Sunday, June 12, 2011

Unique, Mysterious... Powerful? Pt 3.

Hey people, today is a public holiday for Australia (Queen's Birthday), so I decided to whip up an article continuing the series - Unique, Mysterious... Powerful

Beginning with the Overworlder Ebkeex, the patchwork minion. Whoever patched  him together did a good job... I mean he has nice speed and wisdom and energy not to mention. His air element helps Overworld Elemental decks use all elements without Heptadd, and best bit of all is... He doesn't require elementalist Pauldron. Yes, he is definitely a favorite in the elementalist decks. Unfortunately, he hosts no Mugic counters which shouldn't bring him down in value much considering he isn't unique or loyal. There isn't much we can say aside from good stats, energy, nice choice in elements, great ability for apprentice, all in all good card. His only weakness being - locations similar to Numid Voidlands which removes his element, which in that case play a wisdom/speed element deck using attacks like Mind Strike.
Now, we move to his Brainwashed ability... and despite his subtitle having the word, "Minion", he's actually much harder to use... Sure, you've got attacks like Symmetry Slam which deals more damage now, but generally - you can't rely on his ability. Although, his stats still work in a Speed Marrillian deck like Vitar'Zu + Jus'hebben or Wisdom M'arrilian decks like Erak'Tabb and Ikub'ra. But overall, Ebkeex is much better not brainwashed.
P.S His art looks fantastic!!!!

Farhkaj
The danian that looks like a Mipedian... His ability is extremely interesting to think about and both works in interesting ways. But first, the card overall... The stats aren't that cranked up honestly, with 70 courage, he can barely do an enlightened tenacity, his other stats are just borderline 50-55 region, he also hosts no elements which combined with his not very nice stats brings him down to a support creature. His 50 Energy is enough for a support character to not get knocked out by a single canon of casualty and his mugic counter is a stingy 1 (which isn't a problem for Danians anyways). It's a sad fact that many players don't play danians for unknown reasons - maybe they can't be bothered "setting-up" the game in their direction or maybe they really hate bugs... but in either case, Farhkaj is interesting card in masters gameplay. His non-brainwashed ability allows you to uninfect ALL of the opposing creatures for his one and only counter and in exchange, infect your creatures for each creature uninfected. With that said, you may ask the question, WHY would I bother doing something stupid like that? I mean when they're infected you can use it to all sorts of advantages so... why would I want to uninfect them... The answer is fairly simple. You can "expend you horizon", meaning as an example you infect all 6 creatures in your opponents team. You demolish the 3 Creatures from your opponent's team and leaves 1 rly buffed up warrior (let's use Blazvatan as an example). Now your opponents has 3 Creatures infected, 3 infected Creatures in your discard pile/removed from game and you've got an angry mob of uninfected danians protecting the queen herself, Illexia. Illexia gains 1{} each time an infected creature hits the discard pile and now with Blazvatan ready to obliterate your warriors, you can use Farhkaj's ability - uninfect your opponent's 3 support, infect your 3 warriors and give Illexia an extra boost in counters (as you know your warriors are goin down anyways). Then with the counters on Illexia cast a symphony of mugic - Song of Symmtry etc. etc. Fairly big example but yer...  The examples are endless... but moving on... quickly...
His brainwashed ability is straight forward, infect your guys, so you infect your opponents. The difference is... 1. They're refrain of denials/cadence clash/whatever else... Won't work on an ability
2. It's them getting infected so Infectorium is gonna hurt
Pretty Simple... It's your choice which one you wanna use... And I hope you see Farhkaj as of some use... rather than a card rotting in a collection =D

10 comments:

  1. These are some very cool creatures that I've never even seen before, but I guess that is kind of typical due to me being a Mipedian Player. By the way, Chaotic : Down Under Is an awsome blog. Ive found that many people including some of my friends still have some intrest left for it, and I think Its pretty cool that you still write about chaotic. From Dethdude327

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  2. Thanks Dethdude327!
    Yea, the holidays just kicked in for me so... there are gonna be more articles coming soon =P. You can look through some of the older posts for some tricky Mipedian combos and decks =P

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  3. Thanks , I will check out those mipedian combos :)From: Dethdude327

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  4. hi malcom9 I'm a friend of Dethdude327 and i was wondering if you could do any more posts on Arctus because he is awsomazing thanks:) from Canuckkid

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  5. Arctus? Sure Thing! I'll do it tomorrow

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  6. hey thanks, I've really wanted to see more about him ever since I saw your first post on him, so that will be awsome thanks :)

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  7. By the way, that last post was from Canuckkid. He is so forgetful! From Dethdude327

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  8. by the way have you ever seen a platypus? Canukkid

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  9. Are you kidding? Platypus is my favorite animal rofl

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  10. sweet!!! there my fav animal to awsmome!!! Canuckkid

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