Introduction
Hi! @saydie here playing Splinterlands everyday.
This is Exploring the Chaos where I take a look on Chaos Legion cards including thier subsets such as Riftwatchers and the Reward cards, as they brought new abilities and strategies that changes how the game was played.
Last time, I have talked about the old card rewards that we usually get on our daily and season chest and how they were used as well as their importance to the meta. Now, I will be reviewing the new Soulbound rewards card which replaces them, offering new possibilities to the game and for this post, I will be taking a look at the Earth Soulbound Rewards.
Earth Soulbound Reward Cards
Fungus Flinger
| Edition | Soulbound Reward |
|---|---|
| Mana Cost | 3 |
| Element | Earth |
| Rarity | Common |
| Card Type |  Range |
| Abilities |  Martyr Blind Affliction |
| RF Burn Value | Unavailable |
| GF Burn Value | Unavailable |
Card Stats
Martyr will increase all the stats the monster adjacent to Fungus Flinger when it was defeated.
Blind will give all ally monsters 15% miss chance as long as Fungus Flinger remains in play.
Affliction will prevent the target opponent from being healed.
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Terraceous Grunt
| Edition | Soulbound Reward |
|---|---|
| Mana Cost | 6 |
| Element | Earth |
| Rarity | Common |
| Card Type |  Melee |
| Abilities |  Dodge Return Fire |
| RF Burn Value | Unavailable |
| GF Burn Value | Unavailable |
Card Stats
Dodge wiil give Terracheous Grunt 25% chance to dodge melee and range attacks.
Return Fire will deal reflected damage on range monsters that will attack this card.
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Madcap Magus
| Edition | Reward |
|---|---|
| Mana Cost | 4 |
| Element | Earth |
| Rarity | Rare |
| Card Type |  Magic |
| Abilities |  Scattershot Life Leech Affliction Dispel |
| RF Burn Value | Unavailable |
| GF Burn Value | Unavailable |
Card Stats
Scattershot makes Madcap Magus to attack random targets each turn.
Life Leech will increase the max health of Madcap Magus each time it damages the health of the opponent.
Affliction will prevent the opponent from being healed.
Dispel will remove all positive status effects from the target.
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Lobb Lowland
| Edition | Soulbound Reward |
|---|---|
| Mana Cost | 6 |
| Element | Earth |
| Rarity | Rare |
| Card Type |  Summoner |
| Abilities |  Conscript |
| RF Burn Value | Unavailable |
| GF Burn Value | Unavailable |
Card Stats
- Conscript ability will allow the use of one Gladiator cards for ranked battles.
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Thane Newsong
| Edition | Soulbound Reward |
|---|---|
| Mana Cost | 5 |
| Element | Earth |
| Rarity | Epic |
| Card Type |  Non- damage |
| Abilities |  Inspire Stregnthen Swiftness Headwinds |
| RF Burn Value | Unavailable |
| GF Burn Value | Unavailable |
Card Stats
Inspire will increase the melee attack of all ally monster as long as Thane Newsong remains in play.
Strengthen will increase the health of all ally monster as long as Thane Newsong was in play.
Swiftness will increase the health of all ally monster as long as Thane Newsong was in play.
Headwinds will reduce the range damage of all opponent monsters as long as Thane Newsong was in play.
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Ava the Undaunted
| Edition | Soulbound Reward |
|---|---|
| Mana Cost | 8 |
| Element | Earth |
| Rarity | Legendary |
| Card Type | Range |
| Abilities |  Weapons Training  Shatter Close Range Oppress |
| RF Burn Value | Unavailable |
| GF Burn Value | Unavailable |
Card Stats
Weapons Training will give adjacent monsters with not attack damage half of Ava the Undaunted's attack.
Shatter will remove all the armor of the target monster.
Close Range will allow Ava the Undaunted to be able to attack at the 1st position.
Oppress will deal twice the damage on monsters with no damage.
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Terraceous Hulk
| Edition | Soulbound Reward |
|---|---|
| Mana Cost | 11 |
| Element | Earth |
| Rarity | Legendary |
| Card Type | Melee |
| Abilities |  Taunt Void Armor Demoralize |
| RF Burn Value | Unavailable |
| GF Burn Value | Unavailable |
Card Stats
Taunt will lure all abled monster attacks towards Terraceous Hulk
Void Armor will require magic attacks to reduce the armor before they can damage the health of Terraceous Hulk
Demoralize will reduce the melee damage of all opponent monsters as long as this card remains in play.
Cards Printed
Earth Soulbound Rewards in Action
Battle 1: Fungus Flinger
| Conditions | Description |
|---|---|
 Diamond League Wild Format | 14 Mana Cap Available Elements: Earth,  DragonLink: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_96845f8643861ba5170164a05eade10f&ref=crimepoet |
 Target Practice | All Ranged and Magic attack Monsters have the Snipe ability. |
 Close Range | Ranged attacks may be used in the first position in battles. |
 Reverse Speed | Monsters with the lowest Speed attack first and have the highest chance of evading attacks. |
For this 14 mana battle, Target Practice which gives monsters the Snipe ability and Close Range so that range monsters can attack even at 1st position with the attack priority on the slowest monster due to the Reverse Speed rule set. As you can see on this battle, when Fungus Flinger dies, it increases the damage forFungus Fiend and Djinn Biljka which was the adjacent cards to Djinn Biljka and with that, I was able to defeat my opponent.
Battle 2: Terraceous Grunt
| Conditions | Description |
|---|---|
 Silver League Modern Format | 39 Mana Cap Available Elements:  Fire, Earth,  Life, Dragon Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_eff8d2a673020ad7a1be6b1526f231b5&ref=saydie |
Target Practice | All Ranged and Magic attack Monsters have the Snipe ability. |
 Stampede | The Trample ability can trigger multiple times per attack if the trampled Monster is killed. |
For the 2nd battle, we have a 39 mana cap match with Target practice which gives all range and magic monsters the Snipe and Stampede that can trigger multiple Trample. The use of Terracheous Grunt provides my team with a tank that has huge health and with can evade some of the enemy attacks with the Dodge ability just like how Djinn Chwala missed an attack.
Battle 3: Ava the Undaunted
| Conditions | Description |
|---|---|
 Gold League Wild Format | 37 Mana Cap Available Elements: Fire, Earth,  Death, Life, DragonLink: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_e6a7ba048f2d722e43ee08c86bedabda&ref=bltzr-wizard-726 |
 Noxious Fumes | All Monsters start the battle Poisoned. |
Reverse Speed | Monsters with the lowest Speed attack first and have the highest chance of evading attacks. |
 Evens Stevens | Only Monsters with even Mana costs may be used in battles. |
For this battle, we have Noxious Fumes which poisoned all the monster while Evens Stevens only allows the use of monster with even mana cost. With Reverse Speed making priority of attack to those monsters with lower speed, I have chosen a magic team though I also use Ava the Undaunted just to fill my empty spot and while on it, gives Failed Summoner range attack. It can't attack though since it was on the 1st position so its now called Failed Archer instead. 😜
Battle 4: Terracheous Hulk
| Conditions | Description |
|---|---|
Gold League Wild Format | 99 Mana Cap Available Elements:  Water, Earth, Death, DragonLink: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_a387f98fa12bda74bc1f50c5e9cfca0c&ref=avainattempt |
 What Doesn't Kill You | All Monsters have the Enrage ability. |
 Equalizer | The initial Health of all Monsters is equal to that of the Monster on either team with the highest base Health. |
For the last battle that I will show, we have 99 mana match where there is the What Doesn't Kill You rule set that gives the Enrage ability on all monsters and Equalizer that make the default health of all monsters the same. I used Terrecheous Hulk on this match because aside from the health it also has Void Armor which even magic attacks needs to reduce so that they can damage this monster and with Taunt, most of the abled attacks will be focused on this monster. Since I use Immortallis on this match, it also gained Shatter and Void which make this an impregnable tank on a nerfed magic team.
Final Thoughts
The New Earth Soulbound Reward cards offers new sets of possibilities for the Earth element with the addition of new abilities they posses adding to the meta. The notable cards on this set for me was Fungus Flinger with with the Martyr ability which is very useful even at level 1 and it might be better to keep this monster at level 1 since this is a sacrificial card in order to increase the stats of adjacent monsters. Also having Terrecheous Hulk provides a new powerful tank for the earth team with the Taunt and Void Armor and shines most when partnered with Immortalis.
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