It is finally here! The long awaited Chaos Legion Expansion. In this article I want to talk about what I managed to pick up on the market. Furthermore, I managed to fight some battles already and wanted to share with you want the most common builds seem to be. While I know the strategies will develop over time, we can take a look what strategies are very common in the lower division. On this topic I will make some separate articles over the course of the next week. Last but not least I want to round this article up with some thoughts about the new expansion!
What I Picked Up
That sounds like a story from a night out, but it is actually about the new Splinterlands Expansion. I know this pun was bad, but I needed a introduction. Right when the cards hit the market I was sourcing the market a little to snipe some nice deals. Looking back it was only partially successful but maybe it will pay off over the next months. After the initial overwhelmed reaction on the market, I decided to focus on the summoners. Because I am thinking that magic is still a very effective way to play this game, especially in the lower leagues I focused first on the Earth summoner Obsidian. Currently going for about 18 dollars a card I was able to pick up 5 of them for an average price of 10 dollars per card. I think that this card will be very well used in the future, that’s why I already converted this card to a level 2.
Staying at the Earth Splinter for a little bit longer, I tried to built a team beforehand. That is why I also purchased a level 2 Goblin Psychic in expectation of using him as healer and powerful damage dealer card. Additionally to him, I picked up a Level 2 Mycelic Slipspawn to act as a taunt so that all of my other magic cards can deal enough damage to the opponent. I must admit that this strategy only worked partially so far, because people already found a pretty good counter against this comp. But this is the beauty of this game in my opinion. If there would be just one strategy in this game, everybody would buy these cards and all of the others would not be used which would be a shame.
Because I was enjoying playing the Life Splinter recently, I also focused on the new Life Summoner General Sloan. Him, I also managed to pick up 5 cards for the average price of about 8 dollars a piece. In my opinion a very nice return. Especially with the new range monsters this summoner can make the difference in tight games. Additionally to this summoner, I also picked up a Prismologist. With its blast ability it will deal an additional 2 damage to the next minion which I find very impressive. In the games that I already played with this card it managed to secure me some wins. Unfortunately it eats up a lot of mana, that’s why this card is only usable in high cost mana battles.
Complementing these purchases, I managed to pick up some of the new Fire Summoner and one of the Death Summoner. This was maybe a mistake because I was not expecting that the dev team will add all of these summoners to the starter cards. That is why it was very unnecessary to just buy one of these summoners each. But I will keep holding on to them because they might appreciate in value over time. Furthermore, I think it is sad that they removed some of the older Expansion cards, because it really messed up some of my strategy. But I guess I just have to buy these cards now to be able to use them in the battles.
Common Played Comps
Moving on I wanted to also share with you what I experienced so far and what teams the people are apparently playing. Firstly, I have to say that I expected a lot more Earth-Obsidian Teams but it seems like people are already shifting towards other teams because it looks like people found several ways to counter the Earth-Magic Combination. The first possibility is by playing a Water Team with Bortus as the summoner. This takes away any Magic advantage that you might get by using Obsidian. Furthermore, those people play very health-heavy cards in combination with some magic cards. This way they make sure they deal enough damage while still having their big tanks in front. Another, still very common build is an Earth Build with Failed Summoner and Mustang Unicorn. I guess this is just the number one counter against any magic Team.
Another very common build that I saw so far is the Death-Life-Leech Build. With Life Sapper and Venari Bonesmith these cards can get extremely healthy over the course of a battle. With Cursed Windeku as tank which also has Taunt enough time, and damage dealing is guaranteed. I was very surprised when I first encountered this build but it seems like a very good alternative to all the other builds.
Last but not least, there is the classic Fire Built. I think for Fire not much changed with this expantion. The new summoner just highlights the already existing strengths of Fire which is Damage Dealing with Melee. That is why this kind of build everybody knows and does not need much explanation. Like I mentioned in the intro, I will make more detailed articles over the course of the next weeks and will explain these teams in more detail and what I think people can play to counter them.
Conclusion
To sum it all up, I really like the new expansion. I am extremely overwhelmed by all of these new information and new cards to explore. Furthermore, I really like the artwork, I think that whoever is responsible for that deserved a raise (if anybody of the developers or their executives is reading that :D). I am really looking forward to phase 3 of the pack sale, because their I can finally join the pack openings! I think that this will be a very good time to stock up your decks with cards that you think are doing super well because this is when most of the cards will join the game. And by the laws of economy: if the supply gets higher, the prices have to go lower.
With that being said, I really hope I could give you a good overview of my experience of the first day of Chaos Legion and I hope that I have many to go!
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On 8th December 2021
Really nice overview, I really enjoyed your article! Look forward to seeing more about the chaos cards