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Card Combos and Strategy

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Unless I devise or receive a ton of combos, each region will be on this one page.

If you have any combos, submit them to me, and I may post them here. All combos submitted and posted will be given due credit.

NOTE: Unlike the Card Images page, any Promotional cards here will be found in their own specific region.

NOTE: These combo descriptions were written with primarily one-on-one battles in mind.

NOTE: Combos listed from other people will only have links to card images if those links can't be found in my own previous combos of the same region.

Arderial

Alaban and Updraft: These two can be used together for nearly the same effect as a Shockwave, if you don't mind paying 6 energy. Bring in an Alaban, then use Undream to return an opponent's Creature to their hand and discard it's energy, then Updraft the Alaban to bring it back to your hand. On your next turn, you can use the Alaban to Undream another Creature, whether or not you Updraft it again.
Cloud Narth and Pharan: The Cloud Narth's Healing Storm allows you to discard it and a Pharan to add their combined energy plus 3 to any Creature or Magi. Normally, this will be paying 5 to add 8. If you have Ora as your Magi, each will come out with an additional energy for free, so you'd be paying 5 to add 10. Should you use a Shooting Star on one or both of them before using Healing Storm, you can get up to 12 or 14 for paying only 6 or 7 (if Ora is your Magi).
Kalius's Wind Spawn: There are several good uses for this ability. One is to bring in an Epik and use it's Dream Feast, so that you are only paying 1 to discard two Creatures from your opponent's hand. To be more effective, use a Mask of Abwyn's Windsight to see your opponent's hand before bringing in the Epik. Another is to bring in 3 Lightning Hyren, then use Wind Spawn to bring in a Thunder Hyren. After doing so, use the Thunder Hyren's Replenish to add 2 energy to the Lightning Hyren, which will make them all 7-energy Creatures. In effect, you'll be paying 16 energy to have 21 energy in Creatures. Should you have a Staff of Hyren in play when you do this, all of your Lightning Hyrens will be at 8. Another use for Wind Spawn is with Warlum, because it will let you do its Materialize for only 1 energy, and gain control of an opponent's Relic. Another use is for a Thunder Vashp, because then you can do Thunderclap for only 1 energy, and discard an opponent's Creature with 3 or less energy.
Xyx: Xyx are some of the most powerful Creatures Arderial has, because of the Xyx Minor's Gathering Clouds ability. With this, you can pump up any type of Xyx. This works nice if you have Ora as your Magi, because Xyx Minors will come out at 3 energy, which lets them pump up without dying, and saves you from having to do something like cast a Shooting Star on them. If you have them do this on themselves, they will gain 2 energy each turn. If you have them do this on a regular Xyx, it will be able to Shock twice without dying (assuming it lives for 2 turns). And if you do this on a Xyx Elder, it can Shockstorm without dying (keep in mind that Shockstorm hurts all non-Xyx Creatures in play, so don't do this if you have any non-Xyx Creatures in play that you care about). Another great way to pump up Xyx's is with Cloud Narths and Pharans (see above).

From Brian:

Alaban Gloves + Impact, Dark Ayebaw, or XYX. Use Alaban Gloves to get rid of a Creature in play, and one of the Spells or Creatures listed to pound the Magi.
Alaban Gloves + Storm Ring. Use the Alaban Gloves to get rid of a Creature and take free hits on the Magi.
Vellup + Cloud Sceptre. Quick way to build up your hand in a pinch -- play a Vellup or two, and hold onto the remaining one. In next P/S/R phase, discard it for another card.
XYXs + Other Attacking Weenies + Cry of Thunder + Solar Flare (+ Forest Jile). Vellups are appropriate here, as are just about any other smallish Arderial Creature.
XYXs + Updraft. Use a fresh Magi and large starting hand -- preferably Ora, and preferably 2 XYX Elder, at least 2 XYX Minor, and numerous support Spells -- to get a huge energy boost. Play as many XYX and support Spells as you can afford, and use Gathering Clouds with the intent of getting one XYX Elder as large as you can. Updraft it. This can leave an impressive loaf of XYX in play, and a frightening amount of energy on Ora. The XYX Elder in your hand is not to be underestimated as well. This works well if you make Ora the cornerstone Magi of your game.
It's also been my experience with Alaban that Updraft is too valuable a Spell to use on it (see first combo in section above). It's cheaper to use a Dream Balm to restore it to 6 energy.

Cald

Diobor: Bring in a Diobor along with any other Creatures. When you are done bringing in Creatures, use Diobor's Energy Transfer to move all but 1 energy on it back to your Magi, then use its Fireball ability to do 2 damage to a Creature. You basically pay 1 to do 2 damage.
Ergar: Having an Ergar out with as many other Creatures as you can. Each one of them (and the Ergar) will gain the ability to Spark, which lets them pay 1 to do 1 damage to another Creature or to a Magi. The flexibility this gives you with 1-for-1 energy discards is very helpful.
Magma Hyren: With 2 or 3 Magma Hyren in play, you can have them pump each other up by 1 every turn with Healing Flame. You could also do this, and then use their Fireball ability to do 1 damage to opposing Creatures, without losing any energy overall.
Nara: Nara's Rare Spirit can be used in a variety of ways. Cast Flame Control to rearrange the energy on your Creatures such that a large-energy Creature gives 1 energy to each of your weaker Creatures. When you're done swapping energy, each of the smaller Creatures will actually get twice as much, which will be 2 more total each than they had before you cast Flame Control. Or if you gave a Creature 2 energy, it would get 4, and so on. Other Cald Spells can be used in a similar manner, including Fire Flow and Spirit of the Flame.
Scroll of Fire: This is useful with many Spells and Creature powers. If you cast Flame Geyser with this and have no Creatures in play, you will do 4 damage to each of your opponent's Creatures instead of 3. With Magma Hyren's Fireball, you will do 2 damage instead of 1. With Diobor, you will do 3 damage instead of 2. With Ergar, you can have each of your Creatures Spark for 1 energy to do 2 damage. With Fire Chogo, you will do 2 damage to each non-Cald Creature instead of 1. With Core Grag, you will do 3 damage to each Creature instead of 2. This especially works nice in combination, like bringing in a Fire Chogo and Core Grag, then using each of their abilities (be sure to do the Core Grag first) to do 5 damage to each opposing Creature (if they are all non-Cald) and 3 damage to those Creatures' Magi, or bringing in 3 Fire Chogos to do 6 damage to each opposing Creature.

Core

Entomb: This is best used if you know your opponent has a certain Spell in their deck, and you have the same Spell in your deck (say Bottomless Pit). Cast Entomb as soon as you get it, and name Bottomless Pit, so that it becomes a Core Spell. Now, unless your opponent has a Mantle of Shadows, they won't be able to use Bottomless Pit. Also, you will be able to use Bottomless Pit, although it will cost 4 instead of 3. This can be done to hinder your opponent in using any Spell, but should especially be considered for things like Shockwave and Undertow.
Grim Goblet and Rayje's Belt: Grim Goblet essentially gets you 3 cards for free, unless your opponent discards it, in which case you lose your entire hand. To prevent this, have a Rayje's Belt in play, and use its Lockdown to name Backlash, the negative effect of Grim Goblet, during your turn. This way, even if your opponent does discard it, you won't lose your hand. Core has many other cards with negative effects, such as Chaos Jile, Tragan, Korg, and Korg & Zet, all of which would benefit from a Rayje's Belt. It could also be useful in special circumstances, such as stopping Koil's Re-Koil from happening.
Turn before your Attack step: Cast Turn to gain control of an opposing Creature with less than its starting energy, and restore it to its starting energy. If you do this before your Attack step, you may have the Creature attack on the same turn. Keep in mind that the Creature's region will change to Core.
Vrill and Shadow Bones: Vrill's Nightfall ability adds energy to all of your Creatures equal to their starting energy, which is great, but the chances of it living long enough to do that are slim. Since it would cost you 4 additional energy through its Succor effect to be able to use Nightfall, you might as well do it on the same turn you bring it out, for the same price, using Shadow Bones. Shadow Bones costs 4 energy, and adds energy to a Creature equal to its starting energy. This would bring your Vrill up to 8, and give you enough to use Nightfall. If you think it will not lose more than 1 energy during your opponent's next turn, you can wait to use Shadow Bones until your next turn, when Vrill will have 6 energy (at best). Then it will be at 10 from the Shadow Bones, drop to 2 from using Nightfall, and then get boosted to 6 after Nightfall adds energy to it. Should it not be damaged during your opponent's next turn, it will be at 8, and you can use Nightfall once more. Using Vrill's ability is especially nice with large Creatures such as Borgor and Darkbreed Hyren, although if you don't have enough energy to pull it off, Shadow Bones can be used on these Creatures individually.
Wudge: Wudge is one of the best Core Creatures there is, especially at the start of the game, and if you go first. Play Wudge as your first Creature, then however many other Creatures you can afford. On your opponent's turn, they'll have to play Creatures to defend themselves with. Wudge Strengthens by 1 from each Creature played (by either player), so unless your opponent uses a Spell or Power to maim or discard Wudge, it should have a lot of energy by this point. If you have more than one Wudge to play at the beginning, this works even better.

Kybar's Teeth

NOTE: There are not yet enough cards for Kybar's Teeth for there to be any regional combos; but for an example of how the Rock Hyren may be used with Orothe, see "Whall's Dreamtwist".

Naroom

Balamant Pups: If you have 2 or more of these in play at once, you can use their Support ability to pump each other up by 1 every turn.
Giant Carillion and Weebo: Use Giant Carillion's Stomp to discard a Creature from play, then use Weebo's Vitalize to restore it to 8 energy. To do this without losing your Weebo, have a Robe of Vines out before you bring it into play, so that it will have 3 energy. To be able to Vitalize more than once with a given Weebo, pump it up by using things like Tap Roots, Grow, or Pruitt's Refresh ability.
Flood of Energy: Cast Flood of Energy after killing an opponent's Magi so that they won't get the benefit of it. This can really be done with a Magi of any region, but will give you less energy because of the regional penalty.
Forest Hyren and Leaf Hyren: Use Forest Hyren's Energy Transfer for 5 to add 7 energy to a Leaf Hyren, which makes it 11. Then use Leaf Hyren's Energy Transfer to move 4 energy back to Forest Hyren, which will gain an additional energy because of Underbrush. After both transfers are done, you will still have a 9-energy Forest Hyren, and your Leaf Hyren will be at 7, which is a 3-energy gain for free.
Sperri: Sperri is a killer if you have 3 Furoks in your hand. Any Furok she plays comes in with 2 additional energy, and she can pay 2 to return one from your discard pile to your hand. Plus, whenever Furoks attack, half of the energy they lose, rounded up, goes back on your Magi. So basically, you won't run out of Furoks until your deck is exhausted and you have to use your discard pile to replace it. Even then, should you still have a Furok in play, you can use Ancestral Flute to get the other 2 back immediately.
Tree Hinkos: Play 3 of these guys at the same time, and have each of them use Invigorate. On your next turn, your Magi will energize for 6 more than they would otherwise. If you also have a Water of Life in play, it will be for 7 more. If you also have a Dream Channel attached to a Creature that is still around on your next turn, it will be for 9 more. In any case, you will still have 3 1-energy Creatures left after the Hinkos use their ability. You could even have them all still at 2 energy if you had a Robe of Vines in play before bringing them out, which would let any of them left alive on your next turn use their ability again without dying.

Orothe

Mobis and Whall: Have Mobis be your 1st or 2nd Magi, and Whall follow right after him. This will give Whall a total of 18 energy on his first turn. With this, you can do a modified version of "Whall's Dreamtwist", listed below. This is easier done if Whall is your 3rd Magi, so that you are more likely to have the necessary cards in your hand. First, bring in a Deep Hyren, Sphor, and two 1-energy Creatures (say Bwill and Phrup), for a total of 10 energy. Use Deep Hyren's Hurricane with the Bwill to do 3 damage to each non-Orothe Creature and Magi. You lost 2 Creatures, so add 2 energy to Sphor. Next, Dreamtwist your Phrup into a Colossus, which brings your Sphor up to 5. You've now spent 15 energy. Play a Robes of the Ages. Use the 3 remaining energy to play a Submerge on your Sphor, which will bring him up to 8, and a Dream Channel and Nightmare Channel on your Colossus. You might want to have a Dream Balm or three in your hand as well, so that you can restore the Colossus to full energy when he gets low, and ensure that the Dream Channel and Nightmare Channel stay around for a while.
O'Qua and Abaquist: Use O'Qua's Conjure ability to search through your deck for an Abaquist and bring it into play with 4 energy. The Abaquist can then be discarded to take control of any Creature with 3 or less energy. To gain control of a larger Creature, use Submerge (one of O'Qua's starting cards) to bring the Abaquist up to 7. To bring it up to 8, get Orothean Belt as one of her starters, and play it before using Submerge. If you draw an additional Submerge as a starting card, you can get the Abaquist to 10 or 12, depending on whether or not you have an Orothean Belt. Should O'Qua be your starting Magi, let your opponent go first, so that you will have some Creatures to gain control of. If you do the Abaquist trick before your Bring in New Creatures phase, the Creature you gain control of will still be able to attack on the same turn.
O'Qua and Giant Parathin: Use O'Qua's Conjure ability to search your deck for the 10-energy Giant Parathin, and bring it into play for only 4 energy. You will still be able to use its Interchange ability, but at a much lower cost. This is best done after a few turns where you've Conjured Abaquists, to make full use of her power. By the time you go through your next two Magi (if she's your first), you should have gotten through your deck once, so your Abaquists will be available to Conjure again.
Whall's Dreamtwist: Bring in a 1-energy Creature (like Bwill or Phrup), then pay 5 to Dreamtwist it into a large Creature, like a Colossus or Rock Hyren, at full energy. If Whall is your 3rd Magi, you should have had plenty of time to save up 1-energy Creatures, and large Creatures to Dreamtwist them into. Keep in mind that you can only Dreamtwist once per turn, unless you want to pay extra energy to use a Mirror Pendant.
Will of Orothe and Bwills: Do this when your opponent has some big Creatures in play. Bring in 3 Bwills (or less, as needed, but 3 is most effective), and play a Will of Orothe. On your opponent's next turn, you can force their Creatures to fight your Bwills and kill themselves. To make this more effective, also bring in as many Sphors as you can with the Bwills, so that each will gain 1 energy when a Bwill dies. To prevent your opponent from using Spells to kill your Bwills before their Attack step, you can play a Storm of Fishes to discard all Spells from both their hand and yours after you play the Will of Orothe. (Of course you should only do this if you have no other Spells in your hand, or if you only have Spells you don't care about.)

Underneath

Burrowing: Bring in a Tunnel Hyren to burrow the rest of your Creatures. If you can afford it (as unlikely as this as), bring in another Tunnel Hyren so that they burrow each other. If you have Ghost Bwisps or a Digging Goggles in play, all of your Creatures will be able to attack while burrowed, but will only lose 2 energy max from each counterattack. Increase the effectiveness of this by Enriching your burrowed Creatures, and by playing a Tunneler's Boots so that each burrowed Creature gains 1 energy at the end of your turn. If Strag is your Magi, your burrowed Creatures can effectively only lose 1 energy from being attacked. If Gogor is your Magi, you can safely use safely use Gravel Storm (unless you have an unburrowed Tunnel Hyren, which you can fix by casting Burrow on it, or by bringing in a second Tunnel Hyren).
Impact and Intensify: Cast Intensify, then Impact. This will let you do damage to a Magi equal to quadruple the energy on the Creature you are discarding, for only 2 energy (plus the energy on the Creature).
Radget and Parmalags: Use Radget's Refresh ability with any Parmalag to add 3 energy to it for a cost of 1. This works especially well with normal Parmalags (as opposed to Giant Parmalags). Since she starts with a Crystal Arboll, save it for a normal Parmalag. Sack the Crystal Arboll to bring the Parmalag up to 7 energy, then use Refresh to bring it to 10. Now, by paying 1 energy for the Parmalag's Shield, it can attack for a lot of damage without losing any energy from the counterattack. Even doing Refresh without a Crystal Arboll on a normal Parmalag is nice. Should your opponent's Magi have a lot of energy, you can use one of her starters, Impact, with a pumped-up Parmalag to do a lot of damage to it.
Trug and Flood of Energy: Use Trug as your 2nd Magi. This works best if your opponent is on their last Magi. Trug comes in at 14, but needs 15 to use his Cataclysm. Therefore, cast Flood of Energy (for 2 energy plus 1 for the regional penalty) to energize again for 5, which will give you 16 total, and enough to use Cataclysm. If your opponent is on their last Magi, you will win the game. This can also be done if you are becoming very annoyed with your opponent's 2nd Magi, and are confident in being able to defeat their 3rd Magi.
Ulk and Korrits: Save Ulk for your 3rd Magi. Hopefully by the time you get to her, you'll have 3 Pack Korrits, 3 Korrits, 3 Giant Korrits, and a Gloves of Crystal. Bring in all 3 Pack Korrits and all 3 Korrits, for a cost of 12. Pay one additional energy with the Gloves of Crystal to add one to a Pack Korrit. Have that Pack Korrit, then the other two, both use their Morale ability to add one energy to all of the [other] Korrits in play, which includes both Korrits and Pack Korrits. When you are done with this, you should have 3 Korrits at 6 energy each, one Pack Korrit with 3 energy, and two Pack Korrits with 2 energy each. If you'd like, you can pump up one of these with a Crystal Arboll, or just use a Crystal Arboll instead of a Gloves of Crystal in the first place. At the start of each of your turns, Ulk will add 1 energy to each of your Korrits, and your Pack Korrits will all be able to do their Morale trick once each per turn. Add Giant Korrits as energy permits, but always before doing Morale.

Universal

Rayje's Belt and Relic Mirror: Rayje's Belt is a card that should be in almost every deck. You can always find something that you don't want an opponent to be able to do. To protect it (against Relic Stalker, Resonate, etc.), use a Relic Mirror. However, this won't save it from things like Karak's Steal ability or Hubdra's Cube, since they aren't discarding it from play.

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