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The Tokatag Conscript is a card that's easy to dismiss and underestimate. Looking at her stats and abilities, they don't offer much utility for the mana required to put her in battle.
At level 1, she deals only 1 ranged damage, has 3 speed and 2 health. As she levels up, only her health stat gets upgraded until level 9 where she gets an additional attack stat. Her abilities include Sneak and Thorns. With her high health and Thorns ability, it seems her role is a backline tank. She requires 6 mana to field in battle so in my opinion, her utility is limited. She can however be an effective counter against enemy melee Sneak attackers.
The following battle shows her utility. The rulesets are Maneuvers, Rise of the Commons and Even Stevens. It also requires 99 Mana so her 6 Mana requirement is not an issue. For this battle, I chose the following team:
Commander Slade - One of the best tanks in the game in my opinion.
Coastal Sentry - She is perfect in the ruleset giving her Reach ability.
Riverboat Captain - His 2 Magic damage and Blast ability is great in this battle.
Deep Lurker - One of the best common cards in the game. Deals 4 melee damage and has the Opportunity ability.
Kulu Swimhunter - Has no special ability but deals a decent 3 ranged damage.
Tokatag Conscript - In the backline
My opponent has a higher level summoner that allows powerful Gladiator cards. His fields a strong team which includes a level 6 Katrelba Gobson. This card is usually a key damage dealer given her damage potential. She deals 3 melee damage, has Sneak and Double Strike abilities. She often wrecks the enemy backline.
In round 1, her Katrelba Gobson does her usual double sneak attack but my Tokatag Conscript has enough health and survived her attack. She also reduced Katrelba's health to 3 with Thorns damage. Afterwhich my Deep Lurker eliminated her. After my Coastal Sentry eliminated my opponent's Arkemis Bear, the battle was basically won.
Thank you for reading!
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