Basilisk Blood | Basilisk Blood

[xiongwen8]

  I agree with Essence that this card is too much of an investement to put into 1 of your own creatures considering the fact that first of all, just increasing a creature's health by large amounts doesn't make it invulnerable (e.g. fallen elfs, rewind, freeze, etc.). Also,  you'll be putting that creature out for 6 turns, which drastically decreases the value of that creature simply because it is out of the action for so long. In other words, using BB on your creatures and waiting for 6 turns is just not a good enough strategy, alot can happen in 6 turns.
  However, combining adrenaline with BB and possibly Otyugh does sound like a good idea, and also using BB with a damage absorbance creature (e.g. armagio). But these are rigid and specific combinations that might require a specialized deck.
  So overall it seems that Basilisk's Blood will be more useful to us as a creature control card considering its high stasis time.

[Essence]

Oooh!  I didn't even think of Adrenaline.  That's good. 

That's actually good enough that it might be worth basing a trio deck around.  Elite Armagio+Momentum+Adrenaline = 12 unstoppable damage every turn, and with BB/BBNymph, he can keep you alive for a looong time while doing the reaming! 


Hmm...Nymph's Tears takes Water.  Add some Stone Pillars and Emerald Pillars for the BBNymph and AdreNymph, and make a duo Water/Gravity deck based on surviving via Freezing enemy creatures long enough to get the massive Armagio combo out -- your biggest problem is drawing out enemy creature control so that it's all gone by the time your big Nymph combo hits the table.  So fill up with Chargers and Otyugh, they're not terribly ignorable.   You could even have healing/Rainbow denial via BHNymph on the side.

Just thinking out loud.

[Brion]

wonderful for rushes unless you can't kill the opp in 6turns... anyways good creature control

[Daytripper]

You can use basilisk blood on your own creatures if you draw them early. If you had an early shrieker and the blood, you could use it. You can't really expect an unprotected shrieker to live long anyway. If you use it a lot, you will become very slow though. You need a lot of health regen to survive a long battle and stone skin can't always do that. It ''costs'' 50 quants to be really effective and it isn't certain you can build that up. Also, there are freezing and time reverse effects, or antimatter. So a strong creature doesn't really have to be good unless if it's immortal. That is kind of hard to build in an earth deck though.

If you upgrade your deck and make sure health regen is assured, earth is a very strong deck. I see this idea working better on an earth/gravity deck. It makes sense to use it on a devourer. You can after all place the devourer unprotected but then you know against many decks it would get knocked off its socks. I would not try this against a time deck though. The opponent would just cast reverse time on your upgraded unit.

Easier and more elegant is freezing your opponent's dragons and stuff for 6 turns. Then you slug away before he gets you. It doesn't bother me if the creatures gain HP. In an earth/time deck you really don't need to kill anything.

But anyway the nice thing is you can choose to cast basilisk blood offensively or defensively so it's a great card. Against immortal opponent's, put it on your own shriekers.

[Avenger]

Using BB on players (both sides) would be fun. (freezing weapon for 6 rounds, healing 20 hp).

[haidao0923]

that a perfect card to stall enemy for fast win that why I like Earth Nymph because it have the same effect but is not limited to 6 time used and I wonder do you need 9,000 for 6 upped cards of the same type?