Merlin or Proteus? 🤔

[zephyr1]

@Garanwyn

Note, also, that Proteus doesn’t stop mana gain from Alby or Onatel. When facing them, Merlin is by far the better choice, since the fill-up they produce can be countered by pushing the enemy mana bar to full.

To clarify, in case this is misread by others, this means they can regenerate or steal mana, even while a status effect affecting mana generation is active, and this is confirmed to be intended behavior:

Onatel Steals mana when Can't gain mana is applied

This is intended behaviour, so not a bug. I hope this helps to clarify!

@Dante2377 wrote a nice explanation on this, which goes into useful detail (click through for more, only quoting the most salient part, and note that this explanation predates Onatel’s release):

@Dante2377

Hel, Natalya, & Little John: These cards affect mana generation (i.e. mana from tile matches), but NOT regeneration. This means cards under the effect of Hel/LJ/Nat and Alberich will still regenerate Albi’s mana each turn as usual.