Icaria, the Liberator

Icaria, the Liberator
Icaria was the first Valkyrie, but turned against Rolant and now leads the rebellion.
Type	Hero Unit – Rebel Valkyrie
Cost
Power	7
Power	7
Influence
Influence
Stats
Strength	5
Strength	5
Health	5
Health	5
Text
Flying, Aegis, Charge, Endurance, Warcry 5
Flying, Aegis, Charge, Endurance, Warcry 5
Set & Legality
Set	The Empty Throne
Card ID	#329
Rarity	Legendary
Formats	Throne – Legal Expedition – Not Legal Draft – Not Legal
Other Info
Artist	Rayph Beisner
Voice	Heather Masters
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This page is about one card for the character Icaria. For other uses, see Icaria (disambiguation).

Icaria, the Liberator is a Hero Unit.

How to Get

Type	Creation	Destruction
Legendary	3200	800
Premium	9600	3200

This card can also be obtained from The Empty Throne Card Packs. Diamond Chests and The Empty Throne Card Packs can give Premium versions of this card.

Voiceovers

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On Play:

"Rise up, or be cut down!"

Strategy

Icaria, the Liberator is appraised as one of the best legendaries in the game, if not the best Rakano legendary unit. When played, she can easily snowball the game into a crushing victory, or force multiple removals while still affecting the general game state.

While a 5/5 unit for 8-power with a high influence requirement (3x, 3x) might be underwhelming, she makes it up for it by being the unit with the most battle skills ever, for a total of 5. The most interesting part is that all of them combine well with each other, making it so that she'll always provide an advantage when played no matter what: her WarcryWarcry:
When this attacks, the top unit or weapon of your deck gets +1/+1. is rather unique, as it is the only warcry that buffs your next drawn unit or weapon by +5/+5; such powerful effect can be easily activated on the turn you play her thanks to ChargeCharge:
Can attack the turn it is played.; FlyingFlying:
Can only be blocked by other units with flying. gives her a bit of evasion, making it difficult for her to be blocked by other units; EnduranceEndurance:
Readies at the end of your turn, can't be stunned, and can't be exhausted except to pay costs. allows Icaria, the Liberator to attack without fearing the danger of having her exhausted while still being immune to any Stun effects; finally, AegisAegis:
Protected from one enemy spell or effect (but not from battle damage). makes it difficult to kill her through removals as well.

Remember however that she's not invincible: some cards can hard-counter her, in the sense that while you'll still get your Warcry activated, she'll die as well. Sandstorm Titan has more stats than her while being a 4 drop and at the same time it negates Flying. Scorpion Wasp is a great card to kill her, as its battle skills go through both Flying and Aegis while being able to be played directly from hand. Once her Aegis is popped, In Cold Blood will not just kill her, but also give her VoidboundVoidbound:
This card can't leave the void. and make you discard all copies of her that are not on the board (in this case, if the buffed unit was another Icaria, the Liberator, they essentially negated the advantage she provided). Moreover, there are other units with Flying that are both cheaper and can easily deal with a 5 health unit, like Hunting Pteriax, Umbren Reaper, Impending Doom, Sapphire Dragon and Thunderstrike Dragon. Lastly, given her high cost she'll remain in your hand for most of the time, which makes her vulnerable to discard-from-hand, SilenceSilence:
Remove all text from a card and its attachments.-from-hand, transform-from-hand and cost-increase-from-hand cards (like Treachery, Steward of Prophecy, Rain of Frogs, Slow).

Because of both the cost for playing her and the effects she brings, Icaria, the Liberator is usually played either as a deck centerpiece (Icaria Blue (a deck)) or as a rather powerful drop (Midrange/Armory decks). In both cases, a single hit from her is enough to make your next unit/weapon a must-answer threat, with such value increasing for every turn she's left alive.

For how much it regards other cards, she goes well with units that have either RevengeDestiny:
Automatically play when drawn, then draw another card.

Revenge:
The first time this is killed, give it Destiny and put it into the top ten cards or your deck., Charge or Aegis. About weapons, Stonescar Maul, Auric Runehammer and Starsteel Daisho are very good choices. A particular mention goes to a few specific cards for how well they interact with her.

• Rise to the Challenge lets you directly draw either Icaria, the Liberator or the unit/weapon she buffed from your deck, while also giving it +2 attack.
• If you have her already in the Void, Honor the Fallen can be used to give all of her battle skills to an unit in play.
• Having Sower of Dissent in play will reduce the cost of the buffed card by 5 as well, without even considering that Icaria, the Liberator is a Valkyrie, which triggers Sower of Dissent's AllyAlly:
  Does something the first time you have a unit of the named type..
• If you have Hero of the People already on board, dropping Icaria, the Liberator will turn her into a stronger Icaria, the Liberator (being 6/6 instead of 5/5).
• Bulletshaper helps you play Icaria, the Liberator faster thanks to his SummonSummon:
  Does something when played. (+ influence) and UltimateUltimate:
  Can only be used once. (discard a spell for +2 power this turn).
• Rizahn, Greatbow Master does not really interact with her, but his 6 power cost, conditional LifestealLifesteal:
  When this deals damage, you gain that much . and Summon can help you into stalling the game 'till the turn you may play her.

Notes

Icaria premium avatar.

WarcryWarcry:
When this attacks, the top unit or weapon of your deck gets +1/+1. 5 gives the top unit of your deck +5/+5.

Icaria's Warcry will increase if given more Warcry effects.

Warcry 5 counts as 5 different abilities towards the 10 ability achievement.

In the lore, Icaria is a Valkyrie who rebelled against Rolant, the Iron Fist, and also the first Valkyrie he made.

An Icaria premium avatar was available as part of the Founder's Package bundles, originally available from August to December 2017, then re-released November 2018.

Gallery

Premium Icaria Animation (v1.22.3)

Beta Icaria, the Liberator

Icaria, the Liberator Wallpaper - find more sizes at this image's source.

History

1.46.6.6648	Now 7FFFJJJ (was 8FFFJJJ)
1.39.1	Now 8FFFJJJ (was 7FFFJJJ) Icaria’s been incredibly dominant for basically the entire history of Eternal, forcing out many other options for lategame victory conditions. This change aims to preserve her design, while pulling back a little on just how quickly she can warp the game around her.
1.14	Released in The Empty Throne (transition to Open Beta).