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Archmage Yabanius is a legendary dual splinter unit aligned with the Water and Dragon elements. Yabanius has ranged attack, solid speed and good health, making him an effective backline threat. However, his strength comes from his unique combination of abilities that we will discuss in today's post. I will also show a battle where he is used effectively.

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Lore

Archmage Yabanius was a member of the Wizards' Council who uncovered Portia Nyr's betrayal after she lowered the Wizards' Veil, unleashing the Chaos Legion upon the Splinterlands. He journeyed deep beneath Praetoria in search of a way to seal the growing rifts and discovered an ancient fortress where fellow archmage Aggroedius Lightbringer was struggling to contain a massive portal to the dark god Uul's realm. Together they held the rift at bay for five years until Yabanius devised a new sealing spell, though Aggroedius vanished during its completion. Exhausted but victorious, Yabanius emerged from the Deep determined to stop Portia and reclaim the legacy of the Wizards' Council.

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Stats and Abilities

Archmage Yabanius is a durable and fast backline attacker that can survive longer than most ranged units. At maxed levels he deals three range damage, has six health and insanely fast with five speed. However, it's his combination of abilities that make him a great card.

Camouflage prevents him from being directly targeted while another friendly unit remains alive, allowing him to stay protected in the backline. Complementing his first ability, Empower increases the power of himself and adjacent allies by +1, boosting the offensive potential of the team's core attackers. He has a couple of debuff abilities that will aid in battle. Shatter will completely remove an enemy's armor with each successful attack, making him an excellent counter to teams relying on Protect or Repair. Stun gives him a chance to stun the target, causing it to skip its next turn and giving your team a valuable tempo advantage. Lastly, he has Relentless Strike where Shield and Forcefield will not work against him.

For Silver and Gold players, getting him to level two and gaining his three abilities is good enough to be competitive.

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Featured Battle

The battle occurred in the high level of Gold League. Player helin616 had the Water team led by a maxed level Loving the Moo who grants Blast and Magic Reflect to two units.

He had a dual tank combo in the frontline consisting of Doomshield Warden and Blue Wyrm Travesty. His Blue Wyrm Travesty has an insanely huge attack of ten and was granted the Blast ability. Beside it was Archmage Yabanius who gave +1 power to adjacent units. In fourth was Aerial Shieldmaiden who was also a receipient of the archon's Blast ability as well as additional power from Yabanius. Combined with her Opportunity and Armored Strike ability, it makes her a strong offensive threat.

His enemy was no less powerful with the legendary Elias Max Pruitt as archon. He also rocked a dual tank combo but had less offense than helin616's team. He had magic attacker which run to Loving the Moo's Magic Reflect ability. With all these abilities and counters to the enemy's abilities, helin616 won the battle.

Replay the Battle

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