The splinter with the most legendary cards is the dragon splinter. It deserves this many legendary cards because the dragons are themselves legendary creatures. In this post we will look at the new Chaos dragon splinter cards and compare them to older series Alpha / Beta cards. I will also try to make correlations between the different series to identify which Chaos card appears to be potential substitute of a Alpha / Beta card.
Before we continue here are links of past splinters I have already made comparison on:
Comparing Chaos and Beta - Death Splinter
Comparing Chaos and Beta - Fire Splinter
Comparing Chaos and Beta - Life Splinter
Legendary Dragon Summoners Comparison
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In Chaos the summoner Quix The Devious reduces range and speed of all opponent's monsters. While in Beta Selenia Sky adds +1 in range attack to all friendly monsters. The two summoners functions opposite of each other with those abilities. In addition Chao's Quix summoner is 4 mana while the Beta summoner is 3 mana.
Legendary Monsters
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The Chaos dragons stand out in their own right with a combination of range, magic, and melee attack. Very similar to that of Beta dragons.
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What stands out with the Chaos dragons are their unique abilities of each monster at base level 1. While the Beta dragons require additional level up in order to obtain additional abilities.
At max level comparison between the Chaos and Beta dragons:
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A comparison at max level between the dragons based on type of attack type and one can notice the abilities are comparable. For instance each series dragon has one ability that matches in between both series. It is either flying or pierce abilities. The remaining differences are unique in their own right.
There are neat similarities to compare Zyvax Vuul with Lighting Dragon. Similar because both are range attack monsters and both can do direct massive damage on their opponents. For Lightning Dragon it posses precision as it has pierce and blast to deal more damage on opponents. Then on the opposite end Zyvax Vuul has Recharge and Deathblow to amplify damage attack on opponent.
A similar comparison but in opposite of abilities in Void Dragon and Gold Dragon. Both monsters are magic monsters but their abilities delineate a bit. For Void Dragon it has of course Void but also Phase. The dragon is basically is defensive against magic attack. While Gold Dragon has self magic reflect and self heal to defend against magic attack. On top Gold Dragon has blast ability. Its difficult to say Gold Dragon is the clear winner here because Void Dragon as max level has speed 5 while Gold Dragon is speed 3. With higher speed Void Dragon has better odds to avoid magic attacks.
End the comparison with the two melee attacking monsters in Desert Dragon and Chromatic Dragon. Both dragons have pierce but Desert Dragon is the only dragon out of all 6 not having flying ability. In any case Desert Dragon has retaliate which is similar to Chromatic Dragon in its Enrage. These abilities are passive aggressive and are performed when the monster is being attacked. Chromatic Dragon also has Thorn which is another passive aggressive ability but Desert Dragon does not. Instead Desert Dragon has potential to mow down high mans monsters with Giant Killer and Trample.
Chaos Dragon
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What would it be if not to include a monster that is named after the series. The Chaos Dragon is exactly that. A high mana count of 14 it is likely only able to be used in 49 or 99 mana battles. I can be wrong but its easy to lean on the use of this monster when mana caps simply goes out the window. How else would it be as Chaos is explosive and Chaos Dragon presents that.
Conclusions
There are only legendary monsters and summoners when it comes to comparing the cards in the dragon splinter. They stand out just by being legendary. The Beta series were always unique to me because they were rare in quantities. While now Chaos packs will be over 15x in print compare to that of Beta packs it is certain there are more Chaos dragons. Still they are legends so by comparison within their own series the dragons are rare. Anyways all these cards have their own benefits when used and I look forward to adding the Chaos dragons into my collection soon.
Until next time thanks for reading!!!
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