If you play Deception and feel sad you have no space for relics in your favorite deck, you probably should consider acquiring a Shady Merchant. The card costs only 0.5 GODS on IMX market and is even cheaper if you can pay in ETH - from 0.00038.
Magic, this is what happens when two dodgy traders meet, Shady Merchant (Genesis, Guild) and his colleague, Back-Alley Vendor (from Genesis set too).
Every turn, Shady Merchant brings a relic, one of the four types:
- Destructive Dagger, strength 1 / durability 1, deadly.
- Curative Cudgel, strength 2 / durability 2. Afterlife: Heal your god for 3.
- Glamoured Gladius, strength 1 / durability 3, blitz, give +1 strength to a random friendly creature after you attack with this relic.
- Sterling Spear, strength 2 / durability 3, blitz, flank.
Amazing relics!!
Shady Merchant is hidden for 1 turn so there is a high probability that Shady will be safe after the first turn and you will have at least one relic.
So you can say that Shady Merchant is a side deck with relics. Which is amazing by itself. But the best things start when the Back-Alley Vendor enters the scene.... (Ali as I call him).
Ali costs 1.8-2 GODS currently on IMX market and even cheaper when you pay ETH - 0.001784.
His work is stunning: his roar turns every Shady's relics into a random legendary card!
Other cards that bring material for Ali (but I don't have them):
- Rune Smuggler
- Backstreet Bouncer
- Hypnos Puzzle Box
- Blade Trader Drosis
- Most probably, something else. I will keep researching
- Ali also works with the runes of the Sanctum (Runes of Sight, Life, Fire, Strength)
And my mind gets blown with the scale of transformation possible due to this magic. Look at these screenshots of how Ali took part in a fight against a Green witch (equipped with Big Beast Nature Deck):
1/ Shady brings relics
Shady gave me two relics. Coincidently, two Alis came to this moment.
2/ Ali turns relics into legendaries
When I saw 7- and 9-mana cards, I thought they would be useless. However
3/ Green witch electrocuted my army...
8 damage randomly, 3 out of 4 creatures dead... It was the time to try a legendary spell, War Incarnate, I got due to Ali's roar... I had never experienced this card so I hardly understood what would actually happen next.
What is Orax, Shield of Pain?? 😮 I had no time to google it.
4/ The spell changed my god power!
The new god power was Ruin: 2 mana for making every (enemy and friendly) creature get 1 damage.
Additionally, I got a relic Orax with durability 4: when a creature attacks your god, the creature gets 2 damage.
Insane!!
5/ The witch killed herself when she saw my second legendary creature!
Despite my advantage, the green witch and her blitz charging oryxes 7/7, emerged one by another, could tickle my nerves.
But, then, I involved the second Ali's gift, a legendary frontline (flank, twin strike, ward every turn!!), and the witch decided to end her agony and committed suicide 😄
Not financial advice
This is not financial advice but I couldn't help buying half a dozen of these guys. It was my Christmas shopping with GODS I have earned in Blessing of the Gods. Rows in my inventory:
I also purchased several Shady Merchants... As an investment... (Or maybe this is just GU shopaholism 😃).
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