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Card Spotlight #29: Fineas Rage

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When a young warrior came to age,
In the Burning Lands, Smoldering Forest he was caged,
Immense potential from the training he was gauged,
Slowly but surely, that champion was known as Fineas Rage.

The card we will be discussing today is Fineas Rage.

Fineas is a young warrior who lives alone in the outskirts of the Burning Lands’ Smoldering Forest. He moved from Lyveria some years ago when he was only a boy, knowing that the expert combat training for which he was destined was only available in the Fire Splinter. Quickly after settling in the burning woods, he joined up with the martial scrappers of Balfair. Once he learned everything he could from these rugged Human and Goblin fighters, Fineas retreated to his own treehouse as more teacher than student. Today he practices his skills only on the Mount Mox battlefield, where his whip whistles, cracks and sings with boundless fury.

We would rate this card based on:

• Cost to buy/rent this card. How affordable and accessible is the card.
• Card Stats. How balanced the card is based on its role.
• Card Effect. How useful is its effect based on the role of the card.
• Strengths and Weaknesses. If the card can counter other cards and/or be countered easily by others or not.
• Positioning. Adaptability of where the card can be placed.
• Compatibility. How useful it is on its current element.
  
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  Rental/Buy Cost ||

  
  

  Below is the rental of the card at the time of this writing.

  
  
  
  
  Fineas Rage's rental price is really low being a rare monster. You can even rent a max leveled one for 41.90 DEC per day which is super cheap to be honest. If you're playing in lower league or do not have a higher level summoner to accommodate Fineas Rage's level, you can rent a level 1 for 0.38 DEC per day.

Below is the buy cost of the card at the time of this writing.

Personally, I don't' advice buying Fineas Rage only because there's a Radiated Brute that does the same role as him and she costs free for level 1 and way lower than Fineas Rage overall. However, this is only a personal opinion and if you want to get one, there's no one who would stop you.

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Card Stats ||

Mana: 7 || Damage: 2 || Speed: 5 || Armor: 0 || Health: 8
With 7 mana, Fineas Rage's stats are okay but since Tarsa is mostly the summoner for Fire Elements, then he is strong for a 7 mana with 9 health and 3 damage total. With 5 speed as well, most of the time, he attacks first allowing to win in a lot of 1 versus 1 fights. ════════════════════════════════

Card Effect ||

Reach || Melee attack Monsters with the Reach ability may attack from the second position on the team. Reach may not be the best ability for melee but it is still a good one as it allows your creatures to attack at the same time increasing your overall damage in the game.

Oppress || Does double damage when attacking an enemy that has no attacks.
Oppress is an underrated ability but it can be useful at times. It destroys drain tanks or those tanks that have high health but no damage like Peaceful Giant.

Retaliate || When hit with a Melee attack, Monsters with Retaliate have a 50% chance of attacking their attacker.
Retaliate is a good ability for Fineas Rage with his 3 damage with Tarsa. The only issue is that Retaliate has a lot of requirements to be activated unlike Thorns ability. This makes the ability subpar to thorns but still a good ability regardless.

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Strengths Weaknesses ||

|| Fineas Rage's strength lies on his 2 damage, 9 health and Reach ability. These together makes him a decent secondary tank who can take a few shots while inflicting some of his own as well.

|| Fineas Rage's weakness lies on his high mana cost of 7. With 7 mana cost, you will be forced to play weaker monsters when using him on lower mana. Unless you are playing Fineas Rage on a 50 or even 99 mana, then this weakness doesn't become apparent. ════════════════════════════════

Positioning ||

![Positioning.jpg]() The best position for this card is on the second position. With reach ability, Fineas Rage is allowed to hit from the second position and thus this is the best position for him in the battle.

ROUND 1:

No fatalities were made by end of Round 1 but Antoid Platoon goes to 1 health while Harvester is in the solid 6.

ROUND 2:

Antoid Platoon goes down by end of Round 2. Fineas Rage goes to front.

ROUND 3:

Fineas Rage kills Harvester in Round 3 making Goblin Psychic the front line for the rest of the game.

ROUND 5:

Game ended on Round 4 with the death of Goblin Psychic.
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Compatibility ||

The best combo with this card for me is with a full melee team but as long as Tarsa is the summoner, Fineas Rage can always be threatening. ════════════════════════════════

Lastly...

Before doing the final verdict, here is the sample of a battle using this card.

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Final Thoughts

With all the evidences that we gathered, we could say that Fineas Rage is a really strong unit with his high health, decent damage and high speed. With the increased stats from Tarsa increasing Fineas Rage damage to 3 and an extra health, he is a very deadly force to be reckoned with.

All in all, I would give it...

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