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The legendary reward Earth card, Skrag the Gnaw is a powerful tank to add to our deck. He combines offense and defense and boasts of five abilities in his kit that makes him win battles. In today's post, we'll do a deep dive into his lore, his stats and abilities as well as show a sample battle.

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Lore

Skrag the Gnaw lived in the sewers for so long, embracing filth as his home. He is known for his brutality, he earned his name by gnawing through anything to survive. He once roamed with deep gnome scavengers, looting corpses around the Abyssal Pit. His life changed when Craniax the Quick recruited the scavengers, offering food and purpose in exchange for their service. Skrag agreed to this arrangement. He became a spy and assassin for Craniax. When Craniax raised an undead army, Skrag followed because it ensured his survival. He now loots battlefields, searching for anything valuable while eliminating anyone who gets in his way.

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Stats and Abilities

Skrag the Gnaw is the complete package, boasting of both offense, defense, debuff and sustainability. At max levels, he deals four melee damage and has three speed. On defense, he has five armor and eight health. He has five useful abilities to aid him in battle. First he has Poison Burst at level one. He can apply poison to his attacker when he gets defeated and there's even a fifty per cent chance to poison adjacent units. At level two he gains Reflexes, enabling him to dodge succeeding attacks from a unit who attacked him in a round. This is effective against units with Double Strike or Execute abilities. At level three he gains two abilities. Cripple decreases his target's max health after a successful attack and Thorns that returns damage to melee attackers. Finally, he gets Resurrect at level four. It's a strong ability to sustain him and may be crucial in close battles.

For Silver level players like me, a level one or two is enough with Poison ability.

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Featured Battle

The battle is from the high level Gold League. Player Nudumlands had a level two Skrag the Gnaw in his team with a max level Underboss Fabino as archon. It seems the role was to sacrifice Skrag to spread poison to his enemy since the following units were a dual tank combo of Folen Flameye and Warborn Chieftain. Next were a couple of melee units that he granted with additional two melee damage from the archon. Lastly, he had Sylvaran Sentinel who slows the enemy.

His enemy also had a max level archon. It provides no buffs but is a dual splinter archon of Fire and Earth. Included in his enemy's team was the legendary Rush Townsend but other than that, Nudumlands's cards and synergy were better overall. As planned, Skrag the Gnaw was defeated and poisoned his attacker. He got resurrected by the Sylavaran Sentinel and poisoned two more enemy units. The poison, combined with strong melee attackers proved too much for the enemy and soon lost the battle.

Replay the Battle

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