Card Highlights #23: Baron Fyatt
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Greed is not always a vice. It can be an asset, a driving force that pushes us to greater heights. After all, what would this world be without those who dared to desire more?
by Lord Vaernar, The Cult of Ambition
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To commemorate the halving event, Splinterlands will be holding an even named Baron's Bounty. During this event, players can buy limited edition promo-specific cards named, "Baron Fyatt" and "Henchling Enforcer." Each purchase will have corresponding points awarded for extra rewards.
Both of these units will not be found in packs and can only be bourght through other players after the event.
Baron Fyatt costs 31250 DEC while Henchling Enforcer costs 3125 DEC each. You can reduce their price by up to half by using Voucher tokens. The cost is meant to commemorate the new Bitcoin block reward after the halving of 3.125 BTC.
Baron Fyatt
Baron Fyatt is a legendary unit with element Fire and Death. It has decent stats but not enough to be used as a tank. Baron Fyatt has strong abilities with the combination of Halving and Scattershot abilities.
Henchling Enforcer
Henchling Enforcer is a rare unit with elements Water and Life. It has zmazing stats at high level reaching a range attack of 4 at max level. Henchling Enforcer also has Halving and Camouflage making it strong combination to make sure the enemy's front line deals half damage all the time.
Prizes
For each DEC spent, players will get points. For every 10,000 points or 10k DEC spent, close to $8, that player can get a chance to gain rewards:
500 PLOT tokens
100 Alpha packs
250 Beta packs
500 Untamed Packs
50 Essence Orb Packs
100 Azmare Dice Packs
20 Runi NFTs
Players gain 1 rewards for every 10 000 points. The rewards will be random. There would also be leaderboards on the event that would be given in-game titles:
1-10 - "The Burninator" Legendary Title
11-60 - "The Incinerator" Epic Title
61-200 - "The Scorcher" Rare Title
In addition to the title, the top 20 will receive extra cards in addition to the ones they purchased:
Now, let's check if Baron Fyatt is really worth getting to add to your builds as we test him in a battle.
Lore
This rebellion is getting out of hand, but Baron Fyatt, Lord High Treasurer in charge of the Chaos Empire’s fiscal policies, has a plan: a 50% tax levied against all sales, income, and net worth.
Taxes collected in native coinages are to be melted down and reminted as Chaos marks. With less coins like the Gloridax auro and Anumian crown in circulation, their value will plummet. The rebels and their sympathizers will find themselves unable to fund their little uprising, and it will fizzle out in no time. The baron will be hailed a hero.
https://next.splinterlands.com/card-detail/652/regular/2/?tab=lore
Buy and Rental Costs
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Card Stats
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Card Effects
 Halving |
One of the strongest ability in the game since it can half all the attacks whether it's melee, range or magic.
 Scattershot |
Good combination with abilities like Halving, Affliction, Poison and Stun since you can apply the effects of these abilities to different enemy units at the same time.
 Ambush |
Good combination with Halving since this can make your enemy's attack halved before the battle event starts. If you luckily affected a unit with Recharge, it would greatly decrease their damage.
 Blind |
Good support ability but it does not complement Baron Fyatt specifically. I think they added this ability for the lore, as in Baron Fyatt takes a blind eye for the corruption in the kingdom.
Strengths & Weaknesses
| Combination of Halving and Scattershot can halve your enemy's attacks for the different units at the same time during the battle. This can give you very big advantage like what you would see in this battle example below. |
| The two weakness I see from Baron Fyatt is the high mana required and low damage. Since he needs higher mana to be used, you have to sacrifice a lot more in your builds. Since he has low attack, you also need to make up for this with the other units. |
When To Use
 Keep Your Distance |
Most units with Sneak are melee or have melee attacks and will not be usable. This can give you better chances of your Baron Fyatt not dying early when placed at the back.
 Reverse Speed |
Baron Fyatt has low speed. At Reverse Speed Rule set, this is good as it can attack earlier and apply Halving earlier before enemies attack reducing their damage by half when they attack.
 Fog of War |
Scattershot is not affected by Fog of War, only Sneak, Opportunity and Snipe are affected.
When Not To Use
 Earthquake |
Baron Fyatt has no Flying ability and will take damage each round. While it's okay for 1-2 rounds, it will be worse after a few more rounds.
 Noxious Fumes |
Not only Baron Fyatt will be affected and will die from Poison but your enemies would also have Cleanse with their units. This is also bad because your enemies would have Cleanse that also removes Halving effect.
 Target Practice |
Scattershot takes priority so Baron Fyatt will not be using Snipe and still uses Scattershot when attacking enemies. In other words, the rule set is useless for Baron Fyatt.
Battle Sample
https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_7423f6b0b13b2641ca8e75a189bd1ebe
This was a hard battle, actually but the combination of Silence and Halving gave me a lot of breathing room. If not for those two combinations, I am sure that I would've lost this game. While it looked like it wasn't a close battle, my enemy actually has a higher chance to win this battle due to his higher overall damage and combination of magic and range attacks. I simply win because of the help of those two abilities that reduced the enemy's damage to a controllable amount.
Final Thoughts
I wanted to try Henchling Enforcer as well but I am currently on a delicate grind for another content. I will just leave that for a future blog.
For the battle, I actually had three battles using Baron Fyatt. I only added this one because the other two are losses. It's not that I lost because the team was bad, (might be copium) but the rule set was not in my favor which made the game extra hard. Over all, I do like this unit. Baron Fyatt is a much better unit than Halfling Alchemist or Henchling Enforcer due to the Scattershot and Halving combination. The combination of the two abilities allowed my unit to halve multiple unit's damage throughout the game at the same time making it a very strong ability overall.
Overall, I really like the new added units in the game. I was thinking they would add a summoner that gives Halving ability to units but that might be too strong. I also regret a bit not preparing for the halving event although this was expected a month ago. I suddenly had the urge to explore the different unit's potential and how much I can get when I take this game really seriously. (It went great and I am currently doing an article for that. Wait and see for next week's post and you might be surprised.)
This was a good experience and a good event. This looks like really well thought and I like the concept of the price. There is one tiny negative comment I would say and I would be quoting @jarvie for this, "Not too late to change their names ... at least of the second card... though weird a "fyatt" guy is in charge of the crypto event. "Baron Satoshi" and "Halfling Enforcer" ... i mean a quick use of AI could find a dozen more clever names that people would look forward to getter."
I was hoping they actually made this into an archetype instead like the Silvershields. I mean, we already have the "Halfling Alchemist" it wouldn't be weird to have a "Halfling Merchant" and "Halfling Enforcer" and the different people in the Halfling Kingdom as the representatives of the current and future the Halving Event.
If you have suggested combos or questions, feel free to comment it down below.
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