Chaos Legion, discussing about the core Dragon legendary cards which consist of 2 summoners and 5 units and will make it a quite a long post. I want to thank everyone for keeping up with me for this long and now, lets begin dissecting the capabilities of this cards.

Core Legendary Dragon Cards

Dessert Dragon

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	7
Element	Dragon
Rarity	Legendary
Card Type	Melee
Abilities	Lvl 1 - Trample Lvl 2 - Piercing Lvl 3 - Retaliate Lvl 4 - Giant Killer
RF Burn Value	500
GF Burn Value	12500

Stats	Cards Printed

Dessert Dragon is a 7- mana legendary melee card which at level 1, have the Trample ability that allows it to attack once again when it defeats a monster.
When it reaches level 2, it gains Piercing which means that the excess damage from its attack from the targets armor will damage the health of the target.
At level 3, it gains Retaliate which gives it a chance to attack when attacked by a melee opponent.
As for max level, its Giant Killer ability will deal double damage on monsters with 10 or more mana.

Carnage Titan

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	11
Element	Dragon
Rarity	Legendary
Card Type	Melee
Abilities	Lvl 1 - Reach Lvl 1 - Double Strike Lvl 3 - Shield
RF Burn Value	500
GF Burn Value	12500

Stats	Cards Printed

Carnage Titan is an 11- mana legendary melee card with both Reach and Double Strike ability which allows it to attack on the second position and attack twice per turn at level 1.
Reaching level3, it gains Shield which reduces the damage it receives from both melee and range attacks.

Zyvax Vuul

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	8
Element	Dragon
Rarity	Legendary
Card Type	Range
Abilities	Lvl 1 - Flying Lvl 1 - Recharge Lvl 2 - Close Range Lvl 4 - Deathblow
RF Burn Value	500
GF Burn Value	12500

Stats	Cards Printed

Zyvaxx Vuul is an 8- mana legendary range monster both the Flying and Recharge ability at level 1 which gives it 25% chance to evade attacks and allows it to deal 3 times the damage but it can only attack every next turn.
As it reaches level 2, it gets the Close Range which allows it to attack even at the first position.
Reaching max level, it gains Deathblow which deals double damage when there is only one target remaining to attack.

Void Dragon

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	5
Element	Dragon
Rarity	Legendary
Card Type	Magic
Abilities	Lvl 1 - Flying Lvl 1 - Void Lvl 3 - Phase
RF Burn Value	500
GF Burn Value	12500

Stats	Cards Printed

Void Dragon is a 5- mana legendary magic Monster that has both Flying and Void at level 1 which gives it 25% chance to dodge attacks and reduce the damage from magic attacks.
Reaching level 3, it gets Phase which allows it to evade magic attacks.

Chaos Dragon

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	14
Element	Dragon
Rarity	Legendary
Card Type	Magic
Abilities	Lvl 1 - Flying Lvl 1 - Scattershot Lvl 2 - Blast Lvl 3 - Blind
RF Burn Value	500
GF Burn Value	12500

Stats	Cards Printed

Chaos Dragon is a 14- mana legendary magic monster which at level 1 has Flying that increase dodge chance by 25% and Scattershot which make its attack hits random target.
At level 2, it gets Blast which deals damage on monsters adjacent to the target.
When it reaches level 3, it gets Blind which gives 15% miss chance on all opponent monsters.

Quix the Devious

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	4
Element	Dragon
Rarity	Legendary
Card Type	Summoner
Abilities	-1 Range -1 Speed
RF Burn Value	500
GF Burn Value	12500

Stats	Cards Printed

Quix the Devious is a 4- mana legendary summoner that gives -1 range and -1 speed on all opponent monsters.

Lily Shieldpaw

Edition	Chaos Legion
Mana Cost	6
Element	Dragon
Rarity	Legendary
Card Type	Summoner
Abilities	+1 Camouflage Triage
RF Burn Value	500
GF Burn Value	12500

Stats	Cards Printed

Lily Shieldpaw is a 6- mana legendary summoner that gives +1 health on all opponent monsters as well as the Camouflage ability that makes monsters that are not on the first position untargetable by direct attack and Triage which heals the backline monster that receives damage.

^Note:

^{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 Dragon Cards In Action

Battle 1: Quix the Devious, Carnage Titan and Zyvax Vuul

Conditions	Description
^{Diamond League Modern Format}	58 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire, Water, Death, Life, Dragon ^{Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_2956d6193333dfe3951f1c73532853e1&ref=crimepoet}
^{Healed Out}	All healing abilities are removed from Monsters and Summoners.
^{Lost Magic}	Monsters with Magic attack may not be used in battle.
^Earthquake	Non-flying Monsters take 2 Melee damage at the end of each round.

This battle comes with 58 mana where we cannot use neither healing abilities due to Healed Out or magic monsters due to Lost Magic. At the same time, non-flying monsters received damage every turn due to the Earthquake ruleset.

Here, I used the summoner Quix the Devious since it will most likely be that the majority of the monsters the opponent will use were range and with this summoner, not only they became slower but their range attack also gets reduced

On the other hand, even though it has no Flying ability, I placed Carnage Titan at the second position since it has decent amount of armor together with Shield that allows it to survive Earthquake damage while dealing damage to the opponent tank with the combination of Reach and Double Strike just like what it did to Legionnaire Alvar.

Another legendary monster we have was Zyvax Vuul since it has the Flying ability so it will not get Earthquake damage but it was a difficult monster to handle because it can only attack every next turn due to Recharge so although it can hit 3x its damage to the target, like how it deals 6 damage on Legionnaire Alvar, there is a chance that it might not even survive the round before it can unleash its attack.

Battle 2: Lily Shieldpaw, Dessert Dragon and Carnage Titan

Conditions	Description
^{Diamond League Modern Format}	50 Mana Cap Available Elements: Death, Earth, Life, Dragon _{Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_9d96b3f64d06ac90305dbce7370d0224&ref=bltzr-wizard-726}
^{Melee Mayhem}	Melee attack Monsters can attack from any position.
^{Odd Ones Out}	Only Monsters with odd Mana costs may be used in battles.
^{Reverse Speed}	Monsters with the lowest Speed attack first and have the highest chance of evading attacks.

For this next battle, there is a 50- mana cap with the active rulesets, Melee Mayhem that allows melee monsters to attack at any position, Odd Ones Out that only allows the use of odd mana monsters and Reverse Speed where monsters with slower speed gets to attack first.

The summoner I used in this battle was Lily Shieldpaw since it allows me to use dragon monsters and at the same time does not give stats that would increase my speed. Instead, it gives me additional health together with Camouflage and Triage so what I did here was to place a Taunt monster at the back to capitalize on its ability.

For the monsters, we once again have Carnage Titan here but what I want you to look here was Dessert Dragon which after defeating the opponents Dessert Dragon, it quickly proceeds to attacking the opponents Carnage Titan and managed to deal 4 armor damage even when it has the Shield ability all because of the Giant Killer which doubles the damage on monsters with 10 or more mana.

Battle 3: Lily SHieldpaw, Void Dragon and Chaos Dragon

Conditions	Description
^{Diamond League Modern Format}	48 Mana Cap Available Elements: Water, Life, Death, Dragon _{Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_2e896d13d19dcb456e5c601c10fb394c&ref=bltzr-wizard-726}
^{Taking Sides}	Neutral Monsters may not be used in battles.
Broken Arrows	Ranged attack Monsters may not be used in battles.
^Unprotected	Monsters do not have any armor and do not get armor from Abilities or Summoner Buffs.

For the last battle, there was a total of 48 mana cap were both teams cannot use Neutral and range monsters due to Taking Sides and Broken Arrows ruleset. But not only that, we also lose our armor due to Unprotected ruleset.

Once again, I choose Lily Shieldpaw for my summoner which in this battle was definitely a good choice because my opponent has 3 Sneak monsters prepared for me but they won't be able to attack my backline due to Camouflage aside from my Taunt monster which also to receive heal from Triage.

For the monsters I used, at the very back, I have Chaos Dragon which gets a power up due to Martyr who has come and randomly attack Dhampir Infiltrator because of Scattershot and also damaging Vruz because of the Blast Damage.

While on my side, the opponents Chaos Dragon attacks my Void Dragon but since it has the Void ability, it only takes have the attack and at some circumstances, be even able to evade the attack due to its Phase ability.

Final Thoughts

For the core Dragon Legendary monsters of Chaos Legion, I think, I often used most of them whenever there are High mana battles with maybe the exception of Xyvax Vuul since its recharge is hard to use though now the new Dragon summoner for Rebellion makes this card more effective by giving the Ambush ability. Then, although Lily Shieldpaw was a great summoner to use, it is more effective when partnered with Grimbardum Smith which I don't have in either my accounts or the Scholar account I'm playing so when I know that this combo will be used to me, I often use Conqueror Jacek and pray For the RNG Goddess.

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

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