A card with an incredible utility and that is a great investment for the long term.
Queen Mycelia is a legendary card from the earth deck of the chaos legion edition that seems quite weak but what makes its price so high compared to other chaos legion cards? In this post I will present my point of view about this card and why I consider it a great card for battles with this deck.
I'll start by showing a broad view of the card in all its levels.
In this image you can have this wide view and when you see its stats you already consider it a weak card since it has only 1 attack, 1 speed and 4 health and these values do not change at higher levels so it is a card where your stats they don't make much difference in a battle, but what really gives value to this card are its abilities and that's what I'm going to talk about now.
The ability Protect is extremely useful in most battles because it grants +2 shield to all friendly cards on the field and the shield serves as a barrier against melee and ranged attacks before these cards deal damage to the card's health and as usual cards melee and rangeds are often used so it's an amazing ability to have and increase your defenses in battle.
The ability Amplify serves to increase the damage dealt by the abilities Magic Reflect, Return Fire and Thorns by 1, so if we take the summoner Mylor Crowling that also belongs to the earth deck as an example and it grants the ability Thorns to all your cards on the field so this ability will do 3 damage instead of 2 on melee cards when they attack your cards and that goes for the abilities Magic Reflect and Return Fire as well which will have their damage done increased by 1, so it's an amazing ability to have when you have cards with these abilities or when using summoners like Mylor.
The ability Triage causes Queen Mycelia to heal the allied card from the back-line that has taken the most damage and this heal is 1/3 of the maximum health of this card so it's an excellent ability that serves as a support for these cards that are usually very important in the battle as they are far from the first position.
The Rust ability is its fourth and also its last ability and it is also amazing because it takes 2 shields off enemy cards and this will be very useful to lower the defenses of these cards and make them easier to defeat and also making the battle easier for you.
So as you can see Queen Mycelia can be a card that won't contribute much in the battle with its stats, although if you use the Obsidian summoner and there is the Reverse Speed rule in the battle it will be very strong and useful, but the her most important point is her abilities which are an incredible combination for your battles, you have the Protect ability to increase your defenses, the Amplify ability to increase the damage of your cards with the abilities Return Fire, Magic Reflect and Thorns, the ability Triage that heals will heal your cards and the ability Rust that takes away the enemy's defenses, so I consider it an amazing card and it's worth having a high value because it's incredibly useful.
PRICE
One thing I've noticed in the last few days is that Queen Mycelia has had a drop in value recently and has gone below $20, but the value is already recovering as you can see in the image above and I believe that investors want the value to keep close to that for now, so it could be an opportunity if you want to have Queen Mycelia in your collection when its value is below $20 or very close and I also believe that this value will go up a lot after finishing the chaos legion sale, she It's one of the cards I'm looking at and I think it's worth analyzing its value since its potential is very big for the future.
On the monthly chart it shows that it is in a small downtrend but that it is already recovering and I believe it shouldn't fall further than that in the short term.
LORE
A dark and dank estate was overseen by a fearsome noble woman. She craved ever more and more, and had her slaves dig deep into the mountains that bordered her home. Seeking riches within the depths. But when no riches emerged, she became fierce and violent. Demanding harder and harder work. And the slaves dug more. And within the depths of the mountains, they unearthed a horror beyond their comprehension.
The first happening was the growth turning on the manor. Food became poisoned. Vines blocked doors and obscured windows. And spores sprouted everywhere.
Then the slaves became corrupted. Their bodies turned into hosts for parasitic fungus. Long after they died, their bodies shambled around the grounds. It was a menace that could not be controlled.
As the woman's estate fell into chaos, she couldn't bear the shame of seeking help from outsiders. Instead, she went into the mountains herself to uncover the source of this horror that had ruined her.
And there she came across her. At that time, Queen Mycelia was more a collection of fungus in a loose physical form. But when she consumed the noble woman, she altered her own appearance to look like a fearsome female in a gown.
She continued to spread her corruption across the estate. She'd never experienced such growth and such control before. Realizing she could now extend her powers even further and turn more creatures into her slaves, she traveled.
She corrupted each land she crossed, claiming the plants, claiming the people, and leaving behind a trail of fungal rot. She walked both above the earth and below, a female figure in the fog. But any that got too close realized terrors beyond their comprehension.
And finally, her journeys brought Queen Mycelia to the Realm of Silence under Praetoria. Praetoria's trees and roots stretched far down here, she could call out to so many servants. The whole continent could be hers. But why stop there? The Chaos Legion had means to reach even further. One day, the entire Splinterlands would be under her control.
“She is the roots and the trees,
The matriarch of reeds.
The decaying marsh,
With a stinging bite oh so harsh.
She is the eyes of the wood,
And all understood.
Those who walk in her domain, take their last breath.
And all will worship the Queen of Fungus and Death.”
-- Poem of the Sovereign of Silence