Echowright

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**Echowright** is the Exiled Champion  of the Wurmkin .

Their Starter Card is Echo Break.

## Lore

*I suppose it should be no surprise that the Shardsouls protecting the Exiles are one and the same as the Echoes found in the Wurmkin’s care. I’d understood the trapping of souls to be Talos’ idea, and that still seems accurate, but the transfer of knowledge back out of these shards was created millennia ago by now extinct Kinhost intelligence. Was the Echowright’s voluntary Exile a sort of last stand? Or part of something larger?*

### Battle Quotes

* *Oh Divinities!*
* *Pew!*
* *NO!*
* *But echoes or crystals or charges or shards they're all the same thing and...ughhh where am I?*
* *Hehe...STOP...hehe*
* *A crack in the head is better than dead!*
* *Hehehe!*
* *Nononononono...*
* *Waiting, waiting, WAITING!*
* *WHOA!*
* *This isn't right.*
* *Boom!*
* *Hihihi hellooooooo.*
* *NO! Not again!*
* *Hurry pleeeease.*
* *Pew! Pew!*
* *It feels empty with Mother and Child now gone.*

## Upgrades

**Etch:** Apply **Armor 4** to friendly units.

**Etch:** Apply **Armor 8** to friendly units.

 The Marshlord

**Summon:** Summon 1 Bog Chrysalis with +20.
**Etch:** Remove 1 **Shell** from Eggs.

**Summon:** Summon 1 Kinhost Vessel with +40.
**Etch:** Remove 2 **Shell** from Eggs.

**Summon:** Summon 1 Bogdeep Cocoon with +60.
 The Repeater

**Resolve:** Return a random consumed spell to your hand.

**Resolve:** Return a random consumed spell to your hand.

**Resolve:** Return 2 random consumed spells to your hand.

## Strategy

### The Shellsmith

With this path, look to set up **Echowright** on a crowded, powerful floor to get the most Armor per Etch. Bog Fly is a particularly notable companion because of their low capacity requirement and high offensive power with a good Charged Echoes generator, and **Echowright** in turn provides them with some staying power along with his own high Attack power.

If you cannot find a Bog Fly, Bog Chrysalis or other suitable companion, or even if you do and just want even more offensive firepower, consider cross-pathing with The Marshlord to get a Bog Chrysalis to put in front of **Echowright** to hatch into Bog Fly.

### The Marshlord

The ability summons an egg in front of him, so be aware of that when placing. Note that you don't need to have  to fit the egg - take advantage of this and place **Echowright** last on his floor to overstack the floor with his egg. Drafting another egg allows you to double-dip on his Etch ability, too. That being said, invest in Charged Echoes too - if eggs are your core strategy, you need them to hatch very quickly to avoid allowing the first few waves to waltz to your Pyre!

Finally, when upgrading, consider how the new egg and hatched unit fits with your floor; sometimes it may be better to cross-path to keep the current one if your setup fits the existing egg better! For example, each egg takes successively more , if you're looking to play a character after playing **Echowright**. 2 Bog Flys might be better than one Kinhost Pupa. Maybe Kinhost Pupa's applied Reap is key to your strategy and you don't actually Etch often enough to justify Bog Wurmling. Both the Repeater and Shellsmith lines can provide solid utility to a stacked row with eggs too.

### The Repeater

The ability to bring back Consumed spells is powerful but because of his low HP he is very vulnerable, especially at higher covenant levels; Since his ability returns a random Consume spell, it's usually a good idea to either focus on one (or two, if you stay committed to this upgrade line) really strong Consume spells. Wurmkin Etchings is a minor exception to this - **Echowright** can be used to bring back Wurmkin Etchings while Wurmkin Etchings brings back other cards. Be sure to count cards carefully! He synergizes well with most clans as there are many strong Consume cards - Onehorn's Tome, Awoken's Rail Spike, Ember Cache, or Urchin Spines.

Once you've found a good synergy with The Repeater, it can be worth staying on this path to get the ability to get 2 spells back - at the very least, you can copy your strong Consume spell to get a second spell to repeat. If copying your repeated spell doesn't really make sense, or you find yourself drifting into a different strategy that doesn't revolve around your repeated spell, cross-pathing, particularly into Shellsmith, can absolutely make sense as well.