The Most Broken Upcoming Reward Card: And No It Is Not Olivia

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Pondering about Olivia of The Brooks, I found out that, no matter how promising Mimic is, it has some weaknesses. The first glaring weakness is the randomness. It has only 25% chance of acquiring RANDOM ability of the attacker. This means it is only guaranteed to obtain an ability 1 in 4 successful attacks to it. With 6 health and 1 armor, I don't think it can withstand 4 hits. If it can, the ability obtained may not be beneficial to her. Not to mention there are lots of abilities it cannot acquire like Targeting Abilities - sneak, opportunity, snipe and scatter, Weapons Training, Taunt and many more. And oh did I mention it can be dispelled. Yup, Olivia is not that OP as we would think she is.

So if Mimic is not that good, what's that Ability that would make a reward card broken?

Lets Talk About Execute

If the target has 2 or less health after a successful attack, perform another attack against the same unit.

This is the ability which I think will be a game changer in the Splinterverse. With some ability combined with it, Execute will be amazing. This is a lowkey Double Strike against low health units. Imagine giving this to high damage monster with Opportunity which targets low health units and Trample which kills the next opponent and if that next opponent is killed, it may 'execute' it too. Oh what do we have here! That card already exists and it is Thanalorian Blade.

Stats

Stats	Values
Edition	Rebellion
Element	Earth
Rarity	Epic
Mana	6
Melee	4
Speed	3
Armor	1
Health	6

Abilities

Ability		Description
Opportunity		Units with the Opportunity ability may attack from any position and will target the enemy Unit with the lowest health.
Execute		If the target has 2 or less health after a successful attack, perform another attack against the same unit.
Lookout		A unit with this ability results in adjacent allies taking one less damage from attackers with Sneak, Snipe, and Opportunity
Trample		When a Monster with Trample hits and kills its target, it will perform another attack on the next Monster on the enemy Team

How Broken Is This Card?

Full transparency, I haven't tried this card nor am I a tester for the game. As a long-time player of Splinterlands, I somehow forsee this would be a broken card. Then again, I could be wrong but hear me out first. When it is used with summoners and other units, this card would work out its brokeness.

Immortalis is the best summoner to be utilized with Thanalorian Blade. Our executioner gains magic resistance when bestowed with the Void ability. With Shatter, Thanalorian Blade or its allies can break the armor causing her to attack directly through enemies' health. Immortalis also lowers the enemy team's health. Thanalorian Blade can kill enemies faster because of this.

Thanalorian Blade can reduce the damage of its adjacent allies because of Lookout ability. The Lookout ability reduces the damage from Sneak, Snipe and Opportunity attacks. That's why it is advisable to position it near Mycelic Slipspawn or Terraceous Hulk.

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Earth splinter gains another Trample unit aside from Grund. Thanalorian Blade and Grund works well with each other. The double striker can take out the high health ones while the executioner can target the low health ones. Since they are both Trample monsters, obliterating your enemy units will only take a few turns.

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Under the Stampede Ruleset, the combination of Immortalis, Grund and Thanalorian Blade will cause a massive Stampede scenario. With Thanalorian Blade alone, she will target low health units with Opportunity, double-kill them instantly with Execute and Trample away to the next enemy unit.

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Looking at the scenario above, ordinary Trample will start at Merdaali Guardian and stop at Pelacor Bandit. But with Execute, the Trample will continue down to Nerissa Tridawn. Now imagine another scenario where all of the opponents has less than 7 health. Thanalorian Blade can stampede through them if they don't have any armor.

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So speaking of Armor, when Immortalis is not available, we will need units with Rust ability to mitigate armor as much as possible. Units like Queen Mycelia and Lord Thanalor are staples of Earth team that possess this ability.

Closing

I may be overthinking this but it sure is exciting to use this new reward card. Another one that adds to the excitement is the full mechanics of Execute that we will soon discover when the new Rebellion Reward Cards come. So that's all from me in this post. Thank you for reading.

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