[GB03] Embrace of Eons

News
September 28th's English reveal is the final ATLAS ★★★★, Embrace of Eons

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Since, unlike what we predicted, this final ATLAS ★★★★ was a new card rather than Alice, Wonderland Survivor, Alice is instead likely a ★★★, which would leave just 1 unknown ATLAS ★★★.

Analysis

Embrace of Eons is an immensely powerful ★★★★ event able to take out sticky units like Exosuit Titan Gashadokuro, Rey Gargora, Bane of Sorcerers, Shinno Akugorou, and Aras, Guardian of the Divine Winds right through their various protection abilities, all while being playable from hand to dodge the rampant set removal.

At the moment there's only 2 ways to be safe from this event. First is your key unit having a beefy HP stat, like many Endbringer and Darkness boss cards. This isn't perfect of course, as G&G Armament Factory builds can buff the damage output, or a smaller damage ping can be used to get the unit in range. The other is by using Just a Flesh Wound, which activates after damage is dealt and thus after Embrace of Eons has resolved, bypassing its response restriction.

Of course, even if your unit survives with Just a Flesh Wound, its abilities will still be lost until the next turn, making Embrace of Eons an incredibly efficient disabler of Summoners. Other strong applications include shutting off Full Armor Vastorus Rex's Defender or preventing Eldritch God Hastur from building up STK. As for how it works on abilities that have already entered the gate, for now that ruling is a mystery. The comprehensive rules state abilities enter the gate as an "imaginary card", so for now we'll assume they won't get shut off, but if that turns out to be incorrect, this card will become exponentially more powerful.

And then there's its Discount. Very versatile, making it very easy to keep this card online for any Hand Ruler, and as discussed in the past, Discount's that return a card to deck are very handy for allowing high cost s or Genesis Summoning targets to be put back in the deck instead of dead in the hand. Particularly, 23. W - Wizard may be a ruler to keep an eye on with this card, as Resource Channeling means that the post-Discount resource cost is effectively free, at least for one use each turn.

As one last note, its a cool little flavor detail that the card deals 5 damage specifically and can be played from hand, given the HP stat and ability of the Great Beast the flavor text mentions Vastorus defeating, which is of course To Mega Therion.