Sanctus Vicar Showcase - What Poison?? | Splinterlands
In this post I want to highlight Sanctus Vicar, one of the two cards from the promo event Splinterlands just wrapped up, who I think is highly underrated.
First, let's have a look at the Vicar:
Sanctus shines due to his abilities. He has 3 to play with: Cleanse Rearguard, Cleanse, and Reflection Shield.
Cleanse is straightforward - cleanses the tank. Reflection Shield he gets at max level, and it protects from Blast damage and Reflect damage.
Cleanse Rearguard is where he stands out. Each turn, it cleanses a debuff in the backline. And the KEY thing to note here is that he removes debuffs that your team STARTS with.
Let's look at Sanctus in action, in a ruleset that's perfect for him:
Battle Link: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_837ab2377084543d1e66e27bf2a8b963&ref=bravetofu
In this battle, as you'll see from the screenshot, the entire team is free of poison DESPITE it being a poison ruleset, and this is only in round 4! Sanctus Vicar methodically cleansed everyone on our side, turn by turn, giving the team a massive survivability advantage. Paired with the Angelic Mandarin (an absolutely wonderful card), the back line is kept alive & kickin' while the enemy team slowly gets crippled by the poison.
The realization that Vicar cleanses STARTING debuffs is huge. He'll cleanse things that your enemy places on you, and it's not just Poison but also things like Blind, Demoralize, Headwinds, Silence, and more.
Sanctus shines in longer battles, where you have a strong tank who's managing the enemy firepower while Sanctus cures and beefs up (in the case of removing things like demoralize/headwinds/silence) the back line.
Due to his high mint cost, there are few Sanctus Vicars in the game. In fact, he's one of the rarest rare cards in the game, with only 97 possible max versions in RF and 27 possible max version in GF. At the time of this writing, there aren't enough BCX on the market to max him out in either RF or GF... Maybe in time as demand rises some owners will sell, but it's starting to look in my opinion like he should've gotten a hell of lot more attention.
The next Rare promo looks juicy too... I'll be buying it, will you?
Gamechanger of a card!
Not sure if it is a bug but recently got a battle with my level 1 Sanctus were his Cleanse Rearguard also cleanse my tank. kinda makes me not want to have it at level 4.
Hmm...I suggest you share the battle with Lilyfire in Discord so they can have a look.
Thanks for sharing! - @alokkumar121