I just stumbled into a sweet interaction between Ra’s Scorched Earth and the Tomb of Anubis’s Akana - while fighting Infinitor in a custom game. There were six environment cards out when I made the play, and I think eight manifestations in play; since Akana plays the top card of the environment deck every time a villain target is destroyed, Scorched Earth kept snowballing until it was hitting for 15 damage, with practically the whole environment deck on the table!
Sadly, it was only the second round, and I had not yet gotten any of Akash’thriya’s seeds into the environment deck, but I’m seeing lots of potential there as well…
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Akash’Thriya’s Seeds don’t count as Environment cards, even if they are played from the Environment deck, so they don’t pump the damage of Scorched Earth. However, they would get churned out like crazy, with all of their juicy bonus effects when played from the Environment deck, so that’s still a lot of value.
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True, seeds are a separate thing, but they’re still a lot of fun; I paired Akash and Ra in the first place because the kind-of-lame card Excavation is suddenly an exciting play with some seeds in the mix.
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I’ll have to try that pairing! My experience with Akash’Thriya has been fairly disappointing to date; the only thing I’ve found useful is to pair her with the Sentinels and a bunch of other heroes (but not Legacy), so that Akash’Flora can give the party an extra power each, with the first one going to Mainstay the Human Shield so that he can Block a second time in the round, preventing Flora from damaging itself. Apart from that one card, the entire rest of AT’s deck seems to be too much work for too little result.
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Holy crap, why did I never think of this? 
I wouldn’t discount Akash, she can really mitigate some of the hot garbage from the almost-all-bad environments (looking at you, Rook City and MMFFCC). With the right setup you can just keep recycling seeds into the deck and not have to deal with the nasty stuff!
Since the topic is about Ra, he’d actually be pretty good at roasting some seeds with a boosted Inferno. Then they could go right back into the environment trash. And your Flora/Human Shield combo is even better with Imbued Fire & Flesh of the Sun God - free powers, no self damage!
Just found another fun interaction with Imbued Fire: Void Guard Writhe’s card Concealed Assailant, which allows Writhe to inflict three different types of damage, but causes the Shadow Cloak to be destroyed if more than one type is inflicted. BUT if Ra is turning all three of those instances to fire, the Cloak stays up, and since both The Shadow Cloak and Imbued Fire provide +1 to damage, Assailant does 9 damage, before any additional buffs or circumstances are applied - in my test game, I was doing 15 to La Comodora, Writhe’s nemesis.
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@Doppelgangerung - so, did you mean La Capitan there, or were you slaughtering your own allies for some reason? That aside, great story, and I’ll definitely try that combo out. There’s something about the idea of a Concealed Assault from someone who’s trying to lurk in the shadows while on fire that I just have to give a shot.
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You can do the same thing with Twist the Ether of course, but that takes more clicks! 
Yeah, probably that - there’s a lot of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff involved…and La Comodora still counts as Writhe’s nemesis, so I suspect he’s keeping an eye on her just in case…
You can even do both! megalomaniacal laughter
Twist the Ether + Flesh of the Sun God + fighting in Magmaria = 
It’s also the way I got the achievement for beating every villain on Ultimate. Anybody whose deck is a single target - Chokepoint, Spite, Progeny - totally neutered this way! I think the only thing that can hurt you is the Crystalloid Behemoth with melee damage when it first comes out!
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Untrue. The Void Guard versions of those four heroes still have the Sentinels nemesis icon, while Commodora has the OblivAeon icon like all the other villain-heroes (and Benchmark for some reason).
Huh - I could have sworn; somebody on my team was definitely doing extra damage to her, and I thought it was Writhe, but it wouldn’t surprise me if I got that wrong.
Edit: you know what? I’m not only wrong, I’m very confused. I’m realizing i didn’t even have La Comodora on the team I’m thinking of, and somehow got an alternate version of reality in my head.
One too many hits with a snake, or something…
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Unfortunately, Flesh Of The Sun God’s fire immunity only extends to hero character cards, so Akash’flora can’t benefit from it - Legacy’s Heroic Interception or something similar will do the trick, though.
Yeah, I was meaning in combination with Sentinel’s Human Shield (damage from any source redirected to Mainstay). There are a few other decks with cards that can do it for a turn (Naturalist, Scholar, Skyscraper), but it had already been mentioned with Flora and Mainstay’s Block power. No need to block when everything is fire that doesn’t burn you!
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Since saying I wasn’t impressed with Akash’Thriya here, I’ve played a lot more of her and seen how she can be quite good. Thrashing Brambles is a GOAT level card, Healing Pollen is pretty cheeseworthy, Rampant Growth is an exceptionally big hit…she’s one of the slowest developing heroes, but she definitely has as much potential for a big late game payoff as any other hero. It can take a while to realize that every hero is good, but I’ve gotten there.
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