Exploring the Chaos: Amplify

Hi! This is the 4rd chapter for Exploring the Chaos where I take a look on Chaos Legion cards, theirs stats, their utility and their market price.

Last time, I talked about Scattershot cards and how using their randomness produce unexpected results but also allow us to win battles that might be unwinnable if not with their help. Now, I'm going to discuss about another new ability that Chaos Legion has bring to us which is one of my favorite and that is the Amplify ability.

Icon	Ability Name	Description
	Amplify	Increases Magic Reflect, Return Fire, and Thorns damage to all enemy monsters by 1

When I first started playing Splinterlands, I always enjoy using the summoners Mylor Crowling which gives Thorns and Owster Rotwell for its Magic Reflect ability because when the opponent attacks using melee or magic, their attack will be countered back on them. When fighting against Yodin Zaku, when you know that they will use range monsters, using Lir Deepswimmer is the counter I use because it has the Return Fire ability that returns range damage back to the attacker.

With the arrival of Chaos Legion, we are introduced with the Amplify ability which alone cannot do anything to your opponent but if you happen to have a summoner or monster that has Thorns, Magic Reflect or Return Fire, is when it shows it's true power as it increases the damage that these abilities do to your opponent.

Venari Spellsmith is a Neutral element magic card that cost 4 mana. It has Dispel at level 1 and Redemption at level 8. It can use Amplify at level 4.

Venator Kinjo is a Neutral element melee card that cost 2 mana. It has Reflection Shield and Camouflage at level 1, Immunity at level 2 and Slow at level 3. It will have the Amplify ability at level 4.

Modern Neutral cards it goes well with:

Card
Edition	Untamed	Reward	Reward	Chaos Legion
Amplified Ability	Lvl 2- Thorns Lvl 3- Return Fire Lvl 4- Magic Reflect	Lvl 5- Thorns Lvl 6- Return Fire	Lvl 3- Return Fire Lvl 4- Magic Reflect	Lvl 8- Magic Reflect

As these are Neutral cards, we can use both the Damage Return cards and Amplify cards or both in combination of the following elements below, giving broader options on building a line- up.

Dragon is another element that you can use in combination of one of any element and Neutral cards as long as you use a Dragon Summoner.

Modern Dragon cards it goes well with:

Card
Edition	Untamed	Dice	Reward	Reward
Amplified Ability	Lvl 2- Thorns	Lvl 5- Thorns Lvl 8- Return Fire	Lvl 1- Thorns	Lvl 3- Return Fire Lvl 4- Magic Reflect

Venari Heatsmith is a Fire Chaos Legion rewards card released way before the Chaos Legion packs. It is a non- damage card that has a Void Armor at level 1 and Thorns at level 10. It gains its Amplify at level 6. It only cost 4 mana.

Modern Fire cards it goes well with:

Card
Edition	Untamed	Untamed	Dice
Amplified Ability	LVl 10- Thorns	Lvl 4- Return Fire	Lvl 4- Thorns

River Nymph is a 4 mana Water Element magic cards with Cleanse at level 1 and Swiftness ability at level 8. You can use it's Amplify at level 4

Modern Water cards it goes well with:

Card
Edition	Untamed	Untamed	Untamed	Reward	Chaos Legion
Amplified Ability	Lvl 7- Return Fire	Lvl 6- Thorns	Lvl 1- Return Fire	Lvl 6- Thorns	Lvl 6- Return Fire

Queen Mycelia Is an Earth element magic card that has Amplify at level 2. It also has Protect protect at level 1, Triage at level 3 and Rust at level 4. It cost 4 mana.

Modern Earth cards it goes well with:

Card
Edition	Untamed	Untamed	Untamed	Untamed	Dice
Amplified Ability	Lvl 1- Magic Reflect	Lvl 6- Thorns	Lvl 5- Magic Reflect	Lvl 3- Thorns	Lvl 1- Thorns
Card
Edition	Reward	Chaos	Chaos
Amplified Ability	Lvl 1- Return Fire	Lvl 3- Thorns	Lvl 1- Thorns

Wierding Warrior is a 2 mana cost Death element range card. It has Shatter at level 1 and Rust and Amplify can be used at level 4.

Modern Death cards it goes well with:

Card
Edition	Untamed	Untamed	Dice
Amplified Ability	Lvl 5- Thorns	lvl 4- Magic Reflect	Lvl 1- Magic Reflect
Edition	Reward	Reward	Chaos legion
Amplified Ability	Lvl 6- Thorns Lvl 10- Return Fire	Lvl 5- Return Fire	Lvl 1- Thorns

Dax Paragon is a Life Element magic card that has Amplify at level 2 and Affliction at level 5. It only cost 2 mana.

Grandmaster Rathe is a 6 mana cost legendary airdrop summoner. It gives ally cards +1 Armor, Void Armor ability which prevents magic attacks from piercing the cards health without consuming their armor first and Amplify which will increase the damage of Thorns, Return Fire and Magic Reflect by + 1. It is the Chaos Legion's Defense King.

Modern Life cards it goes well with:

Card
Edition	Untamed	Untamed	Reward	Chaos Legion
Amplified Ability	Lvl 4- Thorns	Lvl 8- Return Fire	Lvl 4- Magic Reflect	Lvl 5- Magic Reflect

Battle 1: Venari Spellsmith

Battle Condition	Details
Silver League: Wild Format	25 mana cap Available Elements: Fire, Life, Water, Death, Earth
Keep Your Distance	Monsters with Melee attack may not be used in battles.

This is my entry for Share Your Battle Weekly Challenge where I use Venari Spellsmith to Amplify the Magic Reflect of Lord Arianthus and because of Void, magic damage were halve and anything below 2 won't deal damage so the only monster that can inflict damage to my monster is Kron the Undying

Even with the Last Stand that Scarred Llama Mage gives to Kron the Undying, increasing all of his stats, he's receiving more damage from Lord Arianthus than what he can inflict and when the damage the rest of my line- up hits Kron the Undying, it greatly reduces his huge health until he was defeated.

Battle 2: River Nymph

Battle Condition	Details
Gold League: Wild Format	36 mana cap Available Elements: Fire, Water, Dragon
Heavy Hitters	All Monsters have the Knock Out ability.
Close Range	Ranged attacks may be used in the first position in battles.

My opponent this time uses mostly of a range team because of the ruleset but he also have a Gold Dragon which is a magic card that have BlastBlast ability which will also deal damage to my card at the second position. With the Amplify support from River Nymph, Prismatic Energy returns back 3 damage to Gold Dragon while it only deals 2 damage because of Void. The opponent uses Lord Arianthus but without Amplify to support him, my magic team was able to defeat him.

At some time, Prismatic Energy was defeated because of the Poison from The Vigilator but it last long enough to remove Gold Dragon which makes defeating the rest of his cards easier.

Battle 3: Queen Mycelia

Battle Condition	Details
Gold League: Wild Format	38 mana cap Available Elements: Earth, Dragon
Close Range	Ranged attacks may be used in the first position in battles.

This is also one of my entry for Share Your Weekly Battle Challenge with the theme: dragon where I was able to Amplify the Magic Reflect of Prismatic Energy but also the Return Fire of Centauri Mage using Queen Mycelia. The opponent's magic cards cannot deal any damage to Prismatic Energy because they were Silence by Mushroom Seer while it deals 2 damage to each of the opponent's magic card every time it reflect their attack.

Meanwhile, their range cards has the Snipe which will attack the first non melee card of the my line- up that is not in the first position but because of my summoner Quix the Devious, their range damage were reduced by 1 but when they attack, the damage that is returned to them was increased by 1.

Battle 4: Weirding Warrior

Battle Condition	Details
Gold League: Wild Format	36 mana cap Available Elements: Fire, Water, Death
Keep Your Distance	Monsters with Melee attack may not be used in battles.

Based on my Opponent's battle log, the chance that he will use a magic water team is very high so I decided to use a Death team to counter him. First, I use Lord Arianthus because he has Void and Magic Reflect then my summoner Thadius Brood and will reduce -2 of his magic damage which is amplified by Weirding Warrior

As most of the opponent's magic card has only 1 magic, the can't hurt Lord Arianthus which also have Shield that half non- magic damage. while they are receiving reflected magic damage by which even Djinn Oshannus who has Void is receiving damage.

Battle 5: Dax Paragon

Battle Condition	Details
Silver League: Modern Format	60 mana cap Available Elements: Fire, Earth, Life, Death, Dragon
Aim True	Melee and Ranged attacks always hit their target.
Lost Legendaries	Legendary Monsters may not be used in battles.

This time, I want to show you some Thorns being Amplifyed by Dax Paragon. For now, this is the only card that you can use in Bronze league that can use Amplify and it should be used on a dragon team where Djinn Chwala is a part of because there are currently no life monster that has return damage abilities at Bronze cap level.

Instead of 2, every melee monster will received 3 damage due to Djinn Chwala's Thorns that quickly defeated my opponent which is a full melee team.

Battle 6: Grnadmaster Rathe

Battle Condition	Details
Gold League: Wild Format	36 mana cap Available Elements: Water, Earth, Life, Death
Fog of War	Monsters lose the Sneak and Snipe abilities.
Spreading Fury	All Monsters have the Enrage ability.

For the last battle, I use Grandmaster Rathe which automatically gives +1 armor, Void Armor and Amplify to all ally cards. Since the mana cap is very small, I use Blinding Reflector which has Magic Reflect, decent health, and decent armor by only 3 mana.

As expected, it wasn't enough to take down Kron the Undying but Blinding Reflector is was able to last long enough to deal damage to his team to the point that it was only a buffed Kron the Undying was left with Last Stand with Djinn Renova at the first position and because of Repair of Adelade Brightwing, no amount of magic damage can get though to Djinn Renova and leads to my victory.

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And that's all the battle data for Amplify Monsters that I was able to collect and I was really able to enjoy every matches very much. How about you?

This are the market price for the Amplify Cards by the time that I checked on it and is subject to change depending on when you check for prices. Source: Peakmonsters

Alone, cards with Amplify ability are not very strong but when you have the necessary card of which abilities can be boosted by this card, then they can be a very scary card which helps to bring more damage to your opponents even if they are not the ones that doing the attacking and just what the saying said "having a taste of thier own medicine".

And that’s it for my review for Amplify. Hope that you learned something from it. If you want to follow my previous reviews, the links are provided below. Thanks!

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