Card Highlights #13: Alric Stormbringer
When I saw this card the first time, it reminded me of Dumbledore from Harry Potter. Old dude with long beard is the standard look for a strong mage even in movies and animes.
Lore
The oldest AZMAREan Summoner, Alric Stormbringer, founded the modern arts of Chaos Magic. He has many pupils from around the Splinterlands. Alric’s gift is not so much bringing the storm, but channeling it. He has lived for hundreds of years, and some stories claim he was alive before the Splintering.
Rental Cost
I rented Alric Stormbringer for less than 4 DEC per day. I would say there's a few there which is lower than 8 DEC. If you have time to wait or simply use the auto rental from @Peakmonsters, then you can rent this card for very cheap.
Buy/Sell Cost
Alric Stormbringer's purchase cost is on the high side provided that he is a summoner from Beta edition. They are mostly phased out cards in which you can only obtain the card via marketplace or buying a more expensive packs that some player hold through exchange platform.
Note:There's two editions of Alric Stormbringer, the Alpha and Beta editions. Alpha editions are more expensive but with an advantage of providing additional 10% DEC per win like how a Gold foil functions.
Card Stats
Alric Stormbringer is a rare summoner providing decent monster levels on levels 2 and 3. Rare summoners are the benchmark of a good summoner based on levels that you can summon so it's neither good nor bad.
When to use
Alric Stormbringer Water Mages is probably, if not, the first team comp I did. A friend showed me this composition and after I tried it, I got addicted. He has a low mana in addition to providing great ability. There's no reason that you need not to use Alric Stormbringer except for the one thing I would explain below.
When not to use
There's a few cases Alric Stormbringer should not be used and that's only because it's nonsense to use it. First is Lost Magic Rule Set which doesn't allows any magic damage monsters to be played. Pretty straightforward.
The other one is Silenced Summoner Rule Set which disables any effects the summoner provides. If you have a summoner that costs 2, that should be played instead. If you have none, you really can't play around it and just use the lowest mana cost summoner you have.
Silenced Summoner || Summoners do not give any stat buffs or debuffs or grant/use any abilities.
Battle
Battle Replay
This is the positioning I used for this battle:
With Alric Stormbringer, it's best to pack your board with magic damage as much as possible. I don't have a lot of high mana mages so I instead played some stronger melees instead. The mix of melee and magic damage is good especially against void ability users.
Round 1
By end of Round 1, Mycelic Splipspawn uses taunt to direct all the damage other than the first positioned monster to him resulting to his death in round 1. Some damage passes through Unicorn Mustang which was negated by Goblin Psychic's Tank Heals. Diemonshark dies in the process for tanking the damage as well making Giant Squid becoming the main tank for the game.
Round 2
By end of Round 2, Giant Squid dies making Djinn Oshannus stand the front line. Opponent's Venari Spellsmith, on the other hand, dies from the jaw of Deeplurker's Opportunity ability. A lot of damage was done to Unicorn Mustang as well making the opponent's tank in the red on this round.
Round 3
By end of Round 3, Unicorn Mustang dies along with Goblin Psychic giving me a huge advantage towards the end of the game.
Round 4
Game ended on Round 4 with the death of Regal Peryton and Elven Mystic, respectively.
Disclaimer
- Battle photos are taken from Splinterlands in-game website. To view the full game, click on this link.
- I do not own any of the animated pictures. Visit Giphy to get more information.
Happy Holidays. Good luck. Have fun.