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What can we expect from Chaos Legion?
With Chaos Legion comes many new summoners and monsters and while we dont know what these are just yet, its never too early to start speculating on what some of the cards will be.
Having the balance the values of cards, Splinterlands cannot and probably will not print 2 of the exact same cards. They will have to adjust something in order for the old cards to not lose all value. As such, what we can expect to see are cards that support the existing cards and counter existing OP cards in the game currently
In Chaos legion, what we will be getting is a rare summoner and a legendary summoner for each class along with a bunch of monster cards. Latest identification was 4 commons, 3 rares, 2 epics and 1 legendary in addition to the Air Drop cards.
Over the next few days, ill be giving my thoughts on what kind of cards we can expect to see per summoner in Chaos Legion.
Today, we will start with Fire!
The poster boy for Fire has been Yodin Zaku and for obvious reasons. +1 Range +health and the Blast Ability. Looking at other summoners, we have Pyre +1 Speed, Malric Inferno +1 Melee and Qid Yuff +1 Melee. All summoners thus far have been very attack focused with little support or defensive mechanics.
As for Minions, we see alot of Serpentine Spy, Living Lava and Lava Launcher. These are strong minions but not OP compared to what some other splinters have.
In the current Meta, we see 2 main lineups, the melee sneak/opportunity line up and the the Yodin Range Line up. Occasionally, you will see a magic team but those use alot of Alpha and Beta cards and was not that strong of a lineup. While these 2 lineups are very powerful, these have very clear weaknesses. For the Melee lineup, it gets crushed by Mylor and for Yodin, it gets crushed by Kitty and anything that has high speed. In addition, we see that Fire is very weak against Water.
My Predictions,
For Summoners, i expect Fire to continue to get Attacking tools. For the Rare Summoner, its going to be +1 range or +1 Magic for 3 mana. As for the legendary summoner, it would be +1 Melee, +1 Health and Knock Out Ability. Fire will fully imbrace the Melee Live with the additional Melee Attack and the Knock out Ability. To be honest, i dont think Knock out is that strong currently but if we do some really big hitters coming in Chaos Legion, Knock out could insane.
As for Minions, as much as i would like to see Double Strike for Melee, the presence of Yodin Blast makes that way too OP. i think they will get some defensive minions with Mana Void/Armor and Protect to give Armor. As for the attack, i wouldnt be surprised to see some Magic buffers to support Caladuum, Goblin Firemage and Efreet Elder
The reason why ive gone Magic is that Caladuum isnt played all too much and from a card design perspective, you want to print cards that help weak old cards become better. Fire at the moment is not that strong and i would say its the second weakest ahead of Life. As such, we could very well be looking at Fire having a presence is Melee, Range and Magic which would propel it to being one of the best splinters in Chaos Legion.
Do you agree or disagree with my predictions? Do leave a comment to let me know what kind of cards you are predicting for Fire in Chaos Legion