Oldhim

Name: Oldhim
Brand: Flesh and Blood
SKU: oldhim

Essence of Earth and Ice

Once per Turn Defense Reaction -

: If an Earth card is pitched this way, prevent the next 2 damage that would be dealt to you this turn. If an Ice card is pitched this way, the attacking hero puts a card from their hand on top of their deck.

Rulings

From the Tales of Aria release notes

You cannot pitch a card if there is not a cost to be played. You cannot pitch a card for a cost if there are already sufficient resources available to you.
You must pitch the card as part of the cost to pay for the ability to gain the effect. Having an Ice or Earth card in your pitch zone that you pitched for a different cost does not grant the effect.
You can pitch multiple cards to this effect. If an Earth card and an Ice card is pitched this way you would get both effects. If multiple Earth cards are pitched you would still only prevent the next 2 damage.
If a card pitched is both Ice and Earth you would gain both effects.
You may only activate Defense Reaction during the reaction step.
The prevention lasts until the end of the turn, it does not need to prevent damage during the current chain link. You may activate the ability during the reaction step even if there is no damage that would be dealt to you.
This prevents all types of damage including damage from attacks, arcane damage and damage. This does not prevent loss of life.
The attacking hero picks what card from their hand goes on top of their deck.
Both players can respond to the ability with reactions and instants. For example, in response to the Ice part happening, the attacking player can play the last attack reaction out of their hand.

Keyword notes

Essence - Essence is a new keyword that exists on Elemental hero cards showing what Elements that hero specializes in and what Element cards can be included in the deck.

An Elemental Runeblade with essence of Earth and essence of Lightning can play with Generic cards, Elemental cards, Runeblade cards, Earth cards, Lightning cards and Elemental Runeblade cards. (Note: You cannot play with any card with the supertype Ice, as you do not have the supertype Ice or essence of Ice on your hero)
Your hero must have the essence of Earth for you to play Earth cards but any Elemental hero can play Elemental cards with Earth Fusion. (You wouldn’t have any Earth cards to fuse it though)

All keywords

TalentElemental

ClassGuardian

TypeHero

SubtypesYoung

Life20

Intellect4

KeywordsEssence of Earth and Ice

SetsELE, HER, OLD, PEN

Legal inBlitz, Commoner, Silver Age, Ultimate Pit Fight

Banned inSilver Age

Living LegendBlitz