Hello Gaming Warriors! How are you all? I hope you are blessed and well. In today's post, I will share a common water monster from the CA core edition with a close-ranged attack and a slow ability that can attack from any position with the help of its close range.

`| STEPPE STALKER |`

![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmXPAuiCkbTZBVr3k9tZdSja6ZCgj4iPquj3gKNDAUZgpu/image.png) A powerful monster from the Water Splinter, with amazing art created by the SL team, that is attractive and has enough good abilities to play in your battle and get benefits from its awesome abilities that I am going to explain below one by one while the first ability is the main ability of this card that it can attack from any position especially when this card comes to the first position and it has enough health to survive in a battle with its armor protection that you can increase at each level or if you are being lucky then you may get the max level of this card in black foil variant. https://images.hive.blog/DQmPav5hM74UdkscSWmGmMFZpax7QCwwmLCArCR68z229wP/l1.png `| STATS AND ABILITIES |` ![image.png](https://images.hive.blog/DQmU8mUnVGkpwH8TGqXU8qwBwbwfMYksebXQNt8Pn1FCasX/image.png) This card will cost 7 mana to be used in the battles, and at level 1, it gives us some nice stats of 2 damage with 2 speed, 1 armor, and 4 health with the close-range ability while the other abilities you can unlock at further levels. # ABILITIES Abilities in this card are awesome, and at max level, you can get 4 abilities from this card that can be seen below. `| CLOSE RANGE|`- This ability is awesome, which helps the ranged attack monsters to attack from any position, but unfortunately, not all monsters own this ability; only a few lucky monsters own this ability. They can survive till the last with the help of this ability because they can attack from any position, either in the first or backline. `| SLOW |`- Slowing speed can increase the chances of winning a battle with the help of the slow ability that will reduce -1 speed from the enemy monsters, so you can attack first on the enemy monsters because speed matters a lot and I have won so many battles due to speed and lost also because of the speed. `| PAINFORGE |`- Painforge is a new ability that I have not faced yet, as I do not have the active card because it can be unlocked at higher levels, but still a good enough ability that you can increase the +1 damage when hit by poison or blast. `| SHIELD |`- Shield can be activated at max level or if you hold the blackfoil variant, then you can get all these abilities starting from the close range till shield, which is available at max level, and it can increase the protection to get less damage from melee and ranged attack monsters. https://images.hive.blog/DQmPav5hM74UdkscSWmGmMFZpax7QCwwmLCArCR68z229wP/l1.png `|GOLD FOIL VS BLACK FOIL VARIANTS|`

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Well, there are a total of 3 variants now before the arrival of the CA edition, only two variants with gold foil and regular foil and players were curious to get the gold foil that has many benefits now with the arrival of CA edition another beautiful variant called black foil variant that comes in max level while the gold foil comes in level 2 and level 3 and ratio of black foil against the gold foil variant decreased like there are total 109 BCX available in black foil version of this card.

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