Card Highlight - Materno’s Egg

 Hello realmrunners and welcome to another Card Highlight! 

Today I thought I’d go into one particular Object that has a couple of interesting applications in the Draco realm; Materno’s Egg.

The key thing to take away from this card is how you use it; in a Palette full of dragons it's effectively extra card advantage that then allows you to deploy an extra Character without paying for it and outside of your 3 card deployment limitation. However what I really want to focus on is how this one card makes two particular dragons a lot more consistent to get hold of; enter Harusk and Materno.

Both of these cards have some incredible abilities that are made even stronger when taking into account the Dispose effect of Materno's Egg can be used on your opponent's turn, therefore enabling you to get them online in reaction to a play they make rather than waiting for your turn to come round. This means, for example, you can deploy Harusk when your opponent plays a really powerful resolve card like Ray then you can Freeze it before they can even get anything back from it. But if you build your Palette in such a way that one of these two are the only valid card that can be Revealed off of the first ability then you can significantly increase your chances of getting them every game. I also rely on grabbing Materno particularly quickly in my custom Creatures of Altari Palette to make my Characters much harder to remove, so its the only dragon I play in the list.

Couple this with the fact that, by nature of Materno's Egg being an Object, you can grab it even sooner with Crucial Discovery and you can start to see why the potential of this card's ability only gets better, albeit relatively costly on your shard bank as a result. 

As we get a greater variety of key dragon Characters this is a card that will only see more and more utility so definitely worth keeping a close eye on this one with every release of draco realm chapters as it can only get stronger.


That's all from me for now guys - if you want to pick up any of the product currently available on the Achroma website, don't forget to use the code ACHROMACRAIG10 when you checkout for 10% off your purchase!


See ya real soon folks! 

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