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<h5>Hello there! **@saydie** here, manually playing **Splinterlands** everyday!</h5>
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As we move closer and closer to the release of Conclave Arcana, another big reveal has come up with the announcement of a new promo card. It was not just your typical promo card that you want for their exclusivity and additional reward bonus, but also hold more meaning into it as it is created to honor @yabapmatt, one of the Co-founder of Splinterlands and also to mark the approaching 7<sup>th</sup> year anniversary of the game. The card's name was **Archmage Yabanius**.
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And so, for this week's [Community Engagement Challenge](https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@splinterlands/weekly-splinterlands-community-engagement-challenge-conclave-arcana), Let us take a look on **Archmage Yabanius** which will be among the cards that you can found on #ConclaveArcana packs.
Anyways, Conclave Arcana Presale is about to end. I did my guess and say that it will sell 2B DEC and so far, it was only 300M DEC behind.
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### Archmage Yabanius
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<strong>Lore:</strong>
<blockquote> <em>Archmage Yabanius—a master of the Wizards’ Council, betrayed by Portia Nyr when she opened the rifts under the guise of progress. Cast into exile, Yabanius descended into the Deep in search of a way to stop the chaos she unleashed. Among warped ley lines and daedok horrors, he found a hidden fortress beneath Mount Praetorous, where an ancient rift pulsed with the gaze of a dark god.</em></blockquote>
<blockquote> <em>There, alongside Aggroedius Lightbringer—one of the few remaining loyal mages—they held the rift at bay for five years. Spell by spell, rune by rune, Yabanius refused to let the Splinterlands fall. When the final seal was cast, Aggroedius vanished... and the darkness held.
Yabanius rose from the Deep changed, not defeated. The war isn’t over. And Portia has no idea what’s coming.</em></blockquote>
<strong>Archmage Yabanius</strong> is another promo card that comes with the release of Conclave Arcana but this is one of the promo card that is based on a real person and that person is none other than @yabapmatt, the Co-founder of Splinterlands. The creation of this card was also to honor the [SPS DAO Proposal #136](https://peakd.com/@clayboyn/sps-governance-proposal-sps-dao-promo-matt-card) that were previously supported by the community as well as timed it for the upcoming 7<sup>th</sup> year anniversary of the game. Unlike other promo cards, <strong>Archmage Yabanius</strong> **as long as you purchased any of the Conclave Arcana pack types aside from the starter pack, you have a chance of owning this card**.
>How was this possible?
This promo cards were already *minted* and will be in the same account that will hold all the Arcane Cards with the same distribution mechanism on packs. This means that even when packs were burned, the promo card will not be affected and instead, the chance of acquiring one will just increase the more packs were opened or burned. Of course, the odds of aquiring it also increases the more packs that you purchase and its type(Standard, Alchemy, Legendary). Archmage Yabanius is available in all foil types with the following copies.
| Foil Types | No. of Copies |
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|Regular Foil|1500 BCX|
|Gold Foil|30 BCX|
|Black Foil|5 PCS|
|GF Arcane|5 PCS|
|BF Arcane|1 PCS|
<div class="phishy"><i> <sup><b>Take note:</b></sup> </i></div> <sup><i>Regular and Gold foil copies are in BCX which means that they need to combine multiple BCX of the card to be at max level while the Black foil, Gold Foil Arcane and Black Foil Arcane were all max level copies of the card. Thus, why they have significantly lower copies.</i></sup>
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**Stats**
|Edition|  Conclave Arcana (Promo)|
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|Mana Cost|6|
|Element|  Water,  Dragon|
|Rarity|Legendary |
|Max Health| 6 |
|Max Speed|5 https://images.hive.blog/0x0/https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/saydie/AKNHMVQ49NpchCemwQ2RgjusNLnP8HjK11qQd6Afw2W5a2ZdDoEyYyZNycwkLPS.png|
|Max Damage| 3  Range|
|Abilities|Lvl 1-  Camouflage <br>Lvl1-  Empower<br>Lvl 2-  Shatter<br>Lvl 3-  Stun<br>Lvl 4-  Relentless Strike|
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Archmage Yabanius may not be neither the strongest archery unit or the beefiest card in terms of health but its speed is top notch, allowing it to attack faster and has a higher chance of dodging both melee and range attacks. At the same time, it has <code>Camouflage</code> that allows it to hide itself from direct attacks as long as it was not in the first position. Aside from that, it also has <code>Shatter</code> which destroys all the armor of the target and <code>Stun</code> with the 50% chance to make the opponent skip their turn after a successful attack. Since it has both Water and Dragon element, it has lots of potential in terms of synergy.
**But wait, there's more...**
Archmage Yabanius also has two of the new abilities from Conclave Arcana which are.
|||Empower- While not revealed, this unit and adjacent units gain +1 Power.|
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|||Relentless Strike- Attacks deal true damage. +1 damage if the target has Void, Shield, or Forcefield.|
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So even when it only has 3 archery damage, with the effect of <code>Empower</code>, not only it gains additional damage but will also increase the damage of its adjacent units by 1 and with <code>Relentless Strike</code> the damage it can inflict on units with Void, Shield or Forcefield will be increased by 1.
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As of the writing of this post, yabapmatt is within the top 6 of the presale leaderboard with more or less 4 hour left before it ends so there is still a chance for it to change. So what will happen when yabapmatt placed within the top 6? Will we also see a yabapmatt archon or will he designed it differently? Unless it is also a water Archon, a dual element with water element or an Archon with the same Bloodline, the chance that we can use the yapabmatt summoner and the promo card is low but what if the **Summoner yabapmatt to use the Archon yabapmatt to summon Archmage Yabanius**. The idea alone is quite hilarious.
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And that was **Archmage Yabanius**, a promo card that was requested by the community to honor one of its founder. I do not think that it will be an overpowered card but I also don't think that this card will be irrelevant in battles. I do not have much of a good luck in terms of pulling shiny things but I still remain positive that my luck will come one of these days. Anyways, congratulations to @yabapmatt for having an virtual version of himself that will be immortalized in blockchain and good luck to everyone on their pack opening.
Thank you and see you on the next post!
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You can get my other my other designs in this [post](https://peakd.com/hive-13323/@saydie/free-to-use-splinterlands-dividers-and-other-materials-for-blogging).
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