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Card Highlights #35: Arachne Weaver

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The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'l be seeing one of the most high-performance materiasl known to man.
by Cheryl Hayashi
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The new reward cards will be a game changer. Many will be struggling to find the best combinations for the new cards and discovering the new abilities that will be coming out. It would be a new era of the cards as one of the strongest abilities were just teased, an ability that can heal not one, not two, but your entire team each round. This ability is called, "Corrupted Healing," which will be included in the newest reward card, "Arachne Weaver."

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Lore

Lore is currently unavailable as the card are not available to the public yet. The Rewards card will be will be released to public next week.

For now, as we all wait for that fated time, you can check @bulldog1205's video about the new Splinterlands Reward Card here. He teased some cards and went over the big changes that will be happening when the reward cards are released, hopefully, next season.

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Buy and Rental Costs

This card is soulbound. It is unable to be transferred, rented/delegated, burned, bought or sold until the cards go out of print. It is tied to the account that has earned it through gameplay/chests. Gladiator cards are also Soulbound.

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Card Stats

Stats page is currently unavailable as the card are not available to the public yet. The Rewards card will be will be released to public next week.

Since I only have the max level, I would base it on that. For a 5 mana, I think the stats aren't that great. With only 2 damage, it would be hard for you to rely on Arachne Weaver. She also cannot be a tank with only 7 Health and no armor. The abilities are very interesting though as each ability felt that it complements each other and the theme of the card.

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Card Effects

Corrupted Healing

Each round, restore 1/3 of max health to allied units, rounded down. Each time a unit is healed, its max health is reduced by 1.

Corrupted Healing seems strong in my opinion. Unlike Heal and Tank Heal, this ability would heal your entire team each round. If you kept him alive, he may be the only support unit you need per game.

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Scavenger

Gains 1 max health each time any Unit dies

Corrupted Healing also scales with health like Heal and Tank Heal. Scavenger helps in increasing the amount of heal your team gets from Corrupted Healing while reducing the negative effect of Corrupted Healing of reducing the health per heal by increasing this unit's health per unit's death.

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Poison

Attacks have a chance to apply poison, which does automatic damage to the target at the beginning of each round after the poison is applied

This ability fixes the lack of damage while also trying to be in theme of the card. I assume he's a poisonous spider, which is why Poison ability is included.

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Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths
Corrupted Healing is the glaring strength. This new ability will surely bring a new era of healing in Splinterlands as this is the first type of heal that affects multiple units at the same time. The compatibility of this ability with Scavenger is also a good strength as it can increase the amount of heal your team get per round.

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Weaknesses
One weakness I can see is the damage at lower level. Since Poison is placed last on the teased card, that means Poison can only be used when this unit is at max level. From levels 1-5, this unit only have 2 damage making it very underwhelming at this day ang age as new cards get more and more damage.

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When To Use

Noxious Fumes

All Units start the battle Poisoned.

Scavenger is very effective in Noxious Fumes as you can expect other units to die without you lifting a finger. In addition to this, each round, you also heal your entire team which counters the effect of poison.

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Fog of War

Units lose the Sneak and Snipe abilities.

In this rule set, since Sneak, Snipe and Opportunity loses their effect, you can safely place this unit at the back abusing the healing you can get along with Scavenger.

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Wands Out

Only units with magic attacks may be used.

I imagine that this unit will be a main stay for magic oriented teams. The heal on Death element is just too strong to give up.

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When Not To Use

Healed Out

All healing abilities are removed from Units and Summoners.

Since Corrupted Healing is still a form of heal, I assume that they would add this ability as one of the unusable abilities in Healed Out rule set.

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Lost Magic

Units with Magic attack may not be used in battles.

Since Arachne Weaver has magic attack, then you won't be able to use her during this rule set. It would be very bad as Death already lacks healing.

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Tis But Scratches

All Units have the Cripple ability.

This rule set is the enemy of all heals. Since you heal your entire team every round, then anyone your enemies attack means a disadvantage on your part when the healing comes around.

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Battle Sample

I cannot provide a battle sample since the card is still unreleased. I will update this in the future once I get ahold of this card.

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Final Thoughts

I think Arachne Weaver will become a strong valuable card. Death element desperately lacks heal but their units are stronger in comparison to others. Having Corrupted Healing is really good as it fixes one of the major problems this element lacks.

Thinking outside the box, Arachne Weaver also complements other summoners that can abuse Death element like Lorkus and Dolfar Darflak which can use both Death and Fire elements. Fire element has the same problem as Death element which is the lack of healing. Arachne Weaver fills that void as the element waits for better support in the future.

I'd like to do a shoutout to @bulldog1205 for providing the teased card. He is one of the most respected Splinterlands content creator and his insight on this and other cards are really on point. Give ahead and give him a like on his video, leave a comment and subscribe to his page.

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