Feasting Dragon

* Normal
* Upgrade

**Feasting Dragon** is a character card. It is a 6/8 with a Slay ability that permanently gives your Shop characters +1/+1 - just as though Gingerbread Party were cast.

## Strategy

**Feasting Dragon** has an intriguing Slay ability that buffs your shop characters permanently. This includes more copies of itself that you pick up later to Upgrade it, so in a roundabout way it sort of scales itself too.

At first, its ability can see rather weak, but it's ability can actually be shockingly powerful if built around properly. **Feasting Dragon**'s strengths comes from 2 factors: upgrading, and characters that massively benefit from having their stats increased.

The reason that upgrading is so powerful is because an upgraded unit combines all of the stat boosts from each of the units into the upgraded unit. For example, after slaying 5 times, picking up 3 characters from the shop will combine to have +15/+15 worth of extra stats.

The second strength of **Feasting Dragon** is characters that use its buff most effectively. Characters like Wombats in Disguise, Good Boy, Tweedle Dee, Dubly, Ranged characters such as Court Wizard and Baba Yaga, and more all receive much more substantial benefits from the extra stats.

Combining these two factors can lead to some truly ludicrous scaling, especially with Wombats in Disguise, Good Boy, and Tweedle Dee. For example, after 10 slays, buying 3 Wombats in Disguise will create a massive 42/42 Wombat, which in turn will create a unit with double its stats after it dies, which in total means that one unit is using **Feasting Dragon**'s buff 9 times! Feasting Dragon can also lead to a strong Good Boy build in the endgame, for the exact same reason.

However, despite the potential for **Feasting Dragon** to high-roll, it does have some issues.

**Feasting Dragon**'s first problem is that 6 Attack is far from guaranteed to Slay, even at level 4. This can be remedied with Support abilities and Treasures, such as Mad Mim, Sting, Sporko, and most notably Baba Yaga, who also doubles the potency of its ability.

Its second problem is its relative lack of scaling itself - it will very quickly fall off pace without support, though picking up more copies of it that have benefited from the first's Slay, and Upgrading it helps, as can Bad Moon or Riverwish Mermaid.

Finally, it's usefulness decreases heavily the longer the game goes on. At level 6, **Feasting Dragon** probably won't be providing meaningful stat increases to your future team. **Feasting Dragon** also isn't good when purchased later, so it's rarely worth it to purchase one later into level 4.

While it's usefulness decreases later into the game, this also means that **Feasting Dragon** can be incredibly strong if you manage to get it early via True Love's Kiss or Polywoggle, or you manage to reach level 4 early. It will have an easier time Slaying, and its buff will be more meaningful, and there will be more characters purchased to receive its buff.

## Notes

* Like all Shop buffs, **Feasting Dragon**'s Slay ability gives current shop characters +1/+1 permanently when it happens, and then gives all characters rolled for the rest of the game +1/+1 permanently as well.

* **Feasting Dragon** does not have Flying, despite being a Dragon. This is because it is fat.

## Gallery

*Feasting Dragon* card art*Feasting Dragon* card art pre-Oct. 19, 2022 by Eduardo Brasil