Card Abilties
Structural Shift
After this unit moves, it may target a friendly structure within 3 spaces. Force the target 1 space.
Unit Background
Svara, Rimemaiden of the Hinterkaldr, leads the Polar Dwarves southward in a quest of vengeance. Only by seizing the stones of the other interloping factions can the Polar Dwarves hope to find peace and the isolation they so dearly crave. Before her army comes the creeping frost that covers the ground, a seed sown for the structures of ice the Rimemaiden raises in battle.
Savara’s summoning stone allows her to take her skill as a smith to extreme lengths, raising defensive fortifications on the battlefield or summoning constructs of ice to the fight. Such is her new power she can even move her creations, using magic to have them slide across the ice-covered ground.
Savara’s summoning stone allows her to take her skill as a smith to extreme lengths, raising defensive fortifications on the battlefield or summoning constructs of ice to the fight. Such is her new power she can even move her creations, using magic to have them slide across the ice-covered ground.
Card Strategy
Structural Shift has many uses, too many to list in fact without requiring its own guide, but it is obviously the number one key to playing Svara well. It allows her to move structures into better positions and it puts enemy offensive units in bad spots. Often units use enemy gates to protect their advance, that is a key element of Summoner Wars strategy, and Svara cheats that entire system. Trying to do that often means Svara will just move the gate, removing the protection of that unit. This is the reason it is so hard to attack Svara.
Gates can be moved into offensive positions as well. One of the easiest, strong plays is moving the initial 10 life gate into a position that is uncomfortable for the opponent.
It also makes Parapets incredibly unfair, works with Ice Ram and pushes Ice Golems faster than they should normally be allowed to move. It is also often just used to "cheat" by creating turns with an extra movement (as an Ice Golem and Svara both move in the same movement).
And of course structures are moved to support the Frost Mages and reposition Parapets.