Countdown to Untamed - Part 2

4 days left until Untamed and we're back with a new set of cards to whet your appetite! Additionally, we noticed that yesterday we forgot to add a Neutral card, so today we'll add two new Untamed Neutral cards to make up for it, giving a total of 7 new cards to be presented!

As always, please keep in mind that everything is still subject to change before the release. This includes the stats, abilities, names, and even the entire card itself.

Now that that's out of the way, we are excited to present the Coral Wraith, Crystal Jaguar, Living Lava, Orc Sergeant, Soulstorm, Tower Griffin, and Goblin Chariot cards!

Coral Wraith

The Coral Wraith is an Epic Water splinter card which sports a rare Magic attack on a monster with the Sneak ability. Combined with Alric as the Summoner the Wraith will wreak some havoc on your enemy's back line!

It also has the new Rust ability, which, if you don't remember from yesterday's post, reduces the Armor of all enemy monsters by 2 points.

Crystal Jaguar

The Crystal Jaguar is a fairly standard low mana Common rarity tank card for the Life splinter. It should be a good choice for the first position in low mana cap games and can even be put in the back to take advantage of the Thorns and Retaliate abilities in rulesets like Super Sneak.

Living Lava

Living Lava is a more beefy tank for the Fire splinter. With the Shield ability starting at level 1 we expect this will be a great card at low levels and also in the later levels with adding Rust and Thorns as it levels up.

With only 8 Health at 7 Mana it's definitely weak to Magic attack, so make sure you have a good idea what type of team you will likely go up against when you put him in.

Orc Sergeant

The Orc Sergeant is a strong second-position card for the Earth splinter with the Reach ability. With decent health and Inspire at level 6 he should be a shoe-in for any Earth team that wants to focus on Melee attack damage.

Soulstorm

Now we come to an interesting new Epic rarity card for the Death splinter - Soulstorm! In addition to Flying, Headwinds, and Stun it also has a new ability called Snare which means it will always hit targets that have the Flying ability, and those targets to become "Snared" which causes them to lose the benefits from the Flying ability for the rest of the battle (unless they are later Cleansed, of course).

We expect this to be a very strong card for the Death splinter, but with a high Ranged attack and low health you'll need to be careful going up against teams with the Return Fire ability which will feature more heavily in Untamed than it has in the past.

Tower Griffin

First up for the Neutral cards, which can be used along with any other Splinters, we have the Rare Tower Griffin card. The Tower Griffin is the first Neutral card to sport the Protect ability, which gives all friendly monsters +2 Armor.

We had used the Protect ability very sparingly in the past since it is quite powerful, however now with the addition of the Rust ability to counter it we can use it a little more often going forward.

Goblin Chariot

And last, but not least, to make up for leaving out the Neutral cards yesterday, we present the Rare Goblin Chariot card. If you ever need some additional Ranged attack fire power on your team, throw in this rowdy bunch of goblins throwing spears from the back of a chariot. Looks like that one poor goblin in the front is getting quite a workout...


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Here are the graphics of the new cards:

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a new ability called Snare which means it will always hit targets that have the Flying ability, and those targets to become "Snared" which causes them to lose the benefits from the Flying ability for the rest of the battle

So if the target has Flying then speed difference and Dodge is ignored and target will always be hit?

Crystal Jaguar seems to replace Crystal Werewolf as a cheap tank in a lot of battles :)

Soulstorm + Fallen Specter + Zintar Mortalis / Crypt Mancer = -3 Melee :O

So if the target has Flying then speed difference and Dodge is ignored and target will always be hit?

Yes

Soulstorm + Fallen Specter + Zintar Mortalis / Crypt Mancer = -3 Melee :O

Soulstorm and Fallen Specter have Headwinds which reduces Ranged attack, not Melee.

By the way, I think Fallen Specter should have Void ability (which could replace any of it's other abilities), otherwise it always kills itself immediately if the opponent (as always) uses Lord Arianthus with Magic Reflect.

Totally agree on that. Even a no attack Fallen specter is fine, it's sad to see such a beautiful card never getting into play cause of LA. There's a tweak that's needed to be done, it's such a subpar rare at current state @yabapmatt

would be nice, any anti Lord A would be nice. Fallen Specter is a nice card and there are some rulesets where Lord A is not allowed, hint :-)

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... and there are some rulesets where Lord A is not allowed, hint :-)

Some ... few ... :-) ... OK, there are some use cases ...

I think Fallen Specter is a card for the little league.

Maybe, but I think, a real legendary card shouldn't be kicked out of the match after the first round in most other cases ... :)

Hm - till now I cannot remember any legendary card who cost only 2 Mana but maybe I oversee something.

... but maybe I oversee something.

Yes, maybe just the fact, that even non-legendary 2 mana monsters normally survive longer than a single round only? :)

No I really has overseen one monster: The ShinLo cost only 1 Mana and if he meet f.e. the Findish Harpey he can also die in the first round.

Continue to love the execution of this team! Good work guys!

Did you know that gold can never rust do to its inert natural properties? Would be cool if GF cards were resistant to ‘rust’, but that might be too geeky even for me.

Thanks for continuing to make this game exciting and a fun part of my day :)

I think it would really increase the worth of all goldfoil cards a lot !

Anyone else feel the price of Selenia about to skyrocket? I mean so much ranged and dragon goodness in untamed.

True, but i also expect that at least one new summoner will have a +1 Ranged Attack :)

Their would be also some other possibilities than just to change a little bit the buffs from one summoner to another … what f.e. with a summoner who had just the ability "blind" ?

Soul Storm has no difference between level 1 and level 2. Cards are looking good though.

yes and it seems me that the Living Java has also no difference between Level 3 and 4, isn't it ?

yes that one needs some love also.

Not a fan of the Crystal Jaguars artwork, but still cool cards, cant wait to get them added to my deck :)

Crystal Jaguar look like Crystal Centipede 😂

Second that opinion

Okay, you guys are making me think way too much for this game. I took this season off in rank play and looks like I will be coming back to a whole different way of playing. Grrr! I have to wrap my brain around all these new cards and abilities. The new set is definitely a game-changer!

If you have time, you may consider to fix blue/green colours of the (water/nature) cards, both look almost the same. @yabapmatt

Not to mention black and dragon

Interesting, looks like we will have to rethink everything, can't wait to try some stuff out

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All those cards are awesome.

As I said in the last update topic.....

Your making it hard for me to keep my money.