The Champion of the Arena - Tatiana and Larissa

I am here again doing the final post in my Gladiator series. This is my sixth post in this series regarding the Gladiators from the Gladius Pack. The post will cover the remaining monsters which is from the dragon and neutral splinter which are both in legendary rarity. If you are following this series, this showcase the gladiator cards which are not that discussed as gladius cards can only be use in the brawls.

If you have missed out my previous post which features the other elements, please refer to the link below.

Disclaimer: All information below are based on my opinion and playstyle. Each player has its own opinion regarding these cards and I'm just going to share my opinion.

My current highest level Tatiana Blayde is a ★1 normal foil and with the speed and being a neutral monster, this card is a good one.

Tatiana Blayde offers a very good stats. Looking at the stats of this monster, she does have a range and melee attack which is pretty good and powerful. A high speed and a high health.

The close range abiltiy which is very compatible with her range attack in order to fully utilized the range and melee attack by positioning Tatiana Blayde in the first position or in the backline position as long as there is a equal opportunity, melee mayhem or a super sneak ruleset. Next is the dodge ability which is also compatible with her high speed. The inspire ability would be a good use as well to boost melee monsters and the true strike which may be use against flying units.

Since Tatiana Blayde is a neutral monsters, let's see how Tatiana is compatible in the current Chaos Legion or Riftwatchers summoners.

• Fire: Tarsa would give an additional boost to the melee damage of Tatiana but I would say that Conqueror Jacek with the +2 speed and piercing ability would be much of help. Skargore enrage as well would work fine to boost all Tatiana Blayde stats.
• Water: I would say Kelya would be a better choice with Tatiana Blayde for additional speed and armor over Aquatus which only gives additional ability which is return fire.
• Earth: I would say that Tatiana Blayde is not compatible with either Obsidian and Fernheart.
• Life: In terms of Life, General Sloan would give great boost to the Tatiana Blayde range attack but might rarely seen this combo. Grandmaster Rathe as well would not be a good option as well as Ilthain.
• Death: Thaddius Brood actually will work with Tatiana Blayde as Thaddius Brood focus to weaken enemies that is why any monsters is good with Thaddius Brood while Dallan cripple could be a good use with Tatiana Blayde as she can attack twice as long as the situation allows to. This means that she can triggers double cripple in a single round. That would be very strong against healing monsters.

Usage: Tatiana Blayde is best to use in the backline especially with the Equal Opportunity, Melee Mayhem and Super sneak ruleset in order to utilize the melee attack while in the backline. Due to high speed, reverse speed is not applicble with Tatiana Blayde. From the list of splinter, Fire and Water would likely use Tatiana Blayde as the gladiator card.

Rating: ★★★★

Currently, I do not own this legendary card from the dragon splinter.

Larissa Kerato looking at the stats may not be that powerful because it only deals a constant of 2 magic damage, a 2 speed and a 3 health which is very low for a 7 mana cost. The main thing about this card is the set of abilities she have.

Don't judge Larissa if you are not checking her abilities. First is the double attack which is oo powerful for a magic unit. This means that in every round Larissa Kerato could deal a minimum of 2 magic damage without any reduction. The double attack is greatly synergize with the bloodlust ability as Larissa do have high chance in defeating enemies with the double strike thus triggering the bloodlust ability to further boost her stats. The void and dispel would be just an additional abilities to further improve Larissa Kerato but the blast ability which unlocks in the maximum level is further increase and enhance the double strike and bloodlust ability.

The bad thing with this card is that it does have a very low health and low speed which is not suitable to use against high speed monsters with the opportunity ability such as Deeplurker unless there would be a taunt monsters.

Usage: Larissa Kerato would be a good use in different situation because of her double attack that can easily defeat enemies to trigger the bloodlust ability. In such case that there would be equal opportunity ruleset, there should be a tank so that Larissa could not be targeted.

Rating: ★★★★

Both Tatiana Blayde and Larissa Kerato are very good gladiator cards. They both can attack twice per round, Tatiana dealing a melee and range attack while Larissa dealing a double magic attack. The big advantage is that these two cards could trigger a bloodlust ability because of their double attack but there are still weakness for this card such as Larissa with the low health and speed which could easily be defeated by a random scattershot, a snipe attack or a high speed opportunity attack and Tatiana with the high speed could be useless in the reverse speed ruleset.

With the back to basic ruleset, these two cards could be weaken further because of their abilities being taken away. Overall these two cards are extremely powerful especially if use properly.

Thank you so much for staying and reading my Gladiator card series post.

See you on the upcoming post.