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So finally we've reached the final chapter of my insight on mana levels series. I've decided to combine all the cards with 12 mana and beyond into this compilation. The only reason is there are too few cards from it (even less than the number of cards from 11 mana alone). Before we continue on, let's wrap what we've gone through this series. Below is a diagram which shows the total number of cards for each attack type from each mana levels. We could see a beautifully formed diagram resembling the ideal Normal Distribution model. The least number of cards in the both end of the mana level, while the mid-mana (5 and 6 mana) have the most number of cards. But taking factor on the attack types, we could see a shifting pattern starting from 5 mana forwards, where melee attack types taking larger proportion in compared to the total cards. 

So here we are at the top most mana levels, where we will find the strongest cards to use in the largest mana cap battle. And we will find the truth, if only the privileges one would have access to this cards.

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### List of Cards
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There are a total of 9 cards with mana cost 12 and beyond. Actually most of them are 12 mana cards, and only Runemancer Florre (13 mana), Chaos Dragon (14 mana), and Agor Longtail (15 mana) to pass beyond. Most of these cards turn out to have dual attack type, so particularly there's more number for each attack type (although visibly ranged attack type are less than the other). Similar to 11 mana collection, almost all of the cards are Legendary type, except for Arkemis The Bear which peculiarly is a Normal type card. So this is a very expensive collection to afford, and their limited use should put players on a second thought when purchase.

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With only 1 or 2 mana difference compared to 11 mana collection, there are not much power differences between these collection than the previous one. Health doesn't show much difference, but there are more larger gap between cards, where few cards have only 8 health, while the rest reached 13 to 14 health. Armor profile are clearly inferior, since there are more unarmored cards, and while the armored ones are mostly maxed at 4 to 5 armor. Speed is the prominent aspect. Although most of the cards would reached 3 to 4 speed at max level, its still better compared to the 11 mana collection, where it have a large number of cards with 1 speed. 

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Damage have been the most remarkable aspect. The dual attack type is a double-edged sword. At one side it allows more frequencies on attack which will allow more distributed attack and more chances to score a kill; but on the other side, the damage value being split become more susceptible from damage debuff effect. This collection seemed to cost extra mana basically just to split the attack type, since the combined value of both attack type does not differ much compared to the lower mana collection.

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Abilities are abundant in number. Drybone Raider is really terrifying, having dual attack type and able to perform double using both. And its massive because Cripple ability could be triggered 4 times in a single round. Raa also possessed Double Strike allowing a basic 4 damage times 2. But this extra damage seemed to be compensated with its lower health and speed. Other abilities looks ordinary, but in my opinion, Heal is the most to gain being leveraged by the huge health of each cards (which is Agor Longtail and Kralus). 

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As I've mentioned before there are 3 cards with mana cost beyond 12. Runemancer Florre with its superior total damage and Agor Longtail with its superior health and armor combination clearly have better parameter than the rest; but Chaos Dragon seemed questionable from all sides. Its health, armor, speed, damage, and even the abilities are inferior even Kron The Undying which cost only 10 mana (Kron seemed to have the best comparable to Chaos Dragon).

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Lastly, I'll give my verdict on the progression steps. Mainly due to its Legendary type, most of the cards gained dual or even triple growth. Arkemis The Bear as Normal type still gained only single growth and even a drawbacks during Level 7. Even at its very height of 12 mana, there growth gained did not differ very much even to a 5 mana cards. I finally conclude that levelling up high mana cards are less important and less impactful than lower mana cards. The only question left then, does high mana cards started on Level 1 with an inherently stronger parameter than lower mana cards? If not, the next question is, how the high mana cards could catch up with lower mana cards while gained an equal fix value of growth?

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### Final Words

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This is the end of the insight on 12 mana cards and the end of the whole series. In my opinion, the 12 and beyond mana cards are more of a substitute for the 11 mana cards because of the slight parameter difference. But 12 mana cards allowed the use of dual attack type by costing extra mana. But as previously mentioned, these collection will cost some fortune to collect, so prudent thought must be taken to purchase them.

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