This past week I was messing around with my danian cards and checking to see if there was any interesting strats you could do with them. Then I came across a very arousing card effect. Two of my cards (a creature called Kannen and a battlegear by the name of Talisman of the mandiblor) have the effect of sacrifice: return target mandiblor from your discard pile onto any free space on the board (in the talisman’s case you sac the creature wielding the battlegear), which in short means “sacrifice me to revive a mandiblor anywhere” the key phrase here is “in any open space”.
Cards used:
Kannen
Talisman of the mandiblor
A strong mandiblor card (Ibiian, Gallin, Lhad)
Strategy:
So by starting a match by attacking with a fairly strong mandiblor (ibiian comes to mind) then using only the weakest attacks and have him eventually be destroyed (this also helps in weeding out your attack hand of any cruddy cards you may have drawn early). After a few turns when your opponent has moved his creatures and open space in his rear battlefield activate Kannen’ ability and resurrect your fallen mandiblor into the deepest part of your opponents battlefield, where he keeps all his mugicians and weaker monsters. If you’re lucky your opponent may even be blocked by his own creatures and cannot effectively retaliate against this new threat immediately, allowing you to quickly defeat a few mugicians or weaker cards and drastically hurt his resources (creature # and mugic count). This also helps to reduce pressure to your front line if your danian battlemasters are having trouble breaking your opponent’s front line.
With this method you can effectively teleport your mandiblors behind enemy lines and strike at their weaker mugic users that most people keep far in their battlefield, then as they rush to destroy that creature, strike back with your front line and pincer their team.
Pros:
Simple to implement
Hard to counter
Effective
Cons:
Can only be done with Danians
You end you sacrificing a creature
Doesn’t work well in smaller battle groups
Rating: 7/10
This strategy gets a 7 out of 10, it is very intuitive and somewhat unexpected as creature placement usually takes a backseat in Chaotic tactics. Though the Danian teleportation does suffer from some risk as you must sacrifice a creature (a Kannen or the creature with the Talisman of the mandiblor equipped) not to mention that if done improperly your newly resurrected mandiblor may be returning to the discard pile rather quickly. Overall it is a quick strategy that can be implemented into most Danian battlegroups without hurting the main theme.
its allright