One of the surprisingly powerful cards out of Alteil's Advent of the Sun Expansion is a common card called Mermaid Harpist. It reminds me of another common card, Storm Wizardress that has become a staple in Wizard Kingdom files combined with Volfied, or Giant Squid files, or even Big Falkow files.
Mermaid Harpist IMHO has the potential to make mermaid decks into another commonly used meta file. Let's check out this card.
The strength of this card lies in it's Open Skill. Imagine an opponent's side full of mermaids which you just happened to wipe out, say with Allind, or with Afel, or even Game Over. Is the mermaid player at a disadvantage? Hardly. All he has to do is play this card on the succeeding turn, and as long as there is an open or closed unit on the field to return, all the mermaids in the field are revived. As if Emana's revive skill were not enough, mermaids get another reviver in the Harpist.
The way I have seen this card abused in Folrart is that the mermaid player will return the copy of Mermaid Harpist already on the field next turn by using another Mermaid Harpist. So even if you field wipe his units that turn, he simply keeps repeating this cycle, since he has 2 free SP given each turn. The only way to break the cycle would be to drain his SP, using shade for example, so that he cannot play Mermaid Harpist on the next turn. (But he might opt to sacrifice one closed unit for SP). Perhaps one can try to prevent any open of closed unit from being returned (but highly unlikely because of the field wipe). Finally, one can probably play a card like Stronghold to decrease the Refess level from one to zero.
It's Start skill even provides AGI advantage. And being a level 2 unit, Emana can always revive it, and sacrifice herself only to get revived by a second copy of Mermaid harpist, that will also return the first copy of harpist, and the cycle again continues and is difficult to break.
Newbies and free players will probably be able to take advantage of common cards like these. Its good to know that there are alternative deck strategies opened up by non-rare cards like Mermaid Harpist. Doesn't have to be a 5-star to be a game changer.
Mermaid Harpist IMHO has the potential to make mermaid decks into another commonly used meta file. Let's check out this card.
The strength of this card lies in it's Open Skill. Imagine an opponent's side full of mermaids which you just happened to wipe out, say with Allind, or with Afel, or even Game Over. Is the mermaid player at a disadvantage? Hardly. All he has to do is play this card on the succeeding turn, and as long as there is an open or closed unit on the field to return, all the mermaids in the field are revived. As if Emana's revive skill were not enough, mermaids get another reviver in the Harpist.
The way I have seen this card abused in Folrart is that the mermaid player will return the copy of Mermaid Harpist already on the field next turn by using another Mermaid Harpist. So even if you field wipe his units that turn, he simply keeps repeating this cycle, since he has 2 free SP given each turn. The only way to break the cycle would be to drain his SP, using shade for example, so that he cannot play Mermaid Harpist on the next turn. (But he might opt to sacrifice one closed unit for SP). Perhaps one can try to prevent any open of closed unit from being returned (but highly unlikely because of the field wipe). Finally, one can probably play a card like Stronghold to decrease the Refess level from one to zero.
It's Start skill even provides AGI advantage. And being a level 2 unit, Emana can always revive it, and sacrifice herself only to get revived by a second copy of Mermaid harpist, that will also return the first copy of harpist, and the cycle again continues and is difficult to break.
Newbies and free players will probably be able to take advantage of common cards like these. Its good to know that there are alternative deck strategies opened up by non-rare cards like Mermaid Harpist. Doesn't have to be a 5-star to be a game changer.
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