Deck Heroes Melds: Recycle Horned Beast

Recycle Horned Beast is the first game changing meld you make. It is the point where a newbie deck turns into a serious deck.

You might think, "But my horned beast has very little hit points, it will die in two hits!".

Only that, it usually takes 4 attempts to hit a horned beast two times, during which it heals back 500 damage. So you need to hit it again. Only that, it will take two more attempts to hit the horned beast once again, during which it has healed back another 250 HP.. ugh!

Also by this time the horned beast would have healed its entire deck to 750 HP each, pushed up the attack by 20% to every card with a healer rune, AND recycled any and all creatures back from the graveyard.

It might not exactly work like that as soon as you have your meld, but the card becomes stronger and stronger as you progress. How?

All 5 star heroes have 'protection' talent, which you would be using. Protection provides upto +1500 HP to your creatures. This along with the boost from vitality rune and vigor runes, your horned beasts will have anywhere between 3000-4500 HP. That is a lot of HP for a tanky creature with dodge, immunity and heal.

Specifically, "Immunity" is a skill that becomes more and more valuable as you progress through the game. For example, Gemini does close to 3000 magic damage to each enemy creature, and has a very good chance to freeze them with double tempest. Whether your creature is alive or not after every round depends on immunity.

You will encounter more and more discord, delay, instakill, disposal and retreat later on. Immunity keeps your recycler on board and prevents lockdown.

The heal is just a bonus. The 20% attack boost to all cards from a healer rune is just another bonus.

Immunity 7 is good. Horned beast is the goods!

It doesnt end here..

On top of all this, you could level up its skills later with 4* skill essences. I know people with Horned beasts that have Dodge at 10(70% chance to dodge), Immunity 10 and Mass Heal 10 (250 heal per round). Absolutely OP creature!

Coming to other recyclers...

People often meld their recycle onto a Light Brave because light brave has dodge and recycle. The idea is that even if it gets killed, it might come back to your hand.

The recycle Light Brave stays atmost 1 or 2 rounds before dying from magic or poison.  There is also no guarantee that the light brave will actually be able to recycle anything, because it could get delayed, frozen, discorded, instakilled, or worse, disposed. Even if "rebirth" activates upon its death, you would have lost the battle already by the time it returns from the graveyard.

If you have a recycle light brave, you would want to move the recycle to a horned beast some day. Light brave is a fuel card used for transmutation. It is better not to waste it for a mediocre meld for short term use.

A short FAQ section before we go to the table of other recyclers.

Q) What is better than a Recycle Horned Beast?
Ans: A recycle 2 Horned Beast.

Q) I already have two recycle horned beasts. What should I go for next?
Ans: A third Recycle Horned Beast (Just kidding. It is good to have atleast one recycler other than a horned beast, if only to avoid Titania!)

Q) Why is it widely believed that the Horned beast was designed by a different designer?
Ans:

I leave it to you...

Now, back to our stuff:

These are the most common recyclers:

	Creature	Comments
1	Horned Beast	Best recycle carrier. That is what this page is about
2	Harbinger	A good situational recycler. Not as good as horned beast, still has some plus points. Dodge gives good survivability. Heals itself through soulswap. Helps trigger 'undying' of a Morti Hero and push up the rebirth chance to 90%. Steals enemy attack and increases own attack through soulswap rune. Good card to pair up with a horned beast, to avoid Titania hitting all horned beasts through 'chainstrike'
3	Sword Master	Good card with good survivability. No protection against lockdown
	Sentry Angel	Easily available card from guild map. A good temporary meld until you move to a horned beast. The 6 turn timer is susceptible to disposal.
3	Light Brave	Transmutation fuel card. Dont waste it on melding. Also bad meld. Light Brave might end up killing your own deck by triggering "spiky bits" with "bolt" skill.
5	Dullahan	Transmutation fuel card. Dont waste it on melding recycle. Also bad meld. Dullahan hits hard, dies easily and rebirths often. Not suited for staying long in the deck doing work. Disposal, [S]Revive, [D]Revive are better suited to Dullahan
6	Pit Dragon	OK meld because unbound triggers recycle every round. Helps trigger "undying" from a Morti Hero. Almost 90% rebirth if undying is triggered.

What are the recycle creatures you use? 

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