Echowood

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When another one of your characters gains Attack or Health during a brawl, so do I.

## Echowood

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When another one of your characters gains Attack or Health during a brawl, I gain twice as much.

**Echowood** is a character card. She is a 1/1 that, whenever another character gains Stats during a brawl, also gains those stats, just for this brawl.

## Strategy

**Echowood** is a capstone character for many boards, capable of becoming the strongest character in a variety of different boards.

Some examples:

* Any board with Good Boy, as **Echowood** gains all the stats the rest of the board gets.
* Any board with Bearstain, as Bearstain gives lots of stats on summon which **Echowood** gets too.
	+ With enough strong Aura effects such as Monkey's Paw, any Summoning board can be a good spot for **Echowood**, as it gains the Aura's buffs on each Summoning effect.
* It can be strong with a Captain Croc'ed Scion of the Storm (or one summoned using Mordred's ability) as it gains almost all of The Storm King's stats. (This is true of other calculated stats too.)
* Any board with Lordy who gives lots of stats to all Dwarves on the board.
* **Echowood** is extremely powerful when combined with both a Ashwood Elm and a Burn Beard.

**Echowood** should usually not be taken too early, as it needs the board surrounding it to be strong (and gain lots of stats) for it to be strong. Unless you are way ahead, you will be punished quite hard for taking level 6 characters that do not immediately make an impact.

Depending on the board, **Echowood** should be in the back row so that it can gain all the stats that it can gain throughout the brawl. If it gains enough stats up-front, it can be positioned in the front row. Lordy and The Round Table are examples of things that can cause a lot of stats to be gained at the start of a brawl.

Phoenix Feather is particularly strong with **Echowood**, as **Echowood** will ideally become the largest character on your board, though if it does not gain the stats soon enough, beware the possibility that something else will take the **Phoenix Feather** activation if it dies before **Echowood** overtakes it.

## Notes

* **Echowood** gets temporary stat increases whenever any of the following happen:
	+ Any other character gains permanent or temporary stat increases (except for ones causes by another **Echowood**'s ability)
	+ An Aura begins to apply to a character, either because the Aura was created (perhaps by summoning a character with a Support ability behind another character) or a character was summoned in a way such that the Aura applies to it. For example, if you have an active Monkey's Paw, every summoned character will add +6/+6 to **Echowood** (plus any other buffs).
	+ A character with a calculated stat ability gains stats due to their ability. For example, a spell is cast and **Scion of the Storm** gains +2/+2, and **Echowood** gets +2/+2 as well.
	+ A character with calculated stats (which includes Crafty, Shoulder Faeries and **Scion of the Storm**) is Summoned mid-combat, such as via Captain Croc's Last Breath ability, by Mordred's hero ability, or by a Wombats in Disguise. **Echowood** gains all their calculated stats.
		- If any of the above characters is upgraded at the start of the brawl by Ambrosia, **Echowood** will gain stats roughly equal to the total stats your board gains as a result of the target being upgraded. Three particularly interesting characters for this are Crafty, Shoulder Faeries, and **Scion of the Storm**, as **Echowood** will gain all stats the upgraded character's ability gives (not the difference between their final stats and their unupgraded selves' stats). Any character that provides Auras to other characters, such as Support characters, will allow **Echowood** will get the stats from the buffed characters equal to the difference between the upgraded and un-upgraded support character's ability. To put this more simply, a Shoulder Faeries or Scion that is upgraded via Ambrosia will also gain any stats that these two characters gained from becoming upgraded.

## History

 June 18, 2021 | Released in *Storybook Brawl's* Early Access launch.