The "Shadow Cloak" card possessed four powerful effects: knockback, dispelling negative statuses, invisibility, and blinding.
Sealing, freezing, burning, binding, and petrification—these five negative statuses were the most common restrictive debuffs associated with the five attributes of light, water, fire, wind, and earth.
—Among them, Law Spells such as "Arrest" and "shackles" used by Law Mages were classified as binding, while "Silence" and "Stasis" were classified as sealing.
This card alone could not dispel curses, a type of negative status primarily brought about by Dark Attribute Mana, because shadows could not dispel darkness. That was its greatest flaw.
Even so, it was the most useful Phantom Demon Card in the "Moon" slot. Cards produced by many Greater Phantom Demons might not even be as useful as this one.
The "Moon" card slot was inherently quite flexible. The Phantom Demon Cards that could be made for it generally leaned toward secondary fields such as crowd-control removal, invisibility, detection, prophecy, frenzy, and illusions.
Within this card slot, the Shadow Demon's "Shadow Cloak" was undoubtedly the most versatile card—unless a boss had special mechanics, or one's equipment was specialized for Shadow Demons and thus required Shadow Cellar, Great Sin Scholars would normally bring this card by default.
Under virtually any circumstances, Shadow Cloak could be useful.
Most of the time, players were even more troubled by whether they should use Shadow Cloak now or hold it back for later, rather than thinking, "This card isn't very useful." Its tactical value was simply too high, so if one misjudged the timing, it was easy to save it until it was too late.
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