Temple Guardians

Temple Guardians is one of the cards in Stormbound: Kingdom Wars.

Overview
Temple Guardians is an epic knight unit that spawns more knights but only when played bordering your base or a temple. The strength of Temple Guardians and the strength of the units its spawns can be increased by leveling it up. Temple Guardians works well in control decks.

Strategies
Temple Guardians can give you a lot of strength for its cost, but its high cost and slow pressure makes it easy to circumvent.
 * As long as your home row is empty of any units, Temple Guardians provides a huge amount of strength for its cost. Temple Guardians does not pair well with non-temple structures as they block tiles for its ability.
 * For this amount of value, you can use mana-generating cards like Dawnsparks or Frozen Core to gain enough mana to play Temple Guardians earlier.
 * Be wary of opponents using freeze cards like Moment's Peace to prevent your knights from moving and rendering you unable to play units.
 * Sound Drivers can be an interesting way to circumvent Temple Guardians' weaknesses by giving you frontline and pushing strength forwards.
 * Temple Guardians will be able to activate its ability when played bordering any temple structure, so consider pairing it with those cards.

Change History

 * August 30, 2017: Increased ability strength by 1
 * October 11, 2017: Increased ability strength by 1
 * February 1, 2021: Ability can trigger when played in front of temples

Card Versions
Initial Version=

Differences
This is the original version of the card.



August 30, 2017=

Differences
Temple Guardians' ability strength was increased by 1 at all levels.



October 11, 2017=

Differences
Temple Guardians' ability strength was increased by 1 at all levels.



February 1, 2021 (Current)=

Differences
Temple Guardians' ability was changed to now also trigger when played in front of a friendly temple. Its syntax was also changed to spawn knights bordering whatever it is played next to, instead of spawning in a row.