Greetings, Alchemists!
We meet once again to discuss the state of the matches currently in progress. Just as we did in last week's blog, we’ll be covering what has been happening using information publicly available to all players. We do this to avoid unbalancing the game, as in the world of Cladia, information is more valuable than talisman fragments.
This week, the active matches are "Partida Masiva", "Team Battle!" and "JoinNowBro!". Yes, as you may have noticed, "Novato Party" has finally come to an end.
Index
1. Partida Masiva
As we mentioned in our previous blog, "Partida Masiva" is a record-breaking game in the world of Cladia, as it features the highest number of human players we have ever had in a single match.
This is the threat level value over the course of the 33 turns played so far:
* Color legend for player threat at Turn 33.
Since there are so many players, we are going to create another chart and legend focusing on the last 10 turns.
* Color legend at Turn 33.
This is the current in-game ranking.
From what we can see, the ranking has shifted since last week. We can observe that Jaxun, Aarón (playing as "RataTailandesa"), and Salchiperro (playing as "AlientoDeBallena") have all plummeted in threat level compared to the other players. This already gives us a hint as to what happened.
Both Jaxun and RataTailandesa moved in to try and stop JuanLu ("TheFool"), who has been leading the talisman ranking for many turns now. Initially, Jaxun secured the victory and automatically won by collecting all the talismans, but this only occurred because the Teleportation trait had a typo in its description.
This is because the text DOES NOT make it clear that the teleportation ONLY OCCURS ONCE. If we look at the perk, it says "will always participate in the defense of the lair in the zone where they are located", but that isn't quite true. If you assign a mission to the dragon and you are attacked twice (as was the case here—Aarón attacked first, followed by Jaxun), the dragon only teleports for the 1st battle.
As a result, Juanlu assigned a mission to his best dragon, thinking it would defend him in both fights; however, it only defended him against Aarón. After notifying the Gods of Cladia, they wisely decided to rewind time, giving Juanlu the opportunity to defend both battles with his best dragon. In this new timeline, Juanlu secured a victory over both alchemists, leaving both Jaxun and Aarón heavily wounded and without dragons for defense—though the battles also claimed several victims among Juanlu’s own ranks.
So now, all eyes are on Toboteb. Toboteb’s army is intact, while Jaxun is practically defenseless despite holding 3 talismans. Meanwhile, Juanlu is weakened but holds 5 talismans. Toboteb would need to take down both Juanlu and Jaxun to win. Juanlu only needs to finish off Jaxun, and Jaxun only needs to finish off Juanlu... but of course, Jaxun has almost no army left. Then again, based on past experience, we’ve seen him come back from even worse situations. There are also the other players, Min and Grace, who could still pull off a surprise in these final turns.
We’ll see what happens, as the upcoming turns promise nothing but blood and glory.
2. Team Battle!
As we mentioned last week, Team Battle! is a very peculiar match. This is only the second team-based game ever played in the world of Master of Cladia. As we’ve noted before, the previous match played in this format was the longest in the history of Master of Cladia, lasting a total of 70 turns. Let's hope this one doesn't drag on as long as that one did!
The current in-game ranking:
This is the player threat level up to Turn 37.
* Color legend for player threat at Turn 37.
The first thing we notice is that Aarón—who held the threat lead for practically the entire match—has been eliminated after a cunning attack by Rezo (Marc). This happened while Aarón’s best dragons were in "limbo".
For the newcomers: when one of your towers is destroyed in a region where you have dragons, those dragons go into limbo for 1 turn. During that turn, you CANNOT do anything with them—no missions, no spells. At the END of the following turn (after all combat, etc.), they attempt to return to your capital. If there’s no room, they go to one of your other random towers with available space. If no tower has space, you lose those dragons forever.
We can also see how Raimon has dropped to last place, and how Salchiperro’s threat level has plummeted over the last few turns.
But let's tell the story from the beginning. As we mentioned last week, Ayami and Aarón’s team was under siege by Juanlu. Since both managed to survive, Aarón successfully sought revenge against Juanlu by wiping out his best dragons, destroying his capital, and seizing his talismans. Ayami and Aarón’s team were still celebrating their vengeful victory when Rezo moved to attack Aarón’s capital. Since Aarón's best dragons were in limbo, even though they correctly predicted the attack... they simply couldn't do anything.
You might be thinking: "Didn't Aarón have Contingency?" Yes, he did. For the newcomers: Contingency is a spell that grants a trait allowing you to survive the destruction of your capital. It is a one-use trait that works like this: If you are about to die, instead of dying, you hand over all your talismans to the player who broke your capital and you instantly respawn in the lair with the highest Mage Tower levels you have built. In case of a tie, it is chosen randomly. If you have no other lairs, this trait has no effect.
One might think they can be immortal using Contingency, but that would be a grave mistake. If we analyze the effect, you can still die for two reasons even with Contingency active:
- You simply have no other lairs left, either because you didn't plan ahead or because they were destroyed before your capital was broken.
- (This one is harder to spot): You successfully jump to another lair, BUT another player attacks that specific lair in the same turn, arriving AFTER your capital was destroyed. That player will fight whatever you have in the new lair plus your Alchemist (who teleports there instantly). If you lose that combat, you die for real, as that lair is now "your capital" and your Contingency is already spent.
Case #2 is exactly what happened to Aarón (and to Toboteb in a match we will see later). Rezo destroyed his capital, Contingency triggered, and he appeared in Toboteb's region. Toboteb arrived after Rezo, finding only a Golem and Aarón’s Alchemist, finishing Aarón off for good.
Then we have the case of Salchiperro ("ElYuca"). It seems both Toboteb and Rezo went after him to take his talisman fragments. After a three-way battle, Toboteb emerged victorious. He not only took the talisman but also wiped out several dragons from both Rezo and Salchiperro. Now Salchiperro faces a very difficult recovery, but we’ve seen players come back from worse situations.
However, this is a team match, so we are going to create another chart showing the Joint Threat (the sum of the threat of both group members) and the Average Threat for each team (the sum of both members' threat divided by 2). For teams with dead members, those members are counted as 0 threat.
With "Joint Threat", we can see how well the group is performing based on its members "individually", while the "Average Threat" allows us to see how the group functions as a collective unit.
We have put together some small charts using Jaxun’s magic book, "Eksel", to visually compare the groups' Joint Threat...
as well as their Average Threat.
This week, both the player and team rankings have seen a massive shake-up. You can see how the teams that haven't engaged in combat are now standing out. It makes sense: when strong teams fight each other, they weaken one another, while the more "turtle-like" teams thrive. The more time passes, the more resources they can hoard and grow while everyone else fights for the top spot.
We’ll see what happens, but Gerard and Marc's team has a significant lead over the rest—though, as we’ve seen many times in the history of Cladia, the biggest giants have fallen before.
3. Join Now Bro!
As we mentioned in our blog, last week we were blessed by the gods of Cladia with a new update that introduced a brand-new mechanic: "Relevant Experimentation".
If you want to know all the details of the update, I’ll leave the summary blog post here. If you want to stay up to date on how the new Relevant Experimentation mechanic works, here is the link to the FAQ explaining it.
To test the new version—and especially the new mechanic (which is only available in matches that started AFTER the update)—the "Join Now Bro!" match was created.
There is nothing particularly special about this match: 8 human players, 4 normal regions, and 2 neutral regions. No special rules other than testing the new experimentation and its chaotic effects. The match is currently at Turn 27, so not much has happened yet, but here is the current ranking.
Aarón (playing as "Juan Aceituno") is currently leading in both threat and talismans.
* Color legend and threat levels at Turn 26.
This match has been a true massacre, with a total of 5 players killed. Out of the 8 starting players, only 3 remain: Aarón, Jaxun, and Rezo.
Last week, we saw Toboteb leading the ranking, and now he has simply been eliminated from the game. Let’s break down the deaths one by one, as most offer a lesson to be learned.
The first death was Raimon, likely at the hands of Aarón since they shared a region. His mistake was simply losing his starting dragon to the classic combo of Dimensional Portal with Inexhaustible Rage on a settlement.
The next two deaths happened simultaneously... Juanlu killed Salchiperro, and Salchiperro killed Juanlu. How is that possible?
For the newcomers, there is an "Aerial Clash" mechanic that occurs when Player A attacks Player B and Player B attacks Player A, and both dragons depart from their respective lairs. In this case, the dragons meet at a midpoint between both towers; after resolving the combat, the loser returns to their home lair and the winner continues toward their objective at their corresponding speed. However, we must point out that the clash only occurs if the dragons can see each other. If one group is totally invisible, the clash can still happen (as long as one member of a dragon group is visible, the groups can clash). This can be prevented using the "True Sight" spell.
True Sight: This spell grants dragons a trait that allows them to detect invisible dragons during flight clashes. Additionally, it grants a percentage chance to counter Magic Dodge.
Furthermore, you should know that when a player is fully eliminated, their dragons do NOT disappear instantly; they continue their mission and, at the end of the turn, check if their Alchemist is still alive before disappearing.
What happened to Juanlu and Salchiperro is that Juanlu had an invisible dragon. Even though they attacked each other, no aerial clash occurred because Juanlu's dragon was invisible and none of Salchiperro's dragons had True Sight. Both dragon groups executed their mission to attack the other's capital, and after completing it, they realized their respective owners were dead and became Wild Dragons.
The next death was Toboteb. Based on how the talismans were distributed, we know it was Aarón. Aarón saw that Toboteb was heading to Jaxun's region with his entire army to try and finish him off. So, he simply took advantage of the fact that Toboteb would be weakened after fighting Jaxun and moved his dragons into Toboteb's region. In the end, Jaxun won his battle decisively, giving Aarón a clear path to finish off Toboteb, who only had a 300-year-old dragon in his tower.
Additionally, since Aarón saw that Toboteb had few towers in other regions, he sent one of his slower dragons to destroy Toboteb's lair in his own region, hoping that Contingency would teleport Toboteb there and the slow dragon would arrive after the capital was broken. And that’s exactly what happened. His slowest dragon encountered Toboteb’s Alchemist, who had fled with Contingency to that region. In a single turn, Aarón stripped him of his Contingency and talismans, then killed him for real, also taking part of his gold and ingredients.
Now, Aarón and Jaxun are in a "prediction duel" that Jaxun is currently winning by a landslide, baiting "gofios" to buy time to turn his starting dragon (who died against Toboteb) into a Lich. Meanwhile, Rezo remains in his region; his only notable action has been finishing off Rumomo, who shared his region and had been AFK for several turns.
We’ll see what surprises the next turns bring, but it looks like the match won't last until the next summary.
4. Novato Party
"Novato Party" is the match reserved for the new Alchemists. As we mentioned last week, the player leading the game was Rascor3000. He wasn't just dominating because he was the only player with talismans, but also because he was the highest threat by a wide margin. However, in a twist we predicted last week, Rascor got distracted and left his capital exposed while hunting for talismans... giving Ayami the opportunity to stealthily attack his empty capital to steal all the talismans and the top spot. Ayami then decided to start synthesizing, as she only needed 2 more talismans (one held by a bot and another by IkerDiCa) to achieve victory.
In a plot twist that not even George R.R. Martin could have written, the eternal 3rd-place player, IkerDiCa, managed to take down Ayami just AFTER she had completed the synthesis of the penultimate talisman. This gave IkerDiCa an immediate victory, as he obtained 10 talismans from Ayami (1 synthesized plus the 9 Ayami had stolen from Rascor), which combined with his own made the total of 11 talismans required to win this match.
This is the in-game player ranking at Turn 47.
For the newcomers: yes, there are now 12 talismans in play despite starting with 11. This is not a bug. When a player synthesizes talisman fragments, extra talismans can appear. To clarify: the initial total was 11, but because Ayami synthesized one, IkerDiCa now has 11, which—along with Rascor's—makes 12. However, since the starting goal was 11, the player WHO ENDS THE TURN controlling 11 talismans wins.
This is the evolution of threat per turn throughout the match:
* Color threat legend at Turn 46.
In the chart, you can clearly see the battles between players. It also highlights how IkerDiCa (user LuaLeon33) was the "eternal third-place" player until the very end. This match is a perfect example of how nothing is set in stone in Cladia; any titan can fall, and anything can happen with enough concentration and cunning. This has certainly served as a great learning experience for the new players regarding how the world of Cladia works.
5. Conclusion
That is all for this week, Alchemists. Several matches are on the verge of ending (or so it seems), so stay tuned to our official channels (Discord, Whatsapp) to sign up for the next adventure in Master of Cladia. We’ll be waiting for you!
- Autor:Admin
- Publicado:12/04/2026 14:30:51
