The Book of Dragos

[KCU Master 2007]

The Book of Dragos
Champion of the Fallen Kingdom - Expansion 1: Fallen Kingdom

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Bio: Dragos was destined to inherit his noble family’s fortune before he sought out Ret-Talus. The Rotten King was amused by the arrogant youth who demanded immortality in exchange for riches, and so Dragos was damned with vampirism. Ret-Talus keeps Dragos in thrall and uses him as an infiltrator in the cities of the living.

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[joepinion]

Everywhere I look on this forum it seems like people are bad-mouthing poor Dragos. One word: underrated!

Of course he's situational, but if you can protect him on two sides by friendlies/walls, he's one of the best units in the game against commons.

[PePe QuiCoSE]

I truly feel he should have 6 life and Anica 5. Why would I want a champion that only works were other champions already do and can do better stuff?

[joepinion]

But also, he costs 1 less magic than Anica and can regenerate life. I have played games where, after using his power several times, he has ended up with healing 4-5 wounds. Imagine him with no powers and 10 life... that's dang good value for 5 magic. A big problem is that people don't put him in a position to succeed. Make sure he can't be swarmed by 3+ enemies at once, and use him to clean up commons. DS helps mitigate his shortcomings.

His only big problem is if you get all 5 wounds on him in one turn. That's why it's important to keep him safe from being swarmed by 3+ units.

If I could change him to make him a teeny more powerful, I would give him 6 or 7 life but have him start with 1 or 2 wounds. Just adding life straight up would make him overpowered in my opinion.

[Sauam]

But also, he costs 1 less magic than Anica and can regenerate life. I have played games where, after using his power several times, he has ended up with healing 4-5 wounds. Imagine him with no powers and 10 life... that's dang good value for 5 magic. A big problem is that people don't put him in a position to succeed. Make sure he can't be swarmed by 3+ enemies at once, and use him to clean up commons. DS helps mitigate his shortcomings.

His only big problem is if you get all 5 wounds on him in one turn. That's why it's important to keep him safe from being swarmed by 3+ units.

If I could change him to make him a teeny more powerful, I would give him 6 or 7 life but have him start with 1 or 2 wounds. Just adding life straight up would make him overpowered in my opinion.

Drago is indeed not bad, many player tend to over look him just because FK has a great champion line up and it is hard to take out one for the other.

Thing about the comparison with Drago and Anica is that one meant to last and one meant to do the quickest hurt as soon as it hit battlefield. Many player under rate healing for some reason (I guess here is bc healing is too slow) but the most important thing to note for healing is that each health worth 1 magic in SW, so if you can heal just 3 times with Drago, the average healing amount for him, his summoning cost essentially cost 2. So in Dargo case each kill worth 1 where Anica's kill worth 2 but has a shorter time on the field

So when using Drago over Anica is because you are taking the gain of 1 for the longevity over the short time Anica will survive. Add in their different cost and one will see both unit is pretty much the same in terms of power.... Drago do need to be in his build though, pair him well in deck building and Drago can be even better than let say, Elut-Bal

edit: remember Drago can heal by killing own unit too, which some build needs to do so, Anica has no such ability ;p

[Phoenixio]

I like Dragos a lot, and I have great success using him as Ret-Talus's closest guard. That way he can get rid of the rushing units and he offers a decent amount of attack value when combine with Ret-Talus if a problem ever arises. Using him on the offensive makes him vulnerable to swarming and he can die more easily that way.

He's also the only free champion when used with Forced Summon. That means a lot, as you can ALWAYS summon him that way.

His performance is however somewhat related to your opponent's style. He's not that good against champion-heavy play, but he shines well against common-heavy play. Most factions can use both of these styles.

I have tough times choosing my 3 champions in a FK build. Anica is simply cool and evil, Skhull is overall strong though his ability doesn't work often, Elut-Bal is the heaviest hitter and can come as a surprise, and Dragos is affordable and versatile.

[PePe QuiCoSE]

actually, I would like Dragos if he had that, 6 life and started with 1 wound on him. Would be much harder to 1 turn kill him.
And maybe in builds that have Malevolence instead of Elut/Skhull. Maybe even Phantoms make him prettier (and Anica prettier). But the massive magic destruction Anica does, does not compare to healing just a wound.

[thenightsshadow]

My alternate Fallen Kingdom build contains Dragos, Naan'Nashi, and Skhull. I feel like you have to play around Dragos' ability rather than use him as a Common-killer partially because of how easy it is to get swarmed if you're careless.

[Sauam]

actually, I would like Dragos if he had that, 6 life and started with 1 wound on him. Would be much harder to 1 turn kill him.
And maybe in builds that have Malevolence instead of Elut/Skhull. Maybe even Phantoms make him prettier (and Anica prettier). But the massive magic destruction Anica does, does not compare to healing just a wound.

No doubt Anica is overall more superior just because you can toss her in and she just run herself... Drago practically needs his own build (kinda like Admiral does in CL, but not so much)

One of my friend main FK and somehow he found that sweet spot of a build for Drago, his idea for Drago is dual purpose. 1) Push forth along with Elut-Bal all in one turn almost for free with FS and Elut's summon by blood. 2) Once damaged pull to back end and use as a reliable self unit killer to recycle his minions and heal. Repeat and rinse with Mal or whoever... His idea is to force opponent to summon smaller unit to deal with whoever they tag along, the big one will deal damage and Drago will be the cleaner

I don't really know his whole idea but he uses Drago as Grubs for the Champion and sometime Ret-talus.. the problem with Anica is that she cannot do this whole tag team thing, because people will focus fire on one and eventually one will dies even if you dark sac on one of them... where the Drago tag with whoever, you can use dark sac on the bigger dude and drago will take care of himself, prolonging the tag team so much longer than one would expects

[Kaiser Cat]

It isn't true that Dragos sucks; far from it. The problem is that the other 3 FK champions are better.

he's one of the best units in the game against commons.
And the FK have a plethora of units that are good for dealing with commons, ones that don't require special setup to use.*

*You do need to set up with the Zombies.